Police Procedure

"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...

  As we noted with our recent Quote of the Day, firearms prohibition can result in perverse economic incentives. Which is apparently what kept a 500-pound Bronx gang-banger named Wobbles in bidness. "Ten gang members...

Writing for the steadfastly anti-gun latimes.com, Bob Owens of bearingarms.com reckons police shouldn't carry GLOCKs. In the grand tradition of such things, he begins with anecdotes. "Timothy Stansbury died in a New York housing project...

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...

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...

Reader BH writes: The Waukegan, Illinois Police Department received a telephone call on February, 2, 2015. The female caller, later identified as “Roselynn” stated that her boyfriend, former US Army tanker veteran, Alfred DeVost, had...

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...

“'The Department takes very seriously all breaches of Department rules and has established policies that address such matters,' said Lt. Kimberly Schneider." The "such matters" Lt. Schneider's talking about is a rash of shockingly...

I want to make something clear right out front: although Hartford Police Range Administrator Officer Louis Crabtree is innocent until proven guilty, the evidence presented by courant.com is overwhelming. I reckon Officer Crabtree stole...

https://youtu.be/FpD7_JjtInU Context. copblock.org doesn't have any. (They say they're reaching out to the person who emailed the video.) But it looks like the police officer brandishing the GLOCK - albeit with the kind of grip my...

Force Science Institute: By the time an average police recruit completes typical academy firearms training, how much more skilled in shooting is he than a person who has never shot or even held a handgun...

  https://youtu.be/BG-qsBC60Pg Force Science News: Playing video games that involve violent shooting can heighten firing accuracy and influence players to aim for the head, researchers have confirmed in a unique new study. On the positive side, this might...