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For the third straight year, police officer suicides exceed all combined causes of line-of-duty deaths.
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Judge Leon Tucker granted Mumia Abu-Jamal another opportunity to appeal his conviction in the death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal spent three decades on death row before his sentence in the shooting death of Faulkner was thrown out over flawed jury instructions.
Read More →The suspect—identified as 25-year-old Erich Stelzer—was taken into custody and was being transported to a nearby hospital by responding EMS when he reportedly became unresponsive and was pronounced dead.
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Investigators believe the man suspected of killing Newman, CA, Police Cpl. Ronil "Ron" Singh is still in Stanislaus County, Sheriff Adam Christianson said Thursday morning.
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Overall fatalities increased 12% with firearms-related fatalities the leading cause of officer deaths this year.
Read More →Detective Pablo Santiago, a well-known Mercer County sheriff's officer, was found dead inside the Mercer County Administration of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
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A judge has refused to lower the bond— set at $200,000 cash—for a truck driver accused of murder in the death of 32-year-old Deidre Mengedoht, a detective with the Louisville (KY) Police Department who was killed in a fiery crash on an interstate highway on Monday.
Read More →Sgt. Arthur T. Schultz's body was found by fellow officers in a vehicle on Eden Park Drive, officials say.
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Officer safety is obviously paramount—and should never be jeopardized by allowing a potentially dangerous subject who should be handcuffed to retain use of their hands—but weigh into your tactics the fact that communicating with a deaf subject who is handcuffed becomes significantly more difficult.
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A 24-year-old man has been charged in connection to the circumstances that led to the deaths of two Chicago police officers who were struck and killed by a train Monday night.
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