Public Safety Updates

• ON: Number of false alarms an ongoing concern for Brockton council
  12.15.23 – Hamilton Spectator – Brockton – The animal control and bylaw enforcement activity report from August to October 2023 included some numbers that at least one Brockton councillor found concerning. Coun. Tim Elphick noted that the number of false alarms recorded to the end of October was 48, including 26 in the three months in the report.

Featured Articles

• 92% of U.S. Households Have Home Internet Service
  12.11.23 – TV Tech – New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) highlights just how ubiquitous internet service has become..
• The FCC Just Closed a Loophole That Allowed Scammers to …
  12.13.23 – Business Insider – The Federal Communications Commission has elected to close major loopholes used to acquire contact information from and mass-send significant numbers of robocalls and texts to American consumers. FCC commissioners voted 4 to 1 to adopt the new rules on Wednesday, according to a press release.
• Nearly Two-Thirds of Retail Workers Worried About Personal Safety This Holiday Season
  12.11.23 – SSI – SSI Staff – New retail worker safety report highlights how technology, communications, preparedness and training can help retailers create safer stores.

Business Tips      

• Biometric Authentication: The Key to a Secure Digital Future
  12.14.23 -SSI – Kevin Vreeland – Customers have to remember more than 14 passwords on average, and complain about the inefficiency and complexity of authentication.
• The Trust Economy of Systems Integration
  12.12.23 – SSI – Angelo Faenza – End users value integrators who deliver high-performing, elegant solutions that perform, meet their needs, and complement the environment.
• Best Practices for Recommending Thermal Cameras
  12.13.23 – SIW – Malinda D’Amico – Four keys to specifying the technology for perimeter security
• Fire Alarm 411: Equipment and Device Compliance
  12.13.23 – SIW – Ben Adams – A closer look at the rules and regulations that integrators must obey when specifying fire alarm equipment and components

Life Safety

• MO: Burnout triggers nearby business fire alarm, Joplin Police …
  12.13.23 – KOAM – Joplin Police Sgt Andy Blair tells KOAM’s Shannon Becker the 25-year-old male from Joplin was arrested for Careless Driving. The burnout was so intense drivers on Rangeline told us they thought for sure it was a structure fire. The health department was not called, Jimmy John’s remains open regular hours.
• ND: Fargo Police searching for suspect accused of pulling eight …
  12.16.23 – WDAY Radio – Fargo, ND — Fargo Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect accused of pulling fire alarms in multiple hotels …

Crime

• CA: Orange County home ransacked as man escapes with …
  12.11.23 – KTLA – Surveillance video captured a burglar breaking into a home over the weekend and stealing thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewelry in …
• GA: Serial burglars hit dozen Conyers businesses …
  12.12.23 – FOX 5 Atlanta – Conyers, Ga.- Conyers police are asking for help identifying three suspected serial burglars. Investigators say they’re responsible for 12 burglaries or attempted burglaries in the last week. They are accused of smashing windows and front doors to get inside to take money and other goods.
• LA: VIDEO: Burglar falls from ceiling while stealing guns …
  12.13.23 – CBS 42 – Shreveport police say officers saw two suspects fleeing across the roof of the pawn shop when they arrived. One suspect, identified as 19-year- …
• MN: New Hope police seek cat cafe burglar
  12.14.23 – Star Tribune – No one has been arrested in two recent break-ins at the cafe that allows patrons to sip coffee and hang out with cats.
• NY: East Hampton burglary victim in disbelief an ex-cop is the …
  12.13.23 – CT Insider – East Hampton restaurant owner ‘did not believe it’ upon learning suspect in his break-in was a cop. Surveillance video from Loco Perro in East Hampton shows a burglar taking a cash register drawer on March 8. Police have charged a former cop, Patrick Hemingway, with the crime.
• PA: After alarm goes off at Haverford paint store, officers track …
  12.11.23 – Delco Times – Police lost sight of the subject for a brief period of time and notified arriving units of his last known location. Multiple officers arrived and again spotted him under the bridge along the bank of the creek. According to police, they gave verbal commands to drop the firearm and to lay on the ground.
• PA: Seen this person? Cops say they stole $9K from a Lower …
  12.14.23 – Lehigh Valley Live – Lower Saucon Township police are searching for a suspect they say made off with $9,000 from the Plaza Azteca restaurant. The incident happened just after 3:30 a.m. Dec. 6 at the eatery…
• PA: Video shows suspect bringing child along during attempted …
  12.14.23 – 6abc Philadelphia – Philadelphia police are investigating an attempted burglary in which the would-be burglar brought a young child with him.
• SC: Burglars cut hole in business to get to jewelry store next…
  12.12.23 – WSOC – Rock Hill, S.C. – The Rock Hill Police Department said the burglars cut a hole in the nail salon to break into the jewelry store next door Sunday morning. Channel 9′s Ken Lemon spoke with the daughter of the owner of Norman Hege Jewelers, who said the thieves didn’t make off with much.
• TN: Burglars hitch store’s door to truck, steal $5K in phones
  12.11.23 – Memphis, Tenn. – Burglars pulled the door off a mobile phone store by strapping it to the rear of a truck, police said. The crime happened after midnight, about 1:30, Dec. 11, at the T-Mobile Store in Oakhaven, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD).
• TX: Man kills himself after shootout, pursuit with police in Fort …
  12.13.23 – CBS News – The shooting happened around 9 p.m. in the 700 block of N. Beach Street, FWPD said.
• WA: Burglars ram Bothell pot shop’s storefront before fleeing in …
  12.14.23 – KIRO-TV – Bothell, Wash. — Six people and two stolen Hyundais were involved in a smash-and-grab burglary at a Bothell marijuana store early Thursday.
• WA: Internet sleuthing leads to burglary suspect
  12.12.23 – dailyrecordnews.com – Brian Kelly staff … theft victims unofficially joined the investigation and did their own online …
• WI: Thermal device used to capture accused Whiskey Way burglar
  12.13.23 – Barron News Shield – Officers used thermal imaging to search the area around the home and eventually found a man later identified as the defendant. At the time, the defendant was out on bond in connection with active felony cases in Eau Claire and Rusk counties. He was arrested.

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