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ABC News
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, police officers in Fort Worth, Texas, recently handed out turkeys instead of tickets for minor traffic violations. Officer G. Calzada, who organized the Fort Worth Police Department turkey giveaway, told ABC News that traffic officers with the department made 25 traffic stops on Wednesday. But each time, the officers forgave the violation and gave out a turkey in lieu of a ticket.
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Victoria Advocate
A security consultant based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leaders of a revamped Victoria County Sheriff's Office. Leon "Leo" H. Rios said he has worked for the likes of former NATO Supreme Allied Commanders Gens. Wesley Clark and George Joulwan and former Clinton-era Drug Czar Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Now he's in Victoria because of the city's location as a major transit point for drugs and human trafficking coming from Latin America.
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NBC News
The Department of Justice's ambitious pilot program to collect data on how many people police officers shoot or kill each year hinges on the voluntary participation by states and law enforcement departments. It's a risky gambit given states' historical reluctance to share such information, criminal justice experts say. And absent that data, federal officials have absolutely no idea how many people officers in the 18,000 police agencies across the country injure through excessive "use-of-force."
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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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The Wichita Eagle via Star-Telegram
Wichita, Kansas, police say a Texas woman who faked a pregnancy killed a 27-year-old Wichita mother on Thursday and took her newborn, Sofia Gonzales. Yesenia Sesmas, 34, knew the victim — Laura Abarca-Nogueda — for a few years, Wichita police Lt. Todd Ojile said Monday. But he didn't elaborate further on the specifics of the women's relationship. Through interviews "detectives learned that Sesmas had faked a pregnancy over the last several months and then had traveled to Wichita, Kan., where she committed the murder and the kidnapping of Sofia and then returned to Dallas," Ojile said.
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Jacksonville Progress
A Texas lawmaker is injecting the state into the national immigration debate by filing a bill to eliminate so-called sanctuary cities. Communities declaring themselves "sanctuaries" for immigrants living illegally in the U.S. don't spend money to enforce federal immigration law and don’t require police to inquire about immigration status. In some cases, local officers are prohibited from doing so.
Senate Bill 4, authored by Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, gives officers the discretion to ask those whom they stop for other reasons — say, a broken tail light — about immigration status. It also requires local jurisdictions to comply with detainer requests by federal immigration authorities, and it cuts state grants to those that don't.
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PoliceOne.com
Physical coercion, torture, duress, denial of rights, threats and promises of leniency are the poison pills of legally admissible, reliable and voluntary confessions. Obviously we should not engage in such behaviors or any tactics that could render a confession involuntary. This article is intended to assist the professional investigator by outlining statements and techniques that should be avoided so as to ensure the integrity of a subject's confession.
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KXXV-TV
The police have gotten popular at one Texas elementary school, thanks to their new robotic dog. Officer Shepherd isn't your ordinary K-9 unit. He's a robot dog, controlled from afar and voiced by Officer Tony Valdez through a microphone.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 Earlier this month, two officers in Iowa were ambushed while sitting in their patrol cars, and an NYPD officer was shot and killed as he approached a home invasion suspect in the Bronx. These along with the deadly sniper attacks on law enforcement officers this summer in Dallas and Baton Rouge show day-to-day police work has become too dangerous. More than anything, officers have become easy targets — especially when responding to a 911 call.
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PoliceOne.com
Many officers start their career in top physical condition and retire severely physically altered. Too many police officers are leaving their physical fitness to chance and ignoring their personal fitness and wellness. By leaving fitness to chance, a police officer may find he or she is physically challenged by the duties expected of the job, which creates tremendous officer safety risk.
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