What’s Wrong With This Picture: Pellet Gun Takedown Edition
"Officers were dispatched to the 2100 block of South Bertelsen Road near West 18th Avenue," registerguard.com reports. "A resident of the area had reported that a man was wandering around outside a duplex and pointing...
NY Cops Shoot Herkimer Shooter and Brooklyn Teen
"Authorities on Thursday killed a man suspected of shooting dead four people a day earlier in separate incidents at a barbershop and a car wash in neighboring upstate New York towns," reuters.com reports. This...
California Confiscation on Such a Winter’s Day
The People of the Gun are getting jumpy. And no wonder. They're getting jumped. Post-Newtown, more than one hundred pieces of state and local gun control legislation are wending their way through their respective legislatures. New...
Question of the Day: Is This What Cops Should Look Like?
Regular readers know I'm a little touchy on the subject of police militarization. As in I'm dead set against it. The proliferation of up-armored LEOs and the increasing use of these AR-wielding civilians for...
This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: Operation Clean Halls Edition
"Jay Victorino was standing outside his mother's apartment when he was grabbed by police, and he says if she hadn't come downstairs to identify him he would've been arrested on a trespassing charge," the...
Cops in Schools? We Can Do Better Than That!
"Sean McCutcheon---an officer in the Lloyd, N.Y., police department and a school resource officer (SRO) for Highland Central School District ---accidentally discharged his gun at 1:38 p.m. Tuesday in the hallway of Highland High...
Man’s Best Friendly Fire
In the aptly named Memphis neighborhood of Nutbush, Officer Calvin Taylor was shot right in the, uh, leg, by a brother officer attempting to execute a search warrant. And fight off three pit bulls...
The Truth About the DHS’s MRAPs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pS9aw5pcJo
There's been a lot of internet buzz about the Department of Homeland Security's "new" MRAPs (a.k.a., tanks). I've been holding off posting about the story; there's a lot of bad intel out there about...
Answering the Tough Questions: What Do I Do Until the Police Arrive?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AQ1WBb81BE
By Eddie Devir
Undercover citizens can pose difficult questions to unsuspecting police officers. Especially in - surprise! - New York and New Jersey. "Um, officer? What happens between dialing 911 and the time the first...
New DHS Drones to ID Firearms Carriers
Well d'uh. Why wouldn't the Department of Homeland Security want their Predator B drones--currently deployed on our northern and southern borders---to be able to ID individual groundlings and detect whether or not the two-legged...
Quote of the Day: The 43% Solution Edition
"We know that most rapists choose a victim they know, so what the GOP is telling you is that your best option to prevent rape is to pull a gun on someone you're familiar...
NY Gov. to Exempt Film and TV Industry from SAFE Act
As we reported when the New York's SAFE Act was passed, the bill forgot to exempt police from magazine capacity limits. (That's what happens when you rush a piece of legislation through the Assembly,...