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police stories: 258 news summaries

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Miami Police Hunt Cop Killer

Suspect killed one officer, wounded three others

Sep 13, 07 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Miami-Dade police are searching for a suspect who killed one officer and wounded three today, possibly with an AK-47, after his car was stopped while driving erratically. The pursuit was complicated when police misidentified a man whose wallet had been stolen as the gunman, before naming Shawn Sherwin Labeet as... More »

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Florida • police • cop killer • Shawn Sherwin LaBeet • shooting • Miami-Dade County

Israel Cracks Neo-Nazi Gang

Police find videotapes of gang attacking observant Jews, others

Sep 9, 07 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israelis are glued to the TV over news that police have busted a Neo-Nazi gang on Israeli soil, the Daily Telegraph reports. The Russian immigrant group allegedly filmed its attacks on gays and observant Jews and have vowed to "kill them all." A policeman said, "It is... More »

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Israel • police • Jews • Soviet Union • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • immigrant • white supremacism • Law of Return • Neo-Nazi

Gunman Faces Murder Charge as Cop Dies 41 Years Later

Deadly infection linked to shooting: prosecutor

Sep 5, 07 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 71-year-old career criminal will now be tried for murdering a police officer who has died more than four decades after being shot. Gunman William Barnes has already served 15 years for shooting and paralyzing the Philadelphia cop in 1966. The 64-year-old officer died last month from complications of a... More »

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police • murder • Philadelphia • Walter T. Barclay • Jeffrey Linda • William Barnes

Dogs Have a Nose for Pirates

Lucky and Flo are a trained to sniff out illegal DVDs

Aug 31, 07 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NYPD's two cutest agents busted what cops say was a counterfeit DVD operation this week, heralding a new era in anti-piracy enforcement. Lucky and Flo, two black Labs trained to sniff out chemicals in DVDs, are just back from Malaysia, where they led authorities to 26 arrests on 35... More »

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NYPD • police • piracy • DVD piracy • canine units • dog

Single-Officer Police Force
May Be Cut

Dawson, TX, wonders whether it's overstaffed

Aug 14, 07 6:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dawson, Texas, has one police officer, and that may be one too many. Almost a tenth of the town's 800 residents attended a meeting where eliminating the department altogether was discussed. In general, however, the crowd seemed to support Nicole McMahan—the single officer—although the department was attacked as... More »

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Texas • police • Nicole McMahan • Dawson • Paula Sears • police department

Search of Maddy Suspect's Home Strikes Out

Cops comb Portuguese villa; possible evidence turns up elsewhere

Aug 6, 07 6:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities turned up nothing this weekend while searching the home of the only suspect in 4-year-old Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. A dozen officials scoured Robert Murat’s Portuguese villa while Murat and a lawyer looked on, the Guardian reports. Named 10 days after the child went missing, the suspect is... More »

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police • Madeleine McCann • kidnapping • Portugal • Robert Murat • disappearance • missing child

Misbehaving Thai Cops Say ‘Hello Kitty’

Rule-breakers
punished with
cute accessories

Aug 6, 07 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police officers in Thailand caught breaking minor rules will be subjected to hot pink shame—“Hello Kitty” armbands. Attempting to stem more serious abuses of power, police brass intend to punish littering and tardiness with the cute accessories, the AP reports. The rule-breakers will not, however, be made to... More »

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Thailand • police • Bangkok • punishment • Hello Kitty

Buckle Up, Britons, or Submit DNA

New rules would let police take samples from scofflaws

Aug 2, 07 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain may give police the authority to take DNA samples from anyone stopped for a minor crime, such as littering, speeding or not wearing a seat belt, the Guardian reports. And they'll be able to do so right on the street—without going to the police station, if the Home... More »

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crime • genetics • police • DNA • littering • DNA database • Britain

Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

Give 2,000 inmates
the Hilton treatment, Lee Baca urges

Jul 12, 07 5:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The sheriff who put Paris Hilton on mansion arrest is now championing a bill that would curb the overcrowding in California jails by sending thousands of other Los Angeles County inmates home to carry out their sentences. Some 2,000 low-level offenders would be tracked via ankle monitoring devices under... More »

