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Ferguson police begin using body cameras

 FERGUSON • Police officers here began wearing body cameras on Saturday as marchers took to the streets in the most recent protest of a shooting three weeks earlier by a city officer that left an unarmed teenager dead. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said his department was given about 50 body cameras by two companies, […] Continue reading →

Police chief in small Texas town killed

 The police chief of a small Texas town was killed Saturday while attempting to arrest a man on a warrant, authorities said. Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau told The Associated Press that Elmendorf Police Chief Michael Pimentel was making a stop to serve an active misdemeanor warrant for graffiti, when the suspect fired, hitting the […] Continue reading →

Ferguson police to reveal officer’s name Friday

 Police in Ferguson say they are planning to release the name of the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in the St. Louis suburb. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson says the officer’s name will be revealed Friday morning. Police have said 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot after an officer encountered him and another […] Continue reading →

New teacher gets Arrested for showing up Drunk and Pantsless

Police say Wagoner teacher found in empty classroom without pants   WAGONER, Okla. — Wagoner police arrested a woman they said was intoxicated and not wearing any pants at Wagoner High School on Monday. The woman, Lorie Hill, was a newly hired teacher for Wagoner Public Schools. She was found by two other teachers in the […] Continue reading →

Chicagoland: Where Tigers Are More Common than Guns…

Michael Schaus  A guy walks into a bar with a tiger… And, no, the guy in question is not Chuck Norris. (Although, if it was, I’m guessing no-one would say anything.) John Basile walked his Siberian tiger into a bar on the outskirts of Chicago, and promptly became the center of attention in a police […] Continue reading →

9 shot on Bourbon Street in New Orleans

 New Orleans police continue searching for two men who exchanged gunfire on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, leaving nine people shot in the crossfire, including two who are in critical condition. Images captured from a surveillance camera above a bar showed people running down the street in the chaos of the shooting at 2:45 […] Continue reading →

Armed for War: Pentagon surplus gives local police an edge

 As the American military draws down its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, stateside ports, armories, depots and warehouses are packed with excess military material and vehicles, some of them none-the-worse from their tours in overseas war zones. A lot of those weapons, uniforms, trucks and mine-resistant vehicles are patrolling the streets of central Indiana at […] Continue reading →

Police Chief: I Will NOT Enforce Gun Ban

 Law enforcement officers across the country are remembering their oaths and standing up in defense of the Second Amendment gun rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve.  The National Sheriff’s Association came out in opposition of President Obama’s proposed gun control laws.  Sheriffs around America are also refusing to enforce some […] Continue reading →

Arkansas gunman released from hospital before killing three: police

 A gunman in Arkansas who killed three people, including a 12-year-old girl, and wounded four others before taking his own life had been released recently from a mental health treatment hospital, police said on Sunday. The suspect in the shooting rampage on Saturday afternoon, identified as Porfirio Hernandez, 40, was acquainted with his victims, Jonesboro […] Continue reading →