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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 22, 2018

California Legislator Proposes Special Tax on Guns, Ammo

Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) said his bill would strengthen counseling support at California’s 1,400 middle schools and junior high schools while providing more armed school resource officers at high schools.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 21, 2018

South Carolina County Considering Using Schools as Police Substations

"The police substations is an idea I came up with about four or five years ago," DeFeo said. "The idea was if they needed substations, we have schools. There are rooms in the schools that police could stop by and use as offices."

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 21, 2018

Miami Police will Post Counter-Sniper Officers to Watch Over Music Festival

Colina said with the recent tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, officers will be positioned on elevated observation points so that every vantage point of the festival is in the line of sight of law enforcement.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 21, 2018

How Austin Police Ended the Serial Bomber's Terror

"We had multiple officers from both the police department and our federal partners that took up positions around the hotel awaiting the arrival of tactical teams," Manley said. "We wanted to have ballistic vehicles here so we could attempt to take the suspect into custody."

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 21, 2018

North Carolina Student Arrested Over Threat Against University

They found a campus emergency response guide on his wall opened to the active shooter response and evacuation pages. They also found searches of school shootings on his computer and took away blueprints of campus buildings.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 20, 2018

SWAT Trained SRO Fired On Maryland School Shooter, Stopped Attack

A school resource officer, Deputy First Class Blaine Gaskill, then faced off with the shooter, the sheriff said. The deputy and the gunman each fired one shot simultaneously. Cameron said the gunman later died from his wounds. He said that the investigation would determine whether the round the officer fired hit the shooter.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 19, 2018

Kansas Billboards Call for Charges Against Officer Who Killed Man After Swatting Call

In December, a Wichita police officer fatally shot Andy Finch after a fake emergency call directed law enforcement to the 28-year-old victim’s home. A man in California has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter, but the family of the man who was killed and community activists have repeatedly called for the officer who killed Finch to come under greater scrutiny.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 19, 2018

Former Parkland High School SRO Wanted Accused School Shooter Involuntarily Committed in 2016

The documents in the criminal case against Nikolas Cruz, which were obtained by The Associated Press, show school officials and Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson, who has been accused of cowardice for failing to act during the shooting, recommended in September 2016 that Cruz be involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2018

Judge Blocks Los Angeles Gang Enforcement Program

The order is believed to mark the first time a judge has blocked Los Angeles officials from enforcing the injunctions, which were born from a time in the late 1980s and '90s when gang activity in the city gained national attention. Their use has been credited by law enforcement with helping reduce gang-related crime.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 16, 2018

Unadoptable Dog Now Called Hero K-9 by Rhode Island State Police

“She did not have an off switch,” Inman wrote in a Facebook message. “She was too much dog for most families.”

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