Mike Williams’ Local Cop News: June 12, 2007

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Florida: Awakened by noise, deputy shoots himself in the leg

National: Youth, fitness no longer police prerequisites. Some departments even look past drug use more than five years ago

Texas: Woman injured after 6-hour standoff with tyler police

Pennsylvania: Police seek alternatives to lethal force

Washington: The homicide suspect whom Yakima police shot in the head while trying to arrest him Friday had allegedly killed his victim over a two-year-old drug debt

Florida: Deputy shoots, wounds suspect

California: The driver and a passenger of a disabled car on Highway 60 in Rubidoux attacked a California Highway Patrol officer who had stopped to help them Friday evening