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• Police Searches Drop Dramatically in States that Legalized Marijuana - NBCNews.com

  23-06-2017 23:14 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Traffic searches by highway patrols in Colorado and Washington dropped by nearly half after the two states legalized marijuana in 2012. That also reduced the racial disparities in the stops, according to a new analysis of police data, but not by much ...and more »
  
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• DHS Awards Grants to Counter Terrorist Recruitment and Radicalization in U.S.

  23-06-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the award recipients for the congressionally established Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program. These grants support community-led initiatives across the country to combat all forms of violent extremism, including the rising threat from Islamist terrorism."We are witnessing a global surge in terrorist activity, and in many ways our own backyard has become the battleground," said Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly. "T
  
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• Video: GA Sheriff to Reduce Sentences of Inmates Who Helped Medically Distressed Deputy

  23-06-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: GA Sheriff to Reduce Sentences of Inmates Who Helped Medically Distressed DeputyPolk County, GA’s sheriff said he plans on knocking some time off from the sentences of the inmates who stepped in to help when a deputy went down in medical distress earlier this month.The deputy, who asked not to be identified, said that when he woke up on the morning of June 12, he didn’t feel well.It was 76 degrees outside, and the humidity was at 100 percent. He was on a work detail at a
  
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• Michigan Airport Officer Fought for His Life During Terror Stabbing

  23-06-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lt. Jeff Neville was helping his colleagues set up for a meeting inside Flint Bishop Airport on just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 21, when a man came up and started stabbing him.Neville, despite being stabbed repeatedly, began fighting off his attacker.Airport Director of Public Safety Christopher W. Miller said he was there shortly after the attack and put handcuffs on suspected attacker Amor M. Ftouhi after the stabbing."From what we can tell, he engaged Lt. Neville and just started to st
  
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• LAPD Officer Arrested, Accused of Sex with 15-Year-Old Cadet Involved in Patrol Car Joyrides

  23-06-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 10-year veteran Los Angeles police officer is now at the center of the department’s growing cadet program scandal.Robert Cain, 31, was taken into custody Thursday, the Daily Breeze reports. He’s accused of having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 15-year-old cadet who was allegedly involved in stealing police cruisers, Chief Charlie Beck said during a news conference at police headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.Cain was an “equipment room operator,” responsible f
  
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• Jury Deadlocks in Murder Trial of Ohio Officer, Judge Declares Second Mistrial in Case

  23-06-2017 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A mistrial was declared Friday in the retrial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, charged with murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed motorist Sam DuBose. It is the second mistrial in the case.The Hamilton County, OH, jury had deliberated 30 hours over five days after getting the case Monday. They informed the judge Friday they were split evenly, the New York Daily News reports.Tensing shot the 43-year-old DuBose in the head after pulling him over for a missing f
  
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• Video: Off-Duty St. Louis Officer Wounded in Blue-on-Blue Shooting

  23-06-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Off-Duty St. Louis Officer Wounded in Blue-on-Blue ShootingAn off-duty police officer was shot by a fellow officer Wednesday night in St. Louis. One suspect was also wounded.The incident began around 10 p.m. when a police license recognition system spotted a stolen car. Suspects in that car reportedly opened fire on officers and were arrested. One of the suspects was shot in the ankle.Officials say the off-duty officer, 38, who lives in the area, heard the commotion and came out of h
  
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• GA Seeking Death Penalty for Inmates who Killed Guards During Bus Escape

  23-06-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The two men accused of shooting and killing Georgia Department of Correctional officers before escaping from custody appeared in court on Wednesday morning in Putnam County. The state has said it will pursue the death penalty in the case.Baldwin State Prison inmates Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose were captured near Murfreesboro, Tennessee last week.Authorities say Rowe and Dubose shot and killed the two corrections officers on Highway 16 between Putnam and Sparta last Tuesday then esc
  
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• CA Gang Member Told Detectives He Killed Whittier Officer, Cousin

