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• Two Tools for Field Communications

  09-11-2018 23:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  How, when, and why you talk to people in the field is all about the context, the setting, and the seriousness or the urgency of the issue at hand. Most conversations between citizens and the police, which are not initiated by 9-1-1-driven radio calls or getting flagged down as you pass ("Hurry! He's beating her over on the next block!"), are fairly routine. They usually involve saying hello, passing on information, or hearing about some situation that could bear looking into.Talking to people wh
  
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• Sessions Restricted DOJ Use of Consent Decrees Before Leaving Office

  09-11-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drastically limited the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use court-enforced agreements to overhaul local police departments accused of abuses and civil rights violations, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.In a major last-minute act, Sessions signed a memorandum on Wednesday before President Trump fired him sharply curtailing the use of so-called consent decrees, court-approved deals between the Justice Department and local gover
  
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• 15-Year-Old on ATV Leads Texas Officers on Freeway Chase

  09-11-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 15-year-old has been charged with felony evading after leading Texas officers on a chase while driving an ATV on the Eastex Freeway. The teen posted some of the pursuit on Snapchat.Police say the pursuit started Thursday morning when a Humble, TX, officer noticed the teen driving the ATV down Wilson Road near Humble High School and tried to pull him over. It is illegal to drive a four-wheeler on a public street.Harris County sheriff's deputies caught up with him on Lauder Road and then went ov
  
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• $100K Donated to Florida LEOs, Volunteers Affected by Hurricane Michael

  09-11-2018 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bay County, FL, officials have accepted donations totaling $100,000 to go toward volunteers and law enforcement officers Thursday in what they hope will be continuing outpouring of support from corporations.Scientific Games, a technology-based gaming company, donated the money, the News Herald reports.With a mound of supplies donated to local law enforcement as the backdrop, Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford said the funds will go directly to deputies and staff who suffered losses from Hurricane Mic
  
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• Video Released from Incident where Indiana Officer was Tased in Face by Suspect

  09-11-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   Body camera footage released by the Evansville Police Department this week shows police struggling with a suspect accused of using a Taser on a city police officer outside Fairlawn Elementary School Halloween morning.The video footage, provided after a Courier and Press records request, begins after officers already started struggling with a 22-year-old man outside of the school.The suspect reportedly grabbed the Taser off the officer's belt when both men fell during a struggle. He t
  
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• NFL Player Protesting Police During Anthem Goes on "Eye-Opening" Ride-Along

  09-11-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Embed from Getty ImagesA defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, who has been kneeling to protest law enforcement use of force on minorities went on a ride-along earlier this week with a local officer.Cowboys defensive lineman Tyrone Crawford took part in a ride-along with the Grand Prairie (TX) Police Department on Tuesday, Sportsday reports.Crawford said the experience was "eye-opening." He saw the officer conduct community outreach with local youth as well as perform a felony traffic stop w
  
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• Texas Judge Releases Juvenile Offenders After Losing Election

  09-11-2018 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A day after losing his re-election bid, a Texas judge released from jail nearly all of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him Wednesday after he asked them whether they planned to kill anyone.Harris County prosecutors expressed concerns after Judge Glenn Devlin made the decision in Houston. The juveniles face charges ranging from misdemeanors to violent crimes."We oppose the wholesale release of violent offenders at any age. This could endanger the public," Harris County District Attorn
  
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• Norwegian Police Adopt SIG Sauer P320 X-Series as Standard Service Pistol

  09-11-2018 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
   SIG Sauer Inc. announced that the Norwegian Police have selected the SIG Sauer P320 X-Series as the standard service pistol for select agencies within their organization. The Norwegian Police is comprised of 8,000 police officers and 8,000 civilian personnel responsible for domestic law enforcement, border control, coordinating search and rescue operations, counter-terrorism, highway patrol, judicial orders, criminal investigation and prosecution.The Norwegian Police conducted a very deman
  
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• Law Enforcement Embracing Computer Voice Stress Analyzer Technology

  09-11-2018 20:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Innocent people are being exonerated in record numbers as new technologies such as DNA become more sophisticated and the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is increasingly being used for truth verification instead of the old polygraph. NITV Federal Services says this is according to Clifford Payne, an investigator with the Atlanta (GA) Police Department and a regional director for the National Association of Computer Voice Stress Analysts."As law enforcement professionals, our main goal is to
  
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• Speaking on the Unspeakable: Ending the Pandemic of Police Officer Suicide

  09-11-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesIn late October, a California Highway Patrol officer from the South Sacramento office was discovered dead in his patrol vehicle. The nine-year veteran of the CHP—identified as Officer Sean Poore—was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 31 years old."Law enforcement agencies are traumatized with the death of one of their own. The response is even more devastating when that death comes at the officer's own hand," said CHP Commissioner Warren Stanley
  
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