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Once skills are automated and schemas are activated, a large portion of information processing is taken care of in the subconscious brain
Officer Peter Roccisano started 10-24 Products to provide a way to keep backup weapons handy
From the violence at the Marathon to the loss of peacemaker Nelson Mandela, this was a watershed year
Deputy Chief Ken Koeppen happened to be in the area and rushed to the scene where an officer was shot in the chin
Joshua Beesley, 40, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and felony evading
Neither officer was injured, the suspect was charged with two counts of assault among other charges
Adam Davis, 36, was responding to reports of a man displaying a gun in public when he rolled his squad
A sheriff’s office squad car was struck near Neenah after a driver lost control
From hostage situations to drugged-up lunatics to little lost teddy bears, it’s all in a day’s work
Of the 733 law enforcement officers killed in a vehicle accident from 1980 through 2008, 42 percent weren’t wearing seatbelts
Three Miami-Dade officers were wounded — one in the stomach and the others in the arm
Jim Buccholz, a 9-year veteran, initially treated his own gun shot wound as fellow officers returned fire
Officer Robert Deckard, who has been with the department for seven years, is being treated at San Antonio Military Medical Center
The officer was shot in the arm and is expected to be okay, the suspect was fatally shot by police as he fled
Two police cruisers struck pedestrians in crosswalks in the past two weeks
Changing light bars and signals remotely helps keep La Grange officers on the scene, not in their cars
Myriad smartphone programs help cops with everything from on-the-fly translation of Miranda warnings to updates on the FBI’s Most Wanted
The Ping4 app and service is highly configurable for users on both Apple iOS and Android-based mobile phones
December is a deadly month — may a few reminders here help the heroes on the street during the end of the year
Code 3’s vLink puts you in control in or out of the car
The problem with people like me is the central failure of contact and cover as it is frequently practiced — I want to be the co-contact!
The suspect and the officer were both taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, the suspect later died
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