Emergency Preparedness News & Articles

• Ferguson, a tornado, and the All-Star Game: How 'Big Blue' keeps cops connected

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  Inside the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s mobile command and communications vehicle

• Should the first response to active killers be warning shots?

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  The policy on warning shots varies from agency to agency, but certainly, under these extraordinary circumstances, shots of this kind are justified

• Policing Matters Podcast: Are PERF's use of force recommendations misguided?

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  Doug and Jim also offer lessons from law enforcement’s handling of Super Bowl 50 that agencies can use when preparing for their own large scale event

• Police grants: What's being federally funded in 2016?

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  Here's a summary of federal funding in 2016 for law enforcement agencies

• Awakened by an active shooter: 5 lessons learned

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  There is no word for the feeling a cop has as he finds himself in a critical life-or-death incident, armed with nothing but an overwhelming urge to assist

• SHOT Show 2016: How active shooter attacks are evolving (and how cops can prepare)

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  Events of the past year have put some new twists on the active shooter problem

• 'No more baby parts': Colo. rampage suspect's words draw focus

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  Police are trying to discern the motivations for a shooting attack carried out Friday at a Planned Parenthood clinic that killed three people, including a police officer

• Police beefing up Fourth of July security over terrorism concerns

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  In light of recent ISIS attacks across the globe, local officers are gearing up as precaution

• Dallas mayor says city will spend money needed to protect officers

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  Police have implemented emergency security measures after the shooter incident

• Advocates aim to extend benefits for 9/11 first responders

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  Advocates for ailing Sept. 11 first responders urged Congress on Thursday to permanently extend a law providing medical monitoring and treatment

• Trending Topics: When cops respond to water disasters

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  By Police1 Staff The recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma underscore the danger cops face when responding to natural disasters involving water. For this week’s Trending Topics, we take a look at fiv...

• Video: Texas cop trapped in floodwaters rescued by copter

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  After attempts to rescue the officer via hovercraft and firetruck failed, a police helicopter was called in

• Obama puts stricter controls on military equipment for police

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  Obama is prohibiting the federal government from providing some equipment to local PDs

• Lawyers give closing arguments in marathon bomber's trial

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  Jury was expected to begin its deliberations later in the day after hearing from Tsarnaev's attorneys and the judge

• Chief: FBI memo wouldn't have changed Texas terror attack response

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  Chief said no one at command post set up to monitor the event was aware that the FBI had sent a memo about Elton Simpson hours before the May 3 shooting

• Missouri senator seeks reforms for police military equipment

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  Would create a task force to determine what sort of equipment is suitable for police and what should be prohibited

• Colo. theater shooter studied brain disorders before mass murder

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  Was growing volatile well before he put on a gas mask and body armor, strapped on a rifle, shotgun, pistol and ammo, and slipped into a premiere

• Service held to mark 20 years since Oklahoma City bombing

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  Former President Bill Clinton and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin were among those who spoke at Sunday's service at the Oklahoma City National Memorial

• Parents of youngest Boston bombing victim: Take death penalty off table

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  Said that sentencing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death "could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives"

• Report: After Boston, LE cooperation on terrorism improving

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  Report released Tuesday suggests there's been progress in how federal and local law enforcement officials share information following the Boston bombings

• Enhanced security to remain in place for Boston Marathon

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  The race will occur one day before the sentencing phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins

• US committed to stopping 'homegrown extremists' after NY bomb plot thwarted

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  Disturbing allegations were contained in court papers describing the latest homegrown terror plot thwarted by the FBI and the NYPD

• Prosecution rests its case against Boston Marathon bomber

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  Jurors in federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe devastating injuries suffered by an 8-year-old boy

• Video: NJ home explodes in natural gas leak, injures 15

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  Dash cam video from a patrol car captured the violent incident

• Somalia extremists urge attacks on US shopping malls

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  Video purported to be by rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries

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