Galveston TX Life Guards Armed and Dangerous
The expansion of police powers to quasi-governmental "auxiliary" groups is a worrying trend. One that's sure to continue as cash-strapped cities and towns try to balance the need to maintain feet on the...
Annals of Police Militarization: Reason TV – The Killing of Michael Nida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1PTcLhtTZw
Texas Trucking Company Wants Compensation for DEA “Botched Sting”
"The DEA is running neck-and-neck with the ATF for the title of most dangerous federal law-enforcement agency; in my view, both should be dissolved and their responsibilities handed over to some more responsible party,...
Off-Duty Cop Refuses To Stop Robbery In Progress, So Shopkeeper Takes Care Of Business
When a Portland man walked into a lunchtime robbery in progress at a downtown Central Drugs store (pictured), he backed out and flagged down an officer driving a marked Portland Police Bureau cruiser a...
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
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...