Tag result for article published on Sat March 16 2013 5:45 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: arrest, arrest Elgin, Crystal Lake Police Department, Elgin Police Department, police, police pursuit, police pursuit McHenry
McHenry police spotted a suspect’s SUV about 1:26 AM Saturday and reported a pursuit of 60 to 70 mph starting near Route 47 and Conley Rd Huntley, IL. Crystal Lake earlier reported that one of their police squads was hit by the driver of a white Jeep Cherokee. The driver, described as a male/white subject, [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu February 07 2013 10:07 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Colorado, Douglas County, police, police presence, police security, suburban Denver
Law enforcement officials in a suburban Denver school district have ordered their officers to complete paperwork in school parking lots as a way to improve their safety measures after the Sandy Hook shootings. Douglas County Superintendent Liz Fagen explains that the school district provides free access to Wi-Fi for police Internet connections while they are [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri January 18 2013 7:27 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: AES encryption, firefighters, Motorola, P25, police, police officers, police scanner, public safety, radio encryption
On December 26, 2012, The Cardinal featured an OP-ED entitled Police Radio Encryption: Not Secure, A Transparency Failure, A Public Safety Nightmare. Yesterday, a reader posted a comment criticizing the article with some very good points about why police radios should be encrypted. The Cardinal’s position is that general law enforcement radio dispatch should NOT [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed December 26 2012 9:59 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: AES encryption, firefighters, P25, police, police officers, police scanner, public safety, radio encryption
Ask any security expert, and they’ll mention PRINCIPLE ONE: A security system is only as strong as it’s weakest link. Some police departments around the world are choosing to encrypt their radio communications. Some police departments deliberately keep their channels open, and some even provide a feed on the Internet and/or make the communications available [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon November 21 2011 8:36 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: College, Davis, news, Occupy Protestors, OWS, pepper spray, police, student protest, UC, University, University of California-Davis
Video of a tense standoff between police and Occupy demonstrators at the University of California, Davis shows an officer using pepper spray on a group of protesters who appear to be sitting passively on the ground with their arms interlocked. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in the pepper spraying of seated protesters [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat April 30 2011 7:04 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: 9-1-1 audio, 911 audio, homicide, police
911 Audio citizen caller after the discovery of the homicide of George Nellessen. About two weeks after the discovery of a violent homicide in Arlington Heights at 1031 North Wilshire Lane, the third-party 9-1-1 call has been released. The victim, George Nellessen, was discovered in what has been described as a basement location by a [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat February 05 2011 8:29 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Police Department, cops, CPD, Lake Shore Drive, police, police rescue
Dear Paul B, This is an event that has to be told, because its true, and I am sick and tired of hearing all the bad press about police and politicians. I was stuck on Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday at 1:45 on Lake Shore Drive. Yes, I was muy stupido and my girlfriend talked me [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun July 25 2010 12:17 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Arlington Heights Park District, hazard, North, police, tree removal, tree trimmers
Video of very large tree branch removal by ‘the care of trees’ crew with a Gatwood crane. All was calm Friday afternoon before the arrival of the big storm that closed the Eisenhower Expressway and flooded streets and homes in the western suburbs and the City of Chicago. A woman had just finished walking her [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon June 21 2010 11:17 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: citizen's arrest, paparazzi, police, Shia LaBeouf
SOME STRONG LANGUAGE: Police Show up at Shia LaBeouf’s House Problem with Paparazzi. 9th June 2010, and Shia LaBeouf Speaks to HollywoodTV videographer about Paparazzi getting too close. Shia LaBeouf likens his confiscating of $2000 worth of photographer’s equipment to a citizen’s arrest. Police were called to scene at LaBeouf’s residence after paparazzi showed up [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed June 16 2010 1:55 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: arrest, police, police use of force, resisting arrest
Seattle police say they’ll review police tactics and training after an officer was shown on video punching a young woman in the face. The action is drawing condemnation from some community groups. (June 16) A community group says the scuffle stemmed from a charge of jaywalking. Police officer Ian Walsh (a male/white police officer) was [...]
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Tag result for article published on Fri May 21 2010 6:32 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago Police Department, homicide, police, police killer
Chicago police officer Thomas Wortham, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, was shot and killed when several people approached him outside his family’s home and tried to steal his new motorcycle. Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham IV was riding his motorcycle about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday no the south side when at [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed November 25 2009 3:23 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: arrest, BART, offender injury, police, police injury, San Francisco
Let’s face it (sorry) … one-on-one police arrests make it difficult for police officers to temper or neutralize disorderly or dangerous situations. A BART rider posted a YouTube video of a glass-shattering altercation that injured a police officer and a disorderly rider on the West Oakland platform last Saturday night. Both men suffered lacerations during [...]
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