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• Video of Teenager's Fatal Shooting May Contradict Initial Police Account - New York Times

  16-05-2017 23:05 via nytimes.com
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  Video of Teenager's Fatal Shooting May Contradict Initial Police Account
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  Law enforcement at the scene of a fatal police shooting on May 9 in Bridgeport, Conn. A video shared on social media may contradict the initial police account of the death of Jayson Negron, 15. Credit Christian Abraham/Hearst Connecticut Media, via ...
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• Video: Upstate NY Police Chief Shot, Suspect Found Dead After Barricade Incident

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  VIDEO: Upstate NY Police Chief Shot, Suspect Found Dead After Barricade IncidentA New York police chief was rushed to the hospital after he was shot during a confrontation with a suspect in Orange County.Police were responding to a domestic incident around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning when they exchanged gunfire with a person they'd been interviewing.Town of Montgomery Police Chief Arnold "Butch" Amthor was shot and taken to St. Luke’s hospital in Newburgh with non-life threatening injur
  
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• Video: AZ Officer Stabbed, Suspect Shot and Killed

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  VIDEO: AZ Officer Stabbed, Suspect Shot and KilledA Tempe, AZ, police officer was stabbed Tuesday morning while investigating a crash in a residential area. The suspect was shot and killed during the attack.The officer was said to have non-life-threatening injuries.Several neighbors in the residential area said they heard the crash sometime after 6 a.m. and went outside to see a coupe had T-boned a vehicle parked on the side of the road.Both the officer and the man who was shot were taken to hos
  
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• Texas SRO Wins State Beauty Pageant

  16-05-2017 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Texas SRO Wins State Beauty PageantShannon Dresser, a police officer with the Katy (TX) Independent School District Police Department, was named Miss Texas United States last week.Dresser has competed in pageants since she was a child. Her passion for baton twirling led her to pageants where she was able to showcase her skill.She comes from a law enforcement family. Both her parents are retired LAPD officers.Dresser is involved in multiple programs to help mentor young people and bri
  
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• MN Man Arrested After Guns, Grenade, and Bomb-Making Devices Found in Car

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  Minneapolis police uncovered an arsenal of guns and bomb-making devices during a routine arrest last week.According to police, a man walked by a parked car in north Minneapolis about 5 p.m. Thursday and confronted the people inside after they threw food wrappers on the ground. They ignored him until he paused to get the car license number. The men then got out of the car and indicated they had guns, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.The man flagged down officers, the complaint says,
  
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• Family of Slain AZ Officer Meets with President Trump for Police Week

  16-05-2017 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The family of a Phoenix police officer who was feloniously killed on duty in 2015 met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday morning as part of the observance of National Police Week.David Glasser’s widow, Kristen, their son and several Phoenix Police Department members visited with Trump while he signed a proclamation, KTAR TV reports.“I had the chance to spend time with Officer Glasser’s beautiful family. His wife, Kristen, and his 6-year-old son, Micah, who
  
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• Video: Hundreds Line Streets to Honor Fallen Montana Deputy

  16-05-2017 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Hundreds Line Streets to Honor Fallen Montana DeputyHundreds of people lined the streets of Billings, MT, as the body of Broadwater County Deputy Mason Moore was transported to Billings for an autopsy on Tuesday afternoon.Moore was shot and killed during a traffic stop near Three Forks Tuesday morning by two suspects who were later arrested after leading law enforcement on a chase.Moore was a husband and father of three children.He was a three year veteran of the sheriff’s offi
  
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• Chicago PD Announces Use-of-Force Policy Changes

  16-05-2017 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chicago Police officials on Wednesday announced policy changes intended to reduce use of force, particularly deadly force.The changes, made after months of debate and back-and-forth revisions, will tighten many of the department rules that experts and advocates have criticized as too permissive.In a key change, the policy tightens the rules on shooting fleeing people. The new rules hold that officers can't shoot a fleeing person unless he presents an imminent threat to police or others. Previous
  
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• Smith & Warren's Design for Texas Police Department's Badge Wins Innovation Award

  16-05-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Smith & Warren, a U.S. manufacturer of uniform badges and insignia, won the North American Association of Uniform Manufacturer and Distributors (NAUMD) “Best Badge or Emblem Design” Innovation Award for its Pasadena (TX) Police Department badge.“Our department has over 250 sworn police officers, and we needed a badge that represented our community and dedication to public safety,” said Josh Bruegger, assistant chief of the Pasadena Police Department. “It was imp
  
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• Montana Deputy Shot and Killed at Traffic Stop

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  A Broadwater County, MT, sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a shootout during a traffic stop early Tuesday morning on MT 287, south of Interstate 90.The Broadwater County Sheriff’s Office has identified Mason Moore as the deputy who was killed. Deputy Moore was a three-year veteran of the Broadwater County Sheriff's Office. He was a husband and a father of three children, reports KECI.According to law enforcement, the deputy had pulled a vehicle over in what’s described as
  
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• Mobile App Provides Public Safety Agencies Quick Access to Critical Information

