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In the Rural Law Enforcement section you'll find news reports and expert articles about what it means to be a police officer in rural America. Early in America’s history, officers rode on horseback from town to town, either alone or with a small posse. Police work has changed drastically since then, but if you patrol in a rural area, you probably have some idea how those cops felt.
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40 times stronger than heroin: Watch out for this new drug

40 times stronger than heroin: Watch out for this new drug

Please be advised that there’s a new illegally-produced synthetic drug floating around out there... - Full Story

News

Montreal police on lookout for potent black market pill

Desmethyl fentanyl is reported to be 40 times stronger than heroin and 80 times stronger than morphine - Full Story

Columns

PoliceOne Roundtable: Smart police trainers use 'dumb' simulation tools Doug Wyllie, PoliceOne Editor in Chief - 10-43: Be Advised...

PoliceOne Roundtable: Smart police trainers use 'dumb' simulation tools

Even as the capabilities of silicon-based simulators increase, our carbon-based simulators (a.k.a. trainers and role players), still need traditional “inert” training tools - Full Story

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Honoring the brotherhood of specialized police agencies

Honoring the brotherhood of specialized police agencies

It is important to understand that anyone who pins on the badge, straps on a gun, and enforces the law with statutory authority is a law enforcement officer - Full Story

Columns

Honoring the brotherhood of specialized police agencies Matt Stiehm - Campus Safety

Honoring the brotherhood of specialized police agencies

It is important to understand that anyone who pins on the badge, straps on a gun, and enforces the law with statutory authority is a law enforcement officer - Full Story

News

3 dead in NC standoff

SWAT members surrounded the suspects house for 6 hours after he killed 2 neighbors - Full Story

Exclusives

Lowering risks and raising funds with speed cameras

Lowering risks and raising funds with speed cameras

To increase public safety (and the public coffers), the City of Cool Valley (Mo.), a municipality of roughly 1,200 people, enlisted the help of B&W Sensors, a speed-detection and traffic-monitoring company. - Full Story

Photos

Audio: Police yell 'burn it down' raiding Dorner's hideaway

Audio: Police yell 'burn it down' raiding Dorner's hideaway

Police can be heard in videos yelling to burn the cabin down as they raided ex-LA cop Chris Dorner's home Tuesday night. (CBS 2 Image) 'Highly likely' body is Dorner's

Videos

Officer pepper sprays out-of-control teen

Mother called police after kid broke $3000 television because his mother refused to buy him a video game.



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