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Council approves cuts to Cal City budget

Council dumps layoff responsibility on mayor

Layoffs possible amid Cal City budget cuts

Photo shows area family posing with guns

Calumet City OKs resolutin to honor longtime resident

Alderman explains 'no' votes

So Holland man found dead in Cal City

Vehicle parking stickers coming to Cal City

Fire official: Deal saved Cal City more than $100K

Retirement resolution approval sparks heated discussion

Cal City man guilty in student's shooting death

City wants to recover towing fees

Ninety years and 'Pops' is still at top of his game

Fiscal year proceeds with financial issues unresolved

SC mayor bans police foot pursuits

Remembering 'Sin Strip'

Car thief calls 911, Taunts officers during pursuit

H.R.218 Prevails in South Dakota Case!!!

Updated 02/20/10

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Home Invasions Targeting Cops

Prepare yourself and your family for a possible home invasion. They happen to cops, too. October 17, 2008 When three suspects assaulted an off-duty LAPD officer at his Gardena, Calif., home, a police spokesperson said it was the first time he'd heard of an officer being a victim of a home invasion robbery. While that may be the case, the crime was not without precedent. One Des Moines (Ill.) police officer found himself and his family held captive with duct tape while a trio of teenagers ransacked his home. Fortunately, neither the officer nor his wife or children were injured.

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4 Cops Charged with Carrying; HR218 to be Tested?

STURGIS, SD – Prosecutors in South Dakota have dismissed a felony assault charge against a Seattle police detective who shot a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club last month during a bar fight.

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Town fires ALL cops with over 20 years service

SOUTHAMPTON, NY – About 100 police officers and their supporters gathered on the steps of Southampton Town Hall yesterday to protest a move by Supervisor Linda Kabot to terminate the jobs of six veteran police officers in the 92-member town police department.

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Praise for Cal City Officers

As Posted in the Shopper - Speak Out Section: Calumet City Police I would like to take this opportunity and thank my law enforcement in Calumet City for responding quickly to serious emergency 911 calls. Its not often good police officers receive praise for their great job. So guys, keep up the good work and stay safe out there. Local Entry Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008 (09:07:10 am CDT)

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Court affirms right to confront witnesses

WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court ruling Wednesday broadly interpreted defendants' rights to confront witnesses against them — in an unusual case of a man accused of killing the witness.

The court ruled 6-3 that a convicted California murderer should get a new trial because his jury heard earlier statements by the victim, his ex-girlfriend, which should have been excluded.

Dwayne Giles was charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Avie, in 2002. Giles claimed he shot her in self-defense. Prosecutors introduced evidence at trial of an earlier statement Avie made to police about Giles' attacks on her after officers responded to a domestic-violence call. Avie said that Giles had accused her of having an affair and then began to choke her.

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Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared for the first time on Thursday that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias.

Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in the landmark 5-to-4 decision, said the Constitution does not allow “the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home.” In so declaring, the majority found that a gun-control law in the nation’s capital went too far in making it nearly impossible to own a handgun.

But the court held that the individual right to possess a gun “for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home” is not unlimited. “It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose,” Justice Scalia wrote.

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White House Police nab Illinois fugitive

By SHANTELE KEMPVANEE and ANITA LITTLEJOHN

When police were called to the Indian Ridge subdivision on June 13, to investigate a suspicious male, he was arrested on an out of state active warrant for burglary.

William A. Jackson, 48, of Calumet City, Illinois, was selling cleaning supplies door to door when Officer Segerson made contact with him and discovered there was an active warrant for his arrest in Cook County, Illinois.

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2 Killed, 3 wounded after attacking Chicago cops

Chicago Tribune: CHICAGO — Shootings by Chicago police since Wednesday have left two men dead and three others injured, including a man wounded Monday night on the West Side. Before the latest shooting, police attributed the spike to a climate of violence in some communities, but some victims' relatives blamed it on overzealous policing. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said three shootings over the weekend involved individuals who confronted police with weapons.

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Supreme Court rules that the police can seize evidence after an arrest

The Associated Press WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police can conduct searches and seize evidence after arrests that may turn out to have violated state law.

The unanimous decision came in a case from Portsmouth, Virginia, where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him for a traffic ticket offense.

David Lee Moore was pulled over for driving on a suspended license. The violation is a minor crime in Virginia and calls for the police to issue a court summons and to let the driver go.

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Law Banning secret compartments in cars thrown out

SPRINGFIELD | The Illinois Supreme Court declared Thursday that a state law banning secret compartments in cars is unconstitutional. A unanimous court said the 1999 law meant to discourage gang members from hiding guns from police was too broad and penalized innocent conduct. Justices ruled on two cases in which police stopped cars with empty air bag compartments. During one, in Cook County in 2004, police found a BB gun. The other, a 2006 stop in Grundy County, turned up a large amount of money.

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Justices to Weigh Search and Consent

WASHINGTON — When an unsuspecting drug dealer opens the door to a police informant masquerading as a customer, is he also opening the door for the police to come in and conduct a search of his home without a warrant?

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to answer that question, which has divided the lower federal courts.

Several federal circuits have adopted what has come to be called a consent-once-removed exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. The theory is that a suspect who consents to the entry of someone who is really an agent of the police is also, albeit unknowingly, agreeing to let the police enter as well. The police do not need a warrant to enter and search a home if they have the permission of a person authorized to give it.

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Supreme Court to review 'exclusionary rule' on evidence

Conservative justices have their eyes on the controversial doctrine that requires judges to throw out anything improperly obtained by police.

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer February 20, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to reconsider the reach of the "exclusionary rule," a doctrine that has been controversial since the 1960s because it requires judges to throw out evidence if it was obtained improperly by the police.

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Illinois high court tosses out time limits on trains blocking rail crossings

By Richard Wronski | Tribune reporter January 26, 2008

An Illinois law aimed at untangling blocked railroad crossings -- long the bane of frustrated motorists and emergency responders -- was thrown out by the state Supreme Court on Friday, raising fears that what little control towns have had over the problem will now be lost.

The court ruled that the state law and similar local ordinances, such as those in Mundelein and other communities, can't prevent trains from sitting at grade crossings for long periods because federal authority trumps such restrictions, even though there is no U.S. law limiting blockages.

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Updated 10/18/08