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California • prison • police • Paris Hilton • Los Angeles • Lee Baca • LA County Jail • convict • prison system • overcrowding • jail

2 NYPD Officers Shot

Officials gun for suspects

Jul 9, 07 7:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - One NYPD officer was shot twice in the face and his partner in the left arm in an early-morning attack caught on camera, Newsday reports. The officers were shot in Brooklyn after a routine traffic check on a black BMW SUV indicated the car was stolen. At least two suspects... More »

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NYPD • police • Brooklyn • violence • guns

Zimbabwe Arrests Dozens in Price Wars

Businesses flout strict cost-control
laws as inflation passes 3,700%

Jul 9, 07 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Zimbabwe have arrested 1,328 businesspeople, including 33 top executives, for violating official price controls installed to curb uncontrollable currency devaluation. The new regulations demand that many goods' prices be cut in half in response to inflation that has now risen to more than 3,700%. More »

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inflation • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • police • business • world economy • South Africa • consumer goods • banana • US economy • price control

London Security Crackdown Targets Transit

Travelers in for increased delays

Jul 2, 07 4:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - British police are cracking down on security at rail services and airports to thwart terror attacks in the wake of a trio of car bomb attempts over the weekend. No specific intelligence warns of an attack on the subway system or the rail network, but the increased patrols and security... More »

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terrorism • security • transit • police • car bomb • airport • Glasgow • Britain • Heathrow Airport

In Anti-Drug Move, Mexico Purges Police

Surprise replacement of chiefs intended to root out corruption

Jun 26, 07 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico has dismissed all of its federal police chiefs in an effort to kick-start the country's stalled war on drugs. Corruption within law enforcement is a major factor in the failure of President Felipe Calderon's six-month drug crackdown, the LA Times reports. Six federal officers were arrested this month for... More »

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drugs • Mexico • police • cocaine • Felipe Calderon • corruption • Mexican drug war

Cop in Katrina Brutality Case
Kills Himself

Trial for beating of unarmed man was set for next month

Jun 12, 07 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former New Orleans police officer Lance Schilling, set to be tried next month for the caught-on-camera beating of an unarmed man just after Hurricane Katrina, died yesterday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. He and his partner were charged with beating a 64-year-old retired schoolteacher who had... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • suicide • New Orleans • police • battery • Lance Schilling

LAPD Chief Orders Elite Officers Retrained

Bratton mops up after May Day rally violence

May 7, 07 8:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Citing "things that shouldn't have been done," LAPD Chief William Bratton apologized yesterday for the actions of an elite platoon that broke up a pro-immigration May Day rally and said the officers involved are off the streets and will be retrained. The officers' prestigious assignment is in jeopardy... More »

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immigration • police • William Bratton • Los Angeles • rally • LAPD • police department

Cops Capture "Bishop" Bomber

Dubuque man charged with mailing pipe bombs to investment companies

Apr 26, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police nabbed "The Bishop"—the bandit who's been sending unwired pipe bombs to Midwestern investment firms for the last two years—they announced yesterday. John P. Tomkins, a 42-year-old machinist in DuBuque, Iowa, was charged with one count each of mailing an extortion letter and possessing an unregistered... More »

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stock market • police • The Bishop • Denver • Kansas City • bombing • pipe bomb • John Tomkins

Police Search for Answers at VT

Apr 26, 07 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Post reports on the ongoing probe into the Virginia Tech shootings, with police reconstructing details of gunman Cho Seung-Hui's movements and searching for motives. Questions include whether Emily Hilscher, his first victim, was a random target, and the possibility that someone else mailed Cho's manifesto to NBC News. More »

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investigation • NBC • Virginia Tech shooter • Virginia Tech • police • Seung-Hui Cho • Virginia Tech shootings

Police Defeat Fans, 11-0

Apr 5, 07 9:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - In Rome, a squad of determined Italian riot police prevailed over 11 Manchester United fans, sending them to the hospital. Over 5,000 Man U supporters crowded the stands at Rome's Stadio Olimpico; their team fell to Roma, 2-1, as they themselves lost by a greater margin to the disciplined... More »

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sports • Manchester United • Uefa • soccer riots • police • Italy • Rome • soccer • riots

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