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Miami Herald
April 3, 2018
That, of course, triggered a full response from the Dodge County Sheriff's office — a SWAT team was sent to the house, Highway 151 was shut down for an hour and law enforcement sent additional ... It would equal about 1 percent to the state GDP of about $313 billion, according to the association analysis.
JDJournal.com
March 31, 2018
His final kill count was 49, and he left 58 injured. The SWAT team stormed the club after a few minutes of Mateen's terror, and they gunned him down at the scene. Salman was arrested seven months later for aiding and abetting Mateen and for obstruction of justice. If she had been convicted, she could haveÃÂ ...
Gainesville Times
March 31, 2018
... demoted and reassigned “in addition to serving unpaid suspensions and being removed from the department's SWAT team,” Sgt. Stephen Wilbanks wrote in a statement. Wilbanks said Groover threw the punch. Wilbanks said the two were at the annual Georgia Tactical Officers Association meeting MarchÃÂ ...
13WMAZ.com
March 31, 2018
... taken off the department's SWAT team and suspended after getting into a fight at a Georgia restaurant. According to the sheriff's office, deputies Lt. Joe Groover and Corey Gilleland became involved in a fight on March 11 while attending a Georgia Tactical Officers Association conference in Columbus, GaÃÂ ...
MyAJC
March 30, 2018
The men were in town for a Georgia Tactical Officers Association conference. Wilbanks said the dinner was not an official function of the conference. In addition to their demotions, the men were given unpaid suspensions, reassigned and removed from the department's SWAT team. Join the discussion atÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
March 29, 2018
When he worked as an agent on the ATF's SWAT team, he used a 15-round handgun magazine and a 30-round AR-15 magazine. "As a law ... But limiting the amount of bullets in a magazine will likely always be a non-starter for most gun-rights groups like the National Rifle Association. That leaves RubioÃÂ ...
Murfreesboro Post
March 29, 2018
... as a patrol officer in 1984, Bill moved up to Criminal Investigations, Narcotics Division and was one of the founding members of the local SWAT team. ... He is an active member of the National Association of School Resource Officers and has been appointed and elected to numerous leadership andÃÂ ...
Florida Today
March 29, 2018
Schuck, who was also Palm Bay's Officer of the Year, was one of 12 nominees for the county award, which is given out by the Brevard County Association of Chiefs of Police. "He goes beyond the expectations of what most citizens would expect a police officer to do," Schuck's agency said when explainngÃÂ ...
Bryan-College Station Eagle
March 28, 2018
Two members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's SWAT team addressed more than 150 Texas first responders Tuesday and shared lessons they ... Additionally, a check for more than $1,200 was presented to the Brazos County First Responders Association by CapRock Emergency.
Community Impact Newspaper
March 27, 2018
Just three years after its formation, the Central Texas Regional Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT, negotiation team won first place at the 28th annual Texas Association of Hostage Negotiators Competition in January. Central Texas Regional SWAT, or CTRS, is composed of members from theÃÂ ...
The Suburban Times
March 26, 2018
Leonard Thomas was killed by a Lakewood Police sniper – a member of the Pierce County Metro SWAT team – during a May 2013 standoff in Fife. ... The National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA), says “fifteen SWAT officers are the minimum number of personnel necessary to maintain an effective teamÃÂ ...
The Unionville Times
March 15, 2018
The Chiefs Association and District Attorney then sponsored and ran live training for every police officer in Chester County to confront and neutralize an active shooter immediately. Chief Jerry Simpson of the Southern Chester County Regional Police Department and the Chester County SWAT teams wereÃÂ ...
CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
March 15, 2018
"There's an evaluation that was done by our SWAT team to know if there's a dive that could be done later today, but we're still evaluating for now because we don't have any ... Issiaka Samassi, who knows the boy's father, said he joined the search in response to a call from the local Ivorian association.
WHYY
March 15, 2018
At the time of Columbine, Vanatta said, cops were told to establish a perimeter and wait for a trained SWAT team to arrive. Now, police departments train officers to engage the shooter immediately, Vanatta said, because research shows many mass shooters surrender or commit suicide as soon as policeÃÂ ...
The News Tribune
March 15, 2018
Across the state and two decades earlier, Commercial Appeal reporter Marc Perrusquia used an autopsy report to reveal that a Memphis Police Department SWAT team shot a 7-year-old through the head during a botched raid at a public housing complex. Police had tried to cover up the incident.
