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• Feds arrest Paterson cop they say dealt drugs - from his police car - NJ.com

  20-04-2018 23:50 via nj.com
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  Feds arrest Paterson cop they say dealt drugs - from his police car
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  A Paterson police officer who allegedly dealt heroin, crack, cocaine and marijuana was arrested by federal agents Friday. Ruben McAusland, 26, of Paterson is charged with distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute narcotics on multiple ...and more »
  
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• State Liquor Officials Shutter Norwalk Bar Where Police Say They ... - Hartford Courant

  20-04-2018 23:15 via courant.com
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  State Liquor Officials Shutter Norwalk Bar Where Police Say They ...
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  State liquor control officials have suspended the liquor license of a Norwalk bar where more than 100 underage drinkers, most of them Fairfield University students, were found Thursday night. The state Department of Consumer Protection issued the ...and more »
  
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• Police in college town issue warning over possible serial rapist - CBS News

  20-04-2018 22:55 via cbsnews.com
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  Police in college town issue warning over possible serial rapist
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  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Police in the Pennsylvania town that encompasses Penn State University are advising women to walk in groups and be aware of their surroundings after linking a 2017 rape to three previous rapes in the area. According to a statement ...and more »
  
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• Pregnant Baltimore County teacher carjacked outside school, police say - Baltimore Sun

  20-04-2018 22:35 via baltimoresun.com
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  Pregnant Baltimore County teacher carjacked outside school, police say
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  A pregnant Baltimore County teacher was carjacked outside of a Parkville elementary school Friday, police said. Baltimore County police said four teenage girls came to Villa Cresta Elementary School under the guise of enrolling a child, and when they ...
  Police: Pregnant teacher carjacked outside Parkville schoolWBAL Baltimore
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• Some Illinois Lawmakers Want to Replace SROs with Therapists

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Some Illinois lawmakers want to give extra money to schools that replace armed security officers with unarmed social workers and behavior therapists.Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch, a Hillside Democrat, said he proposed the plan after hearing from advocates who argue that investing in mental health resources is the best way of treating the epidemic of violence.His plan, which is backed by 16 other Democrats in the House, would allow schools to apply to an optional grant if they promise to reallocate
  
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• Some Churches Commit to Stop Calling the Police

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  First Congregational Church of Oakland shares a neighborhood with many homeless people, and they often come to the church in times of mental health crises. Sometimes church members feel unequipped to deal with the erratic behavior: the most heart-wrenching scenes, volunteer leader Nichola Torbett says, are the times when the church is closing for the day, and a person with nowhere else to go absolutely refuses to leave the building.At least once or twice a month, at their wits’ end, the ch
  
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• Pennsylvania Detective Dies During Physical Training

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A New Castle, PA, police detective and special response team member died Thursday while participating in the team's mandatory physical training.The New Castle Police Department reports on Facebook that Detective Sgt. Brian Cuscino had been with the New Castle Police Department since 2001. He worked as a patrol officer for approximately 10 years and was then promoted to a detective in the criminal investigative division.Detective Cuscino served as the department's lead homicide investigator and t
  
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• NYPD Officer Kills Self Outside Department Facility

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  An on-duty NYPD officer fatally shot himself while parked outside a department facility in the Bronx Friday, authorities said.He's the fourth NYPD officer to take his own life in as many months, police told the New York Daily News.First responders rushed to an NYPD Auto Crime and Narcotics Division facility in Wakefield about 10:50 a.m., where the mortally wounded officer was found sitting in his personal vehicle in the parking lot.Officers rushed him to Jacobi Medical Center, but he could not b
  
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• North Carolina Agency Offers Munchies to People Arrested on 4/20 Weed Holiday

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Those who get arrested in Southern Pines, North Carolina, for celebrating "Weed Day" on Friday are in for a treat when they arrive at the police station.The Southern Pines Police Department is taking a light-hearted approach to April 20, informally known as "Weed Day."“To ensure the Southern Pines Police Department is prepared for additional guests visiting our detention facility on the 4/20 holiday, advanced preparation has taken place to accommodate the needs of these prisoners,” t
  
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• Motive for Murders of Florida Deputies May Never be Known

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Investigators in Florida say they may never know why a man - a recluse from a rural farm community who rarely ventured into town - killed two Gilchrist County Sheriff's deputies Thursday while they sat in a Chinese restaurant.John Hubert Highnote, 58, of Bell casually walked into the restaurant, went up to the deputies and fired at them. He then went into his car and killed himself, ABC News reports."It's inexplicable," State Attorney Bill Cervone said. "People will want to know why, and we may
  
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• Dick's Asked to Donate Rifles to Police Rather Than Destroy Them

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced that it will not sell AR-style rifles in any of its 700 plus stores and it plans to destroy its unsold stock.Gun enthusiasts are asking the company to donate the rifles to cash-strapped police departments, Recoil Magazine reports."You can reach out to the Dick’s Sporting Goods customer service team, in the most respectful way possible, and request that instead of destroying all of these rifles, we want Dick’s to donate them to police dep
  
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• Death of Detroit Officer Shot in 1972 Now Ruled a homicide

