Police Procedure

"Gardai are calling for the return of high-powered machine guns to the force," irishindependent.ie reports, "after a sudden escalation in gangland violence in the capital in the last few days." And don't be giving us...

"The Chicago police officer who killed Quintonio LeGrier has filed a lawsuit against the teen's estate," cnn.com reports. "In a counterclaim filed last week, Officer Robert Rialmo alleges the 19-year-old whom he shot dead...

"San Francisco added a new gun control law to the books Tuesday by mandating storage requirements for firearms left in unattended vehicles," sfexaminer.com reports. "Gun owners will have to ensure, if they leave their...

Syracuse University Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado issued the following statement after several of his officers lost four shotguns off the back of a truck on the way back from training In...

"I fled my marital home in my mid-20s with whatever I could fit in a truck," Erin Easter writes at Fairfield, California's dailyrepublic.com. "My ex-husband immediately began a campaign of harassment and stalking that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJh4jTACSG4 By Brandon via concealednation.org Irving, Texas police were confronted with a bad situation Friday afternoon when an armed man took an employee hostage in the parking lot. A suspect robbed the Cash Store and decided to take a female...

https://youtu.be/RO-yvJ02dAc "Connecticut officers who drew their stun guns on the job last year were more likely to fire when the suspect was black or Hispanic, according to a first-of-its-kind set of statistics that could stoke the...

"Robert 'LaVoy' Finicum, the spokesman of the refuge occupation, was shot and killed after he charged police during a roadside stop north of Burns on Tuesday, according to a man on Facebook who claims...

The Washington Post reports that the FBI and Oregon State Police have surrounded and quarantined the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, "where a small cast of gun-toting, cowboy hat and camouflage-wearing anti-government activists." (Harsh much?) The move comes after one...

"One person was killed as authorities arrested a group of people involved with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge," cnn.com reports. The police arrested Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox and...

(Republished with permission from The Force Science Institute) In the wake of Ferguson and the anti-police firestorm that episode ignited, The Washington Post determined to do what no government agency had done: catalog the essential facts...

"The NYPD is spending more than $700,000 to buy automatic rifles for cops assigned to the Emergency Services Unit, the Daily News has learned. The purchase means every cop assigned to the elite unit will...