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Police departments across the country are pulling patrol officers off the road. Police will still be on duty but will only respond to 911 calls.

President Obama announced a stunning new plan to heal the disconnect between American Police and the African American community. From today until the day he leaves office US Police and Sheriff's departments are banned from hiring white male police.

The Police Chief of a small Wisconsin Town of Plattburg received an unusual email earlier this week. A message saying his officers were to prevent the local movie theater from showing The Interview, or else. Now today this Chief found out what the "Or Else" was, his parking ticket database erased.

NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton has announced all NYPD officers get to be on vacation for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Starting at 3pm December 24th police officers will go off duty and will not return to duty until 7am on December 26th.

Last year in Illinois a medical cannabis pilot program was created by legislation and signed into law by Gov. Pat Quinn. Now the Illinois police officer standards board is issues a policy to police chiefs, “officers shall use cannabis on duty”.

The Norse County Sheriff is making headlines for his controversial agreement with anti police political groups. In the wake of multiple use of force incidents across the US some question why we can’t have unarmed police like the cops in the UK have.

Traditionally the police response to 9-1-1 calls has been to send the closest available unit to handle whatever emergency has presented itself. But this is about to change with a pilot program being developed by the South Diego Police Department.

A document leaked from a source inside the FBI shows that ISIS has been backing anti police groups to weaken the trust Americans have in local law enforcement. The theory being that mistrust in the police should lower the likelihood of someone tipping off police to the terrorist plans.

It was announced yesterday that the Obama administration would start a review of police use of military surplus. This review has caused many police chiefs to be angered by blatant hypocrisy of the systems and quotas they are forced to meet.

On Sunday players for the St. Louis Rams came onto the field with their hands up. This has become an anti-police symbol to signify police murdering people. The NFL players did this in response to the Grand Jury Decision in ...