Police Procedure

Let's be clear about this: the Washington Post and the mainstream media have not been clear about the definition of a "crime gun." And yet a proper explanation of the term is crucial to...

Short answer: no. The reason that I say this is not because of how the Australian police reacted to a 12-year-old playing with a toy rifle in his own backyard. Reading the news.com.au report...

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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...

"The Orlando Police Department's year-end review of success and challenges came with a warning from Chief Val Demings for potential cop-killers," orlandosentinel.com reports. "If you pull a gun, or point a gun, at an Orlando police...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRN-m8sppls This info from the Force Science Institute's email blast tells us two things. First, if you become a person of interest to the police, keep your hands in plain sight at all times. And...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1S02FmFIuo Just got an email blast from forcescience.org. A new study by Dr. Gregory Morrison finds law enforcement training woefully inadequate. The former officer and firearms instructor, now an associate CJ professor at Indiana's Ball State...

As you might imagine, as school administrators should imagine, confronting a potential active shooter inside a school is about as dicey a proposition as you can get without sleeping on a craps table. Tactically,...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw5m5t1oa9A At the risk or suggesting that early encounters with corporal punishment left me scarred (and glad of it), there's something slightly kinky about this product. "The StressVest has an adjustable pain penalty," the brochure...

Whoa! A criminal with an authority problem? Whatever happened to those cheeky lads who used to say "Oh dear! Looks like I've been nicked! Oh well, it's a fair cop." msnbc.com is, once again,...

It's not very scientific and it sure ain't American. But John Horgan at scientificamerican.com just up and goes for it in a rant entitled A modest proposal for curbing homicides: Socialism. Well, not at first....