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Over the course of 2014 and the months leading into 2015, the issue of alleged police brutality from Ferguson to Baltimore has been a hot topic of news cycles, race baiters like Al Sharpton and advocacy groups. But despite what many in the media would have us believe, police are human beings too and they get up everyday to do a dangerous job not many thank them for. They too deserve justice when things go wrong and especially when they lose their lives. According to new statistics and data released today by the FBI, police shootings were up 89 percent...

4/5/2006 - HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (AFPN) -- One year after answering a call by the Marine Corps' that met an urgent need, the Force Protection Systems Squadron here is preparing to do it again. It is planning to deploy a Tactical Automated Security System, or TASS, to Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq. "The Marine Corps came to us saying, 'We want to make this our system of choice for expeditionary electronic security systems,'" said 1st Lt. Ted Boender, tactical systems program manager. With one system already deployed at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, they wanted to install a...

One lieutenant, two sergeants among those suspended By Jeffrey Gilbert and Tony Plohetski Thursday, November 6, 2003 While they were supposed to be protecting a power plant against possible terrorism, five Austin police officers went fishing. The officers, including a lieutenant and a sergeant, were suspended last month for fishing at the Decker Creek Power Plant at Lake Walter E. Long while on duty, according to disciplinary memos obtained Wednesday. A second sergeant was suspended for not reporting the others. The men, in uniform, were seen at least once cleaning the fish they had just caught, according to the reports....