Author - Sandy Malone

Managing Editor - twitter.com/SandyMalone_ - Prior to joining The Police Tribune, Sandy wrote the Politics.Net column for the Wall Street Journal and was managing editor of Campaigns & Elections magazine. More recently, she was an internationally-syndicated columnist for Conde Nast (BRIDES), The Huffington Post, and Monsters and Critics. Sandy is married to a retired police captain and former SWAT commander.
Nov 27
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Felon With Long History Of Pulling Guns On Cops Shoots Officer With AK-47

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Daytona Beach, FL – A man carrying an AK-47 around town shot a Daytona Beach police officer on Sunday night, and police have said it was not the first time he has shot at them. Raymond Roberts, 40, is a convicted felon who should not be in a possession of a gun, WKMG reported. On […]

Nov 27
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VIDEO: ‘Protesters’ Assault ICE Agents During Arrest, 27 People Arrested

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Raleigh, NC – Protesters blocked government vehicles and assaulted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who arrested an undocumented immigrant on Friday (video below). Samuel Oliver-Bruno had been hiding in the CityWell United Methodist Church in Durham for almost a year while he petitioned for his deportation to be delayed, The News & Observer […]

Nov 27
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BREAKING: Active Shooter Reported At Walter Reed

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Bethesda, MD – Staff and patients are taking cover as authorities responded to an active shooter situation at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda on Tuesday afternoon. A “code white” alert was sent out shortly after 2 p.m. from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Emergency Notification System that warned of […]

Nov 27
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Man Tries Running Down People Outside Of Synagogue While Yelling Racial Slurs

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Los Angeles, CA – Authorities are treating the attempted ramming of two men with a vehicle in front of a Los Angeles synagogue on Friday as a hate crime. The incident began at about 9 p.m. on Nov. 23 when two men walked out of Congregation Bais Yehuda synagogue in Fairfax, KTTV reported. The men […]

Nov 27
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Man Claims Police Arrested Him For Embarrassing Them At Gun Buyback

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Miami, FL – A shooting instructor and gun collector was arrested after he made a scene at a gun buyback event and accused the city of Miami of “ripping people off.” John Gillis told the Miami New Times that he contacted the Miami Police Department ahead of their scheduled buyback day to find out what […]

Nov 27
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36-Year-Old Man Used Snapchat To Lure 12-Year-Old Girl Into Sexual Assault

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Emmitsburg, MD – Police have arrested a 36-year-old man who pretended to be a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat in order to rape a 12-year-old girl. Authorities first became aware of John Warren Compton’s sexual contact with the minor girl on Aug. 16 when she contacted police about a week after she was raped, The Frederick […]

Nov 26
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Teacher Guns Down Ex’s Girlfriend In Front Of Children

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Midvale, UT – A high school yoga and health teacher shot her ex-husband’s girlfriend to death in front of their toddlers on Sunday. The Salt Lake Tribune said the incident began when 32-year-old Chelsea Watrous Cook went to her ex-husband’s apartment to drop off cold medicine for one of their three-year-old twins. Cook, a health […]

Nov 26
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Good Samaritan Gets Shot 8 Times While Checking On Concerned Neighbor’s House

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Barstow, CA – A good Samaritan neighbor was shot multiple times by would-be burglars when he went to check on the noises his neighbor heard outside her own house. The series of events that led to the death of 41-year-old Patrick Smith began when police received a 911 call about a burglary in the 800-block […]

Nov 26
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VIDEO: Officers Order Suspect To Put Hands Up, Then He Drops Them

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Milwaukee, WI – Newly released bodycam video showed what happened when two Milwaukee police officers encountered a suspect reported to be armed on a rooftop (video below). The shootings occurred on the afternoon of Aug. 31, 2017, when officers responded to a call for an armed suspect on the roof of a building, Milwaukee Journal […]

Nov 26
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Family Of Cop Killer Writes Letter To Murdered Officer’s Widow

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By Sandy Malone and Holly Matkin South Salt Lake, UT – The family of the man who murdered a rookie police officer has reached out to his widow and child. Felix Anthony Calata, 32, ran over South Salt Lake Police Officer David Romrell with his vehicle Nov. 24, killing him, KSTU reported. The fatal encounter […]

Nov 26
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Boston PD Commish Calls Out ACLU ‘Paper Warriors’ For Helping MS-13

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Boston, MA – The top cop of the Boston police force took some shots at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a posting to his personal Facebook page on Saturday. The ACLU of Massachusetts is part of a lawsuit that alleges the Boston Police Department uses racial profiling in its internal system for monitoring […]

Nov 21
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Congressional Candidate Supports Violent Felon, Then He Murders Ex-Wife

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Cleveland, OH – A congresswoman who had been poised to take a run at U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-California) for Speaker of the House dropped out of the running on Tuesday, after having to explain her prior support for an alleged murderer. U.S. Representative Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) wrote a letter of support on behalf of […]

Nov 21
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Parkland Shooting Incident Commander Resigns After Damning Report

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Fort Lauderdale, FL – The Broward police captain who botched the police response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School submitted her resignation to Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, effective Nov. 20. On Nov. 15, the state commission investigating the incident called Broward Sheriff’s Captain Jan Jordan “ineffective” during the active shooter incident in […]

Nov 21
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Review Panel Suggests Cop Was Fired Over Politics, Orders Reinstatement

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Seattle, WA – A Seattle police officer who was fired in 2016 for a 2014 incident will be reinstated to the police department with full back pay based on the findings of a review panel (video below). Seattle Police Officer Adley Shepherd was one of three Seattle officers who responded to 911 call about a […]

Nov 21
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Denver Detective’s 6-Year-Old Daughter Killed By Wrong-Way Driver

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Limon, CO – A 68-year-old man driving the wrong direction on a major highway struck an off-duty Denver police detective’s vehicle on Saturday, killing his six year-old daughter and the family dog. Denver Police Detective Jared Purdy and his daughter, Reagan, were returning from a hunting trip at about 5:50 pm on Nov. 17 when […]

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