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Multiple communications failures hurt emergency response to Maui wildfires – report
Inoperative cell towers left residents and tourists with few options to receive emergency alerts like evacuation orders. And the closed systems used by police created a dam of information that was not being relayed in a timely way to the mayor and emergency officials, the report said.
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Police Dogs Get Pensions in Nottinghamshire, UK, But Some Taxpayers Protest Plan
Starting next month, retired police dogs will receive pension plans for the first time ever in the United Kingdom. Nottinghamshire Police has decided that dogs that assist police officers, performing duties like sniffing out drugs, crowd control, arrest assistance and searching properties, will receive up to £1,500 each upon retirement.
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How does a police department lose a Humvee?
Theft, fraud plague controversial Pentagon program spotlighted by Ferguson
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The Rise of the SWAT Team in American Policing
Posse comitatus is not a phrase that trips lightly off every tongue. It is typically translated from Latin as “force of the county.” Anyone who has ever watched an old Western movie will instantly recognize the first word as referring to men deputized by the sheriff to chase down some varmints who went thataway. (Rappers and their tag-alongs later gave “posse” a different context.)
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The NYPD paid over $428 million in settlements over the last five years
As part of an ongoing investigation, MuckRock's Todd Feathers asked the NYPD for a list of all civil rights lawsuits brought against the department. To his surprise, what he got was every case brought against the NYPD since 2009, and how much those cases cost them. To all of MuckRock's surprise, that amount is almost half a billion dollars.
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Bullets Fly and Three Cows Die After Tense 7-Hour Standoff With Police
Chaos and tragedy came to the English town of Norwich this weekend when a security threat compelled local law enforcement to close off a highway and sent citizens running for cover during a tense seven-hour standoff with three cows. The police were ultimately forced to shoot and kill the “distressed” bovines “in interests of public safety,” according to the @NorfolkPolice Twitter account.
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Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
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Detective who returned World Series tickets gets his own set
A Kansas City detective who went above and beyond to return two very expensive and very hard to get World Series tickets is now going to the Fall Classic himself. “I thought he went above and beyond,” said David Chan with Hillcrest Covenant Church. The tickets were meant for Chan's church, for an auction benefiting international missions. Getting them returned to him required smarts and perseverance, a story that reminded Chan of the Royals themselves.
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Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny.
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Okla. police find remains of 6 people, in 2 cars in lake
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says it has identified all six sets of remains that were in two cars found submerged after decades in a western Oklahoma lake last year. The office said in a news release Wednesday that DNA tests were used to identify the remains.
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Police allow car break-ins to become a Seattle growth industry
If your car is broken into and your stuff stolen, don’t bother calling the police. They won’t come even if you track down the thieves yourself.
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Police cars that make sure cops don't break the law are coming in 2015
According to at least one study, observing police officers on the job leads to a massive decrease in citizens making brutality complaints. Now that same philosophy is being taken with how officers drive their cars while on the job. Ford, makers of various Police Interceptor models, has developed a system that relays telematics of driver behavior directly back to HQ, presumably for a heavy-set officer to scream at them when they get back.
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Looking for answers in Mesa police chief's 2011 wreck
Documents and expert opinion show there may be more to a single-vehicle wreck involving Mesa's police chief than he's ever disclosed. The dispatch log from the incident is missing nearly 40 pages and the official report includes no photographs, nor any record of any eyewitness account despite evidence of at least one witness coming forward.
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New Jersey drivers who didn't stop for Donald Duck in crosswalk upset over tickets
It's not every day you see a duck walking the crosswalk, but that's what several drivers in Fort Lee saw last Friday. It was all part of a decoy program to catch drivers who aren't yielding to pedestrians. But some are saying it's not fair and that they were tricked.
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Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize
The seminars offered police officers some useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals. Don’t bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers (“everybody’s got one already”), the experts counseled. Do go after flat screen TVs, cash and cars. Especially nice cars.
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Ferguson Won’t Heal
Here, on the streets of Ferguson and St. Louis, you can already feel the rest of the world forgetting. Today, President Obama will hold in Washington a series of Ferguson-related meetings. He will meet with local law enforcement leaders, faith leaders, and focus on working together to “build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country.”...
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Cop cleared in chokehold death of Eric Garner
A Staten Island grand jury cleared an NYPD cop in the chokehold death of Eric Garner during his caught-on-video arrest for peddling loose cigarettes, the Staten Island district attorney confirmed Wednesday. The panel voted a “no-bill” and dismissed all potential charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo. The blockbuster decision capped weeks of investigation by the special grand jury, which was empaneled in September specifically to review evidence in Garner’s racially charged death.
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Mexico says evidence proves missing students were incinerated
Mexico said on Sunday that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members, although forensic experts sounded a note of caution. Attorney General Jesus Murillo confirmed that one of the students had been identified by experts in Austria from a bone fragment in a bag of ash and bits of burned tire found in a river where drug gang members...
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Undercover Cops Outed and Pull Gun on Crowd
During the ongoing protests in Berkeley and Oakland, on Dec 10th 2014, two undercover police were outed by the crowd, and proceeded to pull out a gun, and make arrests while still wearing their masks.
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Your telltale video camera shake can identify you
HERE's a way to shake off anonymity – literally. Footage from wearable cameras contains a "motion signature" unique to you. The discovery could identify police wearing body cameras, but also let authorities single out protesters uploading footage, say. Shmuel Peleg and Yedid Hoshen at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem collected footage from 34 people who wore GoPro cameras on baseball caps. They ran it through an algorithm that recognized motion signatures particular to each person.
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