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• Video: Police Impersonator Handcuffs Real Officer in DC Store

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  VIDEO: Police Impersonator Handcuffs Real Officer in DC StoreA man impersonating a police officer handcuffed a real officer at a Whole Foods store in Washington, D.C., charging documents say.Officers responded to the store's Foggy Bottom location Monday after reports that someone was disturbing customers in the self-checkout lane by waving a pair of handcuffs and threatening to cuff people.The man became combative when real officers tried to subdue him, charging documents say.The suspect clamped
  
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• Video: Indiana Deputy and Suspect Shot at Traffic Stop

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  VIDEO: Indiana Deputy and Suspect Shot at Traffic StopA DeKalb County (IN) Sheriff’s deputy was shot by a suspect during a traffic stop Tuesday evening in Garrett, according to Indiana State Police.ISP Spokesman Sgt. Ted Bohner said a Garrett police officer initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle at around 8:20 p.m. A DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy was also involved in the stop. At some point during the stop, Bohner said both the deputy and suspect fired shots. Bohner did not have
  
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• Video: Footage of Charlotte Officers Ambushed in HQ Parking Lot Released

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  VIDEO: Footage of Charlotte Officers Ambushed in HQ Parking Lot ReleasedBody camera video that shows what happened when a murder suspect ambushed police officers in Charlotte January 11 was released to reporters Tuesday.Jonathan Bennett died when he traded gunfire with officers outside Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police headquarters.The body camera video from several angles shows officers duck for cover when Bennett started shooting and then they quickly return firem WSOC TV reports.He began shooting
  
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• Thomson Reuters Recognizes Springfield Police Department with Everyday Heroes Award

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  Thomson Reuters has honored the Springfield (Mass.) Police Department with its 2018 Everyday Heroes award.The Springfield PD was recognized for its use of Thomson Reuters CLEAR to locate and arrest a sexual predator. Armed only with the perpetrator’s first name and potential street location, investigators were able to find the suspect and uncover his significant criminal history. Soon after, the victim was able to positively identify the suspect via a photograph.“Crimes of this sort
  
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• Sheriff Deploying Armed Volunteers in North Carolina Schools

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  Armed volunteers will soon be assuming the role of school resource officers in a few Stanly County, NC, schools. The school board voted unanimously to start the pilot program last month, following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The state law allowing armed volunteers was passed in 2013, but is only now being put to use. The program will be run by Sheriff George Burris. “They’re going to be armed security," Burris said.  "They’ll be walking the halls, they&r
  
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• Pennsylvania Teachers Given Baseball Bats as Last Option Against Shooters

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  The Millcreek Township (PA) School District has armed teachers with small baseball bats, and maybe resolve.“The bats are more symbolic than anything,” Superintendent William Hall said. “However, we do want to have one consistent tool to have at somebody’s disposal in a classroom in the event they have to fight.”Each of the district’s approximately 500 teachers was given a 16-inch bat Monday during in-service training on how to respond to school shootings. The
  
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• Man Threatens Officers with Axes, Arrested After Standoff at Washington Motel

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  A man armed with three axes and a knife destroyed a motel room, threatened to kill police officers and others and caused a standoff with police Tuesday, according to Edmonds, Washington, police.According to a Facebook post by the Edmonds Police Department, officers were called to a motel Tuesday morning by guests who said a man there was threatening to kill people.Police said the man ripped out the hot water tank and stove and threw them out of a room, along with chairs and other items, WSOC rep
  
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• Illinois Town Lays Off 13 Officers

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  The small Chicago suburb of Harvey, IL, cut the jobs of police officers, firefighter, and other public safety employees Tuesday.Officials did not respond to a request from the Chicago Tribune for comment on Tuesday but the lawyer who represents both Harvey’s police and fire unions said 18 rank-and-file firefighters and 13 patrolmen are believed to have been let go. Another nine police department employees who are not sworn officers — including five booking officers and traffic and re
  
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• Chicago Police Department Now Fully Deployed with Axon's TASER Smart Weapons

