PHOENIX — An Arizona sheriff known for aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration has been stripped of some of his special power to enforce federal immigration law, and he claims the Obama administration is taking away his authority for political reasons.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office faces racial profiling allegations over crime and immigration sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix, said officials from Washington won’t let him renew a deal that let his deputies make federal immigration arrests.”Let them all go brag that they took away the sheriff’s authority. Let them all do that. …Read more […..]

On January 21, 1987, a 22-year-old police officer for the Village of Morrow, Ohio named Jeffrey Manning Phegley was shot and killed in the line of duty while performing a traffic stop. Anthony Wayne McIntosh was convicted of the murder of Officer Phegley later that same year and was sentenced to 15-years-to-life, with an additional three years for using a gun during the commission of his crime. McIntosh has once been denied parole by the Central Office Review Board of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, but he is again being considered for parole. PoliceOne Columnist Lt. Dan Marcou, in his excellent column written in response …Read more […..]

Experienced Officers will not be surprised by this. Some of the people hired as officers amazes me!BOISE, Idaho – A Gooding County Sheriff’s deputy shot accidentally by another deputy at his home is back at work after four weeks recuperation.Deputy Jeremy Smith, who returned to work Monday, was shot in the hand Aug. 31 by a .22 caliber Ruger Mark IV handgun at the Hagerman home of Sgt. Dave Kiger, the agency’s armorer. Kiger was cleaning the weapon when it apparently misfired.The incident in this southern Idaho county of about 14,200 residents didn’t become public until this week, in part because no formal law enforcement …Read more […..]

OMAHA, Neb. –Some Omaha police officers are making a financial sacrifice to make sure they have high-powered weapons for use on the job.AR-15 rifles are standard for the Omaha Police Department’s Emergency Response Unit, but rank-and-file officers still have the option of buying their own. The option is becoming increasingly popular, officials with the police department said.Many of the police said they’re glad to have the weapons in case they need them.”It’s something you almost can’t do without,” said Officer Steve Kult.The AR-15 is a civilianized version of a gun commonly used in the military and a standard of police SWAT …Read more […..]

BY STEPHANIE WARSMITH, PHIL TREXLER and JIM CARNEYThe Akron Beacon Journal, OhioAkron has issued layoff notices to 201 employees — and more than half are police officers or firefighters.The 14-day notices went to 96 police officers, though this includes 21 high-ranking employees who are eligible to bump down into lower positions.Thirty-eight firefighters — including the entire rookie class hired last September — also got notices.Other notices went to employees in departments throughout the city, including recreation, planning, health, service, finance and economic development.”The numbers are absolutely staggering,” said …Read more […..]

Morons shooting at firetrucks going to a fire….Ya can’t make this stuff up!Las Vegas Review-JournalA suspect has been killed following an incident in which police responded to a call that shots were being fired at firefighters putting out a house fire.Las Vegas police responded about 12:30 p.m. to the 1200 block of Comstock Drive, near Washington Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard.One officer received minor injuries in the incident during an exchange of gunfire between police and the suspect. The officer received a gunshot wound to his arm and back and was taken to University Medical Center. He is expected to be release …Read more […..]