Police Procedure

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This story pushes so many of TTAG's buttons it makes Lt. Sulu look chronically under-employed. More than a few members of our Armed Intelligentsia sent me the link to this morning's newsobserver.com, wherein we...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by5_8SpGX-E So Taser sends me a Tweet linking to Dr. Keith Wesley's study on Excited Delirium. That's the name given to the tendency of Tased perps to up and die on their police handlers. Unlike...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqGtbPzayzs The Ozzies are not big fans of guns. Not for their largely disarmed populace and now, not for the police either. While I'm not shocked by the numbers of Taser deployments, I wonder if...

This morning, I read Paul Markel's column for officer.com: Firearms Training Sanity Check; Why do we train the way we do? The answer: "Rather than examine or address any deficiencies in the curriculum or...

Every now and then, with great but no longer alarming regularity, the British Nanny State gently presses down on the jackboot lying across their subjects' throats. Individual freedoms within The Land of Hope and Glory have...

In a recent post, I interviewed Paul Markel. The Marine gun guru decried the woeful state of police gunfighting skills, berating the majority of forces for failing to embody the warrior spirit. Some commentators took Mr....

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"A journalist smuggled a replica handgun into the European Parliament in Brussels as Prince Charles walked past him," mirror.co.uk reports. "Yann-Antony Noghes, reporting for French TV, slipped through an unguarded side door with the...

The LaPorte Medical School was founded in 1842. The mid-west's first teaching hospital opened its doors the same year that Dr. Crawford Long invented gas anesthesia---which took years (and another champion) to become accepted...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvztEp6NBRw I respect the police. You've got to respect anyone willing to lay their life on the line for total strangers, which includes me and my family. I've give the po-po props despite my firmly-held...

Sorry I only got to this story today, whilst cleaning out my email accounts. But it's worth the wait---if you suffer from low blood pressure. "Officers armed with M4 Rifles stood guard outside a...