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• Veteran California K-9 Euthanized After Discovery of Medical Condition

  06-04-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Spirits were down at the Orange (CA) Police Department on Thursday as officers mourned the loss of one of their top K-9s, Bosco, who was euthanized late Wednesday after it was discovered he had a serious medical condition, police said.Bosco, a 9-year-old German Shepherd, joined the OPD in August 2013. In less than 5 years of service, Bosco participated in more than 500 searches and racked up more than 60 arrests, including a number of dramatic pursuit finales. He also assisted in recovering larg
  
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• Minnesota Officer to Receive Bravery Award for Ending Stabbing Attack at Mall

  06-04-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  The off-duty Minnesota officer who stopped a man on a stabbing rampage in St. Cloud's Crossroads Center mall will be honored with the Congressional Badge of Bravery on Thursday. Avon officer Jason Falconer shot and killed Dahir Adan in September of 2016. Adan had stabbed 10 people in the mall and advanced on Falconer."Falconer saved countless lives after taking down an attacker in a St. Cloud mall," according to Wednesday announcement of Falconer's award from U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer's
  
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• Charlotte Chief, School Board Members At Odds Over Metal Detectors in Schools

  06-04-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesCharlotte's police chief said Wednesday that adding metal detectors in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools is one answer to preventing violent attacks and keeping students safe at school.School Board members Ericka Ellis-Stewart and Carol Sawyer said the plan could make schools feel like detention centers.Putney stands behind his idea to keep schools safe by restricting entry to just one door and putting metal detectors at every entrance.“Everybody talks about ph
  
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• 4 Utah Officers Burned in Man's Suicide Attempt

  06-04-2018 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Four Kaysville, UT, police officers suffered burn injuries when they tried to help a man who lit himself on fire at a gas station Thursday afternoon.The officers responded to the scene at about 2 p.m., according to an emailed statement from Kaysville police. An adult man who was suicidal went into the gas station, doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire, police said.The officers jumped in to try to save the man and were burned in the process. They tried to restrain the man and take a
  
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• POLICE Readers Overwhelmingly Support Right to Bear "Assault Weapons"

  06-04-2018 21:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesGun control has been a hot topic since February when 17 people were killed by an evil man in an attack on a Florida high school. Ever since that attack, a group of students from the targeted school have been demonizing the weapon used by the attacker and the National Rifle Association more than the murderer himself. These students have become media darlings, and their movement to ban the sale of and even confiscate "assault weapons" and "high-capacity" magazines has been e
  
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• Video: Florida Deputies Rescue Woman, Kids During Domestic Shooting

  06-04-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Florida Deputies Rescue Woman, Kids During Domestic ShootingRecently released video from a 2016 arrest shows deputies in Volusia County, Florida, rescuing three children and their mother from their father during a domestic dispute involving a firearm.The video recorded from a body camera was released Thursday in light of the conviction of the gunman in the case, 27-year-old Emmanuel Rosado, NBC Miami reports.The footage begins with a Volusia County Sheriff's deputy approaching the home wh
  
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• Proposed California Lethal Force Law Dangerous, Sheriffs Say

  06-04-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  A proposal by California lawmakers to restrict law enforcement’s use of lethal force, is being branded unrealistic by a pair of Central Valley Sheriffs.The suggestion was put forward on Tuesday in the wake of fatal shooting of Stephon Clark by Sacramento officers in March.The legislation would change the current “reasonable force” rule to “necessary force.” The goal is to have more confrontations defused with less-lethal weapons.Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux
  
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• Police Could Not Detain YouTube Shooter Before Shooting, Experts Say

  06-04-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the days after Nasim Aghdam opened fire outside YouTube's California headquarters, the woman's relatives have insisted they gave police a chance to stop her from carrying out the attack.Aghdam's father said that when he filed a missing persons report with the San Diego Sheriff's Department earlier this week, he told law enforcement officials his daughter might be headed toward San Bruno because she "hated" YouTube. Another relative echoed that claim Wednesday, contending police flat out ignor
  
