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Rookie cops get lesson in diversity at landmark NYC theater
Associated Press WriterOutspoken critics of the New York Police Department have been addressing police recruits at Manhattan's famed Apollo Theater. It's part of a community relations program that was enhanced after unarmed groom Sean Bell was killed on his wedding day.... -
Father's Day marred for dad of police shooting victim
The dad of the unarmed 23-year-old man fatally shot by New York City police officers hours before he was to be married says Father's Day is forever marred for him. William Bell says since his son, Sean Bell, was shot to death in December 2006 near a...Tags: Murder, Public Holidays, Father's Day, Crimes
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Offer to drop charges in Sean Bell protest arrests
The Brooklyn district attorney is prepared to drop charges against 28 people arrested during protests against the acquittals of officers in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day. District Attorney Charles J. Hynes says the 28 people...Tags: Murder, Police Arrests, Justice System, Lawyers, Prosecution
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Rookie cops get diversity lesson at Apollo Theater
Associated Press WriterThe police department invited some of its most vocal critics Monday to a community outreach program for rookie officers that was beefed up after the shooting death of an unarmed black man on his wedding day. More than 1,000 new recruits filled Harlem'...Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, Al Sharpton
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Report: NYPD's cops can learn from video simulators
rocco.parascandola@newsday.comA report recommends the New York Police Department buy training software that gives officers sophisticated hostile scenarios to respond to, with lifelike suspects who can "react" depending on what an officer says or does. Rand Corp., which made the...Tags: Firearms, New York City Police Department, Raymond W. Kelly, Crimes, Police
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Supporters rally for Sean Bell in Union Square
michael.frazier@newsday.comMembers of the Harlem Revolution Club rallied in Union Square Thursday, the latest in a wave of protests after acquittals of three city police detectives charged in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell in Queens 18 months ago. "What happened to Sean Bell is...Tags: New York City Police Department, Health and Safety at School, Michael Bloomberg, Trials, Cobble Hill
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Task force seeks oversight in police shooting cases
steve.ritea@newsday.comA coalition of city, state and federal lawmakers probing police policies and procedures in the wake of the Sean Bell shooting Sunday recommended 15 pieces of legislation aimed at preventing a repeat episode. Four of those bills have already passed the...Tags: Racism, Trials, Laws, Police, Police Investigations
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Report: NYPD firearms training needs revision
The Associated PressThe New York Police Department should expand the use of stun guns and include the sound of gunfire or the phrase "He's got a gun!" in weapons-training exercises, according to an independent review commissioned after the shooting death of an unarmed man on...Tags: Firearms, New York City Police Department, Raymond W. Kelly, Weaponry, Law Enforcement
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Video shows NJ state trooper drawing gun on rapper, posse
State police say a plainclothes state trooper was trying to regain control when he drew his gun on rapper Jim Jones and his entourage. State police say it happened after Jones' bodyguard assaulted another trooper backstage following the rapper's...Tags: Prosecution, Jim Jones
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Lawmakers recommend legislation in wake of Bell shooting
steve.ritea@newsday.comA coalition of city, state and federal lawmakers probing police policies and procedures in the wake of the Sean Bell shooting yesterday recommended 15 pieces of legislation aimed at preventing a repeat episode. Four of those bills have already passed the...Tags: St. Albans, Racism, Trials, Laws, Police
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