Chicago Tribune
March 15, 2018
The call triggered an Evanston Police Department SWAT team response to Engelhart Hall graduate dorm at Emerson Street and Maple Avenue near the Northwestern University campus. The caller ... "The name the caller gave is a real person who has some association with Northwestern. But it's not theÃÂ ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 13, 2018
Despite Proposition 64, the 2016 ballot measure that legalized recreational marijuana in California, pot remains a valuable commodity on the black market both inside and outside the state. The California State Sheriffs' Association opposed the ballot measure, in part because of concerns it would lead toÃÂ ...
WBAL Baltimore
March 13, 2018
WBAL TV-11 reached out to every major school system in our area, and none are on board with the President Trump's plan to train and arm teachers. "Our job is not to provide security at schools. Our job is to teach kids," said Ryan Burbey, president of the Harford County Education Association. "I think itÃÂ ...
Worcester Mag
March 1, 2018
At 5 a.m. on a hot August night in 2015, a van carrying the Worcester SWAT team pulled up outside a triple-decker on Hillside Street. ... Union, and even some in law enforcement, who worry SWAT teams may overlook the potential harm done to children by paramilitary, pre-dawn raids on family homes.
St George News
February 26, 2018
Ross said the association does not believe the bill is necessary. “Over 90 percent of these types of forcible entries are knock-and-announce,” Ross said. “Even on SWAT teams, we're surrounding the location, we're knocking, we're asking them to come out, and only when necessary – hostage situations,ÃÂ ...
Police News
February 20, 2018
At the 2017 California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) Conference, Don Kester of the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) hosted a thought-provoking session on the challenges faced by tactical teams, and the lessons we should be learning from our mistakes. Sadly, it seems that agenciesÃÂ ...
Detroit Free Press
February 28, 2018
Doug Pratt, spokesman for the Michigan Education Association, said teachers need to be armed with real solutions, such as smaller class sizes, more counselors and better security, rather than guns. “It's not something that makes sense,” he said. “What happens when a SWAT team member meets anÃÂ ...
Palestine Herald Press
February 28, 2018
In an email, Barbara Williams of the Texas Association of School Boards, said, “we know of at least 172 districts that allow staff to carry firearms. ... McKenna said that while each school shooting has offered lessons: not waiting for a SWAT team to arrive, but for the first officer on the scene to go into a schoolÃÂ ...
CBS Miami
February 27, 2018
There have been questions about whether BSO had a policy not to go into an active shooter situation until a SWAT team arrived. Sheriff Scott Israel said the training is to confront an active shooter. John Rivera is the former longtime president of the Police Benevolent Association in Miami-Dade. He said he'sÃÂ ...
WTSP 10 News
February 27, 2018
The deputy gave his keys to the Coral Springs SWAT team and provided handwritten diagrams of the entire Stoneman Douglas campus for student ... Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, said the group does not train school officers in Florida — it's one ofÃÂ ...
Pensacola News Journal
February 27, 2018
Starting this week, Santa Rosa County will have at least one SWAT team officer work a day shift every day of the week. Previously, there was no ... "We're open to all of those suggestions and listening to what the governor's office and the Florida Sheriff's Association has to say. Anything that will improve theÃÂ ...
St George News
February 27, 2018
Ross said the association does not believe the bill is necessary. “Over 90 percent of these types of forcible entries are knock-and-announce,” Ross said. “Even on SWAT teams, we're surrounding the location, we're knocking, we're asking them to come out, and only when necessary – hostage situations,ÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 23, 2018
"Imagine in the middle of this crisis and the SWAT team comes into the building and there's an adult with a weapon in their hands and the SWAT team doesn't ... Another mostly bad idea is further "hardening" school campuses against shootings, as the National Rifle Association's CEO, Wayne LaPierre,ÃÂ ...
Brattleboro Reformer
February 23, 2018
... the National Rifle Association and various "Sons of Liberty" types of groups that Americans need unregistered firearms to protect them from a tyrannical government; even if the government did pass a law to confiscate all firearms, that would mean SWAT teams going from house to house kicking in doors.
Columbia Daily Tribune
February 23, 2018
The interview process that led to Fox's selection included Columbia Police Officers' Association Executive Director Dale Roberts and Police Chief Ken ... The SWAT team planned on using a “dynamic entry”, which includes knocking and announcing their presence before entering the home as quickly asÃÂ ...
New York Times
February 23, 2018
To the Editor: In the 1950s and '60s, when the Southern states remained committed to racial segregation, many of us marched and spoke out against this blight on our democracy. But marching wasn't enough to end this abuse of African-Americans. Nor were court orders sufficient to overcome this nationalÃÂ ...
Study International News
February 23, 2018
The powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) supports this idea. “You give them a little bit of a bonus, so practically for free, ... “The first thing that happened when the SWAT team came in – the first question they asked was, 'Is anybody injured?' And the following question was, 'Does anybody have a gun?
