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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
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Officer Cody Carpenter was shot multiple times during a confrontation with a kidnapping suspect
The two cars collided, sending the cruiser into a concrete pillar
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The officers, who are in stable condition, were immediately met with gunfire when they arrived, officials said
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Deputy Michael Magli, 30, leaves behind a wife and two children
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The deputy tried to defend himself, but the two inmates pulled him into their cell, officials said
Officer Mitchell Penton, 27, was assisting at an incident on a freeway when the driver hit him while traveling at a high rate of speed
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The engine was stolen while firefighters were responding to a call in Austin, police said
Officers caught a baby thrown from a second-story window during a fire that killed 1 and displaced 25 others
If a prisoner is transitioned from one officer to the next, it’s always appropriate to re-search the prisoner
The detective had been canvassing when two armed men came up behind him, officials said
The officer was last listed in critical condition, police officials said
Trooper Steve Houle was snow biking Monday when he was caught in the slide
“Quite frankly, it is irresponsible and it alludes to putting dollars over officer lives”
Agencies might start serving more warrants with heavily armed tactical units and use diversions, says one law enforcement expert
Officials said the officers were “doing well” and their wounds were not life-threatening
One of the officers suffered a non-life-threatening injury while trying to arrest the suspect
A community is mourning Officer Darian Jarrott, who was shot Thursday during a confrontation on a state highway
Authorities now believe one of the suspects is in custody in Mexico. The other is still on the run
The officer was identified as 28-year-old Darian Jarrott
The suspect was killed during an exchange of gunfire
Officials are hopeful Sgt. Joe Sepulveda will pull through thanks to the quick actions of his partner
“It was never in our realm of possibility to think that the subject could not hear us.”
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