Did NJ’s Anti-Gun Climate Lead to This Roadside Shooting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0OzmH_EPg
Reader Roscoe writes:
I am hardly anti-cop. Having been one, I still carry the experiences and influences that come with the job. But some of the actions I see unfold in certain parts of the...
Brooklyn Cops Planting Guns. Allegedly.
"A Brooklyn man who claimed the police manufactured gun-possession charges against him had his case dismissed on Thursday, amid two investigations into the practices of a group of police officers in the 67th Precinct...
Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet…And One to Let Them Walk Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngOL6LokN4
Albuquerque police officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez were charged on Monday with murder for the March 16, 2014, shooting of James Boyd, a 36-year-old homeless man who (allegedly) was illegally camping in the Albuquerque...
Self-Defense Tip: Do Not Consent to a Police Search of Your Car
It has become a hallmark of advice from lawyers: do not give consent to police to search your vehicle or your home. If they had probable cause to search, they don't need to ask....
Detroit Police Bypassing Parents for Gun Safety Instrux
http://www.kaltura.com/p/557781/sp/55778100/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/12034901/partner_id/557781http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_y0ayyen2/uiconf_id/12034901
Judging from this report you'd be forgiven for thinking there's an epidemic of pint-sized Michiganders getting ahold of their elders' unsecured guns and shooting themselves or their playmates. The words "all too often" and "most...
Shazam! Texas Sheriff Finds Missing M4
"Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said his deputies found a constable’s assault rifle that reportedly had been missing for at least a year," Texas' valleymorningstar.com reports. Wait. "Reