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In 2011, 72 officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty. That number was 16 more than the 56 officers slain in 2010. Also, 50 officers were killed in accidents, a decrease of 22 officers compared with the 72 officers accidentally killed in 2010.
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Police caught the man suspected of killing five people in Terrell, Texas, early this morning. Charles Everett Brownlow Jr., 36, was found about 1:30 a.m. after an intensive manhunt following a night of multiple slayings in this town east of Dallas.
Read More →Still armed with a .22 caliber rifle stolen from a homeowner's garage this week, Cavalcante tried to crawl away through the brush and escape from the tactical units closing in, officials said. Then a K-9 bit him and held him down.
Read More →The parents of the gunman who shot and killed his 22-year-old sister and eight others on Aug. 4 in Dayton, OH, have apologized for posting an obituary of the 24-year-old assailant calling him a "funny, articulate and intelligent man with striking blue eyes and a kind smile."
Read More →New Demonstrators from BlackHawk Law Enforcement are size accurate replicas of GLOCK models 17, 22, and 31; Beretta 92 and 96; and S&W J-Frames. They are made from an injection-molded, super-strong glass-filled polymer built to take use and abuse for years.
Read More →Casselberry (Fla.) Police officers TASERed a 22-year-old man after he knocked on a door, stripped naked, and spat on an officer's face. Thomas Edwards told responding officers he came to the house to propose marriage to his girlfriend, who had told him to strip naked.
Read More →A federal appeals court ruled in January that "qualified immunity" should not protect the officers from potential liability resulting from the death of Timpa, a man with mental illness who died after being restrained for nearly 14 minutes by the officers.
Read More →Georgia's Board of Pardons and Paroles is now meeting to determine whether to grant clemency to Troy Anthony Davis or allow his execution set for Wednesday to go forward as planned. Davis sits on death row for the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail.
Read More →Days before his 30-day suspension is scheduled to end, Gilberton (Pa.) Police Chief Mark Kessler has posted another YouTube video, this one showing him shooting a target he calls "Eric," the first name of a borough councilman who wants him fired.
Read More →Mark III is the third-generation seamless scanning camera from Panoscan. Used to capture an entire crime scene in painstaking detail, the digital camera has double the capture speed of its previous incarnation, a 40GB hard drive, and USB 2.0 connectivity for speedy file transfers. The Panoscan camera head weighs only 9.3 pounds and was engineered for rugged everyday field use.
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