Study eyes police-on-police confrontations
Photo credit: AP | A little-known Long Island business organization that has the support of the FBI has stepped up its efforts to provide protection for small drugstores that have been the target of robberies, like the New Year's Eve robbery at Charlie's Family Pharmacy in Seaford that turned deadly as police struggled with the suspect, taking the lives of federal agent John Capano and the suspect. (Dec. 31. 2011)
Robbery suspect, federal agent killed in Seaford
John Capano remembered
The fatal shooting of an off-duty federal agent apparently by a retired police officer in Seaford Dec. 31 is the sort of potentially deadly confrontation involving out-of-uniform officers that happens often, according to documents and experts.
"Those confrontations occur every day, and while most are defused without injury, each contains the seed of tragedy," concluded a 2011 report from the...
