How TASERs Kill
Under most conditions, TASERs are non-lethal. Sometimes, however, they're not. If the TASEee has "excited delirium syndrome" the result can be fatal. So how do first (or second or third) responders know if the...
How To Spin Officer Involved Shootings
The Force Science Institute's latest email blast features Rick Rosenthal. Rick's a "veteran TV news anchor" (left WGN TV in '93) turned law enforcement consultant. In other words, he tells the cops how to spin...
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Cops Should Strike for Gun Control
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MORGAN: Every time one of these things happens -- Gabrielle Giffords last year, this shooting here -- there's an outrage and then very quickly it dissipates. The American people quite quickly go back to...
Vernon CT Cops Dump Beanbag Rounds for “Less Than Lethal” Glock 36
"Vernon police want to phase out their arsenal of bean bag-propelling shotguns on favor of a more efficient 'less than lethal' weapons system," vernon.patch.com reports. "Police are asking permission from the Town Council to trade...
What Price Perfection? Huge Milwaukee Glock Buy Draws Criticism
It can't be easy running a public entity in a time of austerity. With a stagnant economy, fewer taxpayers employed and home foreclosures rampant, tax receipts are shrinking. What's a dedicated public servant to...
Quote of the Day: Swords to Plowshares Edition
“This is just one way to take a destructive weapon and turn it into something positive for society. Now they can be a small part of the foundation holding our community together.” - Nicole...
Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Bang.
It doesn't appear that Andrew Lee Scott had heard many knock knock jokes before because he forgot to ask who was there last night. Unfortunately for him, it was deputies from the Lake County...
Vegas Cops Move from Canines to Primates
At least they didn't claim they thought they were pit bulls. But as people like Charla Nash and Andrew Oberle can tell you, a 170 lb. rampaging chimpanzee - let alone two - is...
Molecular Scanner Takes the “Stop” Out of “Stop and Frisk” Policing
"Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away," gizmodo.com...
Detroit Police Chief: Adaisha Miller Shooting Was an Accident
Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. met the press yesterday to give the po-po's "official" account of 25-year-old Adaisha Miller shooting death. The Chief said Miss Miller was dancing with Officer Issac Parrish. She...
Department of Defense Miltarizing U.S. Police. Again. Still.
"The Coon Rapids Police Department has received a donation of M16A1 rifles rifles shoot a .223 round, which is a considerable upgrade in ballistic power from the department’s existing .40 caliber rifles,”...
Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy and Armed Citizens (Or the Lack Thereof)
chicagomag.com offers a profile of Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy. The not-so-puffy puff piece piece focused on the top cop's inability to reduce Chicago's soaring murder rate. "Two months after McCarthy arrived, the murder toll—the...