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ProductsSeptember 18, 2009

Sidewinder Compact

Streamlight's hands-free Sidewinder Compact is an ultra-compact, angle-head tactical light that offers 20 functions including four LED light colors, varying intensity levels, and a strobe. This light features a white power C4 LED and is small enough that it fits in the palm of a hand. It can be quickly attached to MOLLE gear, a helmet, or belt for optimum positioning while on maneuvers.

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Articlesby David GriffithSeptember 18, 2009

Columbine: The Horror Writer

POLICE Magazine editor David Griffith recently spoke with "Columbine" author Dave Cullen about the psychology of Eric Harris, law enforcement response the day of the massacre, the investigation, and how school shootings can be prevented.

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Articlesby Tim DeesSeptember 18, 2009

Getting Attached

One of the problems that military warfighters share with law enforcement officers is how to carry their tools of the trade so that everything is accessible and distributed in a way to ensure mobility and maximum comfort. The military developed MOLLE attachments to accomplish this, and that technology is assuming a role in street law enforcement.

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Articlesby Melanie BasichSeptember 18, 2009

Portable Headquarters

With its military pedigree, Reeves' Incident Command Post (ICP) is built to meet military standard requirements for rain, wind, temperature, durability, blackout, and snowload. This generator-powered towed trailer pops out into a soft-walled shelter to serve as a portable command center on the fly.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 17, 2009

Rocker Ozzy Buys Police Dog for Indiana Agency

Osbourne has purchased a new dog for the canine unit of the Muncie Police Department, following the retirement of one of the agency's police dogs, the Star-Press reports.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 17, 2009

NTOA Honors Pittsburgh SWAT Officers

The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) honored the actions of the Pittsburgh SWAT unit that responded to an April ambush that resulted in the deaths of three officers at the hands of a heavily armed 22-year-old gunman.

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Articlesby Bryn BailerSeptember 17, 2009

Douglas County (Colo.) Sheriff's Detention Unit

Inmates at Douglas County Detention Center in Colorado are indeed being punished, but the deputies who work there don't style themselves as punishers. Rather, they work as enforcers and facilitators-maintaining order and teaching life skills that will hopefully reduce the number of "repeat customers" to the jail.

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Fighting Back Against IEDs

From Madrid to London, Bali to Mumbai, and Baghdad to Kabul, the IED is a global tactical and strategic threat to Americans and our allies.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 15, 2009

American Airline Employees Arrested For Using Commercial Aircraft To Ship Drugs

Eight American Airlines employees were among the 23 people arrested in Miami and Puerto Rico as part of Drug Enforcement Administration's "Operation Heavy Cargo" that uncovered a drug trafficking organization that used commercial aircraft to import cocaine.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 15, 2009

Discovery Channel and Oakland PD Argue Over Gang Crime in City

Oakland, according to police spokesman Jeff Thomason, has only a half-dozen gangs. What's even more astonishing is that police say that just a dozen of the more than 200 homicides in this city in 2008 and 2009 have been listed as gang-related killings.

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