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• New Short Film Stars Former Phoenix Officer

  10-03-2017 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mitch Rapp: Off Book" is a new indiegogo-funded short film featuring former Phoenix Police Department officer Andy McDermott in the title role. It was filmed in Phoenix with assistance from the Phoenix Police Department. The film is based on the popular series of books by author Vince Flynn.When bureaucrat Charles Neimier (24's James Morrison) blocks his path, undercover CIA counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp (Andy McDermott) goes "off book" to save teammate Riaz (American Sniper's Ayman Samman
  
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• WA Man Charged with Posing as Officer, Holding Man at Gunpoint

  10-03-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The owner of a Lakewood, WA, security company is behind bars for allegedly pointing a gun at a man’s head while posing as a police officer.Michael James Landen Jr., 38, was arrested Feb. 20 and charged with trying to pull another driver over — on busy Interstate 5 — with lights flashing.According to court documents, a King County Sheriff’s Office detective witnessed the incident and followed Landen’s car off the Seneca Street exit in Seattle.Sheriff John Urquhart sa
  
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• Video: Man Awarded $25 Million for Wrongful Conviction Used Money to Lead Street Gang

  10-03-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Man Awarded $25 Million for Wrongful Conviction Used Money to Lead Street GangA judge has sentenced a Chicago man, who won a $25 million award in 2012 for a wrongful murder conviction only to spend it on rebuilding his Simon City Royals street gang, to nine years and two months in prison.It only took five years for 38-year-old Thaddeus Jimenez to blow through his fortune of $12.5 million after attorney fees. Some of the money was spent on guns and cars.Prosecutors said the gang leader was
  
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• Video: Kansas Trooper Drives Through Wildfire to Rescue Stranded Motorist

  10-03-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Kansas Trooper Drives Through Wildfire to Rescue Stranded MotoristFootage captured on the in-car video system of a Kansas State Highway Patrol vehicle shows the trooper driving through the smoke and haze of a massive wildfire to rescue a stranded motorist.Fire burns on both sides of the road as the trooper drives on I-270 to rescue the driver, NBC reports.The wildfires in central and southwest Kansas have been raging since last week, burning more than 650,000 acres. 
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• Survey: Some 20% of Officers Frequently Frustrated, Angry on Job

  10-03-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  About one-in-five police officers nationally (21%) say their job nearly always or often makes them feel angry and frustrated – feelings that are linked to more negative views toward the public, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted May 19-Aug. 14, 2016, by the National Police Research Platform of 7,917 sworn police and sheriff’s officers in 54 departments with at least 100 officers.Frustration is more prevalent than anger among today’s police officers. A
  
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• MO Sergeant Named NRA Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor of the Year

  10-03-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The NRA Law Enforcement Division has named Sergeant Ward Smith of the Kansas City (MO) Police Department the 2016 NRA Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor of the Year.Smith is a 29-year veteran with the KCPD, which consists of approximately 1,350 sworn members and 550 civilian employees. He was first certified as an NRA Firearms Instructor in 1984 while serving with the Excelsior Springs Police Department, prior to joining the KCPD.At the KCPD, Smith has been assigned to the Professional Developme
  
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• Church congregation eyes its own unusual police force - ABC News - ABC News

  10-03-2017 19:16
  
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  Briarwood Presbyterian Church already has more than 4,000 members, two private schools and its own radio station. And if administrators have their way, the ...and more »
  
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• Virginia Deputy Killed in Crash Responding to Assist in Pursuit

  10-03-2017 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Carroll County (VA) Sheriff’s Office deputy was killed in a patrol vehicle crash while responding to assist fellow officers late Thursday night in Hillsville.“[Dep. Curtis Allen Bartlett, 32] was responding to assist a fellow Sheriff’s Deputy and Virginia State Police trooper with an ongoing pursuit in Carroll County. The Sheriff’s Deputy was traveling west on Route 58 with emergency lights and sirens activated when it collided with a tractor-trailer making a left turn
  
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• Police falsely told a man he couldn't film them. 'I'm an attorney,' he said. 'I know what the law is.' - Washington Post

  10-03-2017 13:34
  
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  Police falsely told a man he couldn't film them. 'I'm an attorney,' he said. 'I know what the law is.'
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  One of the first things Jesse Bright did after being pulled over by police on a recent Sunday afternoon was turn on his phone and begin filming. Bright was driving for Uber to make some extra cash, but he works full-time as criminal defense attorney in ...
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• MT Officer's Widow Wants People to Remember His Service, Not Gruesome Death

  10-03-2017 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  News of U.S. Forest Service officer Brad Treat's death spread across the world, but the fact that he was a law enforcement officer often got lost in the headlines, reports the Washington Post.Last week, a federal report detailed exactly how a confluence of unlikely events sent Officer Treat flying around a blind curve on a bicycle, directly into 300-some pounds of grizzly bear last June. And how paranoia spread through the woods as the feds searched for the animal.Brad Treat was a federal office
  
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• Video: TX Deputy is Oldest LEO in World at 94

  10-03-2017 01:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: TX Deputy is Oldest LEO in World at 94Still active at the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Cleburne, TX, Reserve Deputy Bill Hardin has no desire to quit. By all accounts, he is the oldest police officer in the world at the age of 94, reports WFAA.Hardin started his career with the Fort Worth (TX) Police Department after World War II, and spent most of his time chasing drug dealers. These days, he says he keeps showing up because what else would he do? "I don't fish. I don't hunt. Don't
  
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• Over 200 Firearms Recovered in NY Gun Smuggling Bust

  10-03-2017 00:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Billed as Brooklyn's biggest ever gun smuggling bust, nearly two dozen people — mostly from Virginia — have been rounded up and arrested on charges they brought over 200 high-caliber weapons of all sorts into New York City, authorities said Wednesday.The suspects were taken into custody as part of "Operation Tidal Wave," a joint operation conducted by the NYPD and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office — the latest effort to plug the "iron pipeline," the name for the conduit o
  
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• AR Considers Banning Videos Showing Officers Killed

  10-03-2017 00:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nearly six years after Arkansas police Officer Jonathan Schmidt was shot to death while pleading for his life, a dashcam video of his final moments still circulates on the internet — sometimes landing in the social media feeds of his family members, reports the Associated Press."It's a very sacred thing," the officer's widow, Andrea Schmidt, said Wednesday. "It's not just a cop getting killed. This is a human being. This is my husband. This is a father."Now a newly elected Arkansas legisla
  
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• Off-Duty OH Deputy Fires Gun, Stops Robbery

  10-03-2017 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An off-duty Hamilton County, OH, sheriff's deputy fired a shot at and narrowly missed a convenience store robbery suspect after the man pointed a gun at him, a sheriff's spokesman said.The gunshot startled the suspect, Simeon Thomas, who dropped his weapon and tried to flee, but Deputy Terry Harper took him into custody without further incident, said Mike Robison, sheriff's spokesman.No one was hurt, reports WXIX and Cincinnati.com.The incident unfolded about 5:45 a.m. Wednesday at the United Da
  
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