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• Video: Houston K-9 Put Down After Injuring Leg Chasing Suspect

  21-02-2018 22:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Houston K-9 Put Down After Injuring Leg Chasing SuspectA Houston Police K-9 was injured Tuesday night chasing a suspect and had to be euthanized.Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told ABC13 it all started when officers tried to pull over a stolen car around 1 a.m. That led to a chase that ended with the suspect running into a wooded area.The K-9, Rony, was deployed to pursue the suspect and seriously injured his leg after he got stuck on a log or some other type of wooden object."Essential
  
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• U.S. Park Police Officer Accidentally Shot While Serving Warrant

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  Authorities say a U.S. Park Police officer was taken to the hospital after he was accidentally shot while executing a search warrant in Northwest D.C. Wednesday morning.D.C. Police said the officer was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center after he was shot in the lower extremities. Park Police said the incident happened because "a Park Police Officer’s firearm was unintentionally discharged."Police told WJLA TV the officer is currently at the hospital in stable condition.&
  
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• Non-Sworn Assistants Help Phoenix Police Stretch Patrol Resources

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  A group of new Phoenix police assistants are working the city's streets in marked vehicles and uniforms, responding to a variety of calls in an effort to free up patrol officers for more urgent matters.The 16 civilian assistants, who graduated in November, are driving in marked vehicles wearing a uniform, but are not sworn police officers, Phoenix police officials said.Phoenix Police Sgt. Jonathan Howard said police assistants have been used to help officers in the past, and they will
  
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• Newspaper Declares Baltimore Nation's Most Dangerous City

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  The collective homicide toll for America’s 50 biggest cities dipped slightly in 2017, a USA TODAY analysis of crime data found. The FBI won’t publish its annual comprehensive crime report until later this year, but an early review of police department crime data shows that killings decreased by at least 1% in large jurisdictions compared with 2016.There were 5,738 homicides in the nation’s 50 biggest cities in 2017 compared with 5,863 homicide
  
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• Maryland Officer Killed While Trying to Protect Victim at Domestic

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  A Prince George's County, MD, police officer was shot and killed in Brandywine on Wednesday morning while trying to protect a woman at a domestic. The suspect was later killed by police.Cpl. Mujahid Ramzziddin was a 14-year veteran of the force and a father of four children, Fox 5 reports.The suspect, who had a protective order against him, reportedly used a shotgun to kill the officer, who was not in uniform. The Officer Down Memorial Page reports Ramzziddin lived near the home where the incide
  
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• LAPD Draft Policy Calls for Quick Release of Body Camera Videos

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  In a move once staunchly resisted by Chief Charlie Beck and the officers’ union, the Los Angeles Police Commission has introduced a draft policy that would allow the release of video of critical incidents such as shootings that were recorded on officers' body-worn cameras.  Until now, the LAPD had a policy that prohibited the release of such video.Under the proposed plan, the LAPD would also begin to release some video shot by cameras in patrol cars and on drones – and video col
  
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• Following Up on School Shooting Threat, California Deputies Find Guns in Student's Home

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  Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies seized rifles, handguns, ammunition and dozens of "high-capacity" magazines from the Norwalk home of a student at El Camino High School in south Whittier last week after a resource officer overheard the teenager threatening to shoot up the school.The student, who remains unnamed because he is a minor, was arrested by deputies on suspicion of making criminal threats on Friday, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell.Also arrested was one of his
  
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• Alabama Officer Killed by Murder Suspect, Suspect Found Dead After Barricade

  21-02-2018 12:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Mobile, AL, police officer was shot late Tuesday evening and rushed to the University of South Alabama Medical Center where he died.Officer Justin Billa was shot and mortally wounded by a murder suspect at a residence. The suspect identified as Robert Hollie is dead following a barricade incident. It is unknown if he committed suicide or was killed by responding officers. WKRG TV reports SWAT teams arrived on the scene around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The barricade situation ended around 2:45
  
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• President Trump Directs Justice Department to Ban Bump Stocks

  21-02-2018 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has signed a memo directing the Justice Department to propose regulations to "ban all devices" like the rapid-fire bump stocks involved in last year's Las Vegas massacre, reports the Associated Press.Seeking to show action days after a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Trump spoke during a White House ceremony recognizing bravery by the nation's public safety officers."We must move past clichés and tired debates and focus on evidence
  
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