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Newsby Staff WriterMay 4, 2020

Verizon and Mutualink Partner to Help Improve Interoperability for First Responders

Together, Verizon and Mutualink are helping improve crisis response by enabling interoperable agency communications and information sharing for devices across different networks, ensuring first responders, public safety agencies, and private security personnel can share critical information when they need it most, the companies said.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Texas Officer Wounded in Deadly Ambush Released from Hospital

One of the San Marcos, TX, Police officers wounded in a shooting that left a fellow officer dead has been released from the hospital.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

LAPD Chief Says Zero Bail Leading to Increase in Repeat Offenders

LAPD Chief Michel Moore said while crime in Los Angeles is down in almost all categories since the pandemic began and L.A. implemented its stay-at-home order, career criminals are now exploiting the situation, getting arrested over and over with no real consequences.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

California Officer Injured by Man Resisting Arrest

An officer with the Selma (CA) Police Department was injured by a suspect who resisted arrest after being spotted with an open container of alcohol in public on Friday morning.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Texas Officers Attacked By Sword-Wielding Man

Officers responding to a call of a man wielding a sword were forced to open fire on the assailant, leaving him with non-life-threatening injuries on Thursday night.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Armed Demonstrators Storm Michigan's State House Over Stay-in-Place Orders

Hundreds of angry demonstrators—some of them armed with firearms—stormed Michigan's State House on Thursday to protest stay-at-home orders being enforced by state and municipal police officers across the Wolverine State.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Texas Motor Officer Injured in Collision with SUV

An officer with the Fort Worth (TX) Police Department was injured when his motorcycle collided with an SUV on Thursday.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Canada Bans Sale, Use of "Military Style" Firearms in Reaction to Nova Scotia Massacre

The cabinet order he described in a Friday-morning announcement doesn’t forbid owning any of 1,500 “military-style” weapons and their variants but it does forbid them to be used and halts the trade in them.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

MIT Testing Reveals Masks Distributed by Massachusetts to First Responders are Deficient

One type of mask distributed by the state filtered only about 28% of airborne particles.

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Videosby Staff WriterMay 1, 2020

Safe Narcotics Identification with the Thermo Scientific TruNarc Analyzer

Learn how the TruNarc offers field-based presumptive narcotics, precursor and cutting agent testing.

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