By MES Dispatch staff
The Briefing
Lexington, N.C. — Off-duty Officer Kaitlin Crook, 25, was killed; an off-duty Lexington firefighter was critically wounded; and a third man was hospitalized in stable condition after a...
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The Briefing
Salem, N.H. — The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting and the killing of an MIT professor was found dead in a storage unit; officials say...
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The Briefing
Washington, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, beginning a process that...
By MES Dispatch staff
The Briefing
New York City — NYPD swore in 1,143 recruits on Dec. 18, capping a record hiring year of 4,056 officers and pushing uniformed strength to 34,700+ — the...
By MES Dispatch staff
The Briefing
Washington, D.C. — Congress passed the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act, recognizing certain occupational cancers as line-of-duty deaths for public safety officers under the PSOB program; the bill...
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The Briefing
Delray Beach, Fla. — Former officer Bernenda Marc—seriously injured in a 2017 DUI crash that killed her FTO Officer Christine Braswell—now runs The Preparedness Collective, a...
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The Briefing
Washington, D.C. — Mayor Muriel Bowser named Jeffery Carroll interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, succeeding Chief Pamela A. Smith, who is stepping down at year’s...
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The Briefing
Brooklyn, N.Y. (Brownsville) — Bodycam shows an NYPD officer shot in the face with a shotgun while guarding a homicide scene; he returned fire, killing...
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The Briefing
Spalding County, Ga. — Deputy Joe Crumpton, 62, died after a single-vehicle crash that investigators believe was precipitated by a medical emergency, officials said. Police1
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The Briefing
Prince George’s County, Md. — Violent crime down 19% and property crime down 15% year over year; homicides -40%, carjackings -55%, robberies -48%, officials said. Police1+1
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