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The Dallas Morning News
A Houston-area sheriff has threatened to charge the owner of a pickup carrying an anti-Donald Trump sticker with disorderly conduct — but first he has to find the driver. Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls wrote of the threat in a Facebook post that gained attention.
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TIME
In 1947, TIME ran a short article about a Bee County sheriff with a deadly reputation. Now, 70 years later, author James McCollom found inspiration in that story for a longer look at the sheriff's legacy. Here, he explains how the repercussions of the article are still being felt.
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KTXS-TV
Investigators arrested the husband of a Harlingen elementary school teacher Tuesday — hours after he killed her, according to Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio. Investigators arrested 39-year-old Alvaro Mata Jr. on Tuesday morning, according to the Sheriff's Office. Mata is accused of killing his wife, 36-year-old Jessica Cortina, a teacher at Wilson elementary, during a domestic dispute.
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KTAB-TV
A DNA profiling technique seen on crime television led the Brown County Sheriff's Office to a break in the case of a Lake Brownwood woman sexually assaulted and beaten to death in May of 2016. Wednesday night, Ryan Riggs, 21, was taken into custody and charged with Capital Murder exactly 1 year and 6 months from the day Rhonda Chantay Blankinship's body was found dumped in a old cellar in rural Brown County.
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Corpus Christi Caller-Times
The Texas Rangers and the Bee County Sheriff's Office are investigating the suspicious death of an 88-year-old woman. Deputies found the woman dead inside her home on Skidmore's east side, according to a post on the Bee County Sheriff's Office Facebook page Wednesday. The post states Sheriff Alden E. Southmayd III confirmed the investigation into the woman's death.
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Critical task model policies available to all county law enforcement operations through the TAC Risk Management Pool help reduce liability risks and lower claims exposure. MORE
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USA Today
America's recent mass shootings have increased pressure from gun-rights advocates to pass the National Rifle Association's top legislative priority: A bill to make it easier to carry concealed weapons across state lines, the bill's author said recently. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, said the shootings at a Las Vegas concert and Texas church have only intensified his colleagues and constituents' interest in the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.
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Officer.com
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released "Hate Crime Statistics, 2016," its latest annual compilation of bias-motivated incidents reported throughout the U.S. The newest report — which provides information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of hate crimes — reveals that for 2016, law enforcement agencies reported 6,121 criminal incidents that were motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity.
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KPCC-FM
Any American who pays attention to law enforcement has heard of the strategies: "Broken Windows," "Stop and Frisk," "Zero Tolerance." These are all variations on what's broadly known as "proactive policing": efforts to seek out and prevent the causes of crime before it happens, as opposed to a more reactive policy of just sending police when called. The argument over proactive policing can be politicized, but now the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is trying to make it more scientific.
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Fighting germs where they are found. Providing Sustainable and Effective Hand Hygiene and Infection Control for a Healthier Corrections Facility. MORE
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CorrectionsOne.com
The opioid crisis is affecting nearly every corner of America. Correctional facilities are no exception. Inmates and their associates are endlessly inventive when it comes to smuggling drugs and other contraband items into jails and prisons. Behind bars, these substances can be incredibly disruptive, as well as dangerous to the health of inmates and staff alike.
Keeping order and safety is paramount for corrections administrators. Thorough screening and search processes are necessary to prevent contraband from entering a facility, as well as to detect and confiscate drugs that do manage to make their way behind bars. A variety of strategies and technologies, such as trace detection, can help corrections officers perform more efficient and effective searches for contraband drugs.
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