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• 'Planned killing spree' in Detroit area leaves 2 dead, police say - Fox News

  01-02-2018 23:18 via foxnews.com
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  'Planned killing spree' in Detroit area leaves 2 dead, police say
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  Fox 2 Detroit has identified the suspect, who's accused of killing two people and trying to kill a third, as Vernest James Griffin. (Fox 2 Detroit). Two people were killed Thursday in the Detroit area after police said a gunman launched a “planned ...
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• Video: TX Deputy Shot by Handcuffed Suspect

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: TX Deputy Shot by Handcuffed Suspect A Harris County (TX) deputy is recovering in the hospital after being shot by a man who was being arrested overnight at a house in North Harris County.The more than three hours long standoff finally came to an end around 12:20 a.m. Thursday, after a Harris County SWAT Team’s robot was sent in and located the suspect dead with a gunshot wound.Investigators are still working to see if their deputies shot him, or if the man took his life during the
  
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• Video: IL Officer Hit by Suspect Stealing Patrol Car, Suspect Shot

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  VIDEO: IL Officer Hit by Suspect Stealing Patrol Car, Suspect ShotA Harvey, IL, police officer shot a suspect after the suspect reportedly hit the officer with the officer's patrol car Wednesday afternoon.The incident began around 4:30 p.m. Police responded to an accident involving multiple vehicles at the intersection and observed three people fleeing on foot.One officer gave chase in a police car, according to Harvey spokesperson Sean Howard, while another stayed behind to help injured people
  
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• NYPD to Give All Patrol Officers Body Cameras by End of Year

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The NYPD is accelerating its body camera program and will outfit nearly 18,000 patrol cops with the devices by the end of 2018, a full year ahead of the original schedule, city officials said Tuesday.At a news conference at the 79th Precinct in Brooklyn, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill and other officials said money for fast tracking the body camera program will be part of the preliminary budget scheduled to be announced on Thursday.De Blasio couldn’t give
  
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• NJ Mayor Ends Off-Duty Job Program for Officers Over Corruption Allegations

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jersey City, NJ, Mayor Steve Fulop's pledge to end a program that allows officers to make extra cash working off-duty jobs is leading to howls of protest from the city's police force.The program is under fire thanks to a federal investigation that has led to guilty pleas from 10 people, including a former police chief, Phil Zacche. More officers are expected to be ensnared in the probe, NJ.com reports."For too long the program has been abused with police officers more focused on off-duty wo
  
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• IL Officer Shot, Suspect Killed in Shootout

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Peoria, IL, police officer was shot and wounded overnight after an attempted traffic stop. The suspect in the shooting is dead.Peoria Police say officers' attempt to make a traffic stop at 2:27 a.m. resulted in the vehicle fleeing. The driver lost control of the car at Garden and Warren and then ran on foot. When police next saw the suspect, gunfire was exchanged.The unidentified officer who was shot is in stable condition. The suspect, who was also shot, died later at the hospital, Peori
  
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• Baltimore to Use Fingerprint Scanners to Track Officer Work Hours

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Baltimore Police Department plans to require officers to scan their fingerprints at the start and end of shifts in order to prove they’ve worked the hours claimed on their pay slips.The move comes as the department struggles to control ongoing overtime spending of nearly a million dollars a week, and amid the ongoing federal trial of two Gun Trace Task Force officers whose colleagues have admitted to rampant overtime fraud by the unit.“Let’s not sugarcoat this: Criminals fo
  
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• 30-Year Department Veteran Named San Diego Chief

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  David Nesleit, a 30-veteran of the San Diego Police Department is expected to become the city’s next police chief after a national search that began in September.Assistant Chief Nesleit, whose father was a longtime San Diego police captain, has risen through the ranks of the department since 1988, including assignments focused on gangs, sex crimes, narcotics and homicide.The appointment must be confirmed by the City Council later this month. Nisleit said Thursday that he will focus on solv
  
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• 2 Shot at California Middle School, 12-Year-Old Girl in Custody

  01-02-2018 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two students were shot, and at least three others were injured, after a shooting in a classroom at Sal Castro Middle School in the Westlake district of Los Angeles Thursday morning, and a 12-year-old girl is in custody, authorities said.Emergency personnel from several agencies responded to the middle school after receiving reports of a possible shooting inside a classroom shortly before 9 a.m. Two students -- a 15-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy -- were found with gunshot wounds and transpo
  
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• Police say Maryland children were beaten and forced to eat dog feces for months - CNN

  01-02-2018 20:26 via cnn.com
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  Police say Maryland children were beaten and forced to eat dog feces for months
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  (CNN) Three children were beaten, forced to eat dog feces and locked in the closets of a Maryland home for months, Maryland State Police said. The children -- ages 8, 9 and 10 -- were assaulted with "an electronic control device" and beaten by two ...and more »
  
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• Baltimore Police to use fingerprint scanning to track officers' time at work after years of abuse - Baltimore Sun

