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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 3, 2012

Video: Fla. Man Swings Machete In Police HQ, Gets TASERed

Dejuan Anderson, 20, entered Fort Myers (Fla.) Police headquarters at 7:20 a.m. and asked for an officer by name. Anderson began swinging his edged weapon until an officer TASERed him.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 1, 2012

Philly Cop Punches Woman in Puerto Rican Parade

Video from Philadelphia's Puerto Rican Day parade over the weekend shows a uniformed cop punching a woman in the face. The blow leaves the woman’s mouth bloody. The officer — identified as Lt. Jonathan Josey — then handcuffs her and another cop leads her away.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 28, 2012

Ariz. Sheriff To Reopen Botched Sex-Crime Cases

Maricopa County sheriff's detectives have agreed to further investigate 28 botched sex-crime cases—including one that's a decade old—after the County Attorney's Office said additional work was needed for them to be considered for prosecution.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 19, 2012

Report: ATF, Feds Mishandled 'Fast and Furious' Operation

Federal agents and prosecutors in Phoenix ignored risks to the public and were primarily responsible for the botched effort to infiltrate weapons-smuggling rings in the operation dubbed "Fast and Furious," according to a report released Wednesday by the Justice Department's inspector general.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 18, 2012

Feds Accuse N.C. Sheriff of Discriminatory Policing

The Department of Justice accused the Alamance County (N.C.) Sheriff's Office in a Tuesday letter of violating the Constitution by racially profiling and targeting Latinos.

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Articlesby Jon AdlerSeptember 18, 2012

Hobbling Our Investigations

Some elected officials seem compelled to introduce legislation aimed at protecting the rights of suspected criminals while impeding our investigations.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleSeptember 18, 2012

Shots Fired: Pauls Valley, Oklahoma 04/28/2007

The duo approached the house where they found the front door standing half-way open. The two officers stepped across the threshold and into the living room, and they picked up sight of a male adult darting toward the back of the house.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 17, 2012

Ga. Man Shot By Police Had Pointed BB Gun

A 20-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Gwinnett County (Ga.) Police officer had pointed a black, bb gun at the officer prior to the shooting.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2012

N.M. Trooper Probed In Crime Scene Photo Leak

A New Mexico State Police patrolman is the subject of an internal affairs investigation after images of a crime scene showing the body of a man killed in an officer-involved shooting were leaked to the public.

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Articlesby Devallis RutledgeSeptember 7, 2012

Lawyers and Miranda Warnings: Either/Or?

It sometimes happens that a suspect's lawyer offers to surrender him for arrest and agrees to let his or her client be questioned, provided the lawyer is present during the interrogation.

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