Law Enforcement News

• LEO helps recover stolen adaptive tricycle for girl with special needs

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  A New Mexico marshal is being praised for going above and beyond to help a family in need

• 'It's exciting': San Diego County gets first female undersheriff

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  Undersheriff Kelly Martinez began her career with the department in 1985 as a deputy

• Chief: Capitol violence was predicted, but not ‘thousands’ of rioters

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  Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman said there was no way to know the extent of the attack

• Video released of pursuit, shootout that killed Calif. deputy, K-9

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  The video shows deputies had surrounded a vehicle when the suspect opened fire at close range

• Minn. police respond to Facebook video claiming 'planted' evidence

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  The video shows an officer handing an empty plastic bag to a second officer for evidence collection, police said

• US Supreme Court appears inclined to expand warrantless searches

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  The justices were considering an appeal in a case where an officer followed a drunk driver into his garage without a warrant

• Sheriff: Tiger Woods crash was ‘purely an accident,’ no charges planned

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  Investigators say there was no evidence of impairment

• PD honors legacy of town’s first Black police officer, former slave

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  Edmund Jenkins was born a slave in 1845 and began his career as a policeman in the 1890s

• Drug-sniffing K-9 finds breakfast cereal coated with cocaine

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  Customs officers seized a shipment of apparent Corn Flakes thanks to K-9 Bico

• Analysis: What LE can learn from a viral shoot house training video

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  If an agency has a serious mishap in a live-fire shoot house environment, it will likely set their shoot house training program back several years

• Mayor unveils proposal to split PD into 2 groups: armed and unarmed

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  Under the proposal, officers would have to reapply to keep jobs as armed “public safety workers”

• Video: NJ troopers rescue boy stranded in frigid marsh

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  The 14-year-old was trapped in waist-deep water and was showing signs of hypothermia, police said

• Ohio LEO, teen die during incident at state park

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  Officer Jason Lagore suffered a medical emergency while trying to rescue two teens who fell into an icy lake

• Calif. city adopts police reforms, votes to take cops off some traffic stops

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  Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín says he hopes some of the changes will be seen this year

• NYC to test no-police mental crisis response in Harlem

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  Police will still respond to calls involving a weapon or “imminent risk of harm”

• Ill. governor signs police reform, criminal justice overhaul bill into law

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  The bill will abolish cash bail beginning in 2023 and require police officers statewide to wear body cameras by 2025

• No charges for Rochester cops in Prude death sparks protests

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  The officers involved remain on leave pending an internal investigation

• Ky. lawmakers to consider bill curtailing 'no-knock' warrants

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  The bipartisan bill creates new procedures and requirements for issuance of warrants

• Burgers, BBQ and brothers: First responder twins share love of food, public safety

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  Jonathan and Matthew Burgess juggle the demands of their firefighter and LE careers with their built-from-the-ground-up food business

• 50 ideas for a $20,000 police grant

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  Does your department keep a list of possible projects for grant-funding opportunities?

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