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What Happens When Suburban Police Departments Don't Have Enough Money?

6:39pm January 22, 2018

by Patrick Smith

Small police departments struggling with high crime and low budgets tend to pay fast-food wages, may employ officers with troubled pasts and can miss out on opportunities to learn from mistakes.

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Friends, family and activists gathered for a vigil Sunday outside the apartment building where Charleena Lyles was killed earlier that day.

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Seattle Shooting Raises Questions About Officers' De-Escalation Efforts

8:57pm June 19, 2017

Two Seattle police officers shot and killed Charleena Lyles on Sunday. Her family is accusing the officers of not doing enough to de-escalate an encounter with a person known to have mental problems.

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Baton Rouge police block Airline Highway after police were shot in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, July 17, 2016. Authorities in Louisiana say several law enforcement officers are dead, and several injured in Baton Rouge after on-duty law enforcement officers w

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3 Law Enforcement Officers Killed In Attack In Baton Rouge

10:30pm July 17, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Three officers were killed and three others injured in a shooting in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday. The three slain officers and the suspect have been identified. The motive, however, is still unclear.

Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh is standing by a tweet he sent after the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas in which he warned President Obama to

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Public Figures Struggle With Social Media Boundaries After Dallas Shooting

5:30pm July 13, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

Politicians, police officers, and media personalities have all gotten blow-back for inflammatory social media posts about the shooting of officers in Dallas.