Daily Trojan Online
February 22, 2018
I watched the news on my phone — police and SWAT teams flooded the scene and painstakingly, slowly evacuated classrooms of children. Later we ... It is about the silence from the National Rifle Association, and the disgraceful inaction of a government that clearly no longer serves its people. It is about aÃÂ ...
Police News
February 20, 2018
At the 2017 California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO) Conference, Don Kester of the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) hosted a thought-provoking session on the challenges faced by tactical teams, and the lessons we should be learning from our mistakes. Sadly, it seems that agenciesÃÂ ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
February 19, 2018
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School killed 17 and sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ... They fear the National Rifle Association will get between them and their primary voters. That's because theÃÂ ...
Police News
February 19, 2018
Two Westerville police officers killed last weekend and another slain Tuesday in Chicago brought to 12 the number of cops gunned down in the line of duty this year, marking a dramatic increase in such tragedies compared to this time in previous years. The last such incident locally was New Year's Day 2011, when ClarkÃÂ ...
WDTN
February 19, 2018
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School school sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down ... The American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and four other medical associations issued a joint statement Friday urgingÃÂ ...
Star Local Media
February 18, 2018
Celina ISD Instructional Technology Specialist Tisha Poncio was recognized last week by the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) as one of the top three Instructional ... “The Celina HS S.W.A.T Team (Students Who Advocate Technology) are much more than a technology group,” Poncio said.
YubaNet
February 17, 2018
Berry was involved with the development of SWAT teams in both agencies. ... He previously was on the Tahoe Truckee Women's Shelter Board of Directors, the California Peace Officers Association Board of Directors and as a Church Youth Program leader, taking local youth to Mexico to build homes forÃÂ ...
Boston Herald
February 17, 2018
The shooting at a South Florida high school sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. Police ... “School leaders should take all threats seriously,” said Glenn Koocher, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.
NY1
February 17, 2018
“They looked like a SWAT team. They knocked down the door. They go and ... The President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Ed Mullins, said after the verdict that, “Any police officer put in those circumstances …would more than likely react the same way.” And Barry's attorney, Andrew Quinn, said,ÃÂ ...
MyDaytonDailyNews
February 17, 2018
Two Westerville police officers killed last weekend and another slain Tuesday in Chicago brought to 12 the number of cops gunned down in the line of duty this year, marking a dramatic increase in such tragedies compared to this time in previous years. The last such incident locally was New Year's DayÃÂ ...
Boston Herald
February 17, 2018
The shooting at a South Florida high school sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building. ... “School leaders should take all threats seriously,” said Glenn Koocher, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.
WTOP
February 16, 2018
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sent students rushing into the streets as SWAT team... WASHINGTON — Sitting in her office minutes before leaving for Florida to visit teachers at Parkland High School, National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen-Garcia was moved to tearsÃÂ ...
CNN
February 15, 2018
Eventually, the SWAT team came in and did an excellent job taking care of the students with disabilities. We were then ..... One of the most frustrating arguments I've heard is that it wasn't the Republican Party that killed those people and it wasn't the National Rifle Association -- it was the shooter himself.
Patch.com
February 10, 2018
... the Field Training Officer Program, and served on the Honor Guard Unit and SWAT team, according to a biography provided by the police department. ... was promoted to lieutenant, helping the department earn the Community Policing Award given from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
February 10, 2018
Throughout the decades he has spent with the sheriff's department, he's mentored dozens of officers, organized a SWAT team and maintained a positive ... Students Drew Bianco from the Oxford School District and Oswaldo Arellano from the Lafayette County School District received the association's YouthÃÂ ...
WCBD News 2
February 6, 2018
He is a graduate of the FBI's National Academy and National Executive Institute, the Major Cities Chiefs Association's Police Executive Leadership Institute (PELI), and the Police ... From 1994 to 1996, he was a Captain in the Central Investigations Division and Commander of the SWAT Team Unit.
Salon
February 6, 2018
AlterNet In 2000, I did a survey of all police departments in Kentucky. One small finding revealed a little-known fact about the practice of civil asset forfeiture (CAF): the average dollar amount seized was only $300.00. The State seizing suspected drug dealers' property was justified on crippling drug kingpinsÃÂ ...
MLive.com
February 5, 2018
"The hospital seems to be changing their mind every day on the status of the SWAT team in particular," said Jamie Brown, president of the Borgess Staff Nurse Council. "Nurses are feeling a lot of anxiety." The council is part of the Michigan Nurses Association and represents the hospital's 650 nurses.
