May 11, 2018 was a celebratory day for the newest batch of 71 Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) recruits graduating the police academy in Tallahassee. Depending on how you look at it—law-abiding motorist or a speed demon—citizens operating vehicles stand to gain something along the spectrum of safety and citations. The Florida Highway Patrol Training Academy […]
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Hardee County Sheriff’s Office deputies who traversed from their central Florida county to the Florida Panhandle to help resituate towns and cities hardest-hit by Hurricane Michael were once struck themselves when, in 2004, Hurricane Charley struck their jurisdiction and caused unspeakable damage. In Hardee County is a small city called Bowling Green; its police department […]
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Members of the Washington State Patrol commemorated roadway workers whose lives ended on highways and byways while keeping the flow of traffic free of snarl and danger. There is no argument against the perils of duty and danger to life as a transportation employee working the fast lane. Sadly, it often comes at a cost […]
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OpsLens Video On Thursday, officials said that several people were killed and cars were crushed when a newly installed pedestrian bridge spanning several lanes of traffic collapsed at Florida International University. In an interview, a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol, said that “several people were killed. I just don’t know how many.” He then […]
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As Florida Governor Rick Scott was touring Connecticut to lure businesses to sunny Florida, the nation’s lowest-paid state troopers, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), were coordinating a police funeral for one of their own. FHP Master Sergeant William Trampas Bishop, a 30-year veteran with the state patrol, was killed on Interstate 75 while investigating a traffic crash on June 17, 2017.
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For close to two months, a serial killer has been extinguishing lives in Seminole Heights, a historical community comprised of clapboard homes in Tampa, Florida. Elusive throughout four killings (three involving a firearm), to help nab the serial killer, the Tampa police enlisted help from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office as well as agents from the US Marshals Service, the FBI, ATF, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Florida Highway Patrol and several other Bay area law enforcement agencies who supplemented the investigation.
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A 49-year-old man drove a pickup truck into a Florida swimming pool after veering from the road to avoid hitting a disabled vehicle, according to a report. Florida Highway Patrol said the truck burst through a yard and a screened-in patio before crashing into the backyard pool. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP […]
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Bucking tradition, an online police academy launched in Utah is being touted as the answer to attract police officer candidates who live in remote outlying areas far from mainstay (urban area) police academies. Can such a concept hold muster? The gist of the online Eastern Police Officer Academy operated by the Utah State University (USU) […]
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Writing a recently published piece regarding a Massachusetts bill seeking to legalize EMTs treating police dogs injured in the line of duty reminded me of a particular call I received as a rookie policeman. I was fresh out of the police academy and paired with a field training officer (FTO). The call came in as […]
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Heroics come in many forms. Having experienced a police career, my memories range from tragic to thought-provoking to heartwarming. I suspect there is a particular policeman working the beat in Gainesville, Florida who can say the same thing, especially the heartwarming part. Gainesville police Officer Bobby White launched the Basketball Cop Foundation in 2016 and […]
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One of the most angst-driven dilemmas in the police profession is budgeting shortfalls, leaving agencies ill-equipped and outmoded. Naturally, cops must acquire not only the right equipment but certainly the right amount for its entire force of warriors. The federal government’s military surplus 1033 Program which provides massive stores of useable equipment to include Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) modified for urban street duty operations is nothing to sneeze at in terms of cost and beneficence.
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Hurricane Irma unequivocally pummeled the southeastern United States. America’s boot, Florida, is in absolute shambles. After ransacking the Caribbean territories and aggressively shaving Cuba, the Florida Keys were next to receive her unstoppable trajectory. Hurricane Irma’s initial impacts were as surreal as it gets. After Hurricane Irma’s formidable fury left a paradise populace stunned with […]
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Bill Clark aka “Ol’ Clark” happens to be a columnist who writes for the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri. Ol’ Clark published an article on June 30, 2017 titled “Ol’ Clark had a run in with the law” in which he fictitiously maligned two Boone County deputies who pulled him over for a traffic infraction. It appears Ol’ Clark did not know that the deputies’ in-car video camera recorded the entire breadth of the traffic infraction up to when the stop was concluded. Not much problem there…until 84-year Ol’ Clark wrote some falsities about how the traffic encounter went down.
His version of events was published. It was wrong. It was small-scale CNN-like manufactured dribble.
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Source link Image by DonkeyHotey Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV By sending Florida law enforcement to the U.S. southern border to help Texas and Arizona, Governor Ron DeSantis is emerging as the new national leader of the America First, or Trump movement. DeSantis famously opened up his state early and […]
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The feature photo you see above depicts a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter squeezed into a too tight tract of asphalt at a dangerous intersection marked as such. The location is right outside Fort Walton Beach Medical Center (FWBMC) where the border patrol pilots used precision, aviation skills, and a determined duty to transport injured victims […]
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Here we go again with well-paid men crying foul, calling the kettle black, and casting aspersions without a granule of experience in what it is like to be a police officer…and the National Football League is standing with their players. Or should I say “kneeling” with them? The NFL announced its support for its players’ […]
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TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: Less than 1 year has passed since I first stood at this podium, in this majestic chamber, to speak on behalf of the American People — and to address […]
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Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives member John Zelinsky seeks to outlaw “distracted walking” in his city, to include a “no talking while walking” clause in the legislation he is purporting. The aim is to boost public safety and “is not actually to raise money for the city, but to hopefully educate the public,” Mr. Zelinsky said. The punitive measure behind each violation is $30. If the proposed ordinance passes, the current authorized sworn contingent of 284 cops to enforce city laws will have a new enforcement challenge while patrolling on the city streets.
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“Mike the Cop” is somewhat of a social media celebrity who covers police culture and cop/citizen interactions with a layer of parody. Recently, he analyzed how citizens are increasingly demanding cops to be, well, clairvoyant and preternaturally trained to immediately pick up on how folks nowadays wish to be identified. For example, Mike the Cop’s recent video posted on Facebook explains in practical terms how he thinks cops feel about the transgender community and why mutual understanding is logical for all involved parties.
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“It turned out that the blaze—which will prove life-altering for millions of people for the indefinite future—was caused by three crack addicts who had just gotten high and decided to set a fire under the bridge…” It was about 6:30pm on a balmy Thursday night on March 30, 2017—a day that will live in infamy […]
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By Stephen Owsinski: According to the US Census Bureau, America is teetering on approximately 324,000,000 citizens, roughly 900,000 of whom are law enforcement officers. Visitors and tourists fatten the head count in our country. Given the overall ratio, it is no wonder that the profession of law enforcement has all kinds of police spread across […]
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By T.B. Lefever: Throughout my youth, my father and mentor had several important discussions with me about my future like any good dad should. He was a career cop. Like most cops, he loved his job when he didn’t hate it, he was good at what he did, and he would never get rich by […]
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