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Tenn. recruit collapsed during training, was sworn in as officer before death

Officer Wisbens Antoine was a Knoxville Police Department recruit scheduled to graduate the academy in March; he is survived by his wife and two children

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Man pleads guilty to causing 2023 crash that killed Mo. officer, pedestrian and K-9

The suspect’s vehicle slammed into Officer James Muhlbauer’s patrol car, killing him and his K-9 partner Champ; the impact caused the cruiser to strike and kill Jesse Eckes, a pedestrian

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Calif. sheriff’s shooting range gets $10 million upgrade to create dynamic training space

The center was renovated to take out individual shooting lanes and create an open space for law enforcement officers to test in dynamic situations and to train their eyes to watch multiple spots

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S.C. Law Enforcement Division scientists get new, more than $60M crime lab

The new Forensic Services Laboratory 117,672 square feet of office and lab space; its 152 staffers work with the nearly 300 law enforcement agencies in the state

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Bill in Calif. legislature would require an armed SRO in every school

“California has experienced 96 school shootings between 2018 and 2023. If we want to get serious about preventing school shootings … we need good guys, and girls, with guns, ready to act,” Assemblyman Bill Essayli said

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Mass. officers find cocaine, U.S. army rocket launcher during traffic stop

“Once we were able to determine it was unloaded, we secured it,” a detective said. “And then we searched the rest of the vehicle to make sure there were no explosives or rockets, or anything crazy like that”

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Pa. judge sides with Philadelphia’s ban on 3D-printed firearm parts after gun rights challenge

Judge Ellen Ceisler wrote that Philadelphia’s ordinance does not regulate “firearms,” but rather“ merely prohibits the conversion of unfinished frames or receivers into firearms

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La. legislature’s special session produces several crime, policing bills

Bills introduced in the House and Senate would expand police officers’ immunity from civil liability and roll back prison system reforms enacted under previous Gov. John Bel Edwards’s administration

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BWC: Ga. officers arrest suspect on plane nearly 1 month after he fled traffic stop

The suspect escaped from Atlanta and flew to Miami; the same officers who initially pulled him over boarded the plane and arrested him when his return flight landed

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N.J. orders retraining for LEOs who participated in conference deemed inappropriate

Speakers at the 2021 conference reportedly encouraged officers to flirt with women, stop motorists for no reason and use pain as a “weapon”

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Video: CHP pursues burning, carjacked tractor-trailer

The driver was taken into custody after stealing the truck at a gas station and driving the rig with no front tires

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Ex-Colo. officer appeals negligent homicide conviction in Elijah McClain death

Randy Roedema’s attorneys are expected to challenge the joining of Roedema’s trial with that of one of the other officers in the case along with alleged errors in jury instructions

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BWC: Calif. man punches, chokes train worker before fatal OIS

The responding officer deployed a TASER at the suspect twice with no effect after the suspect punched him in the face and punched a train worker with brass knuckles

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Suspect shoots, kills Miss. K-9 before fatal OIS

K-9 Luca was deployed to stop a suspect after a vehicle pursuit; when the suspect shot Luca, deputies returned fire, killing him

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Drunk driver who struck, killed NYPD officer sentenced to more than 20 years in prison

Detective Anastasios Tsakos was killed in 2021 after Jessica Beauvais, who had a blood alcohol level over twice the legal limit, struck him on an expressway and fled the scene

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