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Mom Tries to Scare Kid Into Behaving, Gets Busted

Police say mom Annette Gerhardt was out of control

(Newser) - A Staten Island couple looking to "scare straight" their unruly 6-year-old at a local police station had the tables turned when the police busted the pair for child endangerment. Annette Gerhardt took her daughter to the station house, telling her that was where bad children go, cops said. But...

96-Year-Old Hungarian Charged With WWII Crimes

New evidence implicates former officer in Serb slaughter

(Newser) - A 96-year-old Hungarian police officer has been charged with war crimes committed during World War II, the AP reports. Sandor Kepiro allegedly ordered the killing of four civilians during a massacre of 1,200 that took place in Serbia. Hungarian courts had convicted Kepiro twice in the 1940s, says the...

Detroit to Sell Homes to Cops for $1K

Mayor David Bing pushing to get officers within city limits

(Newser) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has long leaned on the city’s police and firefighters to live inside the city limits—at least 53% commute in from the suburbs—and now he’s doing something to entice them. He’s introduced a new pilot program, dubbed “Project 14,” that...

Egyptian Police Stand Down, Army Joins Protest

Chaos reigns in streets of Cairo

(Newser) - Protesters in Cairo once again defied curfew today, but this time the police largely stood by and let them do it, the LA Times reports. The military meanwhile seems to have switched sides; as protesters swarmed over Cairo’s central square, the officers stationed there threw off their helmets...

Shot LA Cop Lied About Shooting

Officer's story sparked manhunt, neighborhood lockdown

(Newser) - A Los Angeles school police officer who sparked a huge manhunt last week after saying he had been shot by a suspect has admitted it was a hoax, police sources say. Officer Jeff Stenroos has been arrested and charged with filing a false police report. Stenroos—whose bulletproof vest showed...

Cop Sues After Being Forced to Shave for Obama

He has a skin condition, doctor's note

(Newser) - A recently retired Baltimore cop has sued the city and its police department for forcing him to shave ahead of a visit from then-President-elect Obama. The entire department was ordered to be “clean-shaven” for Obama’s arrival, but the officer, Anthony Brown, has a skin condition called pseudofolliculitis barbae,...

US Will Review Rash of Police Deaths

Ten officers have been killed already in January

(Newser) - Here's a disturbing trend: The number of US police officers killed in the line of duty increased by 40% in 2010, including a 20% increase in those shot to death. And the trend shows no sign of slowing—10 officers have already been killed nationwide in 2011, including the pair...

Gunman IDed in Detroit Police Shooting

Lamar Moore may have been related to man facing murder sentence

(Newser) - Police have identified the gunman who opened fire in a Detroit police precinct yesterday as Lamar Moore, 38. Moore, who was killed in return fire, is thought to have been related to a man set for sentencing today in a double homicide, said the city’s police chief. The four...

Two Miami Officers Killed in Gunfight

They were serving a warrant; one suspect also dead

(Newser) - Two Miami police officers—one male, one female—were killed in a shootout today while serving a homicide warrant in a crime-heavy neighborhood, the Miami Herald reports. A suspect also died in the gunfight, which was the deadliest in decades for the Miami-Dade force. Several suspects reportedly fled the scene,...

Crime-Heavy Camden Cuts Half its Police

Even though it's one of America's most dangerous cities

(Newser) - Camden, New Jersey, was America’s second most dangerous city in 2010, and its most dangerous in 2009, according to one annual study, and its median income of $26,752 is within the margin of error for the nation’s lowest. Yet the city today began laying off 167 of...

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US Agencies Link Up to Spy on ... You

Thousands deemed 'suspicious' appear on giant database: WaPo probe

(Newser) - Aiming to fight home-grown terrorism, the US is linking local, state, FBI, and military resources to gather information about American citizens: It’s “the largest and most technologically sophisticated” domestic intelligence system the country has ever assembled, write Dana Priest and William Arkin after a Washington Post investigation that’...

NY Politician Busts Boys' Cupcake Stand

Young entrepreneurs ground up in legal Mix Master

(Newser) - A sweet deal turned into a sticky legal mess for two suburban New York boys aiming to raise some dough by selling cupcakes and brownies in a local park. A Westchester County politician called the cops on the 13-year-old kids because they were operating without a license. Young entrepreneur Kevin...

Cops Screen Recruits' Texts, Facebook Posts

Racy pics, suicide threats get would-be cops dumped

(Newser) - Law enforcement agencies are probing potential recruits’ digital lives for information that might make them unfit for the job, USA Today reports. More than a third of police agencies look into applicants’ social media presence, says a new report conducted for police executives. Reviewing postings to sites like Facebook, MySpace,...

Texas Marshals Fired, Indicted for Antler Theft

They took rack found by man in park, face 'oppression' charge

(Newser) - Two Texas deputy marshals were fired and face criminal charges after taking a pair of deer antlers from a citizen, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The deputies have been indicted on a charge of official oppression, a misdemeanor, for their treatment of self-proclaimed "antler freak" Anthony Brown. On March...

Police Fatally Shoot Pace Univ. Football Player

Danroy Henry drove into two cops outside bar fight

(Newser) - Police shot and killed a Pace University football player after he drove his car into two officers outside a bar where customers were fighting early yesterday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Danroy Henry and two friends were parked in a fire lane outside the bar; after police responding...

Cops in UK's Manchester Tweeting Every Call

They want to prove workload, prevent budget cuts

(Newser) - Police in Manchester, England, have taken to Twitter to report every emergency call received in 24 hours. The experiment began at 5am today local time. The police force wants to show the British public its workload to stave off proposed budget cuts. The chief constable says the majority of calls...

Police Chief's 'Stolen' Arsenal Found in Kids' Fort

Minn. chief finds ammo, grenades in own backyard

(Newser) - It may be some time before the police chief of Sebeka, Minn., lives down the loss of police equipment to what must have been America's best-protected backyard fort. Eric Swenson called law enforcement Friday to report that stun grenades, gas grenades, gas shotgun rounds, loaded magazines for both a handgun...

Broke Cops Hire Civilians to Investigate Crimes

Amateur policing is catching on

(Newser) - With budgets strapped at all levels of local government, police agencies around the country are turning to civilians to handle jobs once reserved for uniformed officers—up to and including investigating crime scenes. In San Francisco, for example, these amateur cops have been tasked with investigating burglaries and property crimes,...

89 Puerto Rico Cops Arrested in Drug Sting

They allegedly provided security to dealers

(Newser) - More than 130 people—including 89 law enforcement officials—were charged in Puerto Rico today in a major corruption investigation. Charges range from cocaine and marijuana trafficking to firearms violations. It's the biggest police corruption case in FBI history. "The defendants' participation in the drug transactions consisted of providing...

Troops Save Ecuadorean Prez from Rogue Cops

Correa held captive in hospital by police protesting benefit cuts

(Newser) - Troops have rescued Ecuador's president from a hospital where he had been trapped for over 12 hours by police officers rebelling over benefit cuts. Rafeal Correa, who was tear-gassed and roughed up by rogue cops, described widespread police protests as an attempted coup. He had vowed to leave the hospital...

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