  16-05-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Public safety agencies across the U.S. are turning to a new mobile app that gives first responders quick access to critical information such as photos of suspects or the floorplans of a burning building in critical moments.Orlando-based PowerDMS offers cloud-based software that helps agencies streamline how they manage policies, procedures, and training. Until recently, users could access the software on desktop or laptop computers only. Now, the company’s new mobile app makes information
  
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• Meprolight FT Bullseye Red Dot Now Available for Kahr Family of Pistols

  16-05-2017 17:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Mako Group has announced that the  FT Bullseye-micro red-dot-sight is now available for Kahr pistols.The Meprolight FT Bullseye combines tritium and fiber optics illumination. This gives the FT Bullseye the ability to work in all lighting conditions, day or night. No batteries are required, and the sight is always on and always ready.The FT Bullseye fits the following Kahr models K9, MK9, P9, CW9, CM9, K40, CT40, K40, MK40, P40, CW40, CM40, CT40, P45, CW45, CM45, and CT45 models. Additi
  
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• Trump to Light White House Blue to Support Police Officers

  16-05-2017 03:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a proclamation he signed in the Oval Office, President Trump announced the White House would be lit up in blue lights Monday evening to honor the 394 officers who were killed in the line of duty last year, reports the Washington Post.Trump said in a speech at an annual memorial service for officers slain in the line of duty that his administration would make it a priority to provide more federal resources for local law enforcement departments. “We will protect you, and we will say, 'Eno
  
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• Man Gets Life for Shooting Baltimore Sergeant

  16-05-2017 01:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Baltimore judge on Monday sentenced Gregg Thomas to life plus 35 years behind bars — the maximum sentence allowed — for the 2014 shooting of Sgt. Keith Mcneill, concluding a years-long court battle that included four trials.Thomas, 37, had pleaded not guilty but was convicted by a jury of attempted first-degree murder and two gun charges in February after three mistrials in the case. Mcneill was shot eight times outside of an automotive shop in the Berea neighborhood of East Baltim
  
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• Video: CA Deputy Dies in Bus Crash

  16-05-2017 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: CA Deputy Dies in Bus CrashA high-speed collision between a charter bus carrying Tesla employees and a small car left veteran Alameda County (CA) Sheriff's Deputy Sroeuy Khin dead. It happened early Friday on I-580 near Tracy, CA.Khin, 50, was on his way home after a long overnight shift. It would have been his 51st birthday on Saturday, reports KGO."The vehicle was stopped or driving slowly in the number two lane. At the same time, the driver of a white 2016 Temsa touring bus was also dr
  
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• CA Deputy, Civilian Employee Killed in Crash

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  A Stanislaus County, CA, sheriff’s deputy and community service officer were killed Saturday morning in a fiery crash in Modesto while responding to a call, reports KCRA.Deputy Jason Garner, 41, and community service officer Raschel Johnson, 42, were killed after the car they were in crashed near Crows Landing Road and Seventh Street, the California Highway Patrol said.The pair were responding to a prior burglary call about 8:19 a.m. that was not in progress when for an “unknown reas
  
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• Washington Deputy Commits Suicide While Working Out-of-Town Case

  16-05-2017 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Pierce County, WA, sheriff's deputy took his life Friday while investigating a case in Yakima, according to Yakima County coroner Jack Hawkins.Hawkins said Deputy Kory Shaffer, 47, was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a room at the Hilton Garden Inn on East Yakima Avenue.Shaffer was in town with another deputy for an undisclosed case, KOMO TV reports. 
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• Video: Trump Orders DOJ to Develop Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Officers, Speaks at Police Week

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  VIDEO: Trump Orders DOJ to Develop Strategies to Prevent Violence Against Officers, Speaks at Police WeekPresident Donald Trump is asking the Justice Department to develop strategies to prevent and prosecute violent crimes against law enforcement.Trump says in the Oval Office that police officers have “had it with what’s going on” and notes that 118 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2016.Trump signed a proclamation to mark Peace Officers’ Memorial Week
  
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• Video: Ohio Officer Accidentally Overdoses on Fentanyl

  16-05-2017 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Ohio Officer Accidentally Overdoses on FentanylAn East Liverpool, OH, Police officer, while responding to a drug-involved call Friday night, accidentally touched fentanyl and overdosed.According to a police report, East Liverpool police had blocked in a blue Monte Carlo at a traffic stop after watching the driver — 25-year-old Justin Buckle — perform what they believed was a drug transaction.“We think they were trying to flee, but they were blocked in,” East Liverp
  
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• Hundreds of Chicago Jail Guards Called in Sick Sunday for Mother's Day

  16-05-2017 00:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 200 jail officers in Cook County, IL, called in sick Sunday, forcing the facility to be placed on lockdown, officials said. The Cook County Sheriff's office said that 32% of the officers scheduled to work the 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift did not appear. The office said that 86 of the officers said they were sick. Another 126 cited the federal Family Medical Leave Act, which protects employees' absences due to personal and family illnesses and pregnancy, among other reasons. "T
  
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• Images from Police Week 2017

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  National Police Week is a time for remembering the fallen and contemplating the grief of their loved ones. One of the highlights of the week is the annual candlelight vigil, which is organized by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. (All photos by Leslie Pfeiffer) 
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