Police Procedure

  "A Burleson County Grand Jury declined to indict the man who shot and killed Burleson County Sheriff's Deputy Adam Sowders who was serving a search warrant in December," kbtx.com reports. "Investigators were executing a search...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZFlIK-zAO8 The War on Drugs and police militarization remind me of the scene where Batman says to the Joker "I made you - you made me first." In other words, America's anti-drug laws and our...

We may never know what drove Earl Edward Clague Jr. to ram his car into the Perry, Florida car dealership where he worked and open fire with a shotgun last week. What we do know...

  By Tom in Oregon As a disclosure, I was a full-time police officer during my first defensive gun use, so I was allowed to carry concealed as long as I had ID with me. I...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N30TagPCNE4 Sgt Patrick Hayes writes: YouTube is filled with videos of openly armed citizens interacting with the police. Some open carry advocates make the videos to capture a negative or unlawful police reaction to a legal...

  "The head of a nationwide sheriffs coalition is calling on Vermont's law enforcement officers to defy three controversial gun control measures passed by Burlington voters three weeks ago," foxnews.com reports. "'Sheriffs have a constitutional duty...

"In the weeks since that blood-soaked first day of March, police nationwide have stepped up gun training. More armed patrols visit train stations and public squares. Experts call for quicker use of guns in...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1_W1s2Lgs "On May 1, 2013, Jerry Bledsoe, a police officer, confronted  Klaffer while responding to a noise complaint," thefreethoughtproject.com reports. "Klaffer videotaped the interaction, where Bledsoe issued an ultimatum to Klaffer to surrender his guns...

"John Winkler, 30, was one of three men being held and attacked by a 27-year-old man with a knife at an apartment on Monday night," reuters.com reports. "He and another man ran out of...

Don't say we didn't warn you. "Cole Middleton was doing some repairs at his family’s dairy farm while his wife Jayna was shopping. He got home around 11 a.m. and discovered his house had...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3M_nvQht7-c If I really wanted to be persnickety, I'd say "you can't drive without ice cream" is a mandate to drive without due care and attention. But that would be churlish. My main complaint: I don't...

As much as we bemoan the fact that facts don't trump emotion when it comes to public debate about public safety (e.g., the post-Newtown civilian disarmament surge), they don't. Most people make decisions based...