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We were investigating drug sales on the street," said Retired Detroit Deputy Police Chief James Younger whose partner was shot in 1972 by a man who was never arrested for the crime. The shooting left Detroit Police Officer Donald Kimbrough paralyzed from the waist down and he died December 7, 2017, from medical complications that resulted from the decades old shooting. "With the knowledge that he was shot and never fully recovered, the manner is homicide," say
  
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• 140 Officers Committed Suicide in 2017

  20-04-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Suicides left more officers and firefighters dead last year than all line-of-duty deaths combined — a jarring statistic that continues to plague first responders but garners little attention. A new study by the Ruderman Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization that works for the rights of people with disabilities, looked at depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues affecting first responders and the rates of suicide in departments nationwide.The group found th
  
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• Iran official condemns woman's treatment by 'morality police' in video - CNN

  20-04-2018 19:49 via cnn.com
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  Iran official condemns woman's treatment by 'morality police' in video
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  (CNN) Iran's vice-president for women's affairs has "strongly" condemned an incident in which a female member of Iran's religious police appears physically to confront a female member of the public in an altercation that was captured on a cell phone ...
  Anger in Iran as 'morality police' scuffle video goes viralAljazeera.comall 11 news articles »
  
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• Police: North Country man shoots victim, buries body in backyard - NewYorkUpstate.com

  20-04-2018 19:29 via newyorkupstate.com
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  Police: North Country man shoots victim, buries body in backyard
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  John J. Castner, of Duane, has confessed to fatally shooting a man and burying him in a backyard, according to New York State Police. The shooting occurred in the fall of 2017 at Castner's property located on 344 Old Meacham Road, said police ...and more »
  
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• Myanmar police 'set up' Reuters reporters in sting-police witness - Reuters

  20-04-2018 19:26 via reuters.com
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  Myanmar police 'set up' Reuters reporters in sting-police witness
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  YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar police chief ordered officers to “trap” a Reuters reporter arrested in December, telling them to meet the journalist at a restaurant and give him “secret documents”, prosecution witness Police Captain Moe Yan Naing told a ...
  Myanmar police 'set up' Reuters reporters in sting-police witnessReutersall 41 news articles »
  
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• Why Police Should Monitor Social Media to Prevent Crime - WIRED

  20-04-2018 15:01 via wired.com
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  Why Police Should Monitor Social Media to Prevent Crime
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  In February, the ACLU of Massachusetts released a damning report detailing prejudice in social media surveillance efforts by the Boston Police Department (BPD). The report revealed that between 2014 and 2016, the BPD had tracked keywords on Facebook ...and more »
  
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• Berlin police defuse WW2 bomb after mass evacuation - BBC News - BBC News

  20-04-2018 14:00 via bbc.com
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  Berlin police defuse WW2 bomb after mass evacuation - BBC News
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  The main train station reopens after the evacuation of about 10000 people.and more »
  
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• Police: Springfield homicide victim gunned down over 3 jars of marijuana - MassLive.com

  20-04-2018 13:19 via masslive.com
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  Police: Springfield homicide victim gunned down over 3 jars of marijuana
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  SPRINGFIELD - Late on March, 28, 2017, Cory K. Douglas-Huard was gunned down outside his house, shot three times during a dispute over three jars of marijuana, according to court records. An hour later, the 37-year-old was pronounced dead at Baystate ...
  
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• Woman Now Faces First-Degree Murder in MO Officer's Slaying

  20-04-2018 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tammy Dee Widger's charges in the fatal shooting of Clinton, MO, Officer Ryan Morton last month have been amended and now include first-degree murder, the Henry County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.Widger also now faces two counts of first-degree assault. She originally faced second-degree murder and drug charges, reports the Kansas City Star.First-degree murder carries a maximum penalty of the death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.Officers responded to Widge
  
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• MS-13 Directs Members to 'Take Out a Cop'

  20-04-2018 02:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  MS-13 has directed its members to "take out a cop" in a directive that has police on high alert across the New York area, according to a new memo obtained by the New York Post.Police are searching for the gang member suspected of putting out the hit order — a tall, light-skinned Hispanic man with a thin build and a tattoo of three dots next to his eye.Officers in Hempstead, one of the Long Island towns the violent gang has terrorized, were tipped off to the threat Wednesday by a “cre
  
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• 2 Florida Deputies Killed in Apparent Ambush at Restaurant

  20-04-2018 02:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two sheriff’s deputies were shot and killed Thursday in a restaurant in Trenton, FL, in what appeared to be an ambush, officials said.The Gilchrist County deputies died "after a suspect walked up" to the Ace China restaurant around 3 p.m. "and shot both deputies through the window," the Alachua County Sheriff's Office said in a statement made on behalf of the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office. "As fellow deputies responded to the scene, they found the shooter deceased outside the business,
  
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• Men Arrested At Philadelphia Starbucks Speak Out; Police Commissioner Apologizes - NPR

  20-04-2018 00:01 via npr.org
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  Men Arrested At Philadelphia Starbucks Speak Out; Police Commissioner Apologizes
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  What began as an opportunity to talk real estate at a Philadelphia coffee shop and ended in the arrest of two black men has launched a week of outraged protest, accusations of racial discrimination and vows from Starbucks to do better. And now those ...
  Philadelphia police commissioner apologizes for how he handled Starbucks arrests of 2 black menABC News
  Philly police chief's apology over Starbucks arrests
  
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