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Patrol

Broward County Deputies Hold "No Confidence" Vote on Sheriff Israel

Bell said Israel has refused to take responsibility for the disastrous performance at the school, where several deputies stayed outside or took cover behind cars, unsure of where the gunfire was coming from. “The sheriff still blames one person,” Bell said, referring to former school resource officer Scot Peterson. “As an agency we’ve not taken any responsibility for this.”

April 23, 2018

Patrol

NY Parole Board That Released Cop Killer Broke Law, Police Union Charges

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association is trying to use this alleged misstep to demand a new hearing for Bell, who is expected to be released from prison this month.

April 2, 2018

Patrol

San Francisco PD Fires Rookie Officer Over Fatal Shooting

“Chris was fired for doing what he was trained to do by the SFPD Academy, and for what happened on his fourth day on the job under extremely stressful and difficult circumstances,” union chief Marty Halloran wrote in a statement. “This was a needless action as any taken by someone wearing the uniform of our chief.”

March 13, 2018

Patrol

Video: Deputies' Union Demands Broward Sheriff Release Parkland School Shooting Records

"It's the deputies that are out on the street taking the beating," said Deputy Jeff Bell, who serves as the president of the IUPA union, which represents the rank and file at BSO. "It's the individual deputy that is getting the comments of being called a coward and, 'Oh, you're working for the Coward County Sheriff's Office.' Those are confirmed reports."

March 8, 2018

Patrol

Deputies' Union Demands Broward Sheriff Release Parkland School Shooting Records

"It's the deputies that are out on the street taking the beating," said Deputy Jeff Bell, who serves as the president of the IUPA union, which represents the rank and filed at BSO. "It's the individual deputy that is getting the comments of being called a coward and, 'Oh, you're working for the Coward County Sheriff's Office.' Those are confirmed reports." More Here.

March 8, 2018

Weapons

San Francisco Police Chief and Mayor Clash Over Ballot Initiative on TASERs

The mayor has long been a reliable ally of the powerful San Francisco Police Officers Association, the union that sponsored the ballot initiative.

March 2, 2018

Patrol

Baltimore Officers May Now be Personally Liable for Some Lawsuit Damages

The Baltimore police union said that forcing officers to pay up personally was a change in policy by the city. But City Solicitor Andre Davis said Wednesday the policy has not changed and officers have potentially been on the hook for decades in such cases.

February 7, 2018

Training

Baltimore Police Union Calls for Better Training for Recruits

The president of the local police union in Baltimore on Monday thanked a police academy legal instructor for voicing concerns about the preparedness of new recruits who received guns and badges over the weekend, saying the "training deficiencies that he exposed are real and should, by no means, be allowed to continue."

February 6, 2018

Patrol

Video: CA Police Union Slams Vehicle Shooting Policy After Officer Run Over

The police officers union said the attack shows how the department's policy prohibiting officers from firing at moving vehicles puts its "officers' lives in danger."

February 5, 2018

Patrol

Police Union Slams Detroit for Not Covering Cost of Slain Officers' Funerals

It was despicable," said Mark Diaz, president of the Detroit Police Officers Association, about the moment he says he found out that the City of Detroit does not pay for the funerals. "It was a shot to the stomach."

January 30, 2018

Patrol

NYPD Union Sues Mayor Over Release of Body Camera Footage

"The basis of this suit is simple: we're suing to prevent the Mayor and the NYPD from arbitrarily and illegally releasing body camera footage,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said of the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

January 9, 2018

Training

8 Cleveland Police Cadets Hurt During Training at Ohio Patrol Academy

Six of the cadets were injured during a training exercise in which recruits fight off a training officer who attacks them.

January 8, 2018