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The Houston Police Department found that 4,017 adult sex assault cases were not investigated after they were coded as "suspended due to lack of personnel." The chief said that is not acceptable and has shifted resources to look into each report.
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The Chicago Board of Education voted unanimously to remove school resource officers from its schools at the start of the next school year. One official said it was "to focus on alternative systems of safety that create that physical and emotional safety."
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Los Angeles police released video of when a man fired what appeared to be a handgun at officers and they returned fire. Once the man was in custody, it was revealed that he shot at cops with a .50-caliber projectile launcher. Nobody was injured.
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DeSoto County deputies initiated a PIT maneuver, stopping the suspect’s vehicle on Highway 61 near the border of Tunica and DeSoto Counties.
Read More →Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock tweeted Saturday that an entire sector in East Austin went two hours without a patrol officer assigned to the sector.
Read More →Denver’s city charter requires anyone applying to become a police officer or firefighter to be a U.S. citizen. Denver City Council President Jamie Torres, who represents District 3, says that limits the pool of applicants.
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The Polk County Jail is the largest mental health and substance-use disorder housing facility in the county. Studies show that 44% of jail inmates have some sort of mental health disorder and 63% of inmates have a substance-use disorder.
Read More →While officers attempted to negotiate, they say the suspect, identified as Shannon Cortez Gooden, opened fire with a rifle.
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Trooper First Class Chase Redner was struck on I-75 North in Clayton County, the Georgia Department of Public Safety said. He was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died.
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Sgt. Musgrove went back to the SUV but did not see the baby. Then he realized the baby was under the body of the motorcyclist who had been thrown through the window on impact. The baby was hurt and trapped in the child seat by the man’s body.
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