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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 20, 2011

N.Y. Cop Killer Charged with Possessing 'Escape Paraphernalia'

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, who shot one New York State Police trooper to death and wounded two others five years ago during the largest manhunt in state history, has been accused of stuffing a sweat shirt with other clothes, to make it look like a dummy.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 20, 2011

SRO's Body Armor Stops Student's Knife Attack

A North Carolina school resource officer's body armor absorbed the blade of an 8-inch knife a student stuck into the officer's back.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 18, 2011

N.Y. Trooper Shot In the Face with BB Gun

A New York State Police officer was shot in the face with a BB gun and two Cortland Police officers were hit by glass shards during a stand-off on Sunday with an 18-year-old man.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 18, 2011

Cartels Exploit Children, Say Gang Experts

Mexican drug cartels are using children as young as 11 in their smuggling operations in Texas, Reuters is reporting. Six of the cartels, including the violent Zetas, are paying children $50 to move a vehicle from one area to another area, as well as using them as lookouts or for other tasks.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 17, 2011

LAPD SWAT Weapons Stolen from Training Facility

A cache of Los Angeles Police Department submachine guns and handguns was stolen last week from a secured building used by the department's SWAT unit, raising fears that the weapons, which police had altered to fire only blanks, could be converted back to lethal use.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleOctober 17, 2011

Social Media: Online Investigation

Online social networks are already proving themselves invaluable assets to law enforcement. Websites such as Facebook and MySpace provide suspect leads; communities are alerted to missing children and area threats through law enforcement-generated Twitter feeds and e-mail.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 14, 2011

Nevada DA Clears Deputy Who Shot Man on DV Call

Nevada County Sheriff's deputies acted appropriately when they entered a bedroom and fatally shot a man holding a knife to the throat of his fiancee during a tense standoff, District Attorney Cliff Newell has determined.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 14, 2011

Feds: Maryland Blood Set Operated Nationwide Drug Trafficking Network

Thirty-five members of the South Side Brims Bloods gang in western Maryland have been indicted by a federal grand jury for several murders, shootings, home invasion robberies, drug trafficking, and witness intimidation.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 12, 2011

8 Dead In Calif. Salon Massacre

A man opened fire inside a crowded hair salon in a sedate southern California city, eventually killing eight people and critically injuring a ninth as they desperately tried to flee. Seal Beach Police officers recovered body armor and multiple weapons, when they arrested him during a traffic stop.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 11, 2011

Report: NYPD Infiltrated College Campuses

Investigators with the New York Police Department have been infiltrating Muslim groups at Brooklyn College and other city colleges as part of a broader intelligence-gathering effort to place the Muslim community under greater scrutiny

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