Law_Crime

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Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on 'Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel speaks during a news conference at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A gunman opened fire in the baggage claim area at the airport Friday, killing several people and wounding others before being taken into custody in an attack that sent panicked passengers running out of the terminal and onto the tarmac, authorities said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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More police officers have died in the line of duty this year than in 2017. That's according to data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The organization said in a report Thursday that 144 federal, state and local officers have died so far in 2018. Last year 129 died. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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FILE — In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, mourners and police officers from around the country attend a memorial service before the funeral for fallen Florence police officer Sgt. Terrence Carraway at the Florence Center in Florence, S.C. Sgt. Carraway was killed in the line of duty Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. More police officers have died in the line of duty this year than in 2017. That's according to data compiled by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The organization said in a report Thursday that 144 federal, state and local officers have died so far in 2018. That's up from the 129 who died last year. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro, File)

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Neighbors carry the coffin that contain the remains of 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin into her grandparent's home in San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. The body of a 7-year-old girl who died while in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol was handed over to family members in her native Guatemala on Monday for a last goodbye. (AP Photo/ Oliver de Ros)

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Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law Monday, June 4, 2018, in Lakewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **

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In this Nov. 29, 2018, photo, Michael Cohen walks out of federal court in New York. A pattern of deception by advisers to President Donald Trump, aimed at covering up Russia-related contacts during the 2016 campaign and transition, has unspooled bit by bit in criminal cases from special counsel Robert Mueller. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

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This undated photo provided by the Newman Police Department shows officer Ronil Singh of Newman Police Department who was killed by an unidentified suspect. The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department said Singh was conducting a traffic stop early Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in the town of Newman, Calif. when he called out "shots fired" over his radio. (Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department via AP)

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Gary Mendell

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Douglas Grensted abandoned his wife Barbara and daughters Beth and Lynne when he faked his death after leaving for a hunting trip in 1968 in Grover Beach, California. (Photo courtesy Lynne Grensted Thurston)

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Catalan riot police charge against demonstrators as they try to approach the site where Spain's cabinet held a meeting in Barcelona on Friday. Scuffles between radical separatists and police are angering some peaceful pro-independence supporters. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Karen Monahan has watched her fellow progressives — some of whom were once her colleagues — turn on her after she went public in August with abuse allegations against her ex-boyfriend, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s newly elected attorney general. (Image courtesy of Karen Monahan)

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Free speech advocates say the blueprints for a 3D-printed gun are protected under the First Amendment and a federal judge's ruling to restrict distribution online is a violation of the Constitution. (Associated PRess) **FILE**

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FILE - In this June 23, 2015, file photo, Border Patrol agents wait for other units in the Animas Valley in New Mexico's boot heel area. A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, picked up with her father and dozens of other migrants along the remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, has died, federal officials said Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walks down the steps of the Pentagon, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

OPIOIDS

Law enforcement authorities are learning that the traditional approach to curbing drug abuse isn’t working. Instead, the opioid crisis has forced police across the country to assume unfamiliar roles as drug counselors and social workers. (Associated Press/File)

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Illustration on the First Step Act and U.S. prison reform by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Arie Kouandjio attended Alabama after playing for DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. He said he didn't feel any pressure to stay in-state. (Associated Press/File)

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Musician Jonathan Richman, left, joins a group of anti-death penalty advocates attending a rally in downtown San Francisco. Kevin Cooper, 60, is still awaiting execution for the 1983 Chino Hills hatchet and knife killings of four people. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris says California's governor should allow advanced DNA testing that advocates say could exonerate a death row inmate, Friday, May 18, 2018. The 60-year-old inmate was convicted of the 1983 Los Angeles-area hatchet and knife killings of four people. Kevin Cooper's clemency request is being reviewed by Gov. Jerry Brown's office. Two previous DNA tests concluded Cooper was the killer. California hasn't executed anyone since 2006. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)