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By Ronnie Richard
 More than 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas has once again become the center of national attention for a tragic sniper attack. As investigators continue piecing together the events, America is left mourning the deaths of five police officers in the wake of a racially charged ambush. Many questions remain unanswered, but the biggest may be: How can we fix this environment of hostility and anger between police and the black community?
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KHOU-TV
A Harris County sheriff's deputy and a driver both suffered injuries in a chain reaction crash on FM 1960 in the Cypress Creek area. Deputies said it was around 10:20 p.m. Wednesday when a red Toyota Camry traveling eastbound was struck from behind by a Chevrolet Cruz in the 11500 block of 1960. Deputies said after the first crash, the Chevrolet was sitting in a moving lane of traffic with no lights on. Seconds later, a deputy traveling eastbound struck the Chevrolet, sending the vehicle into the opposing lanes of traffic.
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Time Warner Cable News
In the days following the Dallas police shooting, people from across the country and across the world are sending love and support; and members of law enforcement are reaching out to help families of the fallen and wounded officers. As fundraising efforts continue to grow, police chief David Brown sent a message of promoting unity between police and the community.
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The New York Times
He was hurting, self-effacing and, as he put it, a little fried. At a news conference, David O. Brown spoke about the crisis facing law enforcement, his experience as a black man in Texas, guns and division, and what kept him going — "God’s grace and his sweet, tender mercies, just to be quite honest with you." The day before President Barack Obama was scheduled to arrive here, Brown, Dallas' African-American police chief, was putting a human face, tinged with humor and pathos, on the exhaustion and torment fueling this precarious American moment.
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The New York Times
Police barricades wrapped around the headquarters at One Police Plaza and other department buildings in New York. Many cities issued new marching orders: no solo patrols. No officers should be alone. In Burlington, Vermont, during roll call, some officers blinked away tears. In Los Angeles, the chief did the same. In the break room at a Manhattan, New York, precinct house, officers — behind closed doors, comfortable among themselves — debated what they saw on the videos of the recent fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota. Some said race had played a role. Others, one officer said, "put on blinders."
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Abilene Reporter-News
Taylor County Commissioners approved a contract Thursday with Erath County to help relieve jail overcrowding in Abilene. The contract, which Erath commissioners are expected to act on Monday, would allow Taylor County to send overflow prisoners to the Erath County Jail for $45 a day. An agreement at the same rate is in place with Shackelford and Nolan counties. Thursday morning, Sheriff Ricky Bishop said the local jail had 675 inmates with 123 of them being women. The jail's capacity for female inmates is 118, Bishop said earlier.
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The Verge
As a modestly sized department — policing 2 million citizens with just over 1,800 sworn officers — the San Bernardino (California) Sheriff's Department doesn't seem like it would be on the cutting edge of surveillance technology. But the department has quietly become one of the most productive nodes in a nationwide iris-scanning project, collecting iris data from at least 200,000 arrestees over the last two and a half years, according to documents obtained by The Verge. In the early months of 2016, the department was collecting an average of 189 iris scans each day.
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Breitbart
U.S. Border Patrol agents working in south Texas found two more bodies of illegal immigrants who had been abandoned by their human smugglers. These human smugglers will regularly abandon people who cannot keep up because of exhaustion, dehydration or injury.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 No one considers law enforcement training to be a breeze, but the fact that it comes with a 50 percent failure rate may come as a surprise for many. Most applicants at academies hit a block when it comes to the physical abilities test. There is a good reason why these are administered at the very outset of the lengthy training process. A good number of the applicants fail to make the cut, helping program directors weed them out. But is that enough to help train new recruits?
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Reuters
The Pokemon Go craze is blamed for several robberies of distracted mobile phone players, but the game's cartoon characters have also helped U.S. police improve strained community relations and even arrest wanted suspects. Pokemon characters have aided police, from helping catch elusive suspects to burnishing officers' public image at a time of strained ties between law enforcement and communities throughout the United States.
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PoliceOne
In the wake of the unbearable losses in Dallas, how do you balance protecting the rights of citizens to peacefully assemble while protecting yourselves? I would like to share some tactics that I have employed in the past as a member/commander of a very active Civil Unrest Team. Here are several considerations that can help you ensure First Amendment rights of protesters while also making sure your officers are safe.
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