  01-02-2018 12:01 via baltimoresun.com
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  Baltimore Police to use fingerprint scanning to track officers' time at work after years of abuse
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  To control ongoing overtime spending, the Baltimore Police Department plans to require officers to scan their fingerprints at the start and end of their shifts. Kevin RectorContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. The Baltimore Police Department plans to ...
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• Report Alleges Police Use Secret Evidence Collected By Feds To Make Arrests - NPR

  01-02-2018 11:01 via npr.org
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  Report Alleges Police Use Secret Evidence Collected By Feds To Make Arrests
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  Branches of America's federal law enforcement and intelligence services may be secretly helping state and local police arrest suspects every day in ways that raise fundamental questions about defendants' civil and due process rights, according to a ...and more »
  
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• In Your Own Words: What is Your New Year's Resolution for 2018?

  01-02-2018 02:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  For the January 2018 issue of POLICE Magazine, we asked readers to submit their answers to the following question:What is Your New Year's Resolution for 2018?My New Year's Resolution is that I want to retire for "real" this time. With 35 years on the job, I first retired in 2008 and received a pension with the Joplin (MO) PD, but immediately joined the Jasper County Sheriff's Office, starting as a process server, and now a court bailiff. I've also been a life-time subscriber to POLICE Magazine,
  
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• TX Man Gets 15 Years for Role in Deaths of Officer, Boy During Pursuit

  01-02-2018 02:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Garrett William Nee has been sentenced for his actions on Father's Day, June 19, 2016, when he led police on a pursuit, causing a crash that killed Patton Village, TX, Police Sgt. Stacey Baumgartner and a young boy in his family's car, reports the Montgomery County Courier.Nee was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after he was found guilty of four felony charges late last week stemming from the deaths of Baumgartner and 11-year-old Adan Hilario Jr. in the wreck.Two charges were for evading
  
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• Family Meets With Border Patrol Agent Whose CPR Saved Toddler

  01-02-2018 02:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The family of a toddler who was given life-saving medical aid on the side of the road met on Monday with the Border Patrol agent who administered CPR to the child, reports Tucson.com.The family, from Naco, Sonora, visited with Agent Jed Eckler at the Brian A. Terry Station to express their gratitude for his actions, according to a news release from Customs and Border Protection.On Jan. 17, Eckler was on his way home from work when he encountered the family, which had pulled over to the side of t
  
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• Video: Virginia Tech Student Had High-Powered Rifle, Attempted to Buy 5,000 Rounds of Ammo, Police Say

  01-02-2018 01:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Virginia Tech Student Had High-Powered Rifle, Attempted to Buy 5,000 Rounds of Ammo, Police SayPolice have arrested a Virginia Tech student they say illegally had a high-powered rifle.Virginia Tech police arrested 19-year-old Yunsong Zhao on Monday and charged him with possessing or transporting an assault firearm while not being a U.S. citizen or while not being lawfully admitted for permanent residence to the U.S., according to the arrest warrant. The charge is a class 6 felony.The warr
  
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• Sheriff Son of Warren Buffett to Donate $1.4M to IL County

  01-02-2018 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  A central Illinois sheriff who's the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett says he's gearing up to donate $1.4 million to pay for wide-ranging expenses from new software at the Macon County Jail to drug-related autopsies, reports the Associated Press.The (Decatur) Herald & Review reports Macon County Sheriff Howard Buffett, who runs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, is giving 13 donations that need approval by the county board. They include roughly $500,000 for a new jail management sys
  
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• No Charges for Officers in Dallas Sniper's Death

  01-02-2018 01:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dallas police officers who used a bomb robot to kill the sniper who ambushed officers and civilians during a downtown protest will not face charges, a grand jury has determined.The Dallas County District Attorney said in a release on Wednesday that the grand jury no-billed those officers involved after evidence was presented about the July 7, 2016 attack, reports KSAZ-TV."Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with the families of those who lost their lives that night, the officers who were inj
  
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• San Francisco to Wipe Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

  01-02-2018 01:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  San Francisco will retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to prior convictions, expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions dating back to 1975, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday.Nearly 5,000 felony marijuana convictions will be reviewed, recalled and resentenced, and more than 3,000 misdemeanors that were sentenced prior to Proposition 64's passage will be dismissed and sealed, Dist. Atty. George Gascón said. The move will clear peo
  
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• TN Officer Stabbed Trying to Detain Mentally Ill Suspect

  01-02-2018 01:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Memphis police officer is recovering from a stab wound that he sustained Tuesday evening while trying to detain a man who has a mental illness, police said.The officer was brought to a hospital in critical condition but was later said to be in stable condition.Police Director Michael Rallings and Mayor Jim Strickland briefed reporters outside Regional One Hospital shortly after 10 p.m. Rallings said the 39-year-old officer was stabbed in the upper torso but is doing relatively well.Police said
  
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