German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires

Last July’s shutdown of a GPS vehicle tracking system used by German police to monitor suspects has apparently been traced back to an officer’s incompetent attempt to monitor his daughter’s Internet use with a spy Trojan. As reported by German magazine Der Spiegel, the policeman from Frankfurt am Main planted…

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Ill. mayor suspends embattled police chief

St. Joseph News-Press The mayor of North Chicago announced Tuesday he has placed on paid administrative leave Chief of Police Michael Newsome, and hired a retired police officer to lead an investigation into six cases of alleged excessive use of force by police over the past 18 months. "I do…

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Police Limit Comic: January 1, 2012

Author: Garey McKee Police Limit Comic is published on PoliceOne every Sunday. For more than a decade, the strip’s cast of unnamed characters has been constantly struggling with stresses, not only from the criminal element on the street, but also from the upper echelons of the police department’s top brass,…

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