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Election 2024: Law enforcement across the country ramps up security for safe voting

Amid ballot box burning and machete-wielding intimidators, law enforcement agencies across the nation affirm they are ready to ensure voters’ safety

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Police: Suspect in ballot box arson may be planning more fires

Investigators say the suspect who set ballot box incendiary devices in Portland and Vancouver was highly skilled in metalwork and welding

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BWC: Wash. deputies tackle man who tried to flee after breaking moving car’s windshield

A Pierce County Sheriff’s sergeant persuaded the man to drop metal spikes he was holding while fleeing; when he did, deputies brought him to the ground

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Despite LAPD warnings, rowdy crowds burn bus, loot stores after Dodgers win World Series

Videos from the chaos show revelers standing on top of a bus waving a Dodgers banner and other people leaving a boarded-up store with sneakers

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Video: Mich. officers break windshield, rescue woman from flaming vehicle

“I can guarantee you, another 20 seconds and there would have been a death on our hands,” Mt. Pleasant Police Chief Paul Lauria said

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Video: Driver fleeing traffic stop performs donuts on highway, hits cruiser head-on

Dash cam footage shows the driver fleeing in the vehicle after he struck a Nashville PD cruiser, injuring an officer; he was later arrested and faces several charges

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Watch: Off-duty Calif. deputy sprints to rescue child moments before train crashes into SUV

San Bernardino County Deputy Michael Castaneda was driving home when he noticed a SUV stuck on the tracks; bystander video shows him pulling the child to safety

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Video: Woman calls 911 pretending to order pizza, Fla. officers find man trying to assault her

When dispatch asked her to confirm she knew she was calling 911, she said she did; she said she was hurt, but the other person wasn’t armed.

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Fires in drop boxes in Ore., Wash. destroy and damage ballots

The FBI is joining local authorities investigating fires in ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver

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‘I like to steal cars’: Fla. man warns deputy he might steal cruiser – then steals cruiser

“You better have your doors locked,” the man told the Marion County Sheriff’s Office corporal

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BWC: Man opens fire, wounds 2 Iowa officers before fatal OIS

As Des Moines officers worked to remove a man who refused to exit his car, he produced a gun and fired seven shots, striking one officer in the head and one in the arm

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BWC: Man with ‘sovereign ideologies’ resists arrest, charges deputy before fatal OIS

“This is a tragic incident. None of us wanted this to happen. You can clearly see the deputies did not want this to happen,” Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell said

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Video: Suspect calls 911, attacks and chokes responding Fla. officer

After the suspect began to choke a Sanford Police officer, another officer deployed a TASER, stopping the man’s attack

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Calif. officer ambushed, shot while sitting in cruiser, suspect killed

After a man drove up next to the Fresno police officer and opened fire, the officer and several colleagues exchanged gunfire with the man, fatally wounding him

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Watch: SFPD officer details how she helped save 49ers player Ricky Pearsall following shooting

“He goes, ‘Am I going to die from this?’ I said, ‘Look at me. I know you don’t know me, but I need you to trust me, it’s not your time,” Sgt. Joelle Harrell recalled

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