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• Video: Off-Duty LAPD Reserve Shoots, Kills Robbery Suspect

  07-07-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Off-Duty LAPD Reserve Shoots, Kills Robbery SuspectAn off-duty reserve Los Angeles police officer shot and killed a man Wednesday afternoon after the officer thought the man was attempting to rob him at a Covina Carl's Jr. restaurant, Covina police said.Covina police told NBC Los Angeles the man allegedly brandished a gun, and the reserve officer thought he was attempting to rob him. "When he was waiting for food he was confronted by the subject. The subject brandished a weapon
  
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• Video: Memphis Officers Facing Increasing Job Dangers Are Asking “Is It Worth It?”

  07-07-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Memphis Officers Facing Increasing Job Dangers Are Asking “Is It Worth It?”Assaults on police officers in Memphis are on the rise. Four MPD officers have been involved in a shooting or been assaulted in just the last two weeks.The man who heads the police union told FOX13 confrontation resolution is only getting worse. “It's becoming very dangerous just being a police officer in this city,” Mike Williams, the head of the Memphis Police Association, said.W
  
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• Man Killed in Controversial Louisiana Police Shooting had Criminal Record

  07-07-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, LA, who was killed Tuesday morning by an officer responding to a call of a man brandishing a gun had a criminal record. Baton Rouge newspapaper the Advocate reports that records from the 19th Judicial District Court show that in August 2015 the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant for the arrest of an Alton Sterling who had registered as a convicted sex offender to live at the center at the Brookstown address. Sterling was convicted of
  
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• Watch This Black Officer's Heartbreaking Response to Police Violence and Racism - Mother Jones

  07-07-2016 22:14 via motherjones.com
  
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  Watch This Black Officer's Heartbreaking Response to Police Violence and Racism
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  "If you are white and you are racist and you are working in a black community, you should be ashamed of yourself." Kanyakrit VongkiatkajornJul. 7, 2016 4:06 PM. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Email ...
  Watch: a black female police officer passionately condemns "racist" police shootingsVoxall 78 news articles »
  
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• How To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Shot By Police - Huffington Post

  07-07-2016 22:05 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  How To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Shot By Police
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  If you ever find yourself in the United States of America, you might end up getting shot by a police officer. It doesn't matter if you live in what you consider a safe place: Police shootings aren't correlated with a city's violent crime rate, and can ...and more »
  
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• Video: Fatal Police Shooting in Minnesota Sparks DOJ Investigation, Protests

  07-07-2016 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Fatal Police Shooting in Minnesota Sparks DOJ Investigation, ProtestsA St. Paul, MN, man died Wednesday night after being shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights during a traffic stop. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was shown in a video recorded by the man's girlfriend as she sat next to him and which was widely shared on Facebook.The girlfriend started the live-stream video with the man in the driver’s seat slumped next to her, his white T-shirt soaked with blood on the
  
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• Protests of Police Shooting in Baton Rouge Peaceful but Angry

  07-07-2016 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The protest of the fatal police shooting of a man selling CDs in Louisiana’s capital of Baton Rouge had many of the trappings of similar flare-ups around the country: blaring music, young men with faces obscured by bandannas, and obscene and brutal sentiments directed toward the local police department, on angry tongues and homemade placards.But as Wednesday night’s street rally flowed into Thursday morning, it had managed to be as peaceful as it was passionate, the New York Times re
  
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• Winchester Super Clean Adds Two New Lead-Free Handgun Offerings in 2016

  07-07-2016 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Winchester is offering two new completely airborne lead-free and downrange lead-free pistol target and training products as part of its Super Clean line.Both loads feature zinc core full metal jacket (ZFMJ) bullets with lead-free primers, which are ideal for indoor and outdoor ranges. These two new Super Clean products—a 9mm Luger 90-grain ZFMJ load with a muzzle velocity of 1,325 fps and a .40 S&W 120-grain ZFMJ that flies at 1,250 fps—are offered at affordable price points, whi
  
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• Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016, Post analysis finds - Washington Post

  07-07-2016 21:09 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016, Post analysis finds
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  As the use of deadly force by police once again roils the nation, the number of fatal shootings by officers increased from 465 in the first six months of last year to 491 for the same period this year, according to an ongoing two-year study by The ...and more »
  
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• Congressman Has A Profound Message About Police Killings Of Black Men - Huffington Post

