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• CA City Holds Vigil for Officer Killed On His Last Day of Training

  12-03-2018 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pomona, CA, Police Officer Greggory Casillas was fatally shot during his last field training shift before he could finally ride solo.During that Friday shift, a reckless driver led officers on a pursuit that ended with a crash. Casillas, 30, followed the driver into a Pomona apartment complex, where the man was barricaded in one of the units. As Casillas approached, he was struck by bullets fired from behind a door. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.More than 300 mourners gathered outsid
  
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• Family of Fallen Maryland Officer Receives Generous Gift

  12-03-2018 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grieving family of a fallen Maryland police officer received a generous gift from a local business who wanted to help ease the pain -- by paying the family's mortgage for a year.Cpl. Mujahid Ramazziddin, a Prince George’s County police officer, was fatally shot while off duty as he was intervening in a domestic situation last month. The 14-year veteran was assisting a female neighbor "who was being threatened by her estranged husband" when the man killed Ramazziddin before fleeing the
  
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• Pennsylvania Sheriff Hires Recent College Grad as Second in Command

  12-03-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Embattled Westmoreland County, PA, Sheriff Jonathan Held hired a recent college graduate with no previous law enforcement experience to serve as his second in command.Held announced the appointment of Travis Day, 23, of Jeannette to serve as a captain in the sheriff's department, filling a void in the leadership team due to an indefinite medical leave and a resignation.Held, in an email exchange with the Tribune-Review, said Day was one of six applicants for the job.Day had sought a job as a dep
  
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• Florida Court Hearing Appeal of Case Involving Facial Recognition Technology

  12-03-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Florida state’s appellate court is deciding whether the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and local prosecutors properly handled a conviction that hinged on the identification of a suspect using an innovative police surveillance technology.The First District Court of Appeals is due to break new legal ground in determining whether police are allowed to use facial recognition software to identify suspects without ever notifying them of the technology.The court battle, regarded by resea
  
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• Austin Police Searching for Serial Bomber, Murderer

  12-03-2018 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  A 75-year-old woman was injured after picking up an exploding package outside her Southeast Austin, TX, home on Monday in the second blast reported in the city and the third similar incident in two weeks, Austin police said.Interim Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed that evidence suggested that this bombing was related to two previous blasts from “box-type deliveries” that killed a teenager earlier in the day and a 39-year-old man 10 days ago.Manley warned the public about receiving
  
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• Video: NC Officer Becomes Department's First Female Sharpshooter

  12-03-2018 22:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Georgia Officer Dragged 1 Mile While Suspects Toss Guns from CarIn situations that involve active shooters or domestic violence, police sharpshooters are the first to respond. For the first time, the Durham (NC) Police Department has two sharpshooters who are women.Three years after becoming a police officer, Officer Lauren McFaul made history in 2018 as the department's first female sharpshooter, reports WRAL.At 35 years old, McFaul, who had stayed at home to raise her daughters, made th
  
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• NC Deputy Killed in Crash While Trying to Pull Over Vehicle

  12-03-2018 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 24-year-old North Carolina deputy died when he was involved in a crash after turning around to pursue someone violating driving laws, Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson said Monday.Deputy David Lee'Sean Manning had worked for the Sheriff's Office for about four months, reports WNCN.Manning's cruiser collided with a Chevrolet Silverado traveling north. Manning was headed south on N.C. Highway 122/111 near Pinetops at about 6:15 p.m.Manning died at the scene, Atkinson said, and the two occup
  
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• Video: Colorado Department Releases Footage of Fatal OIS

  12-03-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Colorado Department Releases Footage of Fatal OISThe Fort Collins (CO) Police Department released body camera video Friday that recorded the moments when officers shot and killed a shotgun-wielding murder suspect inside a hotel room.The video shows officers approaching the hotel room during the early morning hours of October 1, 2017.Officers responded after a man called 911 to say someone shot a hole in the ceiling of his hotel room. When they arrived, a woman told officers her 3-year-old
  
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• Bushnell Launches New Ballistics Calculator App

  12-03-2018 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bushnell, an industry leader in high-performance sport optics, announces the release of a new Bushnell Ballistics App powered by the proven and powerful Applied Ballistics Ultralite engine.The new Bushnell Ballistics App is a companion app to use with Bushnell rifle scopes to calculate firing solutions for ammunition and rifle combinations. The app allows users to use current atmospheric data and AB Laboratory bullet data to calculate the hold-overs needed to make precise shooting solutions.&ldq
  
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