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Newsby Staff WriterApril 29, 2005

Woman Chooses Donating Packers Tickets Over Jail

A Wisconsin judge handed out an unusual sentence for theft when he ordered the convicted woman to decide between serving 90 days in jail and donating her family’s Green Bay Packers season tickets to charity.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2005

Montana Tribe Wants to Take Over Police Duties

The Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe in Montana is working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to contract law enforcement duties from the federal agency.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2005

Investigators Form Association to Combat Abuse

The National Association of Domestic and Child Abuse Investigators recently formed to provide a resource for investigators across the country.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2005

Baltimore PD Aims to Fight Witness Intimidation

After drug dealers in Baltimore started circulating a homemade video called “Stop Snitching,” the city’s police department put out its own DVD called “Keep Talking.”

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2005

America Online to Promote E-911/911 Access

America Online has become a program partner in the Next Generation E9-1-1 (NG E9-1-1 Program of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) to improve and promote access to emergency calling services.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2005

Megan’s Law Website Now Accepts Feedback

California’s sex offender registry Website recently added a feature that allows users to report information to help law enforcement keep its records up to date.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2005

Two Charged Under New Human Trafficking Law

Ricardo Contreras and Regino Sanchez are charged with attempting to smuggle an 18-year-old Guatemalan woman into Lantana, Florida under the state’s new law against human trafficking.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleApril 1, 2005

Personal Transportation

When it comes to patrol cars, some law enforcement agencies have always wrestled with a variety of decisions. Ford? Chevy? Dodge? How fast? Marked or unmarked?

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Articlesby Mark KariyaApril 1, 2005

Picking a Patrol Bike

Like civilians, no two police bicycle patrol officers are alike and, when it comes to bike features required or desired, there are few hard and fast rules. In other words, a police patrol bicycle must be affordable, durable, and versatile, but beyond that, one sometimes gets into the realm of purely personal preference.

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Articlesby Jon LeSageApril 1, 2005

Cutting Car Costs

Keeping fleet operating costs under control is a top priority of police fleet managers, given the realities of budget shortfalls; however, with the 24/7 nature of patrol duty and other assignments, cutting operating costs can be a tall order. POLICE magazine spoke with fleet managers from large agencies throughout the country to find out how they do it.

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