Kalven: Robust Transparency is the Antidote to Police Departments’ Attempts to Create Self-Serving Narratives...
https://youtu.be/y-KmlSnExnQ
As was widely expected, found “Halley’s use of deadly force was consistent with Chicago Police Department policy.” Although Augustus’s movements were ambiguous and could plausibly be interpreted in different ways (Was he perhaps...
St. Louis Police Fighting ‘Progressive’ Mayor’s New Civilian Oversight Board
By Jim Salter, AP
Eight years after Michael Brown’s death pushed the St. Louis region front and center into the national debate over police accountability, the city’s elected officials and its police associations are at odds over...
90 Cops Patrolling Schools Don’t Give Uvalde Parents Much Comfort As Schools Open September...
By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber, AP
Even though Uvalde's school police chief is now gone, Mario Jimenez doesn't feel any safer about sending his 10-year-old son back to class for the first time...
Illinois State Police Making House Calls, Seizing Guns To Bring Revoked FOID Holders Into...
Though most people don't know it, the Illinois State Police (ISP) now make house calls. However, they aren't coming to welcome new neighbors or bring good cheer. Instead, they're coming to confiscate the firearms...
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: FBI Agent Shoots Himself in a...
Ah yes. Another gun that somehow "went off." As the local yokels who toil in Philly's media milieu put it, FBI agent shot in leg when weapon accidentally discharges at Philadelphia courthouse. We'd title...
Georgia Man Charged with Double Murder in Killing of Two Deputies Serving an Arrest...
From the AP . . .
Authorities charged a man with murder Friday in the killing of two sheriff's deputies serving an arrest warrant on another person outside a suburban home near Atlanta.
Cobb County Police...
NFA Follies: A Texas Sheriff’s Office Auctions Off At Least One Unregistered NFA Item
Demonstrating yet again that NFA restrictions are arbitrary, capricious, and absurd, here in Texas the Bastrop County Sheriff's Office is auctioning off some seized firearms. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that hidden in...
Detroit Cop Tries to Shoot a Dog, Hits His Partner Instead [VIDEO]
Detroit Police Commander Brian Harris said; "The dog charged at the officers, the officers fearing for their safety, one officer fired one round at the dog. The round didn’t strike the dog, it struck...
Data Shows Gun ‘Buybacks’ Waste Tax Dollars, are Ineffective at Reducing Crime, Suicides…So Why...
By Salam Fatohi
Recently, Pew Charitable Trusts explored gun buyback programs and their ability to reduce crime. A “gun buyback program,” or GBP, is a local government program that purchases unwanted firearms. The premise that the government...
Video Shows Denver Cops Wound 6 Bystanders In Addition to the Bad Guy…Out of...
Denver police officers faced an armed bad guy who drew down on them in the midst of a busy bar crowd at 1:35 a.m. The cops engaged, firing their sidearms, scoring seven hits out...
Portland’s Mayor Wants to Buy the Questionable ShotSpotter System to Fix the City’s Endemic...
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has decided to move forward with a controversial technology that claims to detect and pinpoint gunshots throughout the city.
The Focused Intervention Team’s Community Oversight Group, or FITCOG, recommended the city...
Uvalde School District Suspends, Reassigns Everyone On Its Police Force
If, like most of America, you've moved on and haven't been paying attention to the continued fallout from the manifold failures at Robb Elementary School that made the Uvalde school shooting far worse than...