Police Procedure

Republished with permission from forcescience.org: Probably no single force event raises more questions, inflames more protests, and generates more misperceptions than the police killing of an unarmed suspect. Now, thanks to a new 437-page study published...

https://youtu.be/LrT2KLuuPig Chilling cell phone video surfaced Tuesday of two Louisiana cops killing a 37-year-old man selling music outside a Baton Rouge convenience store after an anonymous caller claimed he had a gun," nydailynews.com reports. "The...

"Patrick Lynch proposes New York City police officers be armed with long guns in light of the swelling number of active shooter incidents and the recent wave of assassinations of police officers," ex-NYPD Tactical Training Unit...

Disclaimer: the video below was released by an attorney and doesn't show his client (the man in the yellow shirt with arms raised) actually being shot. As such, we don't know what, if anything,...

"Adrian Aurs showed up at his estranged wife’s apartment late Friday. The Indianapolis police officer was angry and armed," washingtonpost.com reports. "What he saw in the living room made him even more angry . . . “What...

"Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says he disagrees with city police unions that officers need long guns," boston.com reports, "and he was taken aback by the unions’ demands for new equipment." Wait. What? I thought one...

https://youtu.be/v0TXXnEpWo8 If you believe American anti-gun agitprop, U.K. gun control laws are so effective the police don't need to carry guns! Anyone who's seen MP5-toting cops cruising Heathrow, The City or Buckingham Palace (to name a...

https://youtu.be/pv89_3rrW8Y Republished from a forcescience.org email blast: When are you most likely to experience the shock and potentially deadly consequences of an unintentional discharge: a) While clearing an area in response to a call? b) While performing routine...

"With all the current attacks on law enforcement, some would say that 'times sure have changed' — but they haven’t," Mike Rayburn writes at policeone.com. "There’s always been this underlying disdain for law enforcement,...

As a follow up to yesterday's story about the  West Virginia Police Officer who was allegedly fired for not shooting a suspect, TTAG reader 'sota' points out that the Weirton PD responded to the story in an...

A retired Deputy Police Chief of Detectives in Chicago should be glad that gun carry law reform has been passed. He was shot recently and had to return fire. He wounded his 21-year-old assailant,...

“Every gun dealer is required to know where every gun is at all times. Why aren’t these police departments holding themselves to at least these standards?” California gun rights attorney Chuck Michel, quoted in Police might not know...