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July 23 2008 - Product News
Visitors to the planned National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC, will get a good look at what airborne law enforcement is all about, thanks to a generous donation from Bell Helicopter. Bell, a Textron Inc. company, is donating one of its 206B helicopters to the Museum.
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July 20 2008 - Top News
The man who murdered a Fort Myers police officer Friday night shouldn’t have even been in the United States, according to police.
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July 20 2008 - Top News
Fort Myers (Fla.) Police are mourning the loss of an officer who was shot and killed by a suspect at Main & Hendry streets in downtown Fort Myers early Friday morning.
Major Doug Baker says the officer, 30-year-old Andrew Widman, responded to a domestic dispute between a man and his girlfriend in front of the pizza shop on Hendry Street at 2:03 a.m.
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July 18 2008 - Top News
The daughter of St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and an untold number of police officers got free use of cars from a company with a lucrative police contract to tow and store cars, the department admitted on Friday. The officers and Aimie Mokwa for years have been able to take previously impounded cars from St. Louis Metropolitan Towing, 1325 North 10th Street, and drive them for weeks or months at a time with no strings attached.
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July 18 2008 - Top News
On the hunt for juiced-up cops, the NYPD bounced an officer with just two years on the job after he was the first to test positive in new random steroid tests, police said.
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July 18 2008 - Top News
Ada County, Idaho, sheriff's deputies have arrested two women who broke into the same north Ada County home, twice.
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July 18 2008 - Top News
A former FBI agent who was fired from the bureau five years ago has been arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to rob a "narcotics stash pad" in Orange County, Calif., according to court documents and federal authorities.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
District of Columbia residents can start registering their guns today. But at least one very high profile application was already rejected. Dick Heller is the man who brought the lawsuit against the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
Motorcyclists in Illinois soon will notice more surveillance by police aimed at making sure riders are following the rules of the road, local law-enforcement agencies announced Wednesday.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
The U.S. Justice Department and the Metro Gang Task Force say they've arrested 23 people suspected of distributing Ecstasy in the Denver area. A grand jury handed up a 109-count indictment against 27 people who were believed to be members of the "Asian Pride" gang.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration and crime sweeps are being targeted in a lawsuit that alleges his deputies have racially profiled Hispanics.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
Texas will go ahead with the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite Wednesday's United Nations world court order for a stay, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry said.
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July 17 2008 - Top News
The vacant Wilmer-Hutchins High School hasn't been as empty as it appears. Dallas school police dismantled a suspected marijuana operation inside one of the school's classrooms Monday night.
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July 16 2008 - Top News
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer was fired after a review board today determined she unjustly shot a man at a Central Avenue gas station.
Officer J.S. Curlee, a former dispatcher who graduated from the police academy in November, shot Brian Jarod Howie once in the arm and chest while responding to a backup call May 7. He survived.
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July 11 2008 - Product News
Morovision Night Vision Inc., a leading supplier of U.S. manufactured
night vision equipment since 1991, has been officially named as the
authorized U.S. law enforcement distributor of ITT Night Enforcer
products—most notably the Night Enforcer NEPVS-14 model and associated
parts and accessories.
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July 11 2008 - Top News
A Beech Grove, Ind., police officer was released from a hospital late Thursday afternoon after being dragged nearly 2,000 feet by a motorist he had pulled over, police said.
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July 11 2008 - Top News
Chris Morgan loves his job, but he hates that he has to go a little more undercover. The West Des Moines police officer must wear a long-sleeved shirt when it's 90 degrees outside—all because of the tattoos on his forearms.
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July 11 2008 - Top News
Citing last week's shootings following Taste of Chicago fireworks, rising gun violence across the city and low morale among police officers, a key alderman has called for Police Supt. Jody Weis to appear July 15 before a City Council panel to answer questions about his performance.
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July 11 2008 - Top News
Eleanor Adderley, wife of the Fort Lauderdale police chief, shot in her husband's direction while he was lying in their bed, and then continued shooting as he ran out of their Plantation house, according to police.
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July 11 2008 - Top News
Houston police have arrested three men and are searching for a fourth accused of stealing copper telephone cables and temporarily knocking out phone service in parts of north Houston in recent months.
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July 10 2008 - Product News
Propper International has introduced a new line of law enforcement outerwear inspired by advanced technologies from both the military and high-end ski and mountain gear. The new, lightweight waterproof-breathable line, named Propper Defender Series, is designed to replace heavy and outdated law enforcement jackets with the latest in outerwear technology.
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July 10 2008 - Top News
A teenage gang member was arrested Wednesday for allegedly
spray-painting the face and body of a 6-year-old boy who saw him
vandalizing a wall, authorities said.
Another teenager allegedly restrained the child while the 15-year-old
who was arrested sprayed him with blue paint, said Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Capt. James Hellmold.
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July 10 2008 - Top News
After an unexpected surge in 2007, the number of law enforcement officers killed in the United States plummeted 41 percent during the first six months of this year, reaching the lowest level in more than four decades, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) have announced.
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July 10 2008 - Top News
With a Taser pointed at him, a LaPorte, Ill., man barricaded inside his home grabbed his 2-year-old daughter early Tuesday and used her as a shield.
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July 10 2008 - Top News
Los Angeles police officials announced Tuesday that 17 officers and two sergeants from the department's elite Metropolitan Division should be punished for their roles in last year's May Day melee in MacArthur Park, which left scores of people injured.
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