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NY police department mourning 2nd officer death

Officers in a suburban New York police department who had just buried a colleague killed last week now have to brace for the funeral of another officer shot on the job.

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UPDATED 19:58 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

ACLU files request for domestic drone information

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with five agencies for any documents pertaining to the use of drone aircraft in domestic airspace to determine how they are being used for surveillance in the United States, The Hill reports.

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UPDATED 19:39 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

Police officer, civilian killed in New York shootings

During a traffic stop, a Nassau County Police Officer Arthur Lopez was shot and killed. The suspect then fled his vehicle, shot a killed a civilian driver and drove away in the stolen car, The New York Times reports.

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UPDATED 19:26 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

Arizona sheriff, others sued over inmate's death

The family of a prisoner who died in one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jails filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging officers beat the mentally ill man and shot him with a stun gun in an unprovoked attack that marked another example of the "culture of cruelty" in the lockups. The lawsuit by the family of Ernest Atencio was the latest in a long line of legal claims against Arpaio over jail conditions and treatment, The Associated Press reports.

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UPDATED 19:12 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

After dramatic spike, Chicago homicides slow down

When the city's gang war intensified last spring, shootings became so frequent they sometimes seemed like a ghastly game of tennis, with each senseless attack followed by a vengeful response.However, the pace of homicides and shootings has slowed considerably as police step up their presence and residents challenge gang members for control of the streets, The Associated Press reports.

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UPDATED 19:09 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

Report: Illegal Mexican migration to US stabilizes

The number of migrants crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico appears to have risen some in the first half of 2012, while the number of migrants returning to Mexico decreased, a report by U.S. and Mexican researchers said Tuesday.It was the first time the net outflow of migrants from Mexico has increased since the 2007 economic slump caused a sharp drop in both migration and the amount of money sent home by Mexicans working in the U.S. as migrants found it harder to find work north of the border, The Associated Press reports.

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UPDATED 19:13 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

Officers seek links between 5 dead in Tenn., Ala.

Slayings that killed three women and a toddler at two homes in southern Tennessee but spared two other children may be related to a body found just across the state line in Alabama, authorities said Tuesday.On Monday, Tennessee officials found three women and an 18-month-old boy dead at two different homes in Lincoln County, about 100 miles south of Nashville, The Associated Press reports.

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UPDATED 20:00 PM EDT, October 23, 2012

Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims

A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of innocent people attending study groups on Islam, he told The Associated Press.

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UPDATED 6:38 AM EDT, October 23, 2012

DOE failed to shed travel spending for contractors, inspector general says

The Energy Department's inspector general found that the department failed to cut back the travel expenses incurred by its contractors after the White House called for a 30 percent reduction, The Hill reports.

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UPDATED 6:36 AM EDT, October 23, 2012

NY cops defend 'stop-and-frisk' use

Four Manhattan cops taking the witness stand defended the level to which they used "stop and frisk" in the city's "Operation Clean Halls" program, The New York Post reports.

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