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Middletown Officer Joe Santiago, who coaches the PAL boxing program noticed that a pair of brothers wanted “cool, fancy haircuts;" a local barber and the PAL program made it happen
The North Andover police unions’ grievances were a failure of the department to implement body-worn cameras or an officer-involved shooting policy
Officers went to the home for a fire investigation at a home where someone had thrown an incendiary device, setting an exterior gate on fire, and then fled on foot
The San Jose voucher program sets aside more than $11 million to make housing more affordable, prioritizing city employees and first responders
After a mental health crisis team spoke to the man for 25 minutes, he charged at a group of Aurora officers, stabbing one of them in the head so forcefully that he broke the knife
The suspect shot Tulare County Detective Randy Hoppert in a three-hour standoff, during which he moved between three locations while shooting at officers
Two current and one former Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers were arrested for allegedly submitting a combined 440 hours of traffic enforcement overtime hours they did not work
The Tulare County deputy was responding to fellow deputies’ call for help after reports of gunfire erupted at the scene
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