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• Chicago Using Los Angeles-Style Predictive Policing Technology to Reduce Murder Rate

  09-02-2018 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sean Malinowski was torn between two cities last year: chief of staff to Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and $250-an-hour consultant to the Chicago Police Department, helping create new, high-tech crime-fighting centers.“I used all of my vacation time and days off to do this,” Malinowski says. “My family time suffered. I’m a little worn out by it.”Invited to Chicago by Supt. Eddie Johnson to lend his expertise after the city suffered one of its bloodiest years
  
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• Mayor, DA Argue Over Police Stops of New York City Subway Turnstile Jumpers

  09-02-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The subway turnstile — low enough to vault, ubiquitous enough to figure in the lives of millions of New Yorkers each day — has long served as a kind of dragnet for the Police Department. There, officers lie in wait, nabbing those who skip the fare.Of late, these rotating entry points and those who jump them have become stumbling blocks for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who despite his usual liberal stance on most police issues, has been vocally opposed to the Manhattan district attorney&rsqu
  
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• Bill Would Extend Insurance Benefits to Families of Fallen Colorado Officers

  09-02-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Velma Donahue was going through the worst week of her life. Her husband Cody, a Colorado State Patrol trooper, was killed in a crash along I-25. The day before his funeral, she took her daughter to the doctor and was told she didn’t have health insurance. According to current Colorado law, insurance benefits for families of a state employee who is killed on the job expire on the first day of the next month. For Velma, that was six days after her husband died. “Let me b
  
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• Georgia Officer Killed, 2 Deputies Shot Serving Arrest Warrant

  09-02-2018 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Locust Grove, Georgia, police officer was shot and killed Friday morning while backing up Henry County Sheriff's deputies who were serving a failure to appear arrest warrant.The two deputies were also shot. One was hit below his ballistic vest and is reportedly in serious condition at an Atlanta hospital. The second deputy was saved from serious injury by his vest, Henry County Sheriff Keith McBrayer said in a press conference.The suspect was killed, reportedly by fire from one of the wounded
  
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• Panasonic Releases Upgraded Toughbook 20

  09-02-2018 17:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Panasonic, an industry leading manufacturer of rugged and semi-rugged mobile computing solutions, has announced the U.S. launch of the latest version of its popular 2-in-1 detachable laptop, the Toughbook 20.Now equipped with a refreshed processor – the Intel Core i5-7Y57 processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.3 GHz, the fully rugged Toughbook 20 laptop is more capable than ever before. And with a 256GB SSD standard on all models – and an option to expand to 512GB – users can store
  
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