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KWTX-TV
McLennan County sheriff's deputies, after a month-long sting operation, announced Tuesday they have arrested 46 suspects in an investigation of prostitution and human trafficking and have warrants for four more. Sheriff Parnell McNamara said the sting, operated by detectives Brad Bond and Joseph Scaramucci, resulted in arrests of prostitutes, pimps and Johns that were involved in the sex trade and in human trafficking for prostitution.
Some of those arrested specifically were looking for sexual encounters with minors or children, McNamara said.
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KPRC-TV
Two Galveston County Sheriff's Office deputies whose dashcam captured them rescuing a woman from her burning mobile home last month were honored at Commissioner's Court. Deputies Jesse Falcon and Natalie Wilson pulled a San Leon, Texas, woman out of her smoke-filled home on Jan. 23 after they responded to the early morning fire.
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Houston Chronicle
After implementing license plate reading technology, revenue from traffic fines in Port Arthur, Texas, have increased 180 percent. The technology in question is called a license plate recognition system, which, as the title suggests, can scan license plates to pinpoint those who haven't paid their traffic fines, as well as locate otherwise wanted persons, including terrorists, according to a brochure for the technology.
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Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
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By Archita Datta Majumdar
Ask any law enforcement officer what the best word to describe 2015 was, and the answer would likely be "de-policing." Several controversial shootings in the past few years have more or less culminated into active de-policing — an act that is leading to a rise in crime statistics across the country. The vitriol toward the police in both social media and the national media has resulted in deadly hesitation in the face of doubt, just when proactive policing is needed.
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Associations Now
An attack targeting the online assets and private files of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) appears to have been driven by a wave of negative sentiment toward law enforcement. The leak reportedly uncovered an array of messages critical of the Obama administration from the site's online forum and has FOP working to figure out what happened, as well as how to limit the blowback from the "sophisticated" leak, which apparently involved 2.5 gigabytes of the organization's data. The group says that the FBI is assisting them in investigating the incident.
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CNN
Random acts of kindness and occasional heroism among the more than 900,000 sworn officers in the United States often go unnoticed. CNN will be featuring stories of heroism by officers in the new series "Beyond the Call of Duty," which airs Fridays on "New Day" and "CNN Newsroom."
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PBS NewsHour
Following two years of highly publicized deadly shootings by police officers, some police departments around the country are looking into new training methods they hope will not only reduce the number of officer-involved shootings, but also keep their officers in the field safer.
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PoliceOne.com
Dave Smith examines footage of multiple police pursuits that emphasize the importance of communication in order to maintain control during these unpredictable and dangerous situations.
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Officer.com
The fact is that women are still underrepresented in law enforcement — 10-20 percent of the force, according to expert estimates — and some departments have no women at all on their tactical SWAT units. This, however, is slowly changing as law enforcement in general begins to see beyond gender and evaluate tactical team members as individuals.
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The New York Times
On the day a heavily armed couple fatally shot 14 people and wounded more than 20 others in San Bernardino, California, Michael J. Bouchard, a sheriff in the Detroit area, got an order to return his department's 14-ton armored personnel carrier to the federal government. It was one of hundreds of similar notifications from the Obama administration to law enforcement agencies across the country — from Los Angeles to rural areas like Calhoun County, Alabama — to give back an array of federal surplus military equipment by April 1, in response to concerns that the equipment was unnecessary and misused. The items to be returned: armored vehicles that run on tracks, .50-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers, bayonets and camouflage clothing.
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