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'Tis the season for holiday crimes. Every year the holiday season sees an increase in robberies, thefts, scams, and incidents involving impaired driving. 

To try and keep this uptick in crime from stealing your holiday cheer we are passing along crime prevention tips.

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The legalization of marijuana continues to be a hot topic as we recently saw the President pardon thousands of folks with federal marijuana possession charges. Because this topic tends to be controversial we are sticking with our "Pot Talk" series. 

When it comes to our ongoing conversation, we wanted to take a look at the medical side of legalizing marijuana. We are having the conservations with an Addiction Medical Specialist. 

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The legalization of marijuana is a hot topic as we recently saw the President pardon thousands of folks with federal marijuana possession charges. Because this topic tends to be controversial we are continuing our "Pot Talk" series. 

When it comes to our ongoing conversation, we wanted to take a look at the political side of legalizing marijuana. We are having the conservations with State Representative Bob Morris. 

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The legalization of marijuana is a hot topic as we recently saw the President pardon people with federal marijuana possession charges. Because this topic tends to be controversial we are kicking off a brand new series called "Pot Talk." 

When it comes to legalizing marijuana we are starting the conversation by talking with a long-term recovering addict. 

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Everyone meet Tinsley. He is the newest addition to the Fort Wayne Police Department’s Officer Wellness and Community Relations Programs. The therapy dog program has taken about three years for the FWPD to complete, but having the right dog, from the right program, that would fit the FWPD’s effort to put community first, took a lot of time and effort. In the end, the Paws and Stripes College program out of Brevard County, Florida was the right fit.

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Across the country new laws go into effect every year. Here in Indiana, new laws go into effect every July. With the new laws, comes the need for law enforcement to learn how they work. Learning how they work requires many long hours, training sessions, and prosecutor updates. 

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One big impact of the defend the police movement has been the growing lack of respect for police. Unfortunately this rhetoric is giving police officers a negative connotation in much of American society. 

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Plain and simple, police departments across the county cannot afford soft-on-crime policies. As more and more states move toward some of these polices, like Illinois, police officers are finding that leniency only makes criminals more dangerous and civilians less safe.

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In honor of National Police Woman Day on September 12th, today is all about women in policing. 

Women make up just 12% of the law enforcement officers in the country and 3% of police leadership. In an effort to increase women in policing, the Fort Wayne Police Department has joined the 30x30 initiative. The program aims to have women make up 30 percent of the recruits in police training classes by 2030, but the FWPD has a few ideas of their own when it comes to recruiting women. 

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The DEA is attempting to bring awareness to a new drug called “rainbow fentanyl” or rainbow “fent.” As kids are returning back to school, the DEA wants parents to know this drug is being disguised to look like Flintstone vitamins, sidewalk chalk or candy all in an effort to target your kids.

Earlier this month in Arizona, Customs and Border Protection seized roughly 15-thousand colorful fentanyl pills that were strapped to someone’s leg. The DEA says they are working tirelessly to disrupt the drug cartels responsible for trafficking this rainbow fentanyl across the southern border, but it is unfortunately too late as it has already reached 13 states, including Indiana.

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