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  Axon, a global leader in connected law enforcement technologies, has announced that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is now fully deployed with nearly 7,000 TASER X2 Smart Weapons.Significant orders were also received from the following domestic agencies and will ship in multiple phases through 2018:St. Louis County Police Department (MO): 400 X2sNew Mexico Corrections Department (NM): 284 X2sTennessee Bureau of Investigation (TN): 212 X2sVermont State Police (VT): 200 X2s, TASER 60Rutgers Un
  
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• California's Brown Agrees to Send Guard to Border, Slams Trump Policies

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  Gov. Jerry Brown agreed on Wednesday to expand the California National Guard’s efforts on crime and drug issues that cross the state’s border with Mexico, but insisted troops would not be used to enforce immigration directives from President Trump.“This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life,” Brown wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirst
  
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• California Chiefs Rail Against Proposed Use of Force Bill

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  Police chiefs from across Northern California came together on Monday to oppose a proposed bill to raise the standard for legal review of California officers in deadly use of force investigations.“We find ourselves dumbfounded that legislation of this magnitude was introduced without consulting law enforcement stakeholders,” said California Police Chiefs Association President David Swing.Current California law allows officers to use “reasonable” force against a suspect.Th
  
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• Louisiana Officer Shot on Easter Released from Hospital

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  Deputy Justin Nail, who was shot in the line of duty on Easter, was released from the hospital Sunday and is continuing to recuperate at home, a St. Tammany Parish (LA) Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said Monday.Nail suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen during an April 1 gunfight with a man suspected of being involved in numerous vehicle burglaries. Sheriff Randy Smith said the suspect, Joseph Johnson Jr. of Folsom, led deputies on a high-speed chase before crashing off the roadway in Goodbee a
  
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• Jury Awards Family $100,000 in Civil Trial of NC Officer Who Fatally Shot Man

  11-04-2018 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  A jury awarded a family $100,000 Tuesday in the case of a Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC, police officer who fatally shot a man five years ago. The family had asked for $1.1 million.The jury found Officer Jeremy Donaldson acted negligently when he shot and killed Spencer Mims III in January 2013, reports WSOC.Donaldson was responding to a call at a home in south Charlotte. When he got to the scene, Mims was holding a box cutter to his own neck and threatening to kill himself.Donaldson said that when
  
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• DUI Suspect Charged in Crash That Broke Washington Deputy's Neck

  11-04-2018 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 25-year-old man was charged Monday for an alleged DUI wreck that sent a Pierce County, WA, sheriff's deputy down an embankment and fractured her cervical vertebra last week in Parkland.Deputy Sydney Davis, 25, was hospitalized in a critical care unit after the wreck Thursday. She was taken to St. Joesph Medical Center in Tacoma, which is a CHI Franciscan hospital.Asked Monday about Davis' condition, a CHI Franciscan spokesperson said she had been treated and released. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Tr
  
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• Accused Man Sues Baltimore PD After Attempted Murder Charges Dropped

  11-04-2018 01:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Baltimore man accused of trying to kill a city police officer last summer is now suing the officer and the police department for violating his civil rights, alleging the officer fabricated facts in the case in an “utterly outrageous, offensive and intolerable” manner.Haywood Boone IV, 26, filed his lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court last month, after prosecutors reviewed body-camera footage from the July incident, determined they couldn’t prove Boone had committed “an i
  
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• 3 Border States to Send 1,600 Troops to U.S. Border

  11-04-2018 00:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas pledged on Monday to send about 1,600 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border, responding to President Donald Trump's plan to use the military to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he would add about 300 troops a week to the 250 members of the National Guard whose deployment was announced Friday until the total number reaches at least 1,000 troops. Arizona officials announced they were sending 225 National Guard
  
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• California Police Using 'Drone Killers' to Disable UAVs

  11-04-2018 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Oceanside (CA) Police Department recently acquired a "drone killer," an electronic device that can disable a drone in the sky and force it back to the ground.Other area law enforcement agencies are considering the technology as a way to rein in unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, reports the Los Angeles Times."The purpose is primarily for emergency situations," Oceanside police Lt. Aaron Doyle said last week. "It won't be used when someone complains about a neighbor flying a drone. It's prett
  
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