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KXAS-TV
In a large field in southeast Texas, nearly $6 million of marijuana plants were quietly growing — until Tuesday, that is. A task force of over 30 officers from multiple southeast Texas counties busted a huge marijuana crop off of County Road 336 by Palestine, Texas on Tuesday.
The Anderson County Sheriff's Office said that 5,200 marijuana plants in total were discovered. The plants were all sizes, according to Sheriff Gregg Taylor from the Anderson County Sheriff's Department.
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KCEN-TV
To shoot or not to shoot? It's a question many police officers have to ask themselves daily when faced with life-or-death situations. It is also a question that has our country analyzing police tactics. The Bell County Sheriff's Office addressed those issues in a training aimed at teaching officers how to properly react to different tense scenarios.
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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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Corpus Christi Caller Times
In a somber ceremony in the Texas Capitol, 57 first responders who were killed or injured in the line of duty in recent years were honored as heroes by Gov. Greg Abbott. The names of the honorees — first the 20 who were killed on duty — were called and a brief description of their careers and the reasons for their awards were read aloud.
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CNN via WDTV-TV
A 14-year-old freshman intended to shoot her stepbrother and herself when she brought a handgun to a Texas high school last week, police say. The Sept. 8 incident resulted in the death of the teenager and left another student injured at Alpine High School in west Texas. The unidentified teenager had not been bullied, and it was not a factor in the incident, the Alpine Police Department said in a statement Tuesday. Police interviewed nearly all of the 290 students at the school.
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U.S. News & World Report
American police have for the first time used a marijuana breathalyzer to evaluate impaired drivers, the company behind the pioneering device declared Tuesday, saying it separately confirmed its breath test can detect recent consumption of marijuana-infused food. The two apparent firsts allow Hound Labs to move forward with plans to widely distribute its technology to law enforcement in the first half of next year, says CEO Mike Lynn.
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PoliceOne.com
According to Jason Hoschouer, a law enforcement officer with an agency in the San Francisco Bay area, being aware of less obvious mechanical violations, in addition to the easier to recognize violations, will increase your knowledge and ability to contact.
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The Texas Tribune
Under the Department of Defense's little-known 1033 Program, surplus or obsolete military gear is transferred to various state or local law enforcement agencies nationwide to forestall the need for state or local spending. While responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources is a worthwhile endeavor — would that every federal department were more diligent in this respect — as is the case with many federal programs, there is an element of "mission creep" facilitated by it, and Texas is no exception.
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WFAA-TV
Everyone loves getting a new outfit. But when Big Tex gets one, it's an especially big deal. The State Fair of Texas recently revealed Big Tex's new outfit, laid out on the field at the Cotton Bowl. The new outfit includes a blue ribbon and police badge, meant as a tribute to the five fallen officers killed in the July 7 ambush on police in downtown Dallas.
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TIME
A drug so powerful that it's used to sedate elephants is finding a new, illicit use laced into heroin, potentially contributing to hundreds of overdoses in the last several weeks. The drug, called Carfentanil, is a synthetic opioid so strong that just a few granules the size of grains of table salt can be lethal. Since mid-August, roughly 300 people in at least four states have overdosed on heroin linked to Carfentanil and the less powerful compound fentanyl.
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