Seattle teen apologizes for shoving cop who punched herThe 17-year-old girl has been charged as a juvenile with third-degree assault

Canadian Press

SEATTLE — A Seattle teen shown on video shoving a police officer who then punched her in the face has apologized to the officer in a private meeting.

Seattle police say Officer Ian Walsh accepted the apology yesterday.

Separately, the King County prosecutor charged the 17-year-old girl as a juvenile with third-degree assault, which is punishable by a maximum 30 days in detention.

The incident happened Monday as the teen was intervening in a friend's arrest for jaywalking.

James Kelley of the Urban League of Seattle says he requested yesterday's meeting between the teen and the officer at a community center to help calm the situation.

Police meantime, say the department's civilian-led Office of Professional Accountability is investigating the 39-year-old officer's actions.

Miami-Dade's Newest Officers Sniff Out Weapons

Cheyenne, Zoe Credited With Sniffing Out More Than 50 Weapons

MIAMI -- Two new K9 police dogs are responsible for getting more than 50 illegal weapons off the streets of Miami-Dade in their first few months of service.

 

Cheyenne, a 2-year-old Malinois, and Zoe, a 3-year-old Chocolate Labrador, are the newest crime fighting tools in Miami-Dade police departments arsenal. While most of the K9’s are trained to sniff out drugs or counterfeit money, Cheyenne and Zoe are the first and only two trained to sniff out weapons and ammunition.

 

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“Solvents and powder,” said Zoe’s handler, detective Orestes Sanchez. “We put the odors that we want her to find in a box, the dogs learn ‘I smell it, I find it, I sit down, he plays with me,’ it’s a big game to her,” he said.

 

The weapon-sniffing K9s were introduced for the first time Thursday, during a briefing where police lauded the success of the 3-year-old Gun Bounty program. The program promises a $1,000 reward for any anonymous tip that leads police to an illegal weapon. Of the 432 weapons recovered, Zoe located 42 and Cheyenne found 12 guns.

 

“Cheyenne found a firearm laying in the middle of the field, a 9mm that some subject had run through there and dropped that we didn’t know anything about," said her trainer, detective Scott Silvia. “So some kid could have come through that field and found it.”

 

The idea to train K9s to sniff for weapons came from Major Charles Nanney of the department’s narcotics unit, who saw the need to have a quicker, more powerful tool than humans could provide.

 

“We had one search warrant, where Zoe had a sniff; she was looking up. In the attic under the fiberglass, which we would not have found, were guns,” said Nanney.

I Saw This and Just had to Post It.....What the Hell is Going on in Portland Ore ??

COULD WE HAVE A FEW DRUG DOGS VISIT A FEW CARS LEAVING THE PARKING LOT PLEASE ? TELL THEM TED SAYS HELLO.... VEGANS CAN KISS MY @$$ !!



In mid-May, Portland police Officer James Crooker  went to Southeast Portland on a patrol call. With a few minutes to spare, he decided to get a coffee.
So, he popped into the Red & Black  cafe on Southeast 12th Avenue near Oak Street, bought a coffee and was heading out when a customer approached him, saying she appreciates the hard job that police officers do every day in Portland.
One of the co-owners of the cafe, John Langley,  has another point of view. While the officer and customer were chatting, he walked up and asked Crooker to leave, saying he felt uncomfortable having a uniformed officer in the vegan cafe.
The incident, which was brief, speaks volumes about the tensions between Portland police and some members of the community who are more worried about police shootings than protection.
Crooker said he was surprised to be shown the door but left immediately. He said this marked a first during his nine-year in law enforcement, two in Portland and seven in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
"The places that I've been kicked out of before have been places like the methadone clinic," he said. "I've never been kicked out of a regular cafe."
But the 36-year-old officer, who was born and raised in Portland, said it's all part of working this city's streets in a uniform.
"We have a unique relationship with the community," he said. "You're there to protect them but on the other hand they don't know what that involves. Being gracious is part of it."
A former Marine who served in Iraq, Crooker didn't take the incident to heart.
"It was not personal," he said. "He was being hostile to my uniform," he said.
Langley, who did not raise his voice during the encounter, agreed.
"It's not about the police," Langley said. "It's about what the police represent to many people who frequent the cafe.
The cafe draws vegans -- of course -- along with homeless people and animal-rights and environmental activists who Langley said have been targets of police abuse and harassment.
But the cafe also draws customers like Cornelia Seigneur,  who blogged about the incident on her website.
Seigneur, a freelancer for The Oregonian who was enjoying lunch with her daughter on May 18 when Crooker came in, was the one who approached him.
"There have been some unfortunate situations recently," Seigneur said. "But overall the police are out there day in and day out protecting us."
She said she struck up a conversation with Crooker to show her support for police, who she said saved the life of a friend after he was shot by gang members.
When Langley asked Crooker to leave, she was startled.
"It was shocking," Seigneur said. "Everyone deserves to have a coffee, and he was served a coffee. It was humiliating."
She said there were only about three other people in the cafe and that no else seemed to notice the officer.
But the incident has fired a reaction, with dozens of comments pouring into Seigneur's website.
It's been so overwhelming that she took the blog post down but put it back up Thursday afternoon.
The cafe, too, has received a deluge of calls, with about half supporting the cafe and the rest expressing anger.
"We've received threats," Langley said. "People have threatened to attack us and break our windows."
Still, he has no regrets.
"I never expected a police officer to come into the space," he said. "If it happened again, I wouldn't serve him."

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Just a few days from now and I´m on my way to the Desert Dog Trials 2010 in Scottsdale, Arziona, since 2003 an annual competition with K9-teams from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, etc.
Every year I´m going there to decoy these trials together with my buddy, Sgt. Wim van Bochove of the South-Holland-South PD K9-unit, and every year we have a great "K9-vacation" with our friends from the valley of the sun.
Besides this three day event we spent our time with streetworthyness K9-training, ride alongs and talk about K9-work, ofcourse with sometimes a Bud Light!
In all these years I have seen the average K9-teams become beter and better and that is something I like. More and more teams are streetworthy teams that still can compete in trials. These two things, streetworthyness and competitions, do get along together very well. When there is balance between certificationtraining (obedience, agility, obstacles, attacks, searches) and streetworthyness training this is no problem.

You many not be aware but on 12-31-09 a Anoka County Sheriff’s Department K-9 was shot and killed during a SWAT operation, saving the lives of the SWAT operators. Does anyone know the K-9 handler from Anoka County Sheriff’s Department or any of the SWAT operators?  If so can you please send me their name and any contact information you have.

Thanks

Brad Smith  West Covina PD, CA
Canine Tactical Operations N.T.O.A. National Canine Chairman
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