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• Tactical Flashlights: What and When

  23-01-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Whether on duty or off, one of the most trusted tools is your handy flashlight. If you’re like most, you keep one with you all the time. A good rule of thumb is: if you carry a gun, carry a flashlight. (The same rules apply to guns and trauma kits, but that’s for another article.)In the old days, the only “tactical” flashlights were big, bulky, heavy monstrosities that ate D cell batteries and weighed down your duty belt. The story went that you had to carry your gun on o
  
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• Video: Two Killed, 17 Injured in KY School Shooting; Suspect in Custody

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  VIDEO: Two Killed, 17 Injured in KY School Shooting; Suspect in CustodyTwo teenagers have died and 17 other people were wounded from gunfire or injured in the chaos after a shooting at a Benton, KY, high school shortly before 8 a.m. this morning. The suspect, a 15-year-old male student, was taken into custody.A 15-year-old girl, later identified as Bailey Nicole Holt, died at the scene and a 15-year-old boy, later identified as Preston Ryan Cope, died at the hospital, ABC News reports.The suspec
  
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• Video: Atlanta Officer Rescues Dog from Burning Building

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  VIDEO: Atlanta Officer Rescues Dog from Burning BuildingBody camera video captures an Atlanta Police officer running into a burning building Jan. 7 to save a dog.Officers, along with firefighters, responded to a house fire on Mason Turner Road and Joseph E. Boone Blvd. Firefighters battled the blaze, while the officers checked the area. It was during that check that Officer Robert Wrinkler noticed a dog inside the building.Wrinkler pulled the dog out and the pup can be seen struggling to breathe
  
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• Shots Fired at Officers on Top of Brooklyn Building

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  A shooter opened fire on two NYPD officers as they patrolled the roof of a Brooklyn housing development, blasting a bullet into a door just moments after the officers emerged from it, police said.The officers were doing a floor-by-floor “vertical” patrol of the Stuyvesant Garden Houses on Gates Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 10:30 p.m. Monday night when they heard gunfire from across the way, according to officers.Police believe the shooter was firing from another rooftop, the N
  
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• MS Officer Seriously Injured in Crash

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  A Gulfport (MS) Police officer was seriously injured in a crash, the agency tweeted Monday evening. Sgt. Clayton Fulks said the crash happened about 6:30 p.m. and an officer was transported to a hospital with serious injuries.The officer was attempting to stop a van reported as stolen, Fulks told the Sun Herald, when it hit the officer’s patrol vehicle. 
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• KS Officers Sued Over Fatal Shooting Caused by “Swatting” Call

  23-01-2018 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  The family of a man who was fatally shot by police after they responded to a fake 911 "swatting" call is suing the city of Wichita, Kansas, and 10 police officers, calling the young man's death "unacceptable."Andrew Finch's mother and sister filed the lawsuit Monday in the U.S. District Court of Kansas.Finch, who was 28 years old and had two young children, was shot and killed by a Wichita police officer on Dec. 28. A team of officers had descended on Finch's home in response to a bogus 911
  
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• GA Man Killed After Opening Fire on Officers Serving Warrant, Police Say

  23-01-2018 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Tuesday morning at a home in Savannah.Around 6:15 a.m. Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department officers and U.S. Marshals Task Force members arrived at the home to serve a warrant in the Jan. 21 homicide on Hudson Street.That’s when the suspect, 20-year-old Ricky Jerome Boyd initiated gunfire.Police returned fire at Boyd, shooting him several times. He was transported to a nearby ho
  
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• Baltimore’s New Police Commissioner Says First Days of Anti-Crime “Blitz” Successful

  23-01-2018 15:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Baltimore’s new Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa said Monday that his stepped-up deployment of officers — dubbed Operation Blitz — had yielded immediate results, and he previewed other plans to reshape the department.De Sousa briefed members of the City Council on his first days in office. Mayor Catherine E. Pugh named him to the post Friday, as she announced the firing of his predecessor, Kevin Davis.De Sousa said an effort to deploy more officers onto the street for a 13-d
  
