The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday night to protest the department's plans to equip officers with semi-automatic rifles, saying the weapons could make the streets more dangerous. Carrying signs like "Stop the War on Youth," teens said they didn't trust police with the high-powered weapons and worried gangs would be encouraged to bolster their...
rocky's bru (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another month on bail. I'm having coffee with Sheih Kickdefella, wife and their four kids (three of whom on school holidays) in Bangsar right now. Sheih had just been to the Bukit Aman police headquarters, before the Friday prayers. His police bail has been extended by yet another month. I asked Sheih how he felt. "Sigh," he said. Sheih was discharged on 20/9 after being detained...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters tonight to protest the department's plans to equip officers with semi-automatic rifles, saying the weapons could make the streets more dangerous. Carrying signs like "Stop the War on Youth," teens said they didn't trust police with the high-powered weapons and worried gangs would be encouraged to bolster their own arsenals....
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
About a dozen buildings at the Louisiana State Police headquarters complex shut down early Tuesday because a leaking main left water pressure very low.
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Staff Reporter The Government has put police and law enforcing agencies on red alert yesterday to avert any untoward situation at any place in the country. The police headquarters also have asked police personnel, on leave to report to their respective units immediately. A verbal order to this effect was given from the police headquarters to all units. "Directed...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
A Chinese conman who successfully persuaded a city government to blow up its police headquarters by promising to build a highrise development in its place has been jailed for life.
News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Two hundred police inspectors have been promoted and sent to various police stations a week after 51 other senior officers were transferred.
BlogCkChew (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
November 19, 2008 DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang today filed a police report against the Tourism Ministry and state-owned company Pempena Sdn Bhd over a litany of allegations ranging from breach of trust, fraud to abuse of power. MCPX He made the report at the Dang Wangi district police headquarters and appended the PriceWaterhouse Coopers [...]
Grist Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Commit any acts of terrorism lately? Mike Tidwell hasn't either, but the leader of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was spied on for months by the police following a peaceful protest urging climate action. Tidwell details what it was like to learn he was a "suspected terrorist," and points out that the real threat is global warming.
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
PROVIDENCE — When an auto body shop employee showed up at the city Department of Communications with a portable police radio in hand, chief radio engineer Tony Desmarais was immediately suspicious.“[The visitor] said he bought it from some guy on a corner and [he asked] could you turn it on, it’s not working,” recalled Joseph McGarry, city deputy director of communications.But there was a big...
The Masterpiece Next Door (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... HQ's obsolescence circa 1900, as by then Manhattan was a million stronger and the New York City Police Department was building precinct houses about the same size. 240 Centre Street itself, with its gymnasium for "fat policemen" and open-air playground for "poor little waifs and foundlings" ( the NYT's words , so not kidding) was superseded in 1973 by the utterly charmless One Police...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Kabul - At least one civilian and two Afghan police were killed in a suicide attack in the Dand district of Kandahar province Monday. Two other people were injured in the attack. Separately, eight Taliban militants were killed in a military operation...
CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Police in Gloucester Township, New Jersey arrested four women and a male in connection to prostitution and drug charges Friday.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
As Jersey Police confirm there were NO MURDERS at the Haut de la Garenne children's home, David Rose reveals that 'cellars' were not cellars at all and 'restraints' were an old bed spring.
The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Nearly 100 teens marched outside Chicago police headquarters Thursday night to protest the department's plans to equip officers with semi-automatic rifles, saying the weapons could make the streets more dangerous. Carrying signs like "Stop the War on Youth," teens said they didn't trust police with the high-powered weapons and worried gangs would be encouraged to bolster their...
