Quote of the Day: This Is Not Who We Are Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYONo5LeWDs
“The incident portrayed on the video is not a typical interaction between our public safety officers and the public.” - City of Rohnert Park statement in Northern California cop placed on leave after pulling...
Jon Wayne Taylor to Law Enforcement: How to Deal with Gun Owners
I often hear that no matter what a member of law enforcement is telling you to do, you should obey the officer immediately. People often argue that the only safe thing to do is...
CA Cop Draws Gun on YouTuber: “Are You Some Kind of Crazy Constitutionalist?” [NSFW]
https://youtu.be/gDV6-ryjcJ8
I don't know the backstory to this clip. I'm sure there is one and it's relevant. At 3:18, the videographer says to the cop "you guys have done enough to my family." Regardless, and even...
An Anti-Gun Meme is Born: “Sheepdog Fife”
Tex300BLK called it in our article Washington Post: “Watch what happens when regular people try to use handguns in self-defense.” "This is the straw man we have been made into," Tex300BLK wrote. "The bumbling incompetent 'civilian'...
Huffington Post’s Tim Mullen: Cops Should Stay at the Station and Wait for a...
Over at huffingtonpost.com, Tim Mullen has a radical idea on how to prevent dubious officer-involved shootings and civil rights abuses: confine cops to their station until they're needed. You know; like firemen. No really. "If...
Idaho Lawyer: Threat to Take Infant Invalidates Gun Charge
When a warrant was served in an Idaho murder case on December 3, 2014, a woman, one of the suspects' fiancee, Sophia D. Sanchez, was just leaving the house. She was questioned before being...
Question of the Day: Are Police Bodycams a Boon or a Bandaid?
We've seen lots of bodycam footage of officer-involved shootings in the last year or so since the Michael Brown shooting. As more and more police departments video officer interactions with the general public, we're getting better...
North Carolina SWATting: Gun Owners’ Kobayashi Maru?
"Newton, North Carolina police say around 10:30 Saturday night someone called claiming they were Sean Prince, Karen's son," wbtv.com reports. "The caller also used the mother's address. The caller informed them he shot and killed...
The Atlantic Asks Uncomfortable (And Familiar) Questions About the Waco Biker Shooting
"Why is Waco, Texas, fighting to suppress multiple videos of the shootout that killed nine bikers at the Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17? Why are some attorneys in the case now prohibited from...
Force Science Institute: “Don’t Shoot At Vehicles” Police Policy Ill-Advised
Force Science Institute writes:
A growing number of agencies are specifying in policy that moving motor vehicles per se should no longer be considered deadly threats and that officers should not use deadly force to...
A Good Shoot, But . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=47&v=-1vOxHMP6Bw
I'm glad that Las Vegas Patrol Officer Brian Kroening survived the obvious lethal threat against his life in the video above. I reckon it's a "good shoot." That said, as someone with academic and...
Contest Entry: “L-Lincoln, L-Lincoln 5”
By Bud Harton
After coming home from Vietnam, I became a patrol officer in a small department in the south suburbs of Chicago. Although having spent almost three years in heavy combat, I was way...