It was at least the fourth weapon confiscated by Newark police in three days, authorities said
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Brandon Barnes's comment,
March 17, 7:06 PM
Well it's nice to see an article on this scoop it that covers some police doing their job well, there is so many articles that make police look bad on this page. Though I understand that is what we are studying in order to identify these police problems that are involved in policing the country and world. I am glad to see Newark doing good and when I read the article I had to laugh first at how stupid these criminals were and second at how all the criminals seem to carry the crappiest caliber weapons in Newark. One carrying one of the smallest rounds and the others carrying one of the slowest rounds, but I doubt they most of them knew the difference when they were buying from whatever illegal arms dealer they were going through, I hope they get some of them on a plea bargain to give up whoever sold them the weapons.
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March 17, 7:07 PM
Oh and on a further note I know most police are not like so many of these articles depicting bad officers.
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Lancaster County Sheriff’s investigators think Tom Hamm, a 24-year veteran of the Lincoln Police Department, shot and killed himself Tuesday night. 
Maximillian Anderson's comment,
Today, 8:38 PM
It is sad to see that an officer felt so much physical pain that he killed himself. It is more common to read about officers that have mental health problems that lead to their suicide but this was a little different. Ultimately, it sounds like the job is what lead to his needing multiple surgeries because he was a street cop. The article said that he was planning to retire in about five years and that he was living with his most recent knee pain for three years. I wonder if he was going to physical therapy for his most recent knee replacement in April. It seems like a little over a month and a half after a knee replacement surgery is too soon to give up hope.
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The 17-year-old on £15k a year quit after boasting on Twitter about sex, drugs and violence.
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The police are organized around a distinct cultural tradition. When we break from that tradition, we are often attacked. Thus, we tend to be slow to change. Delete the scoop?
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A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.
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Today, 8:57 PM
The article says, "Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told a Philadelphia Daily News columnist in February of last year that he believed he had made a mistake in granting the former officer's request to go back to work too soon after he was shot." This officer was shot in 2007 and retired from the department in 2011. I am not sure why they try to connect his shooting, coming back so quickly, and the charges against him. I do not think that his shooting and coming back quickly have anything to do with what he did to the two women. It is incredible to see someone who was so high up-once invited to sit with the First Lady at a Presidential address to congress- fall so far and do what he did to the women.
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The ruling said a grand jury received bad instructions before indicting Officer Richard Haste in the shooting of Ramarley Graham. Delete the scoop?
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The sharp cracks echoing from the East Bakersfield street were loud enough to jolt Ruben Ceballos from a midnight slumber. Then he heard screams. Delete the scoop?
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The overhaul Friday included a demotion to captain of the acting chief, Anthony Toribio, who had held the position for just two days after Police Chief Howard Jordan shocked city leadership when he stepped down, citing health problems. Delete the scoop?
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In a bid to curb rampant corruption, the Mexico state has mandated that only women are allowed to issue traffic citations. 
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May 22, 2:25 AM
FYI, that risque photo wasn't there when I scooped this article....
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SAN FRANCISCO -- As he shivered on a narrow iron bar 220 feet above San Francisco Bay, 22-year-old Kevin Berthia heard a voice. It did not belong to the old wounds, crushing worries and inner demons that had driven him to the Golden Gate Bridge. Delete the scoop?
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Privacy groups are denouncing a federal government move to force Internet companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors that would let the FBI and other agencies snoop in on real time online communications. Delete the scoop?
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Atlantic readers offer ideas including a tricameral legislature, a ban on incarcerating nonviolent criminals, and declassifying all information after 20 years.
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One Pasadena police officer was killed and another lost his leg in an accident last night in Kerrville
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if he'd been working on his own car, I see this as non-line of duty death, but stopping to help someone with this major type of incident; then, I think both officers are "on-duty". 
Mandy Burris's comment,
April 29, 9:44 PM
Rob, I agree. It is not easy to "turn off" the policeman side at the end of the day and so stopping to help someone stranded on the road is second nature in addition to kind and generous. It's terrible to think that two officers have been lost in different ways to a kind act and a driver attempting to prevent an accident. I think that both officers should be considered "on-duty" in this situation and the incident should be treated with the same support and reverence had they been wearing their uniforms and badges.
