Police Procedure

Presence St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago has a "no guns" policy that goes well beyond what is required by Illinois law. Last week, security there ejected a uniformed, on-duty Chicago Police officer visiting a...

By Michael Tarm, AP Extended security and body-cam video released Tuesday shows Chicago police shooting an unarmed short-order cook at the foot of a subway escalator and then again with his back turned to officers...

In March, three plainclothes officers of the Louisville Police Department, driving and unmarked car, reportedly burst into an apartment where Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker were sleeping. Believing it to be a...

By Bruce Schreiner and Rebecca Reynolds Yonker, AP Video released by police shows a popular barbecue stand operator firing a gun as officers approached his business in Louisville shortly before he was shot to death,...

By Brian Saady The graphic video from the killing of Daniel Shaver was released after the jury decided to acquit ex-Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford of second-degree murder and reckless manslaughter. The Mesa police department and Mesa...

As we've noted time and again since the entire 'defund the police' movement gained traction and began to be implemented around the country (Minneapolis, Seattle, Oakland, San Diego, Austin, New York, Los Angeles, even...

Proponents of the right to private gun possession have long noted that the police are not always available to be of assistance, certainly not in sufficient time to prevent criminal action. A commonly-heard refrain...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has commuted the seven-year prison sentence of Brian Aitken, freeing the Garden State native in time for Christmas. Aitken was convicted of various weapons charges relating to a trio...

FLETC, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, is a facility in Georgia where over 90 federal agencies send their new recruits to be trained as law enforcement officers. That includes firearms handling, and is sometimes a recruit's...

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. And sometimes things happen so fast, nothing you do (or don't) makes a difference anyway. Fortunately for NYPD Officer Thomas Richards, he was carrying a spare...

By John V. The 2011 NYPD Annual Firearms Discharge Report drives a stake through the sacred mantra that self defense handgun shots must be aimed using the sights. The NYPD gauges officers' success in close quarters...

Do you run a law enforcement agency? Maybe one in, oh, Chicago or California? You know, a designated civil rights-abrogation zone that's been confiscating firearms just as fast as your officers possibly can? Maybe...