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• DA to Seek Death Penalty in PA Officer's Shooting Death

  23-01-2018 01:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Westmoreland County, PA, district attorney intends to seek the death penalty against Rahmael Holt, who is awaiting trial in the fatal shooting of New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw.District Attorney John Peck submitted a notice of intent to the court Monday, reports WTAE.Prosecutors have said that Shaw, 25, was shot multiple times when he chased Holt, 29, on foot after an attempted traffic stop on the night of Nov. 17. 
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• PA Officer in Stable Condition After Shooting That Claimed Life of U.S. Marshal

  23-01-2018 01:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  York City, PA, Officer Kyle Pitts remains in stable condition at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, recovering from injuries after he was shot Thursday, according to a city police news release on Sunday."Along with his injuries, Officer Pitts along with all members of the York City Police Department are coping with the loss of our friend and brother Deputy Christopher Hill," the U.S. deputy marshal who was killed in the shooting, the news release states.Pitts, a 10-year-veteran of the department
  
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• UT Bill Lowers Age for Teens Accused of Killing Officers to Face Adult Charges

  23-01-2018 01:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  A new bill filed in the Utah State Legislature would lower the age for teenagers to face adult-level charges when they’re accused of killing police officers, reports KSTU.Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City, filed House Bill 190. Under Utah law, a juvenile defendant must be at least 16 to be directly taken into the adult court system. His bill drops the age to 15 when it involves the murder of a police officer.Rep. Winder told KSTU the bill was in response to the murder of West Valley Cit
  
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• Supreme Court Rules for Police Officers in D.C. House Party Case

  23-01-2018 00:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Supreme Court on Monday said D.C. police officers acted reasonably in arresting 21 people at a late-night house party a decade ago in a case that featured women in garter belts stuffed with cash and a mystery hostess named Peaches, reports the Washington Post.The court ruled unanimously that the officers could not be held liable for making the arrests after they came upon a scene of "utter Bacchanalia," as Justice Clarence Thomas described it in announcing the decision, at a house party wher
  
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• NFL Player Threatened to Sexually Assault FL Officer's Wife, Police Say

  23-01-2018 00:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Robby Anderson, 24, a wide receiver for the New York Jets who lives in Sunrise, FL, was arrested early Friday morning after police say he was speeding, driving recklessly, and made threats against an officer, reports the Sun Sentinel.The Florida native is accused of threatening to find the wife of the police officer who took him into custody and sexually assault her, as well as making threats against the officer's family, according to an arrest report.While in the back of the police car, Anderso
  
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• Video: Suspect Fatally Shot After Firing AR-15 at FL Deputies, Sheriff Says

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  VIDEO: Suspect Fatally Shot After Firing AR-15 at FL Deputies, Sheriff SaysA suspect is dead after firing an AR-15 rifle at deputies, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.According to Judd, the incident began as a domestic violence situation. About 8 a.m, deputies were called to the home on College Hill Road in Lake Wales. The wife and daughter of Shannon J. Cables, 46, said he had threatened his wife with a long safety pin, then struck the wife with a pool cue and used mace on them.During the in
  
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• Milwaukee Officer Shot by Partner During Encounter With Armed Man

  23-01-2018 00:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Milwaukee police officer was shot in the foot by his partner when the two encountered an armed suspect at a domestic disturbance. The injured officer has been released from the hospital, a police spokesman said Friday.The suspect, a 48-year-old man, remained hospitalized under police custody Friday morning, Sgt. Tim Gauerke said.Police received a report of a domestic disturbance involving a "suspect armed with knives" shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of S. Hawley Road, according
  
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• Posters in OR Elementary School Seem to Call Police Predators

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  Eugene, OR, school officials say they're still working with police on the possibly unlawful removal of immigrant-friendly posters in a grade school, reports KLCC.The top of the posters read "IMMIGRANTS WELCOME" – and were hung in hallways and classrooms at River Road /El Camino del Rio Elementary. But part of the poster said, "The border is not a wall…It doesn't keep out predators; it gives them badges and guns."4-J officials say they believe a contractor took them all down over win
  
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