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Effective crisis management and resolution rely on a different aspect of the situational awareness that keeps us alive
Resolve to start off the New Year with five commitments that will set the foundation for the year to come
Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay said the department is determined to learn from the fatal officer-involved shooting of Andrew Finch
Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement and a thousand miles of perception
The ensuing standoff with the wounded suspect led to a long Labor Day closure of the freeway
The officer was shot in a struggle with a suspect for the cop’s gun
The officer has been treated and released for a leg wound
Officer was critically wounded in the early morning hours of Aug. 22 when he and his trainee faced a heavily armed gunman
Three occupants of the two vehicles not related to the pursuit were injured and taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries
16-year-old slipped out of his handcuffs and shot himself and an officer during transport to a juvenile center
Officers assert that high-level city, police and union officials privately agree that the court-ordered use-of-force changes put them and public in danger
Officer fatally shot an 18-year-old man who had just killed another man early Wednesday
Federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after a fatal police shooting
Police arrived at a downtown bar as dispatchers relayed initial witness 911 reports that the suspect had opened fire into the club
“It’s a dangerous job, and we work in a particularly dangerous area”
Man stabbed an officer in the back with a 14-inch long butcher knife before another cop shot the suspect
Deputy was shot during a traffic stop Wednesday and is currently in serious but stable condition
An online gamer’s video shows the moment armed officers burst into an office Wednesday afternoon to investigate a report of an active shooter
Fugitive armed with two handguns and wearing body armor fired several rounds at officers, who fired back
Officer remains hospitalized in a medically induced coma and is responding well to treatment
Officers thought the robbery suspect’s Airsoft handgun was real
Police have said the shooting was justified because the suspect was waving an air rifle at customers and refused their commands to drop it
It took multiple officers to take down the 6’3”, 250-pound man
Police chief is praising his agency’s investment in body cameras after a video captured an incident that may have been misconstrued as excessive force
More than 300 pages of police reports on the June 5 shooting describe a frantic scene as officers tried to assist victims who lay bleeding as well as find the gunman
San Bernardino Police Chaplain Ray Miller asked the 2,000 people attending the service at San Manuel Stadium to pray for the officer shot Friday
Unfortunately, one place where expenses can mount is in the storage and management of the data they generate
A suspect is dead and a police K-9 has been hospitalized after a pursuit and officer-involved shooting
Houston police were forced to jump out of the way after a man attempted to run them over as they were directing traffic Sunday
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