Houston’s Anti-Gun Police Chief Looking to Hire Officers Who Have Been ‘Defunded’
By Larry Keane
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is rolling out the welcome mat to police frustrated with cities enacting “defund police” policies. Chief Acevedo is looking to fill 400 vacancies and he’s telling police...
California Active Shooter Situation: ‘We Just Ran’
There was a shooting at a gas station in Nipomo, California yesterday that ended with law enforcement officer killing the shooter. Sounds simple, right? In some ways it was, but there's something else to...
Peoria Cops Help Kids Whose Lemonade Stand Was Robbed at Gunpoint
What kind of scum-sucking bottom dwellers rob a kid's lemonade stand? And how pathetic do they have to be to use a gun to do it? Two kids -- 13-year-olds Jude and Tristan --...
Man Shot By Secret Service Threatened and Charged Officer, But Was Unarmed
By Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long, AP
A man shot and wounded by a uniformed Secret Service officer, prompting President Donald Trump to be abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference, had...
Shots Fired at Police as New Riots, Looting Trash Downtown Chicago
It’s pretty frustrating to see this labeled “BLM.” I don’t think these people are “protesting” anything. I think they’re just “assholes.” https://t.co/GaAQA11Aad
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) August 10, 2020
From the AP:
Hundreds of people smashed windows,...
More Americans are Realizing Government and Police Can’t – Or Won’t – Protect You
By Roger Katz
As a NYPD veteran police officer, and adjunct professor/lecturer of police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, National Rifle Association certified firearms instructor (pistol, rifle, and shotgun), and training counselor,...
81% of Black Americans Want the Same or More Police Presence in Their Neighborhoods
America's gun control laws are rooted in racism and disproportionately affect lower income people. These hurdles and restrictions make keeping and bearing arms more expensive and difficult for the people most often affected by crime.
Those...
Charging The Cops Involved in the Breonna Taylor No-Knock Raid Shooting Will Be Difficult
By Dylan Lovan, AP
Despite mounting public pressure to file criminal charges nearly five months after Breonna Taylor's death, prosecutors may face significant obstacles to bringing homicide-related charges against police officers who were shot at...
Minneapolis Police Tell Citizens to Give Up Their Property, Give In to Criminals
This is a natural result of hamstringing and defunding police departments. We've seen a similar situation in Seattle when the chief of police notified businesses that, given new prohibitions on the use of less...
Paroled Felon in the Back of a Chicago Cop Car Pulls a Gun, Shoots...
While handcuffed in the back of a CPD SUV, Lovelle Jordan was able to maneuver his hands in front of his body and pull an "extremely secreted" gun from his "private area" before opening...
Trace: Number of Officers Shot, Wounded and Killed Has Fallen As Violent Crime Has...
Take this for what it's worth. The original study cited here by Michael Boomberg's anti-gun agitprop generation operation relies on the clearly biased and frequently inaccurate Gun Violence Archive.
In a study published in Criminology &...
Blame the Nationwide Surge in Shootings, at Least in Part, on the Minneapolis Effect
As of July 11, 106 people were shot over a 28-day period, marking a sharp increase from 40 people during the same period in 2019, according to data compiled by the Atlanta Police Department.
Victims...