Dallas Police unlikely target for ambush

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Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
1:37 p.m. EDT July 8, 2016

Three months ago, Dallas Police Chief David Brown walked out of a meeting at the White House and announced that he would join a small group of departments that would publicly release detailed data on officer-involved shootings.

The new website, which was part of a program initiated by President Obama to improve relations between officers and their communities, details every use-of-force incident over the past 12 years, including all shootings and the names of officers involved. At the time, Brown said it was another critical step to improve communication between his officers and the people of his hometown.

"We try our best to be transparent — and I can tell you that not all cops like it," Brown wrote in The Dallas Morning News at the time. "It does open us up to criticism, threats and exposure of every mistake we make. But it's the right thing to do."

That partly explains why Brown expressed such shock on Friday that a sniper who "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers" over violence against black citizens targeted his department, killing five officers and wounding seven others. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Brown revamped the department to encourage more community policing and minimize violent encounters between officers and citizens ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/07/08/dallas-police-department-shootings/86848986/

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1. anyone, anywhere in this country can be the target of a lunatic with a private arsenal nt