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Olight has added two new lights to the Baton Series, the Baton 4 and the Baton Ultra. One new Baton features up to 1,600 lumens on turbo, and the other 1,800.
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The El Centro Police Department released video of when an officer fatally shot a man who had been reported to have a gun and then pointed the object at the officer. The object was not a gun and appears to be a bicycle seat.
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On Aug. 29, 2025, I retired as editor of POLICE. The following is a personal and professional retrospective on more than two decades of covering your profession and its equipment and technologies.
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The search of the man’s residence yielded 18 firearms, body armor, rifle plates, a helmet, and 12,000 rounds of ammunition. The deputies found he had a full Class B Palm Beach County SO uniform and gear.
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Wambaugh's bestselling novels included “The New Centurions,” “The Glitter Dome,” “The Choirboys” and “Black Marble.” The best known of his nonfiction works was “The Onion Field,” about the kidnapping of two LAPD officers and its aftermath.
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Karla Altenbaumer got into law enforcement because she didn’t want to spend her career as an office worker. “I knew I didn’t want to sit behind a desk all day,” she says. “I knew I wanted to be out in the community helping people..."
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"When we did the [video], we wanted to show the night of the storm and the day after and how devastating and violent the storm was," Black Mountain Police Chief Steve Parker said.
Read More →The agreement also requires that Olympia Police Chief Rich Allen, his deputy and assistant chiefs and the four officers involved in the incident complete state training “on the historical intersection between race and policing.”
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The vehicle that was pursued, a 2022 Chevrolet Equinox, belonged to a Rochester Hills resident and had been stolen Saturday afternoon, Bouchard said. Reckling was one of three detectives from the office's auto theft unit searching for the vehicle.
Read More →Melina Abdullah condemned the Los Angeles Police Department responses to her residence, which included armed SWAT officers surrounding her house and ordering her to come outside through a loudspeaker.
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