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K-9 Down Training Early Registration Available

October 10 2008 - Product News

K-9 Down is a specialized training program for working dog handlers and emergency professionals who respond to injured canines. Upcoming courses will be available in North Carolina, Florida, and New York.

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Datalux Introduces New 12-Inch Monitor

October 9 2008 - Product News

Datalux Corporation introduces the new XG12 series of 12.1-inch LCD monitors, featuring a die-cast aluminum enclosure, XGA resolution (1024x768), protected LCD panel, locking power connector and optionally, a choice of either serial or USB resistive touch screen. Like all Datalux products, the XG12 series was engineered for very demanding environments.

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Two Aryan Brotherhood Members Convicted in Plot to Kill N.M. Deputy

October 9 2008 - Top News

The jury convicted Robert Guyton "Krusty" Cook and Samuel Zachary Arrington on two counts each. Both were out of prison and, the prosecution charged, involved in arranging meetings to set up a revenge hit on former Otero County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Anders because he had killed an Aryan Brotherhood leader in New Mexico.

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Al Sharpton on Trial, Not Cops, Judge Says

October 9 2008 - Top News

A Manhattan judge warned Monday he won't let the Rev. Al Sharpton argue the history of police brutality in his minitrial over protests after the Sean Bell verdict. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Larry Stephen cut off a lawyer for one of Sharpton's co-defendants who brought up other questionable police shootings.

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Spillman Releases Jail Imaging Software

October 8 2008 - Product News

Spillman Technologies officially released Spillman Sentryx 6.0 to nearly 500 public safety personnel at the annual Spillman Users Conference held in Salt Lake City this week.

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New Book Details How to Retrieve Forensic Data from an iPhone

October 8 2008 - Product News

In "iPhone Forensics," Jonathan Zdziarsk supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct complete and highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. Intended for lawful forensic examination of devices by corporate security officers, law enforcement personnel, and private forensic examiners.

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Gangs Blamed in Almost Half of San Diego Homicides in '07

October 8 2008 - Top News

Nearly half the homicides with known motives in San Diego County last year were at the hands of gangs, according to a study looking at victims and suspects of violent crime.

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Suspect in Murder of SF Hells Angels Leader Surrenders in Oklahoma

October 8 2008 - Top News

The man would not say why he was wanted. But the Bartlesville police were quickly able to establish that he was Christopher Ablett, 37, an alleged member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club sought in San Francisco on charges that he killed Mark "Papa" Guardado, the head of the Hells Angels' "Frisco" chapter.

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Sex Offenders Challenge Mo. Law Banning Them from Halloween Activities

October 8 2008 - Top News

Four Missouri sex offenders are challenging a new state law that confines them to their darkened homes on Halloween and restricts them from contact with children that night.

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Armor Holdings Products Settles Zylon Matter with U.S. Department of Justice

October 7 2008 - Product News

Armor Holdings Products, LLC (AHP) and the United States, acting through the Department of Justice (DOJ), have agreed to resolve allegations raised by DOJ regarding AHP's sales of Zylon-containing bullet-resistant vests between 2000 and 2005.

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Authorities Break Up U.S.-Canada Drug Ring

October 5 2008 - Top News

Late last year, Nathanael Lineham got a panicked phone call, prosecutors say. An associate working with Lineham to bring the drug ecstasy to California from Canada told him a shipment of 85,000 pills had been seized. Lineham was calm. After all, the deals were struck using coded e-mails -- on encrypted BlackBerrys from Lineham's own company.

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Gang Injunction Splits a San Fernando Valley Community

October 4 2008 - Top News

This summer, law enforcement officials enacted an injunction targeting San Fer. It is the 37th gang injunction in Los Angeles and the largest yet, covering nearly 10 square miles in Sylmar and San Fernando, and it has left a troubled community deeply divided.

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NYPD Dumps Barack Obama Campaign Ads from Website

October 3 2008 - Top News

The NYPD yanked a free news service from the department's internal Web site yesterday after cops and union leaders complained its ads promoted Sen. Barack Obama.

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Four NYPD Officers Contract HIV On the Job

October 3 2008 - Top News

Four NYPD cops have contracted the deadly HIV virus in the line of duty and were granted disability pensions, the Daily News has learned.

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Four-month Nationwide Gang Sweep Nets 1,700 Arrests

October 3 2008 - Top News

Operation Community Shield mostly targeted Latin and Central American street gangs, including Surenos-13, MS-13, 18th Street Gang, and the Latin Kings, Myers said. The alleged gang members were mostly foreign-born, with many involved in serious crimes including robbery, extortion, rape and murder, according to ICE officials.

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NYPD Lt. Who Ordered Fatal Tasering of Psychiatric Patient Commits Suicide

October 2 2008 - Top News

Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year veteran, shot himself to death just before 6 a.m. after reporting to work at the Emergency Services Unit headquarters at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, police sources said.

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Phoenix PD Expands Patrol Rifle Inventory

October 2 2008 - Top News

Phoenix council members on Wednesday approved a request for the police department to purchase 60 Bushmaster AR-15 rifles from Clyde Armory at a cost of $44,813.28. Officials anticipate having the order fulfilled in time for the first set of 20 officers to train with the rifles in early November.

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Maine Lawmakers Push for Law to Grant Oversight of Drug Forfeiture Proceeds

October 2 2008 - Top News

Members of the Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice Committee say they will push for a law in January requiring legislative approval before state law enforcement agencies can spend money forfeited by drug dealers, a move triggered by Maine State Police recently purchasing a new airplane at a cost of $345,000.

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L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Charged in Sexual Torture of His Wife, Her Alleged Lover

October 2 2008 - Top News

After tricking his wife into introducing him to her lover, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy held the couple captive overnight at an Irvine apartment complex where he beat them, forced them to undress at knife point and ordered the woman to castrate her younger suitor, authorities alleged Wednesday.

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Soros-Backed California Ballot Proposition Would Overhaul Sentencing of Drug Offenders

October 2 2008 - Top News

The Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, funded in part by billionaire George Soros, would be "the most ambitious sentencing and prison reform in U.S. history," according to the Drug Policy Alliance Network, a primary sponsor.

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NYPD Admits Error in Death of Disturbed Man

September 26 2008 - Top News

NYPD brass said yesterday that the two cops involved in the death of a nude, mentally unstable Brooklyn man who toppled from a ledge after being Tasered had apparently screwed up, and moved swiftly to sideline them.

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Albuquerque Officer Killed in Home Shotgun Accident

September 26 2008 - Top News

Lt. Todd Parkins, 38, was killed Wednesday when his shotgun accidentally went off inside his Cedar Crest home. He was standing near his wife and one of his sons when the gun went off.

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Naked Man Falls 10 Feet to His Death After Stunned by Cops in Brooklyn Standoff

September 26 2008 - Top News

Inman Morales, brandishing a fluorescent light tube, plunged 10 feet and landed headfirst on the pavement outside his Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building. He was declared dead at Kings County Hospital.

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Chicago PD Down Hundreds of Cops, Crime Rising

September 26 2008 - Top News

The Chicago Police Department is down hundreds of officers despite pledges by City Hall to boost the force to combat growing violent crime, police union and department officials confirmed Wednesday.

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San Diego Officer Cleared in Shooting of Man Who Stabbed K-9

September 26 2008 - Top News

The San Diego County District Attorney's Office has concluded that a police officer was justified in using deadly force in January against a drunk, knife-wielding man who stabbed the officer's police dog several times.

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