LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 235, recorded on 05/08/2017, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Kevin Bouis (Attorney), Bret Bartlett, Mark Hopper, David D’Agresta and Cody Ann Cook. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for Attorney Kevin Bouis) are active or retired law enforcement officers.

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Topic 1 concerns two plainclothes Chicago Police officers who were shot with a high-powered rifle in an area with a street gang problem.

https://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/articles/337399006-2-Chicago-officers-wounded-during-encounter-suspects-at-large/

https://www.policeone.com/gangs/articles/337935006-2-Chicago-cops-shot-with-rifle-in-area-where-gangs-increasingly-use-high-powered-guns/

Topic 2 concerns serious problems with Chicago Police officers being unable to obtain certification to carry assault weapons, sometimes taking years to get, because of a shortage of instructors. Aldermen Christopher Taliaferro and Anthony Napolitano, Edward Burke and Willie Cochran are referenced in the story.

https://www.policeone.com/Officer-Safety/articles/338073006-Chicago-shooting-prompts-push-to-better-arm-police-officers/

Topic 3 concerns U.S. Attorney Corey Amundson announcing that Baton Rouge (Louisiana) Police officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II did nothing to warrant being charged in the shooting death of convicted felon Alton Sterling.

https://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/articles/337328006-Report-No-charges-for-officers-in-Alton-Sterling-shooting/

https://www.policeone.com/officer-misconduct-internal-affairs/articles/337531006-US-attorney-details-why-no-charges-in-Alton-Sterling-case/

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