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2 Murder Suspects On The Run After Arkansas Jail Break

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Arkansas, Murder Suspect, Police, Crime, Prison, Crime News, Reuters, Arkansas Jail Break, Manhunt, Jail, Crime News

May 28 (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern Arkansas have launched a manhunt for two murder suspects who escaped from jail before dawn on Monday ...

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Standing Up for All the Fallen

Christopher Holshek | Posted 05.25.2012

We should respect each other's commitment to community and country. There is no reason why we cannot stand up for all the fallen, so that Memorial Day will honor all those who gave their lives in the service of their neighbors as well as their nation.

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Detroit Police Restructuring Necessary to Curb Crime

Gary A. Brown | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Government, Detroit Financial Crisis, Municipality, Police, Crime, Detroit Fiscal Crisis, Gary Brown, Detroit, City Council, Fiscal Crisis, Detroit City Council, Public Safety, Detroit News

Detroit continues to face a fiscal crisis. However, the issue to address crime in the neighborhoods is not about resources; it's about managing the resources. The crime affecting our neighborhoods is fixable.

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Pregnancy Nightmare: Mom Recalls Night Cop Kicked Her In The Stomach (EXCLUSIVE)

HuffingtonPost.com | Steven Hoffer | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Jerad Wheeler, Raven Dozier, Video, Police, Police Violence, Crime News, Raven Dozier Dekalb County, Cop Kicked Pregnant Woman, Cop Kicked Woman in Stomach, Georgia, Police Officer Kicked Pregnant Woman, Georgia Crime, DeKalb County, Crime News

All Raven Dozier could think about was why her baby wasn't moving. "Is my baby OK?" she recalls asking at that terrifying moment five months ago. ...

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Homeland Security Trade Show Deserted Even As Industry Keeps On Growing

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Law Enforcement, Video, Explosives, Military, Police, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Defense Contractors, Cybersecurity, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- More than a decade after 9/11, it isn't easy to stage a "first-of-its-kind" event centered on homeland security and counterterrorism. ...

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Fighting Crime: Help From The Crunching Data

Mark Cleverley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Video, Ibm, Predictive Analytics, Crime, Police, Analytics, Patrol, Crime Prevention, Smarter Ideas, Technology, Bblog-Ibm21, Technology News

Crime is getting a one-two punch. This new approach is called predictive analytics and it's happening now because we're in the age of Big Data.

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Obama, Biden Honor Group's 'Sacrifice'

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: White House, Video, Police, Police Officers, President Obama, Obama, Joe Biden, Barack Obama 2012, Obama Police Officers, Vice President Joe Biden, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama honored the nation's top police officers on Saturday, paying tribute to their sacrifices and "quiet courage"...

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Georgia Cop Under Investigation For Kicking A Pregnant Woman In Stomach

HuffingtonPost.com | Steven Hoffer | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Jerad Wheeler, Raven Dozier, Video, Police, Police Violence, Raven Dozier Dekalb County, Cop Kicked Pregnant Woman, Cop Kicked Woman in Stomach, Georgia, Police Officer Kicked Pregnant Woman, Georgia Crime, DeKalb County, Crime News

A police officer in Georgia is under criminal investigation for allegedly kicking a woman who was nearly nine-months pregnant in the stomach before ch...

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Filmmaker Files Lawsuit Over 'Trekkie Traffic Stop'

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Search and Seizure, Video, Collinsville Illinois, Drug War, Police, Terrance Huff, Police Misconduct, Terrance Huff Michael Reichert, Michael Reichert, Asset Forfeiture, Illinois, War on Drugs, Terrance Huff Lawsuit, Fourth Amendment, Star Trek, Politics News

Filmmaker Terrance Huff has filed a lawsuit against the city of Collinsville, Illinois, and Collinsville police officer Michael Reichert over a traffi...

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The Power of WE

Paul Boden | Posted 05.08.2012

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

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House Ready to Give Finger to Violence Against Women Act?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Lgbt, House, Native American Women, Criminal Justice, V.a.W.A., Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, Police, Primary Aggressor, Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Act, Senate, Politics News

It is critical that congress reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, including its new provisions that offer help to Native American women, the LGBT community and immigrants, groups that have been denied the full protection of VAWA.

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Predictive Analytics: Using Real-Time Data to Help Transform Public Safety

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Smarter Cities, Fire Department, Ibm, Smarter Ideas, Crime, Police, Analytics, Emergency, Real-Time, Patrol, Public Safety, Video, Technology News

Through using predictive analytics, real-time insights transform public safety, and enables the police and fire departments to prevent crime and fight...

