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On the eve of taking over as the Oakland Police Department's top cop, Anthony Batts told POLICE Magazine the department needs technological modernization, better crime statistics and a nudge to heal from the loss of four officers killed by a desperate parolee in March.
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Assistant Chief Linda Pierce retired after 28 years. She oversaw the Special Operations Bureau, which includes operations and planning, the arson and bomb squad, the Harbor Patrol, and criminal intelligence section.
Read More →A 24-year-old man accused of shooting a Detroit police officer in the leg is in custody after an hours-long search, Police Spokesman John Roach said last night.
Read More →More than 180 complaints were filed against Milwaukee police officers in the first half of the year, and the 66 formal ones marked a 13.8 percent increase over that number for early 2008, itself a record year for complaints. But the numbers don't reflect a corresponding increase in police misconduct.
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Police charged a City of Raleigh employee with several counts of child abuse Monday after they accused him of storing gang members' guns in his children's toy box.
Read More →"I have asked the Department of Law to litigate those cases which would have been settled [as] a matter of financial concern," Supt. Jody Weis told the judge in a July 23 letter obtained by the Sun-Times.
Read More →Four men were charged Sunday with allegedly trying to kill an off-duty Chicago police officer in a Southwest Side shooting that one police source said erupted when they mistook the gang-enforcement officer for a gang rival.
Read More →A Chicago police officer was hospitalized in good condition after he was accidently shot by a fellow officer while trying to subdue a knife-wielding man in downtown Chicago, the Sun-Times reports.
Read More →Charlotte City Council members voted Monday night for City Manager Curt Walton's plan to hire 125 additional police officers. Fifty will be hired with $8.5 million in federal stimulus dollars, and will start in September.
Read More →The report reviewing the actions of BART police officers on the New Year's Day shooting death of Oscar Grant on an Oakland transit platform is another big coffin nail in the case against the regional transit agency.
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