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• Policy Won't Stop Vehicle Attacks

  10-07-2017 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terrorists and mentally deranged individuals will surely exploit police policies that limit an officer's response. So with the number of vehicle ramming attacks on the rise, we should be focusing on police equipment and training needs, and not crippling police response options with unrealistic policies that ban officers from shooting at vehicles under any circumstances.Since the cargo truck ramming slaughter in Nice, France, there have been more than nine ramming attacks in Europe and the United
  
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• Video: Dallas County Commissioner Speaks Against Honoring Fallen Officers

  10-07-2017 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Dallas County Commissioner Speaks Against Honoring Fallen OfficersWhat was expected to be a largely ceremonial vote to honor fallen police officers became a heated dispute about whether blue lives, black lives or all lives matter at the Dallas County Commissioners Court last week.Commissioner John Wiley Price disagreed with the reason for the resolution, arguing that law enforcement should not be honored unless all are remembered."I think it's interesting in this country how you again try
  
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• Dallas Library Archives Public Tributes to Fallen Officers

  10-07-2017 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An eight-foot cross rests on its side, near an assortment of other crosses and a collection of police uniform patches. Close by are rain-curled posters and hundreds of artificial flowers. “Back the blue,” reads one sign, not far from where stuffed animals sit on a library shelf that once held true crime books.Here, deep in Dallas’s central library, archivists have spent months sorting more than 10,000 tributes that flowed in after five law enforcement officers were killed in an
  
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• Baton Rouge Officer Sues Black Lives Matter Claiming "Incitement" of Deadly Ambush Attack Last Year

  10-07-2017 23:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A federal lawsuit accuses Black Lives Matter and five of the movement's leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman's deadly ambush of police officers in Baton Rouge last summer.DeRay Mckesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders are named as defendants in the suit filed Friday on behalf of one of the officers wounded in the July 17, 2016, attack by a black military veteran, Gavin Eugene Long, who killed three other officers before he was shot dead, CBS News reports.The attorneys
  
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• Ohio Sheriff Refuses to Equip Deputies with Narcan

  10-07-2017 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The sheriff of one opioid-ravaged Ohio county is refusing to equip his deputies with Narcan, the drug that has saved the lives of countless overdosing addicts.Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones insists he is not heartless but says requiring deputies to administer the remedy puts them in danger and the cost of repeatedly treating people with Narcan is “sucking the taxpayers dry.”"All we're doing is reviving them, we’re not curing them," Jones told NBC News on Friday. "One pe
  
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• Ohio Officer Shot 4 Times on Domestic Call, Suspect Killed

  10-07-2017 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Uniontown, OH, police officer was shot four times while responding to a domestic violence call Sunday evening.Authorities said the suspect, Ryan Probst, fired several shots while standing in the front door of a home just after 9:15 p.m.The officers fired back killing Probst, News5Cleveland reports.The wounded officer, Sergeant David White, was out of surgery Monday morning and reportedly with good vitals. However, more procedures will be necessary, the Uniontown Police repo
  
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• Briefing Skills

  10-07-2017 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Briefings are an essential part of life in law enforcement. Briefings are conducted at many different levels and for different reasons. Sometimes they are necessary and sometimes they are just for show. Either way, you will have to do them, so you might as well do them well.Information given out before the start of a shift is the most common type of briefing. After that, briefings involve operations or special events. Every supervisor must possess effective briefing skills that include an array
  
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• Body Armor Saves Lives

  10-07-2017 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wearing a ballistic vest can seem like a chore, as they can be hot and constricting even with advanced technology that enhances comfort while maintaining effectiveness. But a vest can't protect you if it's not on, and you never know when you'll need this life-saving protection. Officers who have survived shooting incidents thanks to their vests are quick to share this wisdom. And they want every officer to believe it and live it. Here are the stories of several officers who lived to tell the tal
  
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• Cloth Handles for Arrest and Control

  10-07-2017 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When making an arrest, you should always be looking for an advantage you can use against the suspect, so that you can bring him or her under control quickly with reasonable force using techniques permitted by your agency's policy.One advantage you can leverage against suspects is to use what they are wearing against them. Think of the things a suspect wears on his or her body as "cloth handles" for arrest and control. Cloth handles include sleeves, collars, belts, pockets, baseball caps, backpac
  
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• Video: NY State Trooper Killed Responding to "Shots Fired" Call

  10-07-2017 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: NY State Trooper Killed Responding to "Shots Fired" CallA New York State trooper was shot and killed Sunday night in northern Jefferson County. The suspect is in custody.State police said Trooper Joel R. Davis, 36, responded to several reports of shots fired during a domestic incident. He was shot once while responding to the incident. Nichole Walters, 27, the suspect's wife was also shot and killed during the incident. A second woman who lived on the property was shot in the upper t
  
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