Police Procedure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhkE3VTuPhk A grand jury found "no criminal wrongdoing" in the case of a Portland police officer who shot a homeless man named Jack Dale Collins. According to the police report, Collins was approaching officer Walters...

Greed motivated these skinheads the Omaha.com headline informs. Specifically, "What motivated the group was much simpler than the race-based ideology of some of its members, said Mickey Leadingham, the resident agent...

Forget about trigger-happy cops for a moment. Let's talk about law enforcement's reluctance to use deadly force (a.k.a. restraint). And poor marksmanship. And stopping power, or lack thereof. A debate brought to you by...

At our request, Steve Tuttle of Taser International sent us this statement about the Tasering of a 10-year-old by a Morgan County, Indiana police officer: While there are considerable safety margins for use of...

German ammunition manufacturer Scheiße AG has announced the availability of a "revolutionary" cartridge designed to wound - but not fatally injure - a human target. Designated the Scheiße Ich Lüge, the bullet itself is designed to break the skin, but not penetrate through muscle tissue, organs, or bone, dissipating the kinetic energy throughout the body to render the target unconscious.

Officer John Foshee would have been our Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day. But I've already awarded that dubious distinction to a mother whose firearms tolerance proved fatal. So let's just say that...

Earlier this month, infowars.com commentator Mossberg500 (no bias there) was not happy to hear that the U.S. Department of Education was buying 27 shotguns. "Their first mistake was purchasing Remington shotguns when they could...

You may remember that investigators traced one of the guns used by Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell to the Memphis police. The cops sold the 9mm Taurus to a still-unnamed gun dealer in 2008....

Maine's Manchester Union Leader is attempting to hold the Hillsborough County Sheriff Department's feet to the fire for its failure to remove firearms from a man they were ordered to disarm. On October 20,...

Once upon a time, England was known for the fact that its police didn't carry firearms. At least by Americans, whose law enforcement officials have been armed and dangerous for well over a hundred...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHQIEKrTpSk "The guns, a Beretta shotgun and a Sig. Sauer 9 mm duty weapon, and ammunition had been locked in the trunk of a 2005 Honda Accord that was reported stolen March 17...

Is it me or does this seem like a really bad idea? I mean, sure, removing illegal or broken ass guns from a community is a good thing. But if you reward people for...