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New Mexico to Require All Officers to Carry Naloxone

New Mexico on Thursday became the first U.S. state to require all local and state law enforcement agencies to provide officers with antidote kits as the state works to curb deaths from opioid and heroin overdoses.

April 7, 2017

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Law Enforcement Coping with Elephant Tranquilizer ODs

From southern Ohio down to Alabama and increasingly up the Eastern Seaboard, drug users are dying by the scores in a strange new way: by overdosing on elephant tranquilizer.

March 24, 2017

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NC Agency's Newest K-9s Are Rescue Pit Bulls

North Carolina's Clay County Sheriff's Office announced, proudly, that two new narcotic detection dogs had joined the team. Their names are Phantom and Sarah — and both are pit bulls, rescued from shelters and trained to be key members of the force.

March 20, 2017

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Video: Ohio Officer, Man Hit By Gunfire Amid Drug Search

Police say a Columbus officer was shot in the hip at a home where the gunfire suspect was arrested and another man was shot in the leg.

March 16, 2017

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AL PD Uses Asset Forfeiture Funds from Big Seizure to Buy Needed Gear

Thanks to an OnStar tip two years ago that led them to four pounds of powder cocaine and a quarter-million dollars, the entire Pleasant Grove (AL) Police Department was able to use asset forfeiture funds to become better equipped.

March 14, 2017

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NYPD Officer Promoted After Helping Bring El Chapo to Justice

Det. Diana Spangenberg, a 15-year NYPD veteran who worked on the investigation that led to the arrest of Mexican drug lord El Chapo, has been made detective first grade, police said Friday.

January 27, 2017

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Border Patrol Recovers $2 Million Worth of Meth at Texas-Mexico Border

U.S. Border Patrol officers found a record-breaking $2 million worth of methamphetamine between Wednesday and Thursday at the border in Presidio, TX.

January 17, 2017

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Man Accused of Shooting TX Officers Acquitted

A Nueces County, TX, jury acquitted a man who shot Corpus Christi police officers executing a raid on his home, saying a "botched" operation and contradicting testimony led to their decision.

December 14, 2016

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2 GA Officers Shot Serving Warrant

Two Byron, GA, police officers were shot early Monday while serving a warrant on Ga. 42 in Crawford County.

December 12, 2016

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Canadian Police Move to Treat Fentanyl Overdoses as Homicides

Canadian police are looking to treat fatal overdoses as homicides, arguing that holding drug dealers responsible for deaths could act as a deterrent.

November 22, 2016

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Legal Marijuana Supporters Win Big Tuesday Night

Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational marijuana initiatives Tuesday night, and several other states passed medical marijuana provisions, in what is turning out to be the biggest electoral victory for marijuana reform since 2012, when Colorado and Washington first approved the drug's recreational use.

November 9, 2016

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Busting the Pot Fairy Tale

Once upon a time, the states of Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana. Then they made billions of tax dollars and we all munched on chips and lived happily ever after. Yeah, right.

November 7, 2016