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  2. Shiv (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    A shiv, also chiv, schiv, shivvie, or shank, [1] [2] is a handcrafted bladed weapon resembling a knife that is commonly associated with prison inmates. Since weapons are prohibited in prisons, the intended mode of concealment is central to a shiv's construction.

  3. Militarization of police - Wikipedia

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    [87] Since the 1033 Program was initiated in 1990, more than 5.4 billion U.S. dollars of military equipment has been transferred by the Pentagon to local and state police. [87] Louisiana State University conducted a study that suggests the militarization of local law enforcement has not lead to reduced crime levels. Particularly, the study ...

  4. Police officer certification and licensure in the United ...

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    In the United States, certification and licensure requirements for law enforcement officers vary significantly from state to state. [1] [2] Policing in the United States is highly fragmented, [1] and there are no national minimum standards for licensing police officers in the U.S. [3] Researchers say police are given far more training on use of firearms than on de-escalating provocative ...

  5. NJ comptroller says hundreds of cops attended training that ...

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    Records from Street Cop Training show that the 240 New Jersey officers who attended came from 77 municipal police departments, six county agencies, one interstate agency and four state agencies ...

  6. Police academy - Wikipedia

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    The exterior of the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Michigan, United States. A police academy, also known as a law enforcement training center, police college, or police university, is a training school for police cadets, designed to prepare them for the law enforcement agency they will be joining upon graduation, or to otherwise certify an individual as a law enforcement officer ...

  7. Protecting Or Policing? - The Huffington Post

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    Indeed, it’s a difficult balance — one that officers mulled during a basic training course at NASRO’s conference. During one session, two instructors spoke with police officers about the matters into which they can intervene, as well as ethical dilemmas they might encounter. Instructors threw around some hypothetical questions at the ...

  8. Knife legislation - Wikipedia

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    Knife legislation is defined as the body of statutory law or case law promulgated or enacted by a government or other governing jurisdiction that prohibits, criminalizes, or restricts the otherwise legal manufacture, importation, sale, transfer, possession, transport, or use of knives.

  9. 6 California police officers paid someone to take college ...

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    The other five officers convicted in the conspiracy to defraud police departments were Patrick Berhan, Amanda Theodosy a.k.a. Nash, Ernesto Mejia-Orozco and Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa, who were ...