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Cops In Massachusetts Must Show They Didn’t Racially Profile During Social Media Investigations, State’s Highest Court Rules

The state's highest court has again expanded the responsibility of police in Massachusetts to show that their investigations aren't racially biased. The high court upheld a trial court judge's dismissal of gun charges because Boston police wouldn't turn over documents showing how

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Couple refuses to sit next to cops; officers respond with heartwarming gesture

Four police officers in a Pittsburgh suburb are making headlines for all the right reasons. When the cops noticed a man and woman get up and move to the other side of the restaurant so as to not sit near the officers, the policemen from Homestead and Whitaker, Penn., responded

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Protests turn violent outside Trump rally in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In one of the presidential campaign year's more grisly spectacles, demonstrators at a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, injuring several, and toppled trash cans and barricades. Authorities labeled it a "riot.

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FBI Director: ‘I worry very much’ that young people won’t join police force

(CNSNews.com) – "I worry very much — especially with a lot of controversy around law enforcement these days, and sometimes healthy skepticism becoming cynicism — that young men and women may be discouraged from pursuing this kind of service (police work)," FBI Director James Comey said last Friday. Comey, speaking

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Training bill pitched to help police cope with challenges

STATE HOUSE — Arlington Police Chief Fred Ryan said some of his officers were a bit uneasy when the department rolled out a program that would embed a civilian — in this case a public health clinician — on patrol alongside officers. But after seeing the successes of the Arlington Outreach Initiative, Ryan