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Questions tagged [police]
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Are people with a high IQ not allowed to become police officers in New London?
This 2000 ABC News report says:
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
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Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took…
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Is the Cobra 80 fire cracker "three to four times as powerful" as a hand grenade?
In this news article about illegal fireworks it is claimed (translated from Dutch):
Chief of police Oscar Dros of the Oost-Nederland police district says that fireworks is no longer innocent. "We recently found a stash of illegal fireworks in…
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Were fathers arrested while trying to rescue their daughters from rape in Britain at least on two occasions?
Front Page Mag (a blog for the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center) quotes an unnamed report that UK authorities were complicit in the support of sexually abusive Muslims:
The police did their part… for the Muslim rapists.
The report heard…
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Were the majority of people at the Pulse nightclub killed by police?
At the MTV/BET town hall meeting a person mentioned that
Police killed the majority of the people at pulse that night
to which the moderators replied "hmmm".
On the No Agenda Show, they've analyzed this quite a bit and come to the same conclusion…
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Do police issue more citations near the end of each month?
A related question about police quotas suggests there are quotas (some openly, some not) in some jurisdictions.
This Venture Beat Article strongly suggests that more tickets are issued at the end of each month, as police officers try to meet their…
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Are police officer's families 2-4 times more likely to experience domestic violence?
I was wondering the accuracy of this claim:
Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families
experience domestic violence, ... in contrast to 10% of families in
the general population... A third study of older and more…
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Is there a detectable bias in drug-sniffing dogs based on handler belief of presence of drugs?
As discussed in the comments of Does normal paper currency contain enough narcotics residue to attract a drug-sniffing dog?, and further explored in the 2017 NPR article, "Eliminating Police Bias When Handling Drug-Sniffing Dogs" on Dr. Lisa Lit's…
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Did Cops have an episode in which a woman's baby was taken from her for "lying to the police"?
Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson via Twitter (19k likes; 2k retweets), and posted on Reddit's r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut (20.1k likes)
I couldn't immediately verify this claim; I didn't find a link in the comments at Twitter or Reddit (although I…
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Did Police spray fake blood on themselves in Philadelphia on August 14th 2019?
According to this video police officers sprayed fake blood on themselves in response to the August 2019 Philadelphia shooting.
Is this account of the incident true?
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Did the Houston Police Department intentionally target the house on Harding Street?
In this video by News Now Houston an investigative reporter suggests that the Houston Police may have raided the wrong location and killed two innocent homeowners (Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas) merely trying to defend themselves and their…
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Did the US Park Police have a definition of tear gas that excluded OC prior to the clearing of Lafayette Square?
US Park Police have disputed reports claiming “tear gas” was used on peaceful protestors in Lafayette Square on the basis that they used “oleoresins capsicum” (OC), rather than 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS) or chloroacetophenone (CN). Even this…
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Is there more police brutality in cities controlled by the Democratic party?
Shaun King posted this claim on Twitter:
Democrats, from top to bottom, are running the cities with the worst
police brutality in America right now.
Is this true? It seems to have been picked up by several right wing news outlets, including Fox,…
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Is instructing a subject to crawl forward with crossed ankles standard arrest protocol?
A December 2017 CNN article by former FBI-agent, James Gagliano, about the death of Daniel Shaver claims:
To those speculating as to why he would have been asked to cross his ankles, this is standard arrest protocol in a high-risk scenario. If a…
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Are 55,400 people injured or killed by US police every year?
An article has been circulating around social media, claiming
approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by [US] cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying…
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Eagles vs. drones: Are Dutch police training drone-hunting eagles?
In this Vice article, it is mentioned that the Dutch police are training eagles to hunt drones.
In a new project to patrol the skies, the Dutch national police force has teamed up with ‘Guard from Above,’ a company that trains birds of prey to…
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