  07-07-2016 20:55 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Congressman Has A Profound Message About Police Killings Of Black Men
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  WASHINGTON ― When Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) took the mic on Thursday, he told House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that he had intended to talk on something else, but the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men shot by police this ...and more »
  
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• Don't compare police shootings to black-on-black crime - Chicago Tribune

  07-07-2016 20:11 via chicagotribune.com
  
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  Don't compare police shootings to black-on-black crime
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  It has become leaden and disheartening, the series of tragic slayings of young black men by police. One can accept the statistics suggesting that the problem is not as bad as we think. One can buy entirely the existence of a "Ferguson effect" — the ...and more »
  
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• Death by Police - The Atlantic

  07-07-2016 15:36 via theatlantic.com
  
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  Death by Police
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  Updated on July 7 at 10:05 a.m. ET. It wasn't until recently that it became easy to find a number to go with the gruesome reality that black people—and black men in particular—live with every day: the ever-present threat of police violence. Police ...
  
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• New York DMV Uses Advanced ID Detection to Detect Fake IDs at Summer Concerts

  07-07-2016 02:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced that its underage enforcement actions at last month's Mumford and Sons concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) resulted in the arrest of 16 concertgoers and the seizure of 15 counterfeit identification documents.The arrests were made just hours after the announcement by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo that DMV, in partnership with the State Liquor Authority (SLA), New York State Park Police, New York State Police, and local law e
  
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• Wounds That Never Heal

  07-07-2016 02:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I graduated from the Jackson (MS) Police Academy in 1995. The training was 12 weeks of hell during which our instructors did their best to prepare us to work some of the most dangerous streets in the country.While on patrol in the summer of 1996, I received a call from dispatch that an unarmed man had been shoplifting at a grocery store. The security guard attempted to apprehend the suspect but was unsuccessful. As the security guard placed handcuffs on one of the suspect's wrists, the suspect a
  
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• Pass the Blue Crayon, Please

  07-07-2016 02:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In case you just came out of a coma and missed this, coloring books for adults are becoming quite the rage. Designed to allow you to calm down and become "centered," they allow you to color flowers, animals, paisley, abstract shapes, classics, and any of hundreds of styles of pictures; not to mention offering you multiple types, colors, and styles of implements to use. All to help you find your mental "safe space" as you color your way to joy. Don't expect everyone to understand your choice if y
  
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• Intellicheck Mobilisa Awarded U.S. Patent

  07-07-2016 01:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Intellicheck Mobilisa has been awarded a U.S. Patent governing the two-factor fingerprint biometric identity process that authenticates an identity card with embedded fingerprint biometric information and the live biometric information of a person presenting the card.The explosion in fingerprint biometrics is being fueled by government and commercial market security needs that include domestic and international threats. Positive identification technology can be used for real-time identification
  
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• Indiana Sheriff's Office Upgrades 911 Call-Handling Operations With Total Response

  07-07-2016 01:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Pike County (IN) Sheriff's Office is transitioning to PowerPhone's Total Response solution to streamline 911 call-handling operations. Total Response provides the tools, processes, and trainings for Pike County's Public Safety team to define, achieve, and measure their 911 call-handling standard of care.At the center of the transition is PowerPhone's CACH software, a computer-aided call-handling software that communicates with Pike County's existing CAD system to seamlessly transfer informat
  
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• 100 Club of Chicago Announces Cale America as Newest Sponsor

  07-07-2016 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 100 Club of Chicago, which provides for the families of first responders killed in the line of duty, has announced a new partnership with Cale America, supplier of payment technology for parking and transportation in the Chicago area and throughout the United States."We are excited to welcome Cale America to the 100 Club of Chicago's family," said 100 Club of Chicago CEO Joe Ahern. "Their support will go a long way in helping the 100 Club of Chicago fulfill our mission of supporting the fami
  
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• JPS Interoperability Solutions Rebrands

  07-07-2016 01:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JPS Interoperability Solutions Inc. recently rebranded and launched a new website. The rebranded company will continue to manufacture and develop the market-leading ACU radio interoperability gateways and SNV-12 receiver voters.JPS Interoperability Solutions, Inc. is being led by Don Scott, one of the three former founders of JPS Communications, Inc., and has hired back many former employees. Agreements are currently being signed with the vast majority of its former dealers, distributors and man
  
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