Police Procedure

Imagine Harvey Johnson Jr.’s surprise. On Tuesday, Jackson Mississippi's mayor announced that crime in the southern city had fallen 6.7 percent year over year. Violent crime fell a whopping 27.3 percent. Good news, right?...

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If men are from Mars (solution-seekers) and women are from Venus (empathy junkies), the news media is from Venus. Click to clickondetroit.com to watch a TV-led kumbaya klatsch of police officers who survived the...

Once again, I'm forced to scrape a headline in its entirety. I mean, how do you improve on that? To paraphrase a famous British TV ad, the story does exactly what it says on...

If someone's aiming a gun at you, you are in deep, deep trouble. You have exactly three options, attack (shooting first might work), retreat (dive for cover if cover be had) or face the...

Here's another subject we've covered before: the necessity of saying absolutely niente to the police after a self-defense shooting. Other than something general like "My life was in danger. I'll give you a statement...

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I don't carry a Taser. It's one too many weapons systems for me. But if someone wants to carry a stun gun instead of gun, or in addition to a gun, why not? More...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vUYeJXSrA&feature=player_embedded Philadelphia. It's only a matter of time before the cops shoot an open carry advocate. Whose fault would that be? Who would that please?

"The four-hour exercise is scheduled for Saturday at Treynor High School in western Iowa and includes police, firefighters and hospitals," foxnews.com reports. "Officials say the drill's fake scenario would involve a teen...

Good afternoon, You all have likely received e-mails and/or phone calls from constituents who are questioning why the Washington State Patrol is inquiring about recent gun sales, specifically involving AR-15 rifles. The WSP has a rifle...

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=8705 Never mind whether or not the officer in question was justified in shooting the perp. What in the world was she doing behind the car door? Cover? Concealment? Why did she shoot over the...