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• Garcetti nominates attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill to Police Commission - Los Angeles Times

  30-06-2016 23:53 via latimes.com
  
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  Garcetti nominates attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill to Police Commission
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  An attorney and public policy strategist could become the latest member of the Los Angeles Police Commission, replacing a longtime commissioner whose second term is expiring. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday that he had nominated Cynthia ...and more »
  
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• Video: Woman Reunites with Kansas City Officer Who Saved Her Life as a Child

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Woman Reunites with Kansas City Officer Who Saved Her Life as a ChildA young woman has been reunited with a Kansas City police officer who she calls her hero - a reunion 20 years in the making. Klynn Scales lost contact with the officer when she moved out-of-state,  but she recently returned to thank him in person.Growing up in her neighborhood off of 27th Street is a hazy memory for Scales. What she does remember is the Kansas City police station down the street, a 7-Eleven store, a
  
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• Veteran Detroit Sergeant Dies on Duty

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Detroit police announced the death of Sgt. Kevin Miller while he was on duty Wednesday.A release did not state the cause of death, but a representative in the Media Relations Department told the Detroit Free Press Miller wasn't injured or killed on the job.The sergeant was a 29-year veteran of the department and worked in the city's 11th Precinct. 
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• Ohio Officer Saved When Attacker’s Gun Misfires

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The life of an Akron police officer may have been spared after a robbery suspect's gun misfired in Akron Tuesday morning.According to police, 20-year-old Javon Spells, of Barberton, was on his bike just before noon when he tried to rob a man at gunpoint.Officers were able to locate Spells near apartments a short time later.As one of the officers approached Spells, he allegedly pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and tried to shoot, but the gun misfired, NewsNet5 reports.After the attempted shooting,
  
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• Memphis to Pay $500 Bonus in Attempt to Keep Officers

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The city of Memphis will pay police officers a $500 bonus in August to help curb an exodus that has left the city short more than 400 officers, and will offer incentives to boost recruitment, according to an internal city memo sent out Monday.Chief Human Resources Officer Alexandria Smith said in the memo to officers that current officers will get the "retention bonus" in addition to a July 1 pay increase of between 2.75 percent and 3.75 percent, depending on years of service.Police officers who
  
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• Heroic NYPD Officer Chased and Took Down Alleged Cop Killer

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Manhattan prosecutors on Wednesday played dramatic footage of a brave officer on foot chasing a career criminal who’d just fatally shot another NYPD officer in East Harlem last year.Police Officer Kristen Swinkunas and her partner were driving south on Harlem River Drive with lights flashing and sirens blaring when they spotted Tyrone Howard, 31, standing on the freeway’s divider, she said at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing, the New York Post reports.“My partner said to me. &
  
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• Driver Fleeing NYPD Decapitated in Crash with Truck

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A driver was decapitated while trying to flee NYPD officers in Brooklyn — when his car slammed into the back of a flatbed truck Tuesday, sources said.The gruesome wreck happened when police tried to pull over a black Infiniti G35 sedan on the Gowanus Expressway near Hamilton Avenue around noon, the New York Post reports.When they tried to exit the highway via the ramp at Atlantic Avenue near Hicks Street, the car collided with the back of the truck, shearing off the top of the driver&rsquo
  
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• Driver Fleeing New York Troopers Decapitated in Crash with Truck

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A driver was decapitated while trying to flee NYPD officers in Brooklyn — when his car slammed into the back of a flatbed truck Tuesday, sources said.The gruesome wreck happened when police tried to pull over a black Infiniti G35 sedan on the Gowanus Expressway near Hamilton Avenue around noon, the New York Post reports.When they tried to exit the highway via the ramp at Atlantic Avenue near Hicks Street, the car collided with the back of the truck, shearing off the top of the driver&rsquo
  
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• Baltimore's New Use-of-Force Policy Stresses De-Escalation

  30-06-2016 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Baltimore Police Department plans to implement a new use-of-force policy Friday that emphasizes the "sanctity of life," stresses de-escalation and requires officers to intervene if they see a fellow cop crossing the line.Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the new policy on Wednesday as the U.S. Department of Justice prepares to release the results of its sweeping investigation into the department's patterns and practices, the Baltimore Sun reports.The first full rewrite of the policy s
  
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• Airport cops say they need guns to combat terrorists - CNN

  30-06-2016 20:03 via cnn.com
  
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  Airport cops say they need guns to combat terrorists
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  (CNN) Aviation police officers in Chicago are sitting targets for potential terrorists because they don't carry guns and are told to run and hide in the event of an attack, the union representing the officers said Thursday. Matt Brandon, the secretary ...and more »
  
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