Advocates of proactive policing model argue that stopping and searching law abiding citizens is a minor inconvenience. However, researchers from Florida State University have found it might actually be getting under the skin of black men—literally.
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A federal judge has ruled neither the Broward County Sheriff's Office nor the local school district had a constitutional duty to protect students during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this past...
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The Wisconsin State Journal reports.We've been following the protests disrupting school board meetings where this issue was discussed. Last June I showed you video of David Blaska's shouted-down attempt to speak in favor of the police, and 4 days...
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Two Chicago police officers were killed Monday after being fatally struck by a train. The officers were responding to a call of shots fired in the city's Far South Side. Both men were married fathers.
What are the details?
Officers Conrad Gary, 31,...
London (AFP) – Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck has blamed a “deeply unpleasant but vocal minority” for shaming the club’s fans in an open letter following recent incidents of abuse.
The Premier League club and police opened...
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YouTuber and engineer Mark Rober got fed up with having his packages stolen so he built what might be the world’s most sophisticated glitter bomb into a fake Apple HomePod box.Rober had a package stolen from his doorstep. He then went to the...
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Police in Thailand say their investigations found that a boat that sank in July in rough weather off Thailand’s southern resort island of Phuket, killing 47 Chinese tourists, didn’t meet regulatory standards.
The July 5 sinking of the Phoenix...
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In 2013, an Austin police officer shot 70-year-old John Schaefer twice in the chest, killing him on his own porch.
Schaefer had called 911 to report that he'd shot a neighbor's pit bull after the dog attacked him in his backyard. The officer arrived...
An officer responding to a welfare check at the home found the three bodies.
Marisa Papen, a controversial Playboy babe from Belgium, bared it all in the name of art, but the Vatican police apparently did not appreciate her impudence. She earlier flashed her body at a temple complex in Egypt and at a former mosque in Turkey...
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The Supreme Court is considering whether the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states as well as to the federal government. If the SC needs more motivation to curb the abusive process of civil asset forfeiture they need look...
A 6-month-old was miraculously discovered alive, floating face up in a Missouri pond on Monday, after her father walked into the Greenwood Police Department and confessed — so he thought — to drowning his baby girl.
Police rushed to rescue the...
Two Chicago police officers were struck and killed by a passing commuter train on Monday while investigating a report of gunfire near railroad tracks on the city’s Far South Side, police said. The two officers, Eduardo Marmolejo, 37, and Conrad...
Because we live in a world where we can't have nice things, package theft is a real problem, and in recent times unscrupulous individuals stealing parcels from porches have prompted police sting operations, as well as longer-term tech...
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Wang Aizhong, a 42-year-old doctor and activist based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, woke one morning to a flurry of verification codes on his phone linked to accounts like Twitter, Chinese question-and-answer site Zhihu, and...
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Kevin Graham, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, called the deaths a "grim reminder of the dangers police officers face each and every day to protect the public."
China is far and away the world leader when it comes to deploying facial recognition technology to maintain law and order (and, of course, the Communist Party's iron grip on the levers of power). But it looks like the UK is making some important...
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President Donald Trump spent most of the 2016 campaign touting police officers, soldiers, border patrol agents and anyone else that would fit into his “tough on crime” image. Since he and his cadre of accomplices has become the target of...
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HMEIMIM (Sputnik) - The Russian military police have established themselves as an effective structure in Syria and earned a good reputation among civilians for their peacekeeping efforts, the chief of the main directorate of the Russian Defense...
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Police have revealed that Britain’s Royal Mail has detected a rise in Dark Web dealers sending drugs through one of its sorting offices. Around 800 cases of posted drugs are thought to have been reported in the past year.