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Breitbart
Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman met with anti-deportation activists on Thursday and stood strongly in support of his jail programs that cooperate with immigration officials to deport criminal illegal aliens. Hickman met with representatives of United We Dream, an organization that seeks to stop all deportations, local immigration attorneys and other community members to discuss the Harris County Sheriff's Office's participation in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program 287(g). The program is designed to help keep communities safe by identifying illegal aliens in the Harris County jail and having ICE official detain the individuals when they are released from the jail.
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The Associated Press via KXAN-TV
A man has been arrested in Waco on charges of injury to a child as Bell County authorities continue to investigate the December death of a 9-month-old boy. A justice of the peace recommended Friday holding John David Clark on $650,000 bond.
Clark was identified as the boyfriend of the mother of Weston Lyle Marthers, of Little River-Academy. Clark brought the infant to a Temple hospital Nov. 30. The child died days later and Bell County Sheriff Eddy Lange said an autopsy determined the death a homicide caused by blunt head trauma.
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The Texas Tribune
Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau doesn't mind handing over undocumented immigrants in her jail to the federal government. In fact, she says if the federal government wants them, it can have them — along with the bills for incarcerating the foreign-born prisoners. So when the Bexar County jail turned up on a spreadsheet of cities and counties that have turned down “detainer” requests to hand over prisoners to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the sheriff said she knew something was amiss. Declining federal detainers is what so-called "sanctuary" cities and counties do, and Pamerleau says Bexar County is anything but.
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San Antonio Express-News
A North Texas police officer jumped into a pool of "murky" water to pull out a missing 5-year-old. When efforts to save the boy were unsuccessful, the same man showed up to his funeral dressed as the child's favorite superhero — Spider-Man. Fort Worth Police Officer Damon Cole used social media to chronicle the details surrounding Joshua Robert Garcia’s death on April 2.
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KVAL-TV
Police say a statewide gang bust that strikes to the heart of drug dealing in neighborhoods across Texas was reminiscent of scenes from the movie "Scarface." About 20 members of the Mexican Mafia are now behind bars, the result of an 18-month investigation. Seguin Police call it the largest coordinated investigation in the town's history, adding that other busts occurred simultaneously in San Antonio, New Braunfels, and the Houston area.
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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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KDFW-TV
Officers from more than 200 police departments across the state gathered in Plano Tuesday for a summit on how to improve police accountability and relations with the public. Most departments agree the answer is body cameras. Rowlett Police Chief Mike Broadnax was the first in the state to release police body cameras 10 years ago as chief in DeSoto.
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New York Daily News
While fitness trackers are helping you stay in shape, they're also helping law enforcement solve cases. Police have started to use fitness trackers from companies such as Fitbit, Garmin and Jawbone, in court rooms as evidence. A case in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last June used a Fitbit to prove that a woman was lying about being sexually assaulted.
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USA Today
Ford has done a makeover of its F-150 pickup aimed at use by police agencies. It's not meant for pursuits — chasing down criminal suspects — but it does have a lot of special touches for police that use them from tasks that range from K-9 officers to toting around traffic cones.
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Officer.com
Do you eat "clean?" Or, like so many of us, do you eat whatever sounds good at the moment, that you can grab between calls, and eat on the way to your next call? Think about it and listen to what an industry expert has to say.
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