Now Tell Us How Many Shell Casings The NYPD Recovered
And how many of these "recovered" guns were used in a gun crime. And why we would should be impressed by 1147 recovered guns in a city with hundreds of thousands of guns. Both...
Kelly Beemer: Be Careful What You Don’t Wish For
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4QHAwjRJWY
Drunk and stupid go together like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd-fun for awhile but eventually somebody ends up with a giant shotgun blast to the face. As human beings, we strive to beat the...
Maryland Police Pursue Video Biker Boy . . . And Others. Are We There...
I used to watch Max Headroom, starring Matt Frewer and Matt Frewer's voice, which depicted a not-too-distant future UK in which the police only restrained themselves from beating on reporters while the cameras were...
Guns and Lives Take Lives. And This is How Stats Are Manipulated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHz9ILcIPTo
At some unspecified expense to the country's beleaguered taxpayers, the South Yorkshire police (UK) run a program called "Guns and Knives Take Lives." (Yes, people wielding weapons take lives, not the weapons themselves. Can we...
Don’t Complain
"To get along, go along." Complaining about coworkers is a risky play. Management might discipline them, but you'll probably still have to work alongside them. They'll lose your files and badmouth you to everyone...
Lies, Damn Lies and Crime Statistics
Hey, isn't it great that crime is on the wane? We must be doing something right. Or are we? We can certainly pull up stats that say crime is going down. And we can...
Wired Weekend for Baltimore Police
I got myself a DVD set of The Wire for my birthday. The show was renowned for its gritty realism, and despite the violence, even my wife is transfixed by the stories and characters,...
Omaha Gun Amnesty Yields a Box of Broken Ass Guns
Gun amnesties are, of course, a farce. No criminal is his right mind---and what gun-wielding criminal is?---would walk up to a cop and turn in a perfectly good gun. Unless, of course, there was...
Merseyside Police Appeal for Firearms Informants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFzn5XP2jvo
Handguns are banned in the U.K. And yet they haven't disappeared. Rats! Well, informants. That's what the Merseyside Police want to help them continue their anti-gun jihad. This is their PR appeal on that...
Gun Running Redefined
Retired cop Lindsey J. Bertomen is an instructor for the Administration of Justice at Hartnell College (Panther Pride!). He also writes for officer.com on fitness. Although Bertomen steadfastly refuses to condemn any of our full-figured friends in law...
Biker Faces Jail for Recording Gun-Wielding Undercover Cop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8uRxhCftqA
Crap. The cop got caught over-reacting, BIG STYLE, and the D.A. helped the boys in blue circle the wagons. The quote about a "moment of danger" is double crap. But don't take my word...
This Gun Is Hot!
or at least warm. As per the Globe's Metro Desk, Boston police have a new gizmo to link perps with pieces:
When the Bullard TI Commander camera is pointed at a recently discarded handgun, the...