WASHINGTON — A Capitol police officer who was attacked during the Jan. 6 riot has submitted his resignation and will become a law enforcement commentator at CNN following his departure. Michael Fanone , 41, resigned Monday, slamming his fellow police officers within the police organization, saying many of their allegiances are with former President Donald Read More >
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San Francisco DA, others denounce mayor’s plan for more police
Embattled DA Chesa Boudin instead urged the mayor to put more money into housing and treatment programs
Mass. police union condemns NFL, claims league supports ‘defund’ groups
The union said some of its members are “troubled” that the NFL has chosen to support certain groups
Man killed by police after using backhoe to flip police cruiser, smash cars
Video shows the driver using the backhoe’s shovel to flip a squad car onto its side
Extradited Kremlin-Linked Russian Businessman Charged with Cybercrimes, along with Four Other Russian Suspects
12/20/21 CYBERCRIME Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments U.S. authorities have unveiled the formal charges against Kremlin-linked Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin, who was extradited from Switzerland to the United States last week over his alleged involvement in a global scheme to trade on hacked confidential information. read more
Train Engineer Inspired by Covid-19 Conspiracy Theory to Intentionally Derail Locomotive
12/20/21 TERRORISM Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments A train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles pleaded guilty last week to a federal criminal charge for running a locomotive at full speed off the end of railroad tracks near a U.S. Navy hospital ship that was deployed to provide medical relief during the early Read More >
Problems in Regulating Social Media Companies’ Extremist, Terrorist Content Removal Policies
12/20/21 TERRORIST CONTENT ONLINE Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The proliferation of online terrorist and violent extremist content, particularly on social media platforms, is one of the major policy issues facing U.S. counterterrorism authorities and digital communications technology providers. The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism (POE) has released a report — read more
Politicians remove blue line police patches from agency — now being sold for charity
Mount Prospect, Illinois – When the Mount Prospect Police Department began wearing a new patch in 2017, they would have never imagined the controversy that would emerge three years later. Granted, calling it controversy feels pretty dumb but here we are again talking about how a “thin blue line” makes others feel unsafe. It does Read More >
San Francisco residents leave car trunks open to avoid damage in thefts
San Francisco, CA. – San Francisco crime rate, including auto theft and burglary, have become so common in San Francisco that car owners have began to leave their trunks open to avoid having the windows smashed by thieves. A recent photo taken in San Francisco showed two SUVs parked side by side with their trunks Read More >
Ex-cop who shot Daunte Wright testifies: Traffic stop ‘went chaotic’
Kimberly Potter said that she had not had physical training on “weapons confusion”