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PHOTO SOURCE: CBS Dallas Forth-Worth. Then officer Kelly Helleson caught on a dashboard camera preparing to perform a cavity search on a woman under the suspicion of marijuana possession. 
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April 28, 4:54 PM
From my understanding, smelling marijuana from the suspect's vehicle is enough probable cause to warrant a search. However, I believe the cavity search was completely unwarranted (not to mention the S.O.P. was completely butchered by the female officer) as if no marijuana is found in the car, then they should be handed a citation for littering and then everyone continues on there way. Now, there is always the chance that the suspects may have acted suspiciously, or given the officer some provocation to perform the test, but even then I don't believe the cavity search should have been conducted.
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A Redlands Police Sergeant was honored with the Mayor's Award Tuesday for his bravery during the February gun battle with ex-cop Christopher Dorner in Big Bear.
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A Central Florida man who was shot and killed by an FBI agent early Wednesday morning was being investigated by the FBI and Massachusetts authorities in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings . Delete the scoop?
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The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. Delete the scoop?
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BAKERSFIELD — The FBI launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a man who was beaten by authorities amid questions over whether officials tampered with cellphone videos confiscated from witnesses. Delete the scoop?
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Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn't always ... Delete the scoop?
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I received a citizen report for a suspicious vehicle. I contacted the citizen who told me "it was a black guy in a white jeep and he was opening everyone's mailboxes"...yup, next block over I found the suspect who was a U.S. Mail employee driving his marked USPS Jeep. Now who caused that b.s.? It certainly wasn't the cop that responded....
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Today, 9:06 PM
It is unfortunate that an elderly black man was put on the spot by an officer. I hope that the officer had more of a description to go off of than a "black male." I feel that profiling is okay as long as it is specific. For example, a victim describes the suspect a thin hispanic with a white shirt and blue shoes on and the officers stop and question any people in the area that fit that specific description. But a vague description of a "mexican guy" or something is not an adequate reason to stop all hispanic people. If the officer's inquiry was in fact without basis, I hope that he is made to apologize to the old man.
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SAN BERNARDINO -- Two suspects in a Yucca Valley homicide led authorities on a high-speed chase Thursday that ended with a gun battle, one suspect dead, another wounded and a California Highway Patrol officer wounded.
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Col. Keith Mallard, head of the Alaska State Troopers, learned about the viral video of his officers when someone sent a private message to the official trooper Facebook account. Delete the scoop?
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A midnight court hearing helped a Montana prosecutor avoid spending last weekend in jail. Delete the scoop?
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Something here to understanding the cultures too (maybe as it applies to things like 9/11 and the Boston bombings). Delete the scoop?
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A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Koty Emery's comment,
April 28, 4:40 PM
I understand that Alcoholism is under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but an officer convicted of a DUI seems to violate the police department's need to accommodation for the disability. "The ADA has provisions in it, across the board, to not require employers to subject other people to unreasonable risk to accommodate a disability," Then again, I guess the real question is if he should lose his job because he was off duty.
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April 28, 5:36 PM
I guess he has a right to have a chaufer drive him around in his undercover car because his alcoholism makes him disabled. He would be the cop verion of Arthur...
Mandy Burris's comment,
April 29, 9:59 PM
If an officer can be fired for stealing off duty because it is behavior unbecoming of a law enforcement officer then being convicted of a DUI is also grounds for dismissal. His alcoholism did not force him to get into the vehicle and drive home when he had been out drinking. If the decision was made to drink then a plan should have been in place for a designated driver or a hotel within walking distance, etc. These are the things that he should have been teaching the public about drinking and he ignores them when it comes to himself? Any other crime and the officer would be seen as hypocritical and the department would have caught no end of grief if they would have kept him on. Blaming the job for why he was drinking in the first place? Fine. Not taking responsibility when your personal choices endangered lives and cost your department money is not acceptable. If he had come forward about wanting to seek treatment and had not been convicted of a DUI then he would have more of a right to sue, but as it stands he is abusing the classification of his circumstances as a disability. In addition, if Oregon is like Alaska, his refusal to provide a breath sample (assuming he made it to the actual official stage and refused, not just the PBT) is a felony charge and if he is now a convicted felon he cannot have firearms, therefore he cannot legally continue to do his job.
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