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VIDEO: Fox News Spins Snowball Fight Incident So That It's Interesting

R.J. Fried | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Dc, Police, Snowball, Fox News, Washington DC, The Snowball, Snowball Fight, Cop, Comedy, Fox News Channel, Comedy News
R.J. Fried

Though the gathering was an innocent snowball fight, Fox News knew a war protest was amidst. What better way to protest war than by throwing snowballs at people who agree with you.

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Broward County Sherriff's Office Solves Problem to Tweet or Not to Tweet?

Lon S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Social Media, Law Enforcement 2.0, Law Enforcement, Twitter, Police, Social Networking, Law 2.0, Sheriff, Broward County, Cybervisor, Technology News
Lon S. Cohen

When Twitter didn't work for the Broward County Sheriff's Office due to the size and scope of the agency, PR manager Lynne Martzall created Cybervisor -- Twitter for law enforcement.

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Hutaree Militia Planned To Kill Cop And Bomb Funeral, Prosecutors Say

AP | COREY WILLIAMS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religion, Court, Christian Extremism, Militia Groups, Police, Terrorism, Hutaree Militia, Fbi, Christian Extremists, Domestic Terrorism, Cop, Adrian, Michigan, Prosecutors, Christianity, Religion News

DETROIT — Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to...

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Subway Security Beefed Up After Moscow Suicide Attacks

AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Cuacus, Suicide Bombers, Nypd, Police, Terrorism, Subway, Moscow, Buses, Security, Mta, New York Police Department, New York City, Cops, New York News

NEW YORK — U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow's subway system, sending m...

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California Jobs Budget Reflects the Values and Priorities of Californians

John A. Perez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Recycling, Taxes, California Budget, Small Business, Education, Green Jobs, Firefighters, Oil Severance Tax, Police, Jobs, Oil, Teachers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Local Government, Public Safety, Los Angeles News
John A. Perez

This week, I unveiled the California Jobs Budget, a plan designed to confront and resolve the two most urgent priorities facing California: closing our budget deficit and putting Californians back to work.

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The Spit Decision

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Cong. Cleaver, Health Care Reform, Police, Tea Party, Threats, Vandalism, Spit, Politics News
Bob Franken

Today's extremists are not defending liberty, they're trying to vandalize it. They need to be stopped. Period.

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Kristina Ripatti-Pearce: Paralyzed Former Police Officer Competes In 'Race Across America' To Send L.A. Kids To College

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Race Across America, Wheelchair, Operation Progress, Handcycle, Police, Wheelchair Races, Los Angeles Police Department, Kristina Ripatti-Pearce, Lapd, Impact News

Four years ago, Los Angeles police officer Kristina Ripatti-Pearce was paralyzed when she was shot while responding to a robbery in progress. Despite ...

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By Helping Cops With Social Media, Mainstream Media Helps Itself

Lon S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Toronto, Traffic, Social Media, Law Enforcement 2.0, Twitter, Social Networking, Police, Communication, Technology News
Lon S. Cohen

When traffic control officer Sergeant Tim Burrows had to find a better way to communicate with the public about Toronto's roadways, he turned to social media to solve his problem.

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Police Booby Traps: Officers Targeted In California

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Police, Booby Trap, Riverside, Hemet, Hemet Police, California Police, Police Booby Trap, Crime, Los Angeles News

HEMET, Calif. — Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill t...

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Pa. Woman Hides in Coffin To Escape From Police

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, Coffin, Brown Funeral Home, Police, Funeral Home, April Nicole Kelly, Jail, Escape, Cops, Home News

MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. — Authorities say a Philadelphia woman hid in a coffin at a central Pennsylvania funeral home to escape custody. Nicole April K...

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Aiyana Jones, 7-Year-Old Shot And Killed By Detroit Police, Was Sleeping According To Family

AP | COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Aiyana Jones, Detroit, Police, Detroit Police, Charles Jones, Detroit Tragedy, Ralph Godbee, Mertilla Jones, 7-Year-Old Shot Police, 7-Year-Old Shot Police7-Year-Old Shot Police, Home News

DETROIT — Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for...

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Torrance California Police Stop Once Again Casts Ugly Glare on Racial Profiling

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Minister Robert Taylor, Racism, Police, Cal, Racial Profiling, Torrance, Robert Gates, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In 2001, President Bush said of racial profiling, "It's wrong and we will end it in America." It hasn't ended, and the unwarranted stop and search of a prominent African-American minister in Torrence, CA, proves it.

