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State police rescue students stranded in the snow while camping
State police and other agencies rescued the college students via helicopter Monday… Full story: State police rescue students stranded in the snow while camping
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3 migrants drowned near area where Texas has denied entry to federal border agents – CBS News
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants. Federal officials and a Texas congressman said National Guard soldiers deployed by Republican Texas…
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The Supreme Court will decide whether local anti-homeless laws are ‘cruel and unusual’
The Supreme Court has agreed to review lower-court rulings that make it harder for cities in the western United States to prevent people from sleeping on the streets when there aren’t enough beds in homeless shelters… Full story: The Supreme Court will decide whether local anti-homeless laws are ‘cruel and unusual’
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Police Use-of-Force Self-efficacy: An Antidote to the Ferguson Effect?
Abstract Research has consistently shown that officers’ perceptions of deteriorated relationships with the public are associated with physical and emotional disengagement with their work. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this “Ferguson Effect” has also contributed to reluctance to use necessary physical force in the course of their duties, leading to compromises for officer safety and public…
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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime
Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime. Google is changing its Location History feature on Google Maps, according to…
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Police officers can help prevent domestic violence killings by asking the right questions – Stateline
Intimate partner violence and domestic violence killings are a serious public health problem, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But police can help prevent such killings, experts say, by using a questionnaire more states are seeking to make mandatory or more widely used during domestic violence calls. In the wake of…
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DC launching real-time crime center to monitor surveillance cameras
D.C. police will launch a real-time crime center at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to monitor surveillance cameras around the clock. Police are entering agreements with federal law enforcement and police from Maryland and Virginia. The agreements involve U.S. Park Police, U.S. Capitol Police and the Secret Service. The crime center will monitor surveillance cameras 24/7,…
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Defying presidents and Congress, federal law enforcement agencies shroud their shootings in secrecy
Despite nearly 30 years of demands for transparency, the DOJ’s law enforcement agencies release little data about whom they shoot, why and when, and they rarely use body cameras… Full story: Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy
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Philadelphia reduces school-based arrests by 91% since 2013 – researchers explain the effects of keeping kids out of the legal system
Drexel researchers evaluated a 2014 program implemented by Kevin Bethel when he was deputy police commissioner that led to fewer arrests of students in schools. At the same time, violent crime dropped, contradicting many officers’ claims that a ‘get out of jail free card’ may lead youth to commit more crimes. Full story: Philadelphia…
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Less traffic enforcement could mean more traffic deaths in Austin, city audit finds
Less traffic enforcement by law enforcement may have caused the number of fatal traffic incidents to increase in Austin in recent years, according to an audit released by the city last week. In addition to looking at Austin, auditors looked at the resources of Dallas, San Antonio and Seattle, and found that each city has…