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• To Prevent School Shootings, Show Some Muscle

  23-02-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The massacre at the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, has angered many people in this country. Just as we were putting this issue to bed much of that anger was turned toward a 59-year-old Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who served as the school’s resource officer.Sheriff Scott Israel announced that Deputy Scot Peterson resigned/retired from the sheriff’s office after an investigation of his actions during the active shooter’s rampage showed that he re
  
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• Tennessee Police Say They Foiled Church Shooting Last Weekend

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tennessee law enforcement agencies say they thwarted an apparent plan by a Tennessee prison guard to shoot parishioners at a church when he was found to have an AR-15 and up to 1,500 rounds of ammunition on Sunday.Daniel Vernon Tolar, 35, was incarcerated in the Wayne County Jail on weapons charges related to the incident.District Attorney Brent Cooper told FOX 17 News Tolar was intercepted by Clifton Police who were acting on a tip.Police approached Tolar at work and say he was found to have an
  
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• New York Sheriff's Association Calls for Armed LEO in Every School

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  New York should fund at least one armed school resource officer in every school in the state, the state Sheriffs' Association said Thursday.The Sheriffs' Association said the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo should fund one armed officer in every school as part of the state budget for the fiscal year that starts April 1, the Democrat & Chronicle reports.“This will be an expensive undertaking,” Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts, the group's president, said in a statemen
  
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• Hundreds of Accidental 911 Calls to California Dispatchers Traced to iPhone Repair Center

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Apple's iPhone repair and refurbishing center has been identified as the source of hundreds of apparently inadvertent 911 calls received by Elk Grove, CA, police and Sacramento County sheriff's dispatch centers over the past five months.Since October, the Elk Grove Police Department's dispatch center has been receiving about 20 non-subscriber initialized 911 calls per day, said Officer Jason Jimenez, police spokesman. The calls show no service provider for the phone, but the dispatch center has
  
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• Former DC Transit Officer Gets 15 Years for Aiding ISIS

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former police officer with the D.C. Metro transit system will spend 15 years in prison after getting caught in a terrorism sting operation, even as he continues to argue that he is not an Islamic State supporter but a misunderstood patriot.Nicholas Young, 38, was found guilty at trial last year, after failing to convince a jury in Alexandria federal court that he was lured by law enforcement into lying for and giving financial support to a supposed Islamic State recruit. The recruit was actual
  
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• Broward County Sheriff's Office Received 18 Calls About Cruz and Guns Before Attack

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesBroward County (FL) Sheriff's deputies received at least 18 calls warning them about Nikolas Cruz from 2008 to 2017, including concerns that he "planned to shoot up the school" and other threats and acts of violence before he was accused of killing 17 people at a high school.The warnings, made by concerned people close to Cruz, came in phone calls to the Broward County Sheriff's Office, records show. At least five callers mentioned concern over his access to
  
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• ATV Driver Tells Rhode Island Officer "You'll Never Catch Me," Plows into Potted Plant

  23-02-2018 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Marauding ATV drivers — about a dozen of them — were terrorizing the streets of Providence, R.I., Wednesday night, police said. Until a potted plant stopped one of them.The 10 to 15 drivers riding recreational vehicles were illegally on city streets, weaving in and out of traffic, speeding and moving recklessly, police said. They forced cars to stop abruptly. They blew through red lights, leaving police in the dust, the Herald reports.One of the ATV drivers, 25-year-old Ruddy Rodrigu
  
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• Former Nebraska Trooper Charged with Homicide Over Pursuit Crash

  23-02-2018 00:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A special prosecutor Wednesday charged a former Nebraska state trooper with two misdemeanors for his part in a pursuit that led to a deadly crash.Timothy "Tim" Flick could get up to two years in jail if convicted of motor vehicle homicide and making a false statement under oath. He also is charged with careless driving, an infraction, the Journal Star reports.Flick was fired from the patrol in connection to what happened, according to the State Troopers Association of Nebraska.Accordin
  
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