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More IACP 2025 From the Show Floor

Watch expanded coverage of IACP 2025 as the POLICE Magazine team walks the aisles at the expo and shares what we found interesting on display for chiefs from across the country and around the world this week in Denver, Colorado.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 24, 2018

Boston Gets First Ever African-American Police Commissioner

Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross—second-in-command to retiring Boston Police Commissioner William Evans—will become the next commissioner, the first person of color ever to hold the position.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 24, 2018

Massachusetts Police: Fewer Recruit Applicants Amid Killings, Scrutiny

The Boston (MA) Police Department — as well as agencies throughout Massachusetts — is seeing a massive decline in the number of people seeking entry-level law enforcement jobs.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 23, 2018

Pennsylvania Police Chief Nominated for HAIX Hero of the Month

Chief Jerry Bellak was nominated by the mayor of the small Somerset County community. Indian Lake Borough Mayor Michael Miscoe wrote that Bellak, a 37-year law enforcement veteran, has transformed the police department since becoming chief two years ago.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 22, 2018

Agencies Produce Dozens of Police Lip-Sync Challenge Videos

Dozens and maybe hundreds of law enforcement agencies and units nationwide are continuing to produce lip-sync challenge videos.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 20, 2018

Arizona Officer's Widow Grateful for New PTSD Law for First Responders

The widow of Craig Tiger — a Phoenix police officer who had been diagnosed with PTSD before dying by suicide — told reporters that she "is grateful for the new law that will help other first responders across the state have better access to mental professionals."

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 19, 2018

Arizona Governor, Accompanied by Phoenix Officials, Signs New First Responder PTSD Bill into Law

The purpose of this new law is to provide help to first responders who experience PTSD as a result of events they experience or witness on the job. “Arizona is grateful to the first responders who put their lives on the line every single day to protect our communities. With these commitments and sacrifices, we want to ensure that those who experience trauma on the job have access to the support they need," Governor Ducey said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 18, 2018

Seattle Mayor Taps Interim Chief and Veteran Officer to be Chief

Mayor Jenny Durkan named interim Police Chief Carmen Best her nominee for the permanent job Tuesday, choosing a 26-year veteran of the department over a pair of outside candidates.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 17, 2018

Police Post "Mug" of Found Pug on Facebook to Find Dog's Owners

Cape May (NJ) police decided to use social media to find the owner of a lost dog they discovered on Sunday.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 17, 2018

FOP: "Activist, One-Sided" Media Unfairly Reporting on Chicago OIS

Chicago FOP President Kevin Graham said in a blog post that “activist, one-sided” news media is “ramping up every angle they could muster to paint” the police shooting of Harith Augustus as “unjustified.”

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 16, 2018

Officer in Eric Garner Death to Face Internal Disciplinary Inquiry

In a letter to the Department of Justice, the NYPD said will has decided to begin its own internal disciplinary inquiry into the 2014 death of Eric Garner in police custody, regardless of whether or not the DOJ's probe into the incident is completed.

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