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January 23 2003 - Top News
"Rave Parties" is a new publication that offers police departments tips on how to deal with the problems of raves.
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January 23 2003 - Top News
Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington has hired a consulting firm to objectively review how the department operates. The reporting practices of Atlanta PD have been questioned for many years.
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January 15 2003 - Top News
Universal Studios Hollywood is offering all U.S. life-saving officials and military personnel free admission with the purchase of one full-priced adult admission ticket from January 1 through April 30, 2003.
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January 15 2003 - Top News
For the first time in a decade, Afghanistan's national police academy is training female officers to serve in the capital, say Interior Ministry officials.
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January 15 2003 - Top News
A Marine sergeant based in North Carolina who served in Afghanistan last year shot and killed a would-be carjacker.
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January 15 2003 - Top News
A Providence, Rhode Island, police officer who accidentally shot his supervisor to death can avoid prison if he stays out of trouble for five years and meets conditions set by the court.
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January 15 2003 - Top News
A policeman was killed and four wounded while raiding a house in connection with the recent recovery of the deadly poison ricin. Three terrorist suspects were arrested as a result of the raid.
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January 8 2003 - Top News
A Fairfax County judge has ordered a man who lied to police about witnessing one of October's DC-area sniper shootings to spend six months in jail, saying he deserved the maximum punishment because he showed "incredible callousness for the public welfare."
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January 8 2003 - Top News
Deaths of law enforcement officers saw a downward trend in 2002. This may be due to better training, equipment, and medical care following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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January 8 2003 - Top News
London's Metropolitan police arrested a seventh suspect after the discovery of the deadly toxin ricin in a London apartment.
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January 8 2003 - Top News
Fifteen states and the federal government executed 66 prisoners in 2001, 19 fewer than in 2000, according to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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January 8 2003 - Top News
California has lost track of more than 33,000 convicted sex offenders, although a law requires all rapists and child molesters to register each year
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December 27 2002 - Top News
Sheriff Philip Cote of York County, Maine, says now is the time to regionalize the county's municipal police departments and charge rural towns a premium for sheriff's patrol services.
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December 26 2002 - Top News
Thousands of houses nationwide are part of Project Blue Light, a memorial promoted by the group Concerns of Police Survivors, or COPS. Participants put a blue light in a window or tie a blue ribbon on a wreath.
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December 26 2002 - Top News
Karen Shook, a 49-year-old former bank teller who was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison in 1993 for arranging a drug deal, could be paroled 10 years early under legislation expected to be signed by the governor of Michigan within the next week to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.
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December 26 2002 - Top News
John F. Timoney, the former police commissioner of Philadelphia and former first deputy commissioner in New York, has been chosen as the next chief of police in Miami. He is taking on a challenge as the new head of a department mired in controversy, as well as an outsider.
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December 26 2002 - Top News
FBI Director Robert Mueller III, facing growing criticism over his agency's shortcomings in the war against terrorism, spoke in support of his agency's performance in a recent speech and said creating a separate domestic intelligence agency would be "going in the wrong direction."
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December 18 2002 - Top News
Bell Helicopter has developed a new training program to teach law enforcement officers how to fly using night vision goggles (NVG).
The program is designed for experienced pilots and includes routine flying with NVG systems, pursuit flying, and even emergency procedures.
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December 18 2002 - Top News
Although it's not illegal for students to skip school in the state of Florida, Broward County authorities saw a correlation between truancy and crime and enlisted the Sheriff's Office in an anti-truancy program. The result has been a marked drop in both truancy and youth crime.
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December 18 2002 - Top News
In the last few years, California cops and prosecutors have scored 200 cold hits from DNA databases. That sounds impressive, but during the same time period, Virginia scored 1,000. California is clearly lagging behind many other states when it comes to exploiting 21st-century forensic technology, but that may be changing.
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December 18 2002 - Top News
A new book addresses the obstacles and answers in developing regional crime mapping. The 130-page report, called "Mapping Across Boundaries: Regional Crime Analysis," was developed for police agency personnel and students of mapping who want to enhance crime control and prevention efforts.
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December 18 2002 - Top News
Toronto police have had it with the city's demand for parking fees in an underground structure at city hall. The city recently ended a 25-year policy that allowed police vehicles on official business to park in the garage for free, and the police department is refusing to pay.
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December 11 2002 - Top News
Several criminologists dispute a new report by a private publishing company that ranks unsafe cities, saying the ranking is based on flimsy and flawed methods.
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December 11 2002 - Top News
A Senate intelligence committee leader has criticized a congressional inquiry into Sept. 11-related intelligence failures as too soft on U.S. agencies, especially the CIA.
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December 11 2002 - Top News
Many small supermarkets are investing in personal identification systems to crack down on check-cashing fraud.
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