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As the “Great Ammunition Shortage” continues, police departments across the country are struggling to supply their arsenals. One police chief turned to the community for help, and citizens stepped up.
In Proctor, Minnesota, police chief Walter Wobig says that his suppliers have told him he’ll have to wait “months” for the 1,000 rounds he’s requested.
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/police-chief-asks-citizens-ammo-gets-1500-round-loan-amid-strong
Juveniles Charged For Making ‘Soda Bottle Bombs’
From the Office of the State Fire Marshal
HARFORD COUNTY, MD (April 22, 2013) – Deputy State Fire Marshals have charged three juveniles with making and detonating six chemical reaction devices, “soda bottle bombs” on the property of the Harford Day School located at 715 Moores Mill Road in Bel Air, Maryland. The incident occurred on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at approximately 5:00 p.m.
A joint [...]
All of Boston may be on lockdown as authorities search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, but at least one chain is weathering the manhunt with its doors open.
Founded just ten miles from Boston, Dunkin’ Donuts is keeping four locations open in Watertown, the area seeing the most law enforcement as they search for suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaey.
Those stores are offering free food to first responders.
‘There was an automated [...]
April 11, 2012
(Budapest) Hungarian police should immediately revoke their decision to refuse planners of the 2012 Pride March permission to pursue their chosen route, Human Rights Watch said today. The march should be allowed to go ahead as planned on July 7. The police also have an obligation to facilitate the peaceful passage of the Pride March, protect the safety of the participants, and ensure that anti-gay protesters are not [...]
Milwaukee County law enforcer urged his citizens to arm themselves
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Feb 19, 2013
A Milwaukee County Sheriff has warned that a second American Revolution may be sparked if unconstitutional gun laws are enforced by police and sheriff’s department officials.
Sheriff David Clarke recently urged the citizens he serves to consider learning firearm safety because of “a duty to protect yourself and your family.”
In a message posted on the Sheriff’s website, Clarke wrote “I need you [...]
Mac Slavo
January 9th, 2013
SHTFplan.com
For hundreds of years an elite group of oligarchs have ruled the land, fueled by a legacy of sex, money, power and greed…. in the last 60 years their power has become more consolidated as they have become more organized.
Their own white papers and other documents show the diabolic plans they have in store for the population.
“Nothing in this world works the way you think it does. [...]
DETROIT (WWJ) - While Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Interim Police Chief Chester Logan explore a restructuring of the city’s police department, some residents are expressing frustration with how their calls are being handled.
Detroiter Rachelle Guyton said she called 911 around 6:30 a.m. Saturday to report that her 2003 Chrysler Town & Country minivan had been stolen from an apartment building in Palmer Park — but it wasn’t the van she was worried about.
“I [...]
WEBSTER, N.Y. – The gunman who killed two firefighters during a pre-dawn ambush on emergency responders in suburban Rochester, N.Y., left behind a note outlining his “clear intent” to burn his neighborhood to the ground and “do what I like doing best, killing people,” police said on Tuesday.
A lone gunman, identified as William Spengler, set his home and a car on fire on Monday in what police called “a clear [...]
In a recent investigative report by the Center for Responsive Politics and Hearst newspapers, the authors expressed concern that drones were being pushed into the domestic market before safety and ethics issues had been sufficiently addressed. Such fears were confirmed this week when the first police department in the country to acquire an aerial drone crashed the $300,000 aircraft into its own SWAT team.
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/07/police_drone_crashes_into_police/
from CNS News:
The city of Worcester, Massachusetts is asking citizens to bring their weapons to the police department next weekend as part of the city’s annual “Goods for Guns Buyback Program.” In return for the guns, the city will offer gift certificates, and – a free flu shot.
Telegram.com reports:
“City residents, or residents of any other community, may bring their unwanted weapons, unloaded and wrapped in a bag, from 9 a.m. to [...]
The Nevada County Office of Emergency Services and the Truckee Police Department issued a flood warning at 2 p.m. to Truckee residents living near the river in the Foxmead Lane and Riverside Drive neighborhoods. These are areas that run along the Truckee River through downtown.
They urged people living in those areas to take precautions and monitor conditions closely.
“Most important, stay calm, think clearly and when in doubt, call 911 and [...]
Saying it had little choice, the San Bernardino City Council voted to cut $26 million in spending in an effort to keep the bankrupt city from dissolving and being governed by the county.
The city is already in bankruptcy proceedings and facing a $45.8-million budget shortfall. The $26 million in cuts will help the troubled city stay afloat.
The austerity plan is a required step in the federal bankruptcy process. It freezes vacancies in the [...]
J. David Goodman and Wendy Ruderman
NY Times
October 5, 2012
A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police trucks on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, the authorities said.
The shooting, which occurred at 5:15 a.m., was the latest in a series of episodes [...]
Forty-seven homicides this year could beat record of 58 from 1995
City’s police to be replaced by those from county to save money
Almost half of residents unemployed and streets are run by drug gangs
This city, long among the nation’s poorest and most crime-ridden, is on the verge of dismantling its police department and starting anew with a force run by the county government.
City officials are making the move to increase the [...]
Over the past 18 months, city of Rochester employees havecommitted at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles, records show.
But while employees can be disciplined for the violation, “payment of the related fine will not be required,” according to a newly adopted city procedure for handling the violations.
One-third of the infractions were by police department vehicles, including one driven by Police Chief James Sheppard. These are not instances [...]
AUGUST 1–A pair of frisky Kansans are facing criminal charges after they allegedly swiped some K-Y Jelly from a Walmart and actually began trysting inside the big box retailer, cops report.
The X-rated encounter Sunday evening resulted in the arrest of Julian Call, 22, and Tina Gianakon, 35, on theft and lewd and lascivious behavior charges, according to the Hutchinson Police Department.
Call and Gianakon are pictured in the adjacent mug shots (click [...]
A 15 year old boy has been arrested after being accused of raping his grandmother.
The teenager allegedly admitted to cutting off his grandmother’s underwear with a pair of scissors while she slept.
The victim, who is aged 59, told police she had taken medication to help her sleep.
Shocking: The boy admitted to his uncle that he ‘cut her panties off while she was in bed and had sex with grandma’ and [...]
TROUTDALE — A group of teens targeted a Troutdale store last weekend in a ‘flash rob’ and investigators are trying to identify the suspects.
Investigators said as many as 40 kids entered the Albertsons store at 25691 SE Stark Street at the same time late Saturday night and started stealing things.
Security officers chased the thieves out, but no one was captured. They also left employees pretty shaken up, including one woman [...]
By NBC Los Angeles
Police clad in riot gear skirmished with protesters, including Occupy demonstrators, in downtown Los Angeles late Thursday, leaving two officers injured and an estimated dozens of people arrested, local media reported. At least one man, who said he was not part of the protest, reported being struck by a rubber bullet.
A woman who said she was an Occupy member told the Los Angeles Times that protesters attended the monthly [...]
A D.C. police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for White House officials and other dignitaries was moved to administrative duty Wednesday after he allegedly was overheard making threatening comments toward Michelle Obama, according to several police officials.
The police department’s Internal Affairs Division is investigating the alleged comments and notified the U.S. Secret Service Wednesday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized [...]
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida (WTLV) — Officers with the St. Augustine Police Department were called to a home on Palmetto Avenue a little before 4:30 a.m. Saturday after residents found a naked man on their roof.
When police got to the home, they found 22-year-old Jeremiah Haughee being restrained by two men on the floor. Haughee was naked and in a puddle of urine and broken glass, according to his arrest report.
Two [...]
CRIMES ON CTA BUSES OR AT BUS STOPS
2009-2011 total
5,457
+42.8% from 2009 to 2011
Type
2009-11
Change from 2009 to 2011
Robbery
706
126.6%
Theft
1,844
66.9%
Battery
1,373
15.1%
CRIMES ON CTA TRAINS OR ON PLATFORMS
2009-2011 total
10,759
+6.2% from 2009 to 2011
Type
2009-11
Change from 2009 to 2011
Robbery
1340
42.6%
Theft
3,209
30.1%
Battery
1,006
8.8%
Most crimes reported on the CTA in the last three years occurred on rail station platforms, the Tribune’s analysis showed, but crime increases on CTA buses and at bus stops were the highest. The Police Department only started keeping records of [...]
A female police officer was shot and killed Sunday night during Denver’s popular City Park Jazz scene, sending hundreds of people fleeing as shots were fired.
The officer was shot in the head while breaking up a fight just as the music ended. She was taken to a hospital, where she was declared dead.
As many as 30 police cars were reported on the scene near the boat house. Multiple people were [...]
A female police officer was shot and killed Sunday night during Denver’s popular City Park Jazz scene, sending hundreds of people fleeing as shots were fired.
The officer was shot in the head while breaking up a fight just as the music ended. She was taken to a hospital, where she was declared dead.
As many as 30 police cars were reported on the scene near the boat house. Multiple people were [...]
St. Louis (KSDK) – St. Louis City residents should not be alarmed if they see military vehicles in their neighborhoods.
The U.S. Army is conducting training in St. Louis June 21-28.
Police said residents in the police department’s sixth district may be most likely to see the vehicles. The sixth district includes neighborhoods in north St. Louis.
The vehicles will be like the one in the above photo.
KSDK
Radley Balko
huffingtonpost.com
May 20, 2012
Editor’s note: Four out five Federal Reserve notes contain traces of cocaine.
When the Brown County, Wis., Drug Task Force arrested her son Joel last February, Beverly Greer started piecing together his bail.
She used part of her disability payment and her tax return. Joel Greer’s wife also chipped in, as did his brother and two sisters. On Feb. 29, a judge set Greer’s bail at $7,500, and his mother [...]
Police in Fort Lee, New Jersey are issuing $85 tickets to anyone caught texting while walking in a clamp-down on dangerous walkers.
In actions which could set a precedent for other police forces around the country, the Fort Lee Police Department (FLPD) have issued 117 tickets for reckless walking in just over one month.
And while it is a common known fact that you should not be texting while driving, the FLPD [...]
FREEPORT (KDKA) — The case of the four overdue library books and the little girl who borrowed them is closed, thanks in part to local police who were sent to investigate the case.
Four-year-old Katelyn Jageman’s books were due back to the Freeport Area Library on Oct. 19, 2011. Until Thursday, they were still in her possession. Library officials said after several attempts to retrieve the books, the case was turned [...]
ISLETON (CBS13) – Isleton Police Chief Steven Adams has been placed on paid administrative leave after posting on Facebook about setting up a press conference with the media about the department’s problems, but the chief would never get that chance.
Isleton City Manager Dan Hinrichs put Adams on leave and shut down the department before Adams could speak out.
“He came in yelling at me and telling me to get out of [...]
WILMER (CBSDFW.COM) – Keithan Manuel is sitting inside the Dallas County Jail Tuesday night waiting for someone to believe him –– it was a joke, he told investigators. He didn’t really want to rob that police station.
Police, however, say the 18-year-old walked into the Wilmer Police Department Saturday evening with a white towel covering his hands.
Police Chief Victor Kemp described the incident saying, “Yeah well, a young man walked into the [...]
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