Quote of the Day: Generally Speaking Edition
"The information that we had did not have any juveniles in the house and did not have any juveniles in the room. We generally do not introduce these disorienting devices when they're present." - Billings...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: North Lake College Active Shooter Drills
"Dozens of students at North Lake College in Irving feared for their lives on Friday. They heard gunfire and saw police inside the nursing building." Another maladjusted wacko running amok with a gun?...
Incendiary Image of the Day: I’ll Show That Cheating SOB Editon
Ain't social media grand? From wonkette.com: "Pictured above is Detroit internal affairs (heh?) officer Angelica Robinson, who tweeted this angsty self-portrait after finding out that her lover, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee, was sexin’...
Ban No-Knock Raids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDr0yilHTA&list=UUQKgBZFuqIfUHlvroG24XSg&index=1&feature=plcp
"Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has issued an apology after narcotics detectives raided the wrong home and pointed a gun at its 76-year-old female resident," sfgate.com reports. "Burbank said the woman was not injured when...
NYPD Officer Kills Unarmed National Guardsman
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...
Quote of the Day: Cops Are Civilians Too Edition
"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...
TASER and LEOs: Closerthanthis [Video NSFW]
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...
Will TASER AXON Flex Camera Keep Cops Honest?
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...
Wyoming Open Carry Case Cause for Concern?
"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...
OMG! Shotgun Shells! In My Garage! OMG!
"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...
To Shoot or Not to Shoot – That is the Question
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...
Gun Owners and LEOs: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
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...