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• South Carolina Deputy Killed in Vehicle Crash Responding to Call

  06-04-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Saluda County, SC, Sheriff's deputy was killed Thursday night while responding to a call. Corporal Dale Hallman died of injuries following a single vehicle crash.According to deputies, officers had been chasing a suspect, and the pursuit took them from Saluda County into Edgefield County. When the chase ended, the suspect got out of his car with a rifle and a child. A few moments later, the suspect left the child, and that child was taken into protective custody.Officers called for a bloodhoun
  
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• Police Searching for California Man Suspected of Threatening to Shoot LEOs

  06-04-2018 02:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a burglar who stole guns from a San Jose, CA, home and left behind a note threatening to shoot police officers and people in San Francisco, authorities said.A San Jose family returned from vacation Wednesday night and discovered that their Husted Avenue home in the Willow Glen neighborhood had been burglarized and that their 357 pistol and shotgun were missing, police said, reports the Mercury News.The family also found an erratic, meandering
  
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• Video: Paintball Shootout Between Vehicles Leads to Pursuit in NC

  06-04-2018 01:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Paintball Shootout Between Vehicles Leads to Pursuit in NCFour people were detained Wednesday afternoon after a paintball shootout between two cars that were speeding through the streets of Charlotte, NC.Police had two vehicles pulled over, reports WSOC. A red Chevrolet Camaro was covered with yellow dots of paint on one road, while police looked through another car that was dotted with blue paint around the corner.Police said they pursued one of those cars until it stopped. They have not
  
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• Last Suit Accusing NYPD of Spying on Muslims Is Settled

  06-04-2018 01:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The last of three major lawsuits over the surveillance of Muslims by the New York Police Department was settled on Thursday, ending years of litigation over a broad, decade-long spying program in which Intelligence Division detectives eavesdropped on conversations in cafes, asked people about their views on drone strikes and designated mosques as potential terrorist organizations.As part of the settlement of Hassan v. City of New York, the police will use “reasonable and diligent efforts&r
  
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• Police Product Test: Streamlight TLR-7

  06-04-2018 01:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Streamlight TLR-7I've been carrying a Streamlight TLR on my duty pistol my entire career. Sure, I've upgraded it a few times but the form factor and proven durability have remained constant over the years. I recently got my hands on their newest addition to the TLR weapon light family, the TLR-7, and I am beyond impressed.The new TLR-7 is a compact version of its older siblings. Powered by a single CR123 lithium battery, this weapon light puts out 500 lumens of very well focused, blinding white
  
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• Baltimore Police Commissioner to Name Panel to Investigate Detective's Death

  06-04-2018 01:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa said Wednesday he is close to signing an agreement with a six-member panel — including two former Baltimore police detectives — to investigate the unsolved death last year of Det. Sean Suiter.De Sousa said he has a memorandum of understanding with the former detectives "sitting on my desk right now" to investigate the fatal shooting of Suiter — one of the few unsolved killings of a police officer in the Baltimore department's histor
  
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• Video: Montana Officer Pays Good Deed Forward

  06-04-2018 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Montana Officer Pays Good Deed ForwardIt was a normal patrol day for Billings, MT, Officer Seth Foster until he stopped to join a young boy playing football by himself."I played catch with him for a while and then his mom came out and basically we talked for a little bit and I just said, 'You should buy this little guy some gloves for football because he's a heck of a catch and can throw the ball really good and has a good arm,' and she said, 'Yeah, maybe next Christmas,'" said Officer Fo
  
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• Female Officer Becomes Ninth Woman to Join Elite NYPD Unit

  06-04-2018 00:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Officer Emily Werfel, 27, is now one of just nine female members of the NYPD's elite Emergency Service Unit — and was the only woman in a graduating class of 53 on Wednesday."It's empowering," Werfel told the New York Post. "I hope that I set an example for other women to join," Werfel said. "I hope I'm inspiration to other women."The nine female ESU members, including Werfel, are part of a unit of more than 100 members, a department spokesperson said. The ESU is the NYPD's version of a SW
  
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