• How To…Adjust to a New Agency

    How To…Adjust to a New Agency
    It doesn't matter whether you're a rookie heading into your first orientation or a 10-year veteran, adjusting to a new agency can be tricky. There is a learning curve involving understanding an agency-specific culture, establishing new relationships, learning different policies, and navigating a new geographic location. If you aren't careful, it can be a bit overwhelming as you try to fit in. As was the case for me so many years ago, outsiders usually have the hardest time because they represent
  • Skin in the Game

    Skin in the Game
    I'm writing this on Sunday Oct. 1. In about five hours up in Massachusetts my hometown Carolina Panthers will play their fourth game of the NFL season against the New England Patriots. I'm a huge Panthers fan. But I am also the editor of POLICE Magazine. So I have a decision to make. Will I watch the game on TV? I probably will. I have friends coming over. And I'm not a Nielsen Ratings household, so my watching or not watching will have no effect on the team or the league.Still, I am angry at th
  • MN Trooper Maced by Suspect

    A Minnesota woman was booked into jail Friday afternoon after macing a state trooper.Lt. Tiffani Nielson says Trooper Peng Lee responded to a report of a pedestrian on an interstate highway in St. Paul. Trooper Lee located the 35-year-old woman and when he approached her, she ran. As he caught up to her, she turned and sprayed him with mace.Trooper Lee was treated at a local hospital. The suspect is facing assault charges, KARE 11 reports. 
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  • NYPD Bomb Tech Details for Jury How Pressure Cooker Bombs were Disarmed Last Year

    The NYPD bomb-squad detective stood on West 27th Street in Chelsea on that warm Saturday night. A pressure cooker had been found on the sidewalk, with a cellphone beside it, the two connected by wires. A woman who had called 911 initially thought it was a child’s discarded science experiment. The detective knew it was likely an explosive device — another one had just exploded four blocks away.Over his shoulder, more bad news. “There was a hotel bar, restaurant, across the
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  • Minneapolis Expecting Wave of Police Retirements After Super Bowl

    The Minneapolis Police Department is bracing for a wave of officers retiring next spring following Super Bowl LII, prompting concern that the city won’t have enough officers on the streets with crime rates edging up in certain neighborhoods.Dozens of department veterans are waiting to “put in their papers” so they can work the big game, part of a weeklong spectacle expected to draw tens of thousands to the Twin Cities for parties, concerts and drinks, said police union Presiden
  • CA Officer Awarded $4.8 Million in Disability Discrimination Suit

    A Los Angeles jury has awarded $4.8 million to a former South Pasadena police officer who alleged he was fired by the city because of a disability.After a two-week trial, the jury on Thursday found unanimously in favor of Timothy Patrick Green, an 18-year veteran who was dismissed from the Police Department in 2013.Green’s lawsuit said the reason given for his dismissal, dishonesty, was untrue and that the real reason was discrimination based on his attention-deficit/hyper-active disorder.
  • Jacksonville police identify Orange Park man found dead in Hogan's Creek - Florida Times-Union

    Jacksonville police identify Orange Park man found dead in Hogan's Creek
    Florida Times-Union
    Jacksonville police say there was no indication of foul play in the death of an Orange Park man discovered in Hogan's Creek behind the Maxwell House coffee plant Saturday morning. Police assisted by divers recovered the body of Darrius De'Juan Kelly ...
  • Bodycam footage shows Utah police shoot man as he runs away - CNN

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    Bodycam footage shows Utah police shoot man as he runs away
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    (CNN) The Salt Lake City Police Department is the latest US police department to come under scrutiny after bodycam footage shows an officer shooting and killing a man, even as the man appeared to be running away. An officer shot and killed Patrick ...and more »
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  • Police capture father of missing 2-week-old found dead - WSB Atlanta

    WSB Atlanta
    Police capture father of missing 2-week-old found dead
    WSB Atlanta
    NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. - Family members say a missing 2-week-old baby was found dead Sunday. Volunteer search crews said they found the body of Caliyah McNabb in the woods in a duffel bag. The Newton County Sheriff said the child's father, Chris ...and more »
  • Police fatally shoot man in San Fernando - Los Angeles Times

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    Police fatally shoot man in San Fernando
    Los Angeles Times
    San Fernando police shot and killed a man during a confrontation early Sunday, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 11 a.m. in the 100 block of Harding Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is handling the ...and more »
  • Police officer in critical condition after crash; Teen accused of racing - WCVB Boston

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    Police officer in critical condition after crash; Teen accused of racing
    WCVB Boston
    An officer of the Somerville Police Department is in critical condition following a crash involving a teenager who was racing, officials said. Officer Louis Remigio, who lives in Tewksbury, was off-duty when he was badly injured in the crash on ...
    Police Officer Critically Injured After Crash, Teen Arrested For Reckless ConductCBS Boston / WBZ
    Off-duty Somerville Police officer involved in motorcyc
  • SF police escort body of officer's wife killed in Las Vegas massacre - SFGate

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    SF police escort body of officer's wife killed in Las Vegas massacre
    SFGate
    Police escorted Stacee Rodrigues Etcheber's body from San Francisco International Airport to her hometown of Novato on Sunday, in a solemn procession honoring the wife of a San Francisco police officer and mother of two killed in the Las Vegas massacre.
  • Police officer killed in crash on 405 Freeway; young son survives - OCRegister

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    Police officer killed in crash on 405 Freeway; young son survives
    OCRegister
    Officer Matt Ward, 33, a nine-year veteran of the Cypress Police Department was killed in a three-vehicle car crash on the 405 Freeway on Sunday morning. Officer Ward, who was off duty, was traveling with his 5-year-old son on the 405 Freeway on the ...
  • Duterte's police have killed thousands in the Philippines. But this police chief told his officers, 'Don't kill.' - Washington Post

    Washington Post
    Duterte's police have killed thousands in the Philippines. But this police chief told his officers, 'Don't kill.'
    Washington Post
    BOGO CITY, Philippines — Police Chief Byron Allatog insists he is an ordinary cop. And in another time or another place, that might have been true. The 39-year-old runs an ordinary station in an ordinary city set amid the sugar cane fields of the ...and more »
  • Wanted Michigan man challenges police on Facebook and it backfires - WTVD-TV

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    Wanted Michigan man challenges police on Facebook and it backfires
    WTVD-TV
    A wanted Michigan man challenged the Redford Police Department on Facebook saying he would turn himself in if the department were to get 1,000 shares on its next post. (Credit: Redford Township Police Department/ Storyful). WTVD. Sunday, October 08 ...
    Wanted man challenges Redford police on FacebookThe Detroit Newsall 5 news articles »

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