Philly police faulted for shootings
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For the second year in a row, city officials are being asked how police officers responding to celebratory New Year's Eve gunfire ended up shooting innocent bystanders.
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A police officer is shot while investigating a suspected robbery in Preston.
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Two veteran police detectives were shot dead in an exchange of gunfire with a man who had been menacing his mother inside her home, police said.
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Philadelphia police and black community leaders called on Wednesday for 10,000 men to volunteer to patrol the streets of America's most dangerous big city in a bid to halt a surge in murders and violent crime.
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Two shootouts last week are part of a troubling phenomenon in which officer deaths have jumped to a level not seen in 29 years.
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Two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed and a third was critically wounded by a gunman who led Texas authorities on an hours-long standoff, authorities said.
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A bar brawl that spilled out onto the streets of a working-class neighborhood early Saturday led to a shooting that left at least two people dead and three injured, police said.
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ATLANTA - A police official said narcotics officers were justified in returning fire on a 91-year-old woman they shot to death after she shot them as they tried to serve a warrant at her house.  Neighbors and relatives said it was a case of mistaken identity.
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A Mount Vernon, N.Y., police officer was shot and killed in downtown White Plains after he pulled his gun on another man and was fired at by Westchester County police.
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Four federal police officers have been suspended without pay while prosecutors investigate police negligence in the wake of a mob killing of two federal agents who were beaten
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Police in Manchester are seeking to reassure local imams and councillors after the shooting of an Asian man gunned down while in a car with three friends over a violent new year period.
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Philadelphia on Wednesday announced a crackdown on violent crime in an effort to curb one of the highest homicide rates among major U.S. cities.
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U.S. forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded four in an apparent friendly fire incident early Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 -- U.S.-led forces killed seven Afghan police officers and injured four others during a firefight that broke out after each side mistook the other for a group of insurgents, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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An undercover police officer had been shot, and police were hunting for the suspect's vehicle. They soon found it &#151; with another officer behind the wheel, police said.
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Palestinian policemen, who have been given the task of restraining militants, say they can't or won't do the job. Interviewed at their front-line positions, some say they feel sympathy for the gunmen, while others fear getting shot at by Israeli troops.
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At least one big-city police department has suspended use of pepper-spray pellet guns blamed for the death of a 21-year-old college student who was shot by police trying to break up a rowdy crowd of Red Sox fans last week.