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More NYPD Officers Being Sent to Help Homeless Taking Refuge in Subway

"There have been dozens and dozens of additional officers added to the subway to ensure the safety of our transit system as well as to help with outreach to the homeless — particularly in the overnight hours," said J. Peter Donald in the NYPD public relations office.

January 16, 2018

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“Something Had to be Done,” Says Homeless Man who Helped SC Officer Under Attack

"She's a woman slammed to the ground and she's an officer...I saw her belongings hit the ground,” Turmon said. “She'd done everything she could...It was going to get ugly, ya know? Something had to be done.” More Here.

December 25, 2017

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Video: “Something Had to be Done,” Says Homeless Man who Helped SC Officer Under Attack

"She's a woman slammed to the ground and she's an officer...I saw her belongings hit the ground,” Turmon said. “She'd done everything she could...It was going to get ugly, ya know? Something had to be done.”

December 25, 2017

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Once Homeless CA Man Becomes CHP Officer

Lopez knows what it’s like to dumpster dive, to be assaulted when sleeping outside, to ask complete strangers for food and water, to routinely feel unsafe. Lopez lived all of that and more in the seven or so months he was homeless in 2012 after losing his job in an Elk Grove tire store, and then his apartment, and then his car, which was repossessed.

July 11, 2017

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Video: Once Homeless CA Man Becomes CHP Officer

Lopez knows what it’s like to dumpster dive, to be assaulted when sleeping outside, to ask complete strangers for food and water, to routinely feel unsafe. Lopez lived all of that and more in the seven or so months he was homeless in 2012 after losing his job in an Elk Grove tire store, and then his apartment, and then his car, which was repossessed.

July 11, 2017

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Video: Good Samaritans Come to CA Officer's Aid After Street Attack

A group of Good Samaritans recently came to the aid of a San Francisco police officer who was being attacked by a homeless man.

February 24, 2017

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Good Samaritans Come to CA Officer's Aid After Street Attack

A group of Good Samaritans recently came to the aid of a San Francisco police officer who was being attacked by a homeless man.

February 24, 2017

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L.A. Tentatively Agrees to $4 Million Settlement in Fatal LAPD OIS

Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay $4 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed homeless man fatally shot by an LAPD officer in Venice Beach, CA, court records show.

December 2, 2016

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Video: Woman Carrying Skull on Stick Leads CA Police to Human Remains

"There was a transient female walking down the 2900 block of Connie Drive. She actually had a skull in her possession," Sacramento, CA, police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said. It sounds like a story fit for Halloween, but that was an actual call to police on Wednesday that is now a death investigation.

October 21, 2016

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Woman Carrying Skull on Stick Leads CA Police to Human Remains

"There was a transient female walking down the 2900 block of Connie Drive. She actually had a skull in her possession," Sacramento, CA, police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said. It sounds like a story fit for Halloween, but that was an actual call to police on Wednesday that is now a death investigation. More Here.

October 21, 2016

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Video: Man Grabs NYPD Officer's Gun, Fatally Shoots Bronx Deli Clerk

A panhandler removed the duty weapon from a New York Police Department officer's holster and used it to fatally shoot a Bronx bodega worker as a late-night dispute over $2 exploded into a deadly street shootout, police said.

August 11, 2016

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2 Boston Officers Injured in Confrontation with Library Patron

Two police officers were injured Monday in a scuffle with a Boston Public Library patron who had refused to leave an exhibition hall at the institution’s central branch in Copley Square, officials said.

April 26, 2016