Police Procedure

In the post-mortem examination of taxi driver Derrick Bird's shotgun spree-killing, the U.K. police have come under fire for not stopping the maniac's mayhem earlier. Why wouldn't they? In a society where even the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA9vClHEFaI&feature=player_embedded Porno actor Stephen Clancy Hill (a.k.a. Steve Driver) jumped to his death, after an LA SWAT team chased him to a cliff. According to the passive construction loving, misplaced pronoun-wielding reporters at news.spreadit.org, Hill "went...

San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore is up for re-election. In the run up to that blessed event, Sheriff Gore is facing mounting criticism for his department's extreme reluctance to issue concealed carry permits to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlO8bkn2I4 Variety reports that Grey's Anatomy's season finale was a hit. The show wasn't as big a hit as last year's finale, but what do you want, blood? Well yes, obviously. Before I share...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjjF55M8JQ&feature=player_embedded You may recall that Farago posted that video of the policeman stopping the motorcyclist in, Why You Should Never Make A Cop Angry or Nervous. Well, posting the video on Youtube sure made the cops...

The above image is from a Connecticut group campaigning against the relocation of a power plant. It gives you a pretty good idea how difficult it is for someone on the ground to figure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjjF55M8JQ&feature=player_embedded Is the biker an armed robber fleeing the scene of the crime? A suspect in a murder? Meanwhile, notice that the plains clothes cop doesn't identify himself as a member of the State Police...

Don't give me grief about this one. I know: day in, day out, SWAT teams risk their lives in the endless pursuit of public safety. THEY are FAR more likely to be killed by...

Our man Kozak's left his luxury digs for the show floor at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Charlotte, N.C. Greeting our intrepid reporter: a Man in Black who has mastered the art of...

The New York TImes reports that "Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but no more likely to be...

I loved Dragnet, Adam-12, Hill Street Blues, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, CSI and a lot of other cop shows. I haven't caught The Wire yet, but the DVD set is on...

The FBI emailed us the following press release, which reveals the starting fact that criminals killed two more agents than agents who died in unspecified accidents (49 vs. 47). According to preliminary statistics released today...