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Union Square Bomb Search: Bomb Squad Inspecting Suspicious Vehicle In New York City

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Gas Cans, Nypd, Car, Police, Bomb, Subway, Terrorism, New York City, Union Square, Vehicle, Bomb Squad, Suspicious Vehicle, Bomb Scare, Oldsmobile, Evacuation, 1991, Cutlass Ciera, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City police evacuated part of an apartment building and blocked off some streets near Manhattan's Union Square after a Thurs...

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Jena Sheriff Seeks Revenge for Civil Rights Protests

Jordan Flaherty | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Racism, Drugs, Nooses, War on Drugs, Racial Profiling, Jena 6, Police, Politics News
Jordan Flaherty

Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena says he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing a vendetta against the town's Black community.

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Acapulco Killings: 13 Killed In Drug Gang Violence As Spring Break Tourists Arrive

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Drug Gang Violence, Tuncingo, Beheadings, Drug Gangs, Police, Mexico, Drugs, Guerrero, Acapulco, Murders, Killings, Calderon, World News

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- At least 13 people have been killed in a Mexican Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Guerrero state police say th...

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New Report: It's Now a Crime to be Mentally Ill

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Psychiatry, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Police, Crime, Criminal Justice, Kendras Law, Dr. E Fuller Torrey, Antipsychiatry, Prison, DJ Jaffe, Schizophrenia, Kendra's Law, Forensics, Sheriffs, Aot, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, Laura's Law, Mentally, Psychiatric Hospitals, Jails, Mental Illness, Psychiatrist, Prisons, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

A report in today's USA Today by the nation's most reputable mental illness researcher, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey shows that in the United States, you are ...

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To Fully Embrace Social Media, Cops Must Open The Thin Blue Line

Lon S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Social Media, Law Enforcement 2.0, Law Enforcement, Social Networking, Police, Thin Blue Line, Cops, Technology News
Lon S. Cohen

Police seem to have intentionally selective memory, a trait I must I share with them because it's something my wife accuses me of all the time. It's ...

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Terrifying 911 Call Made By 7-Year-Old Boy During Home Invasion (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: 911 Call, Police, Crime, Boy 911 Call, Criminals, Scary 911 Call, Video, Home News

Police are hailing a 7-year-old boy for saving his family while three armed men invaded his home and threatened his parents. The boy hid in the bathr...

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Just Rent The Wire:Brooklyn's Finest Is a Mediocre Cop Movie.

Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Wire, Movie Reviews, Police, Brooklyn's Finest, Antoine Fuqua, Movies, Ethan Hawke, Cops, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Any time you make a movie about morally conflicted cops battling charismatic drug dealers on city streets, you're going to draw comparisons to The Wire -- and almost inevitably, your movie will come up short.

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A Modest Proposal to Eliminate the Public Option From Our Policing System

Alan Krinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Police, Freedom, Policing, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Alan Krinsky

For too long in our nation, we have maintained a universal, single-payer policing system. As a freedom-loving citizen, I want to see policing return...

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Utah Continues Reckless Efforts to Lock-Up Pregnant Women

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Feticide, Abortion, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Pregnancy, Utah, Police, Prison, Home News
Lynn M. Paltrow

On Thursday, a Utah legislator withdrew a bill that would allow sentences of up to life in prison for a woman who experiences a miscarriage or stillbi...

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UPDATE: UFlorida Students Briefed After Shooting

alligator.org | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Standoff, The Independent Florida Alligator, Florida, Resisting Arrest, Attack, Police, Campus Police, University of Florida, The South, Aggravated Assault, Shooting, Kofi Adu-Brempong, College News

University officials, campus police and Corry Village apartment managers held two meetings Wednesday with about 75 residents to explain Tuesday's shoo...

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Black History Month Good-Bye Blues

Chris Norwood | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: History, Hiv, Children, Jobs, Blues, Arrest, Police, Black, Aids, Nypd, Racism, Stop and Frisk, Racial Profiling, Frisks, New York News
Chris Norwood

In the South Bronx, New York's poorest county, where I run a community health program, I haven't encountered a single person who has obtained an actual stimulus job.

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Colorado Springs Police To Be Trained In Transgender Sensitivity

Colorado Springs Gazette | CARLYN RAY MITCHELL | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Transgender-Inclusive Legislation, Police, Transgender Community, Trandsgender Sensitivity, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Police, Denver News

Last week, Colorado Springs police joined a small number of departments in the nation in educating officers about the transgender community, a surpris...

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Chicago Police Officer Dies In Crash On Lake Shore Drive

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Fatal Crash, Chicago Police Officer Killed, Police, Lake Shore Drive Crash, Lake Shore Drive, Officer Killed, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police, Chicago News

As officers mourned the death of a Town Hall District sergeant killed in a crash while responding to a burglary, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said t...

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