Past 24 Hours of APPD Activities

Saturday, January 27, 2018 / Chief of Police / Police Activity

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The attached activity blotter is a list of our police related activities for the last 24 hours.

South Bend police getting body camera upgrades after OIS

By Lincoln Wright South Bend Tribune, Ind. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The South Bend Police Department is updating its body camera technology after a fatal police shooting last month... Read more

Mo. man sentenced in rape, kidnapping of Kan. deputy

Associated Press OLATHE, Kan. — A Missouri man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a Kansas sheriff's deputy. Brady Newman-Caddell, of Ind... Read more

3K federal inmates released under criminal justice overhaul

By Michael Balsamo Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than 3,100 federal inmates were being released Friday by the Bureau of Prisons as part of a criminal justice overhaul si... Read more

What officers can learn from the Apollo moon landing

Author: Barbara A. SchwartzFifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, Americans first landed on the moon. NASA engineers made that historic event possible by working behind the scenes in f... Read more

Top 20 best and worst excuses for speeding

Author: P1 Community Q&ACops hear some of the best explanations for why the driver they pulled over was doing 95 mph in a 60 mph zone. Some make the "best" list for b... Read more

The incredible shrinking squad car

Author: Policing Matters Podcast Download this week's episode on iTunes, SoundCloud or via RSS feed At a time when it seems that officers are getting bigger and bigger in phys... Read more

Photo of the Week: Range training in Quincy

Author: PoliceOne Members This week's photo comes from Officer Dianna Maneksha with the Boston University Police Department in Massachusetts. Maneksha writes: "At the fir... Read more

How one community reduced crime using graffiti analysis

Author: PoliceOne MembersSponsored by Graffiti Tracker By Laura Neitzel, PoliceOne BrandFocus Staff During the heyday of L.A.’s gang wars in the late ’90s, crime spille... Read more

The massive growth of video evidence: What police administrators need to know

Author: PoliceOne MembersBy Steve Paxton As a digital forensic detective in the United States for the past 10 years, I have had a front-row seat to the important role digital evide... Read more

Killer deemed too old to be dangerous murders again after release

Author: PoliceOne MembersAssociated Press AUBURN, Maine — A man who served decades in prison for stabbing his wife 14 times in front of her daughter was convicted Wednesday i... Read more