Judges in California and South Carolina have ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates to orchestrate crimes behind and outside prison walls, the most sweeping order of its kind ever won by corrections officials. It’s an important victory for prison officials who have been frustrated by their inability to stop…
Cornwall England Aug 15 2018 Police have told shop workers to call the parents of young shoplifters instead of dialling 999 amid concerns that they are being swamped by emergency calls, it has been claimed. A city centre security guard, based in Truro, Cornwall, said police advised him that those caught attempting to steal could not…
SPLENDORA, Texas July 27 2018 With the start of school just around the corner, one Houston security company believes it has a solution to keep students safe. They have an integrated security system that will detect gunfire inside a school building, The company says it is so accurate, representatives and law enforcement tested it out to…
Reluctantly going back on its decision to arm only sworn law enforcement officers with weapons, the Broward County School Board unanimously approved hiring armed, non-sworn guards to protect schools and to comply with a new state law. Board members’ votes at Tuesday’s meeting came with two caveats: That the role of the “armed safe school…
CENTER POINT TX March 12 2018 — He’s still getting used to being called “chief,” but it’s clear that Jimmy Poole is comfortable leading the newly created Center Point Independent School District Police Department. “I like to talk to kiddos,” said Poole, 62, whose long law enforcement career includes two years as a school resource officer…
Secaucus announced on Friday the town will assign police officers to patrol the district’s schools while it provides firearms training to the schools’ currently unarmed security guards. The announcement came nine days after a school massacre in Parkland, Florida left 17 dead, and in the wake of security scares at schools in Nutley and Bayonne. The Florida killings led President…
Two Georgia nurses and an aide have been indicted in the death of an elderly World War II veteran after they were caught on camera laughing as the man gasped for air and pleaded for help. Authorities launched a criminal investigation in November after details and video were obtained by WXIA. The information was originally included…
Louisville, Ky., is vying to become probably the first city in the country to use autonomous drones to respond to the sound of gunfire. The city has applied for a special program the Federal Aviation Administration is running, where it will give a handful of cities temporary permission to get around long-standing drone rules in…
Washington DC Feb 3 2018 For nearly seven hours on a muggy Saturday last August, hundreds of people paid $10 apiece to enter Uneeda Nichols’ Southeast D.C. home, where 10 vendors had set up inside with flowers, concentrates, ready-to-smoke bongs and more. Nichols says she wasn’t aware her address was circulating on social media, printed on…
HADLEY MA Jan 17 2018 — Prosecutors painted a squalid picture of what went on inside the little house on busy Russell Street: The Asian women were kept there night and day, providing sexual services for a fee, sleeping where they worked, and rarely venturing outside except to take out the trash. The customers themselves led…
