Police Procedure

Business as usual at the NYPD. It had been almost five weeks since any unarmed citizens had been shot, but New York's finest remedied that when an officer the New York Post described as...

"While we can look like soldiers, sound like soldiers and sometimes even train with soldiers, we're not soldiers (unless the individual officer has membership in National Guard or Reserve military components). These days, it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaAu1n_efuU TASER has donated $300k to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation's Fallen Officer Fund. (Press release after the jump.) That's hardly shocking news. For some reason, gun manufacturers like lavishing big bucks...

http://swfs.bimvid.com/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=KTVK The Internet and cell phone cameras have created a sea change in the public's perception of policing. And not necessarily in a good way. The "bad boyz" caught on camera are sometimes the Boys...

  "A Wyoming sheriff’s deputy who detained a combat veteran in handcuffs for openly carrying a pistol offered to let him go if he agreed to let another deputy draw his weapon and shoot if...

"A Fairborn man who said he suffered second-degree burns to his right arm Monday when a shotgun shell exploded in his garage said he called police because he wanted to make sure nobody else...

It's been a tough couple of weeks for LEOs at TTAG. We've had ongoing discussions about police officers and how they're perceived by civvies in general and gun owners in particular. From our wildly...

By TTAG reader Matt N. I’ve read a lot lately about the disconnect between law enforcement and armed citizens.  The discussion seems to center on examples of police militarization versus cases of police heroism.  Police...

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The following was written by a police officer and TTAG reader who we'll call TS: It would be easy and, in principle, correct to withhold final judgment in any officer involved shooting (OIS). Until all...

Unusual clarity on the gun buyback question from, of all places, upstate New York at democratandchronicle.com: "Criminal justice experts from the U.S. Department of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, Rochester’s current and former...

  "Figures released as part of the semiannual Mayor’s Management Report showed police response times slowed by 42 seconds to 9.1 minutes in the 2012 fiscal year, which ended on June 30," nypost.com reports....