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• Video: San Francisco Releases Footage of Gunfight Between Officers and Homicide Suspect

  01-03-2018 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: San Francisco Releases Footage of Gunfight Between Officers and Homicide SuspectThe body cameras of seven San Francisco police officers captured a fierce gunfight between them and a murder suspect holed up in an RV on a city street.Police say after a murder suspect, Joel Armstrong, carjacked a vehicle to get away on Feb. 16, they tracked him to Alameda and De Haro streets near the San Francisco Design Center. He refused to come out of an RV after repeated orders.Three people and a dog eme
  
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• Slain Maryland Officer Posthumously Promoted

  01-03-2018 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Prince George's County, MD, police officer who was killed while intervening in his neighbors' domestic dispute last week has been promoted.The police announced Wednesday that Mujahid Ramzziddin has been posthumously promoted from corporal to sergeant, reports WTOP.In the same statement, they also provided more details on Ramzziddin's shooting, and the fatal police shooting of the man who police say killed him.In an update to the investigation released Wednesday, the police said that home sec
  
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• U.S. Marshal Killed in January was Hit by Friendly Fire

  01-03-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christopher Hill, the U.S. Marshal who died in a police-involved shootout in Harrisburg, PA, in January, was killed as a result of friendly fire, according to Dauphin County officials.“Deputy Marshal Hill died a hero,” Francis T. Chardo, District Attorney of Dauphin County said in a statement Thursday. “And the results of this investigation do not in any way diminish the heroism exhibited by the other members of the team that day.”Hill was killed Jan. 18 while serving a w
  
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• How To…Deal With Wild Animals

  01-03-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  No matter where you patrol, inevitably you will be dispatched to some type of wild animal call. In my 30-plus-year career, I handled everything Florida had to throw at me. Some of the incidents were funny and others were more like "what the hell was I thinking?"On the lower end of the scale I responded to calls that involved all types of snakes, emotionally unbalanced raccoons, and an extremely angry iguana that clawed my uniform sleeve to shreds and beat me silly with its tail. On the more dang
  
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• Training Simulators: Going Beyond Shoot, Don't Shoot

  01-03-2018 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The first use-of-force training simulators were pretty much electronic versions of the old Hogan's Alley concept. Officers had to determine whether to shoot or not shoot.Today's use-of-force simulators are much more than shoot, don't shoot tools. They are extremely sophisticated training tools with scenarios that can branch in dozens of different directions based on the student's actions and the instructor's interpretation of the student's performance. The training value of these simulators has
  
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• School Shootings: Time to Show Some Muscle

  01-03-2018 20:55 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 remained outside the schoo
  
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• Video: NYPD Officer was Target of Bomb That Killed Man in 2017

  01-03-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: NYPD Officer was Target of Bomb That Killed Man in 2017New York City officials announced on Wednesday the arrest of a man in connection with the death of a 73-year-old landlord who was killed last summer when a package exploded in his hands in Queens.Victor Kingsley, 37, was taken into custody Wednesday after authorities searched a location in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The search was part of a seven-month investigation by the NYPD, the FBI and other agencies.The victim, George Wray, was se
  
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• Officer Cleared by Grand Jury in Fatal Shooting of Texas Mass Killer

  01-03-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Plano police officer has been cleared of criminal charges for killing the man responsible for the city's worst mass shooting in decades that left eight people dead. A Collin County grand jury declined to indict the officer last week after hearing evidence about his actions on Sept. 10, 2017. The officer, who has not been publicly identified, was on patrol when he responded to a 911 call just after 8 p.m. When he arrived at the scene, he heard gunfire. Rather than wait for backup, he
  
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• Los Angeles Sheriff's Recruit Arrested for Alleged $120K ATM Theft

  01-03-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A recently hired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit has been arrested in connection with incidences of theft and arson that occurred last year in the Santa Clarita area, officials said Wednesday.Julio Cesar Jimenez was arrested Feb. 15 on suspicion of felony arson, grand theft and embezzlement amid his training at the Sheriff’s Academy, the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.Jimenez allegedly committed the crimes weeks before he j
  
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• Baltimore Officers to Face Integrity Tests, New Commissioner Says

  01-03-2018 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesBaltimore police commanders might plant cash on a park bench to tempt officers. Or they might call a district police station to test officers over the phone.Both are examples of the random integrity tests Baltimore’s new police commissioner Darryl De Sousa says he is launching.“These integrity tests are going to check people,” De Sousa said Wednesday. “The good officers have nothing to worry about.”He described the integrity tests during filmi
  
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• MX908 Responds to the Fentanyl Crisis with New Drug Hunter Mode

  01-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MX908TM leverages high-pressure mass spectrometryTM to deliver dramatically enhanced sensitivity and broader threat category coverage. This down-range tool increases mission support with unmatched flexibility and traces detection power for responders in priority drug, chemical, explosive and high-threat hazmat scenarios. MX908 lightens the overall technology burden by displacing other less selective technologies from the response toolkit.The MX908’s new Mission Modes are specialized hardwa
  
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• IWCE 2018 Announces Keynote Presentations

  01-03-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thaddeus Arroyo, CEO, AT&T Business; Michael Poth, CEO, FirstNet; and Michael Maiorana, SVP, Public Sector, Verizon Enterprise Solutions will deliver keynote addresses at International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) 2018, an annual event for communications technology professionals. IWCE takes place March 5-9, 2018 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.Keynote presentations will cover the following:Arroyo will present AT&T's vision for smart cities, Internet
  
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