Electronic Frontier Foundation: ShotSpotter is Too Susceptible to Fraud, Abuse, and Eavesdropping
In addition to history of false positives, the danger it poses to pedestrians and residents, and the company's dubious record of altering data at the behest of police departments, there is also a...
US District Court: Cuffing, Detaining, and Searching Lawful Gun Owners Violates the Fourth Amendment
In 2018, Basel M. Soukaneh stopped his car to check his phone in a questionable area of Waterbury, Connecticut. When he was approached by a police officer, he presented his driver's license and pistol...
Re-Fund the Police: Harlem Businesses Want de Blasio to Bring Back Plain Clothes Cops
Last year, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made a show of de-funding the NYPD to the tune of $1 billion, which included dismantling the department's plain clothes Anti-Crime Unit. Now, with crime and...
One-Third of Chicago Murder Victims Likely Killed By Someone Released Under Illinois ‘Affordable’ Bail...
The Illinois Bail Reform Act of 2017 mandated that judges impose “affordable" bail to criminal suspects arrested by police. Theoretically, the law was to apply only to misdemeanor and minor felony arrests. However Cook...
The Truth Increasingly Loses When Facts Conflict With a Good Narrative
It is simply not debatable that the claims of many popular modern movements are far removed from reality. BLM’s contentions about a near-genocide of African Americans directed by police may be the best example...
NYPD Will Transition Away From the 12-Pound Trigger Duty Guns They’ve Been Using for...
The New York Police Department, in its infinite wisdom, has issued the boys in blue GLOCK, SIG and other handguns with a 12-pound trigger pull for the last century or so. The "reasoning" for...
After Allowing 18 Months of Violent Protests, Portland Wonders Why They Now Include Gunfire
The Portland police bureau charged a 65-year-old man from Gresham, Oregon, over a gunfight in the city’s downtown during violent clashes on Sunday. Authorities say Dennis Anderson drew a concealed handgun and shot at a...
The City of Wichita Raked In Almost $200,000 Selling Seized Guns in the Last...
From the Associated Press . . .
One of he biggest gun dealers in south-central Kansas is the city of Wichita, but it actually received less than half the proceeds from the sales because it...
There’s Now a New Political Standard for the Justifiable Use of Force by Police
We may understand Byrd's fears and not know exactly what was in his mind at the moment he fired. But if police had applied to the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots the same...
BREAKING: Feds Decide Feds Won’t Charge Undercover Armed Fed Discovered at Fed Rally
By Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Colleen Long, AP
A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday’s rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January’s insurrection but will...
Tell Us Defunding the Police Was a Disaster Without Saying ‘Defunding the Police Was...
Like so many large cities across the United States, Portland is currently engulfed in fighting a second pandemic on top of Covid-19.
"In the last year we have seen a stunning amount of gun violence,"...
Alleged Florida Cop Killer Captured After Sheriff Advises Citizens to ‘Blow Him Out the...
A four-day manhunt has come to an end now that former Marine and suspected cop killer Patrick McDowell has been captured by police in northeast Florida. Deputy Josh Moyers stopped McDowell Friday morning and...