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PHOTOS: Cops Shoot Playful Chihuahuas, Elderly Labs

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Video, Pets, Cop Shoots Dog, Police, Police Misconduct, Police Brutality, Slidepollajax, Puppycide, Dogs, Politics News

Last week, Austin, Texas, Police Chief Art Acevedo publicly apologized to Michael Paxton over the death of his dog Cisco. Paxton was playing fetch wit...

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Student Photojournalist Beaten and Arrested While Taking Photos of Police in Public

Larry Atkins | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Photos, Citizen Journalism, First Amendment Rights, First Amendment, Police, Journalism, Photojournalism, Temple Student Arrested, Ian Van Kuyk, Photographing Police, Media News

Asserting his First Amendment right to take photos of police action in public, Van Kuyk refused the officers' request for him to stop taking the photos, but the officers arrested him and charged him with obstruction, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.

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Cops: Mother Publicly Stabbed Infant With Kitchen Knife

AP | ALEX DOMINGUEZ | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Baltimore Baby Stabbed, Video, Baltimore, Baltimore Crime, Police, Bad News, Baby Stabbed, Crime News

BALTIMORE — A mother managed to slip a long kitchen knife past security at a Baltimore social services building and used it to stab her infant d...

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Police In Peru Run Over Mother And Her Young Daughters (WATCH)

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Car Accident, Peru, Milton Rojer Ayay Huaman, Crime News, Police, Caught on Tape, Juana Beatriz Ponce Garcia, Cajamarca, Daniel Oca, Crime News

A mother and her two young daughters were struck by a police patrol vehicle in Peru, prompting an enraged response from local citizens. Juana Beat...

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Girlfriend's Tweet Saves Carjacked Boyfriend

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Social Media, South Africa, Tanisha Reddy, Twitter, Girlfriend's Tweet, Tweet, Police, Lynn Peters, Pigspotter, Private Security, Johannesburg, Good News News

A South African man who was carjacked and tossed in the trunk of his vehicle is safe after a tide of tweets turned in his favor. According to the D...

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Waitress Wins Battle Over Huge Tip Seized By Police

Reuters | Posted 04.06.2012

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(Reuters) - Police in Moorhead, Minnesota, will return a $12,000 tip they seized from a struggling local waitress, her attorney said on Thursday. ...

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Want to See People Strip for Free? Join the Police!

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Comedy, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Strip Search, Police, Strip Search, Police Department, Parody, Supreme Court Strip Searches, Video, Comedy News

Want to see people strip for free? Well, thanks to the Supreme Court, you can!

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Racism without Racists: George Zimmerman and the Conundrum of Modern Bigotry

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Police, Blacks, President Barack Obama, Latino, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Hispanics, George Zimmerman, Race, New York Police Department, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Stand Your Ground, Black Voices News

The conundrum of racism without racistscreates a society in which black males are perceived always and everywhere as the perpetrator, never given the dignity applied to a victim.

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Police Surveillance Tactics Raise Privacy Concerns

nytimes.com | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Local Police, Police Phones, Police, Police Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Phone Tracking, Police Phone Tracking, Cops, Technology News

WASHINGTON -- Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance t...

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Traffic Stop Of Star Trek Fans Raises Concerns About Drug Searches

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Video, Drug War, Police, Terrance Huff, Asset Forfeiture, Police Search, Illinois, Drug Dogs, Fourth Amendment, Drug Search, Collinsville, Civil Rights, Star Trek, Politics News

Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they...

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Steps the FBI Must Take to Remedy Misinformation Campaign About Arabs and Muslims

James Zogby | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Police, Ethnic Profiling, Fbi, Muslims, Racial Profiling, Bigotry, Arab Americans, Politics News

There must be an acknowledgment of the wrong that has been done to our communities and to our country's ability to respectfully engage with Arabs and Muslims. This is vital to our future as Americans.

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WATCH: Drunk Guy Belts Out Queen In Police Cruiser

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Queen, Drunk, Arrested Bohemian Rhapsody, Video, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Drunk Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, Police, Bohemian Rhapsody, Intoxicated Bohemian Rhapsody, Cops, Comedy News

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of those songs that's impossible not to sing along to. No matter the location, once somebody belts out "Is this the real li...

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The Suffocation of American Democracy

Fred Rotondaro | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: President Ronald Reagan, Alec, Ronald Reagan, Nurses, Police, Teachers, Grover Norquist, Tax Reform, Unions, Politics News

How does the private citizen, the individual voter, compete with the forces that are subverting democracy? The simple answer is not very well indeed.

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