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This image from bodycam video released by the Blendon Township Police on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, shows an officer pointing his gun at Ta'Kiya Young moments before shooting her through the windshield outside a grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, on Aug. 24. The pregnant Black mother was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting. Her unborn daughter did not survive. The image was pixelated by the source. (Blendon Township Police via AP, File)

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Fatal police shooting of pregnant Ohio woman raises concerns over firing at moving vehicles
By CLAUDIA LAUER - The Associated Press
Sat,09/02/23-11:04PM , 337 Reads
Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her wind
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A police 911 call center is pictured on May 3, 2019, in Dallas. Emergency call center workers say their centers are understaffed, struggling to hire new staff and plagued by worker burnout, according to a national survey released Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

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911 workers say centers are understaffed, struggling to hire and plagued by burnout
By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press
Tue,07/25/23-8:01AM , 195 Reads
Emergency call center workers say their centers are understaffed, struggling to fill vacancies and plagued by worker burnout, according to a national survey released Tuesday.
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This combo from photos provided by Philadelphia Dept. of Prisons shows from left, Nasir Grant, left, and Ameen Hurst. Authorities searched Tuesday, May 9, 2023, for two inmates, one accused of killing four people, who were gone from a Philadelphia prison for nearly 19 hours before officials knew they were missing. Hurst, 18, and Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center around 8:30 p.m. Sunday by cutting a hole in a fence surrounding a recreation yard, the Philadelphia Department of Prisons said.(Philadelphia Dept. of Prisons via AP)

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Perimeter guards absent as 2 men escaped Philadelphia prison
By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press
Tue,05/09/23-5:39AM , 698 Reads
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — There were no corrections officers assigned specifically to watch the housing unit of a Philadelphia prison when two inmates escaped Sunday night, and no armed perimeter guards were on duty as the men broke through the prison's fence, a correctional officers union official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Demonstrators hold signs during a protest at Washington Square Park in New York on Jan. 28, 2023, in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police during a traffic stop. The beating and death of Nichols by members of a plainclothes anti-crime task force has renewed scrutiny on the squads often involved in a disproportionate number of use of force incidents and civilian complaints. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

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Tyre Nichols beating raises scrutiny on 'elite' police units
By CLAUDIA LAUER - Associated Press
Tue,01/31/23-2:19PM , 2,783 Reads
A car with dark tinted windows circles the block a few times before swerving onto the sidewalk. A handful of armed plainclothes police officers jump out and order everyone out of a double-parked car so they can search it, striking terror in the seconds before red and blue lights flash or an officer yells “police.”
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