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LAPD officials said most concerning were the disproportionate number of homeless individuals listed as suspects in physical attacks that cause serious injuries, described as, "aggravated assaults," in police records.
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A Shreveport, LA, man who was accused of attempting to run over a police officer following a robbery at a local casino a year ago has been found guilty of felony aggravated assault with a motor vehicle upon a peace officer.
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A prosecutor told a jury in Brooklyn on Wednesday that the NYPD officer who was struck and dragged by an alleged member of the Crips gang will never recover from his injuries.
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Carlos Peralta, 53, was booked Sunday with driving while intoxicated, aggravated flight from an officer and reckless operation of a vehicle, according to Jefferson Parish arrest records.
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Corporal Les Munn of the Texarkana (AR) Police Department is not one to shy away from a challenge. So when a high school student lugging her drums up the bleachers laid down the gauntlet that the officer help the band perform, he accepted the dare.
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While empirical data doesn't exist—at least to my knowledge—on lost productivity due to injuries sustained during foot pursuits, anecdotal evidence suggests that medical leave following such activities is significant enough to give some thought to the matter.
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A Dallas man rushed to aid an officer involved in a violent struggle with a resistive subject—while other bystanders stood aside and captured video of the incident on their mobile phones. Steve Mabry was driving past the unidentified officer and the subject as the man was trying to take the officer's TASER.
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There is certainly benefit to being current on events involving the people you consider family—your brothers and sisters across the country with whom you share a special bond—as well as the world at large. However, it's also important—and extremely beneficial—to spend some time completely disconnected from the job. This is a lesson I recently re-learned.
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The suspect reportedly grabbed the Taser off the officer's belt when both men fell during a struggle. He then drive stunned the officer in the face, according to reports.
Read More →Officers with the Anne Arundel County (MD) Police Department were trying to enforce Maryland's new 'red flag law'—under which family, police, and mental health professionals can all ask for the protective orders to remove weapons from a household—when they encountered the subject of the order holding a gun.
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