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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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Caught on Camera: Why the NYPD's Move to Tape Interrogations Is Long Overdue

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: Videotaping Interrogations, Recording Interrogations, Nypd, Nyc, New York, Police, New York City, Wrongful Conviction, Criminal Justice, Innocence Project, New York News

Yesterday the NYPD announced that they would launch a pilot program videotaping police interrogations of criminal suspects in two precincts this year. This reform is long overdue.

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Open Season on Lawyers in Russia

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Russia, Law, Lawyers, Human Rights, Police, Crime, Sergei Magnitsky, William Browder, Rule of Law, Robert Amsterdam, Jamison Firestone, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

In recent years, dozens of lawyers have been forced into prison, out of the country, or worse. Yet despite these outrages, and the fraud schemes they're associated with, not a thing is being done to stop this.

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NYPD Stop-And-Frisks At Record High

nydailynews.com | By John Lauinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: New York Police Frisks, Nypd, Police, Crime, New York Police Department, New York City, New York, New York News

The NYPD stopped and questioned more people in 2009 than in any year since the department began reporting the data, it was revealed Tuesday. A total ...

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Anthony Williams Caught Selling Stolen Police Goods At Taco Bell

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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TRENTON, N.J. — Police in Trenton, New Jersey say a man sneaked into police headquarters and stole a police radio, a computer monitor and a serg...

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Richmond Church Shooting: Two Teens Injured At New Gethsemane Church

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: California Church Shooting, Church Shooting, Police, Gun Control, New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ, Richmond, New Gethsemane Church, Teens, California, Home News

RICHMOND, Calif. — Two victims wounded during a brazen shooting inside a Northern California church were cooperating Monday with police in the s...

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Police Officers Fired After Bikini Sex Scandal (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

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Two police officers in Arizona have been fired after they allegedly took advantage of a drunk woman who'd just been in a traffic accident. The woman,...

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If "Cops Don't Make Laws, They Just Enforce Them," Why Are Police Opposing Marijuana Legalization?

Russ Belville | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Medical Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Police, Legalization, Marijuana, Politics News

Why do we consistently see representatives of law enforcement opposing medical marijuana, marijuana decriminalization, and marijuana legalization efforts in state legislatures?

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NYPD Cops Fudged Crime Stats in Compstat Model Program Now Used in 100s of US Cities

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: New-York-City-Police-Officers, Rudy Giuliani, Police, Crime Reporting, Compstat, New York News

crossposted from opednews.com There's something very big here. If you look at the repercussions, this stats program does for police what the Leave No...

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Disneyland Souvenir Photo Captures Moment After Alleged Groping On Tower Of Terror Ride (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Photo, California, Crime, Police, Souvenir Photo, Anaheim-California, Groping, Anaheim, Tower of Terror, Sexual Assault, Groper, Picture, Disneyland, Los Angeles News

A souvenir photo may help police identify a man who allegedly groped a woman at Disneyland on Friday, Jan. 29, in Anahiem, California. Christina Esqu...

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