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• FL Officer Shot in Face Gets Visit from Country Singer

  15-11-2017 23:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Florida police officer who was shot in the face earlier this year got a visit from country music star Chris Stapleton, reports the Lexington Herald-Leader.Stapleton met Jacksonville, FL, sheriff's office K-9 handler Jeremy Mason while the singer was in Florida for a music tour, according to a post on the sheriff's office Facebook page. Mason was shot in the face in July while chasing a suspected bank robber and a three-time convicted felon, the post read.Stapleton heard about Mason’s inj
  
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• Video: Las Vegas Officer Pleaded with Man to Drop Gun Before Fatal Shooting

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  VIDEO: Las Vegas Officer Pleaded with Man to Drop Gun Before Fatal ShootingLas Vegas police have released body camera video of a fatal officer-involved shooting Saturday in which the officer pleaded with a gunman to drop his weapon before he opened fire.Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts said officer David Nesheiwat shot and killed Phillip Pitts, 41, who was holding his wife and pointing a gun at her outside a store near Maryland Parkway and Cactus Avenue. Pitts’ wife was also struck accid
  
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• Video: Chicago Police Lieutenant Rallies Volunteers to Refurbish Veteran’s Newsstand

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  VIDEO: Chicago Police Lieutenant Rallies Volunteers to Refurbish Veteran’s NewsstandFor the past seven years, Air Force veteran Anthony Johnson has been selling newspapers out of a beaten up stand at the corner of Milwaukee and Faragutt. Chicago Police Lieutenant John Garrido connected with Anthony about a year ago and decided to give Anthony a better place to sell his newspapers.Garrido posted a Facebook Live video asking for help. Volunteers stepped up, and they spent the last few w
  
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• Motorola Solutions Technology Aids Florida Agency in Intelligence-Led Policing

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  "Why are we reacting to the dots on the map?" asked Chief Jeff O'Dell upon entering the Kissimmee (FL) Police Department. He then said, "Let's try to prevent the dots and look ahead to stop crimes before they actually happen." Since then, the department has been working toward evolving to an intelligence-led policing model, even while facing budget constraints.The department decided to implement Motorola Solutions' CommandCentral Analytics to turn its vision for intelligence-led policing into a
  
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• Video: TN Boy Helps Direct Traffic, Forms Bond With Officer

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  VIDEO: TN Boy Helps Direct Traffic, Forms Bond With OfficerA little boy in Tennessee who lives near an elementary school has started "helping" a Newport, TN, officer direct traffic in the afternoons when school lets out, reports WATE.Four-year-old Sawyer Schimming's mother, Allison Schimming, says he loves playing police officer. He got the costume last Halloween and wears it at least once a day. "I think it's the most adorable thing," she says."I had a lot of training," says Sawyer. The boy has
  
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• FBI Releases 2016 Hate Crime Statistics

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  The FBI has released Hate Crime Statistics, 2016, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias-motivated incidents throughout the nation. Submitted by 15,254 law enforcement agencies, the 2016 data provide information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes.Law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports involving 6,121 criminal incidents and 7,321 related offenses as being motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, rel
  
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• Video: Shots Fired Into FL Officer's Home, Cruiser

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  VIDEO: Shots Fired Into FL Officer's Home, Cruiser The search is on for two men who fired several shots into a Zephyrhills, FL, police officer’s home early Tuesday morning.Police say two unknown males walked onto the officer’s property and fired rounds into the officer's police vehicle, which was parked in the driveway. Then, they fired several shots into the house, reports WTVT-TV.The officer and his family were not injured, according to a media release. 
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