How One City Kept the Peace After a White Cop/Black Suspect Officer-Involved Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrQyUQCJS0
This article originally appeared at forcescience.org and is reprinted here with permission
Stripped to its bare bones, the incident had the ingredients of another racial firestorm: A white cop with a prior shooting on his...
California Republicans: Confiscate More Guns!
I'm a Second Amendment absolutist. If someone has served their time for a criminal offense, if they've finished their probationary period, they should have their gun rights restored. Period. Also, if someone is too mentally...
Deconstructing a Warrantless Traffic Stop, Or What Illinois’ Finest Think of Your Fourth Amendment...
Reader Mike Kane writes:
I sell packaging equipment for other companies and recently designed my own machine. One customer wanted details about how it works, and being reluctant to send pictures or video over the Internet...
Business Opportunity for the New Millennium: Training Dogs to Assume the Position
It's come to this in the state of citizen/LEO relations: if by some misfortune you find yourself interfacing with a member of the local constabulary and your hound is anywhere in the immediate area,...
Force Science: Can an Armed Suspect Holding an AR-15 in a “Non-Threatening” Position Outshoot...
via The Force Science Institute:
DEADLY DOMESTIC. The shooting occurred in Elgin, a hamlet of fewer than 500 families that sits at a highway crossroads in the wheat and cattle country of northeastern Oregon. At 0730...
Hey Moms! This Is Where “Children” Get Their “Crime Guns” in Flint, MI
Where'd they get the gun? That's what gun control advocates demand each and every time there's a crime or negligent discharge involving a "child" (a slippery category that usually includes teenage gang bangers). The clear implication: if the...
AZ Cop Mows Down Rogue Rifleman
https://youtu.be/ZAQhBUH0SZ8
When local station ABC7 posted this video on their Facebook page, they "forgot" to mention that the man hit by the cop car stole the rifle from Walmart, pointed it at his own head several...
Anti-SWATting NJ Legislator SWATted
"Swatting" means calling in to 911 to report a dangerous situation that requires a SWAT team to deal with it. A situation that doesn't exist. (That probably doesn't require a SWAT team but that's another...
Lessons Learned From an Officer-Involved Shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YABUAqepj20
By Brandon via concealednation.org
Body-cam videos of officer-involved shootings give us a unique first-person perspective into deadly force encounters. There are lots of active self-protection lessons to be learned here. Could you have solved the...
BREAKING: Gunfight Erupts at Islamic Cartoon Exhibit as Officers Thwart a Possible Terrorist Attack
The injured security guard has been released from the hospital. He's A-OK.
Reports are coming in that there has been a shooting outside an Islamic cartoon exhibit in Garland, Texas. According to local news...
Texas HB593 May Mean Fewer Dead Dogs
Reader DH has some good news for our four-legged friends:
Canines across Texas are rejoicing, as HB 593 which requires law enforcement officers to receive canine encounter training, passed the Texas Senate today. It will...
My Worst Nightmare
"A sheriff's deputy responding to a home invasion shot the homeowner in the neck Thursday because he refused to drop his gun," bradenton.com reports. "Two deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office encountered...