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Officer Involved in BART Shooting Abruptly Resigns

The BART police officer who shot an unarmed man to death on a station platform early on New Year's Day quit the force Wednesday, avoiding an interview with police internal affairs investigators trying to get to the bottom of an incident that has prompted broad outrage.

BART Shooting Protest Organizer Devastated by Oakland Riot

When the marchers reached the Lake Merritt BART Station around 6:15 p.m., protest organizer Evan Shamar saw things start to go bad. Marchers began kicking newspaper stands and using papers to start fires. As he saw them throwing bottles and spitting on police cars, Shamar said he wept and returned to the Fruitvale Station.

Ex-U.S. Drug Czar Warns of Mexican Border Rush Because of Cartel Violence

A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result (in) a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border to escape the domestic misery of violence, failed economic policy, poverty, hunger, joblessness, and the mindless cruelty and injustice of a criminal state," Barry McCaffrey said.

Georgia Cold Case Squad Cracks First Case

The Gwinnett County Police Department’s newly minted cold case squad has cracked its first case — a 2007 fatal shooting of a Norcross teenager who was working at a gas station.

Mumbai: You Would Have Shot Back

American law enforcement would react faster, with more courage than its Indian counterparts and that would make it harder for terrorists to slaughter citizens.

Station Windbreaker

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Tactical Kit

M-Pro 7 Weapon Care

Designed with the needs of tactical shooters in mind, this kit contains all the products and tools needed to clean and maintain weapons for optimal performance and reliability. Unlike Other kits, the M-Pro 7 Tactical Gun Cleaning kit can be commercially transported worldwide due to its non-flammable and non-hazardous contents.

Anchorage Police Identify Large Number of Gang Members

Documented gangs in Anchorage continue to swell, even as anti-gang officials pledged Monday to continue their two-year-old effort to combat youth violence in south central Alaska.

Mistrust Bedevils War on Mexican Drug Cartels

The U.S. has begun pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico to help stanch the expansion of drug-fueled violence and corruption that has claimed more than 5,000 lives south of the border this year.

Gunman Opens Fire on Dallas Rush Hour Traffic, Kills Two

Police were investigating four incidents Monday after the first fatal shooting was reported about 5:40 p.m. in Garland just north of LBJ Freeway. Police are working to establish whether the three shootings in Dallas are related to the Garland one.

Homicide Total in Juarez, Mexico, Passes 1,500

With the homicide toll in Juárez surpassing the 1,500 mark, authorities there are left to face what border experts are calling the biggest Mexican dilemma -- ending the bloody street war between drug cartels, controlling thugs who have gone wild and preventing police corruption.

El Paso is Major Hub for Drugs Sent to U.S.

El Paso, though spared the brazen killings taking place in Mexico, has felt the power of the multibillion-dollar illicit drug trade and has become a major hub for the distribution of drugs headed to markets throughout the United States, officials said.

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