Police Procedure

  I've written a large numbers of posts attacking the up-armoring and military mindsetting of U.S. police. My main point: SWAT comes in, civil liberties go out. America moves closer to a police state. Meanwhile,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsBGfytvZHE The North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) are tooling-up with the SIG SAUER P226 in .357SIG. Given that the NCSHP has 1600 sworn officers, the order's probably around 2k guns. SIG's press release (after the...

The photo above shows an application for a pistol permit as used by the Watervliet, New York police department. It comes to us from "Mazz," a member of the nyfirearms.com forum . As you can see the...

http://youtu.be/pgJS8jMwlqo "A SWAT team sent to handle an alleged neighborhood dispute over dog waste ended up killing the dog, and igniting a firestorm of criticism against the local police force," nydailynews.com reports. Wait. What? Why...

Reader Ben W. writes: I share this story that happened a few days ago to an acquaintance of mine who lives a few blocks away from me. It's a perfect example of why, regardless of...

TTAG reader Chip in South Florida writes: I just had a job cross my desk that I found interesting and thought you, too, would get a kick out of it. The Chief of Police of my...

McLennan County has released autopsy reports on nine bikers killed in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported Thursday. Not included with information released to the public are the ballistic reports,...

The relationship between the police and motorcycle clubs isn't exactly cordial. We've seen what can result from that tension in Waco recently, and the justice system is still trying to figure out what the heck happened....

After the American Revolutionary War, New York legislators didn't include gun rights in their state constitution. They considered firearms freedom too obvious to include. And any legal protection redundant, thanks to the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. And so it was -- until 1911. That's...

On July 23, 2015, in Citrus County, Florida, Robert Doyle and Candelario Gonzalez had a very bad day. Both men made intemperate statements during a road rage incident. Gonzalez had his wife and two...

"A program intended to help police officers identify where a shooting happens, get there quicker and ultimately cut down on crime has been stripped from the proposed city budget because city leaders said it's...

"The Orlando Police Department and other agencies performed strongly during the Pulse nightclub massacre, but additional training is needed to improve communication and prepare for future terror attacks, officials wrote in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department...