Month: February 2016

Podcast Quick Clip: How can officers manage a suicide by cop?

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
Download this quick clip on SoundCloud or via RSS feed The subject shouts, “Come on, pigs, kill me! I don’t give a damn! Come on! What are you waiting for? Shoot!” and begins raising the gun at his side and pointing toward the officers who had responded to a man-with-a-gun call. The cops are forced to fire. The subject is declared dead at the scene. In a suicide note found in a pocket …

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3 Md. officers injured in traffic stop

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
Another officer was heading to the scene to assist when an accident partially disabled his vehicle

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Video: War veteran turned Fla. deputy rescues American flag from tornado debris

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
By PoliceOne Staff PENSACOLA, Fla. — A video of an Escambia County sheriff’s deputy pulling a flag from tornado debris has gone viral. FOX 10 reported the war veteran turned deputy, Sgt. Stephen Schaff, collected a tattered American flag after a tornado struck Feb. 25 and destroyed homes. He hung it back up as a symbol of resurrection. “It’s strength, you get strength from a symbol …

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Police: A severed horse head found in box in Manhattan park

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
Associated Press NEW YORK — The New York City Police Department says a person walking in a Manhattan park has found the severed head of a horse and other animal parts in a cardboard box. Investigators say the person was walking through Harlem River park when he came upon the severed head inside a beer box at about 11 a.m. on Sunday. The Department of Sanitation removed the head shortly after …

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Fla. cop burned in bonfire accident making progress

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
By Ryan Gillespie Orlando Sentinel ORLANDO — With limited air reaching his vocal chords, Kris Kruse struggled out the words “I love you, Liz” to his girlfriend. From his hospital bed at UF Health Shands Burn Center in Gainesville, the 21-year-old Clermont rookie cop spoke to Liz Darrah for the first time since he suffered burns to more than 65 percent of his body in a backyard bonfire …

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Trump releases video urging respect, support for police

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
By PoliceOne Staff NEW YORK — Presidential hopeful Donald Trump released a video to his official Facebook page praising police officers for their work. Trump stated law enforcement officers across the country are not being appreciated or given the respect they deserve. “The fact is, they do an incredible job, we have to give them more authority and more respect,” he said in the video …

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Will augmented reality change policing?

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
By Kindel Daniels What does the future hold for law enforcement technology? Ask that question and you’ll get as many different answers as there are science fiction writers. To them, the future is limitless, and technology is what drives it. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait on the future or for our favorite writers to tell us. We can go directly to the source, the Osterhout Design Group …

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Salt Lake City withhold footage of officer-involved shooting that ignited unrest

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Police are withholding footage from body cameras that officers were wearing when a 17-year-old boy who was wielding a metal stick was shot and critically injured, a brief confrontation that ignited hours of unrest in Salt Lake City’s bustling downtown. Salt Lake City police say they are not releasing the footage because of the ongoing investigation and the …

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‘High sensitivity’ DNA analysis sparks debates in courts nationwide

Author: Jim Dudley and Doug Wyllie
By Michael Balsamo Associated Press NEW YORK — One New York judge ruled the DNA evidence was scientifically sound. Another, just miles away, tossed it out as unreliable. The same scenario is playing out in courthouses around the world amid a debate over whether a type of DNA analysis involving the amplification of tiny amounts of genetic material is reliable enough to convict someone for a crime …

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