  23-06-2017 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An admitted gang member told detectives he "smoked" a Whittier police officer and his own cousin and "shot another cop," according to a tape-recorded interview played in court Thursday during a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for him to stand trial for the killings."I guess you guys have everything down — smoked my cousin, smoked the cop. ... I mean, what else do you guys want? I shot another cop," Michael Christopher Mejia said in the interview.Mejia, 26, is charged with
  
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• Police Officer Beaten to Death by a Mob in Kashmir - New York Times

  23-06-2017 14:51 via nytimes.com
  
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  Relatives of Mohammed Ayub Pandith, the deputy superintendent of security for the Jammu and Kashmir police, mourned during his funeral in Srinagar on Friday. Credit Farooq Khan/European Pressphoto Agency. SRINAGAR, Kashmir — A high-ranking ...and more »
  
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• Video Shows Minnesota Police Beating Driver - NBCNews.com

  23-06-2017 05:02 via nbcnews.com
  
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  The Minnesota branch of the ACLU on Thursday released a police dashcam video showing what they termed "a textbook case of excessive force" and called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 2016 arrest. The video shows Agent Joe ...
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  In the Blink of an Eye, Police Officers Turned This Traffic Stop Into an Unnecessarily Violent Encount
  
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• Video: Dallas Police Chief Candidates Named

  23-06-2017 02:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Dallas Police Chief Candidates NamedThree internal candidates are among the eight finalists for Dallas police chief announced Wednesday, reports KXAS.Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax will select the new chief. "This is probably one of the biggest decisions I’ll have to make as city manager, one of the most important ones," Broadnax said.The candidates include the following, in alphabetical order:Malik Aziz, Deputy Chief, Dallas Police DepartmentCarmen Best, Deputy Chief, Seattle Po
  
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• FL Woman Tipped Off Drug Dealers About Investigation to Get Back at Detective-Husband

  23-06-2017 02:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Broward County, FL, elementary school teacher who tried to get revenge against her husband by tipping off drug dealers that they were under investigation should spend the next eight years in federal prison because the consequences of her actions were so serious, prosecutors say.The undercover investigation was compromised and an insider informant who was secretly working with federal authorities was “outed.” He died of a gunshot wound a short time later under suspicious circumstanc
  
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• San Francisco Police Chief Seeks TASER Training for All Officers

  23-06-2017 02:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chief Bill Scott said Wednesday that he wants to train every sworn San Francisco police officer in his department to use the electric stun guns that they have been denied because of staunch public opposition for more than a decade, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.While Scott's support of the tool is nothing new, his desire to have every officer trained in its use appeared to be a departure from previous chiefs' more cautious efforts to appease the community by equipping just a portion of the
  
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• Video: GA Officer Saves Wheelchair-Bound Man From Burning Home

  23-06-2017 02:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: GA Officer Saves Wheelchair-Bound Man From Burning HomeAn Oakwood, GA, police officer saved a wheelchair-bound man from a burning home early Monday morning, reports Fox 5 Atlanta.Just as Corporal Jason Crowder was about to get off work, a 911 call came in about a man trapped inside a home on Shawnee Drive."It was heavy black smoke," Crowder said. "The flames were toward the back of the house." Knowing there wasn't much time, Crowder reacted. "I went in and found him on the floor," he said
  
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• Baltimore Businesses Destroyed During Riots Sue City Officials for Failing to Prevent Violence

  23-06-2017 01:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dozens of Baltimore business owners are suing city officials, including the police department and former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, saying they mishandled the city's response to the rioting in 2015, reports the Baltimore Sun.In a nearly 700-page complaint filed in federal court this week, more than 60 plaintiffs say city officials failed to prevent the looting and rioting that erupted after the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in April 2015, despite warnings the city would experience violen
  
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• Axon to Partner with Washington State University for Police-Community Interactions Research

  23-06-2017 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  At the annual Axon Accelerate User Conference, Axon and Washington State University (WSU) announced their intent to form a strategic partnership for further research that may improve law enforcement training and police-community relations. In a set of landmark studies published in 2017, researchers at WSU's new Complex Social Interaction (CSI) laboratory have analyzed body-worn camera footage to gain a more thorough and complete understanding of police use of force and police-community inte
  
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