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Sheriff uses criminals' money to hire more deputies
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As other Valley law enforcement agencies are cutting resources or even proposing to fire officers, the Pinal County’s Sheriff's Office is expanding and he says criminals are the ones making it happen. Last week, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office
hosted a grand opening of the new San Tan Valley Substation. For Sheriff Paul Babeu this is a very big deal. Their current facility is essentially a double-wide trailer. There are new desktop computers, new computers in patrol cars, bullet proof vests, uniforms, and Sheriff Babeu is even hiring. He says seizing money, cars, and homes from people busted in big drug and human smuggling investigations is what’s making it possible to invest in upgrades. More
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Jails" on April 12-14, 2010 in Mobile, Ala. This NSA Jail Training Initiative is offered in partnership with the Alabama Sheriffs' Association.
The seminar promises: To provide participants with an overview of the jail emergency planning process and to offer new perspectives and practical information that can be used to enhance and/or evaluate jail emergency plans. This seminar is especially geared toward sheriffs, jail administrators, jail managers, and other Jail and County emergency
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You have a duty to protect people who are confined in your facility!
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Do you know how the amendments work? How the courts define reasonableness? The NSA "Duty to Protect" Jail Training Seminar on May 3-5, 2010 in Charleston, S.C., will tell you how. This seminar is offered in
partnership with the Charleston County Sheriff's Office. It is commonly accepted knowledge that jail officials have an affirmative duty under the 8th Amendment to protect those persons who are confined in their facilities. This duty, as defined by the courts, extends not only to protection from other prisoners but also protection from self and from staff. As interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, the cruel and unusual clause of the 8th Amendment requires that jail officials take
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The fee is $425 for NSA members and $475 for non-members. To register, contact Mark Logan at 800.424.7827, ext 332. NSA has arranged a special hotel rate at the Charleston Marriott. For more information, click here.
Sheriff's Department targeted in proposed county budget
Houston Chronicle
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Commissioners Court today will consider a $1.4 billion budget that cuts spending by about 3.2 percent from the fiscal year that ended on Feb. 28. The proposed belt tightening goes
deep in the Sheriff's Department, where the budget calls for capping spending at $376 million, 11.5 percent less than the department spent in the last fiscal year. The Sheriff's Department has exceeded its annual budget by at least $40 million for three straight years. Sheriff and budget officials ascribe the cost overruns to a surging jail population that has necessitated tens of millions of dollars in overtime pay a year.
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Database can crack missing person cases - if used
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A new online database promises to crack some of the nation's 100,000 missing persons cases and provide answers to desperate families, but only a fraction of law enforcement agencies are using it. The clearinghouse, dubbed NamUs (Name Us), offers a
quick way to check whether a missing loved one might be among the 40,000 sets of unidentified remains that languish at any given time with medical examiners across the country. NamUs is free, yet many law enforcement agencies still aren't aware of it, and others aren't convinced they should use their limited staff resources to participate.
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Obama talks law enforcement on "America's Most Wanted"
CBS News
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President Obama sat down with "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh at the White House to congratulate the show on hitting a 1,000 episode milestone and to reassure viewers that he would continue "providing the states the support that they need" to keep law enforcement officials on
the ground. "Last year when we came in, obviously you had a huge economic crisis, one of the things we were most worried about was how would this affect law enforcement because you started seeing state and local budgets hemorrhaging," Mr. Obama told Walsh.
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Death penalty unconstitutional, Texas judge says
The Associated Press via Corrections One
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A Texas judge in the county that sends more inmates to death row than any other in the nation is apparently taking a stand. Saying he could assume that innocent people have been executed, state District Judge Kevin Fine ruled in a pre-trial motion in a capital murder case that the death penalty was unconstitutional and found
himself facing a torrent of criticism from a string of high-profile Texans including Gov. Rick Perry.
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Safety is issue as budget cuts free prisoners
The New York Times
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In the rush to save money in grim
budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases. But the result - more convicted felons on the streets, not behind bars - has unleashed a backlash, and state officials now find themselves trying to maneuver between saving money and maintaining the public's sense of safety.
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Boston cops go
high-tech with Crime Center
Boston Herald
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When shots are fired, Boston cops plan to zoom right in on the action. Police recently unveiled the Real Time Crime Center that uses centralized surveillance images from Transportation Department cameras and 84 Homeland Security cameras located on the city’s evacuation routes.
The system’s surveillance capacity could grow as city officials discuss plans to integrate their video systems with ones maintained by the MBTA and the Boston Housing Authority, officials said.
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Police and Sheriff's departments cut costs, but not K-9 units
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One hundred sheriff's deputies and 400 part-time deputies were laid off. SWAT officers were ordered back to the streets. Narcotics and gang units were disbanded. Helicopters were grounded. K-9 survived. To absorb more than $30 million in losses, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department had to focus almost exclusively on answering 911 calls, but police dogs and their handlers survived the cuts. It's a scenario that is playing
out among the thousands of K-9 teams across the country that have survived deep budget cuts to stay on the job.
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Gas odor leads to $5M prescription bust in N.J.
North Jersey Media
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Police investigating a gas odor at
a house last week found four people with 15,000 bottles of prescription painkillers, AIDS medications and other pills worth a total of $5 million, authorities said.
Now officials from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out how and where three men and a 17-year-old got the drugs and what they intended to do with them, Police Chief John Pinzone said.
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Releases of sexually violent predators anger local areas
USA Today
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The clean, new mobile home looks out of place in this remote stretch of desert. The nearest buildings are a vacant, boarded-up shack and a dusty, empty storefront. It is here in this tiny unincorporated town of 300 between Los
Angeles and Phoenix that the state of California is paying about $2,000 a month in rent, utilities, food and water for a sexually violent predator to live, according to Nancy Kincaid, assistant director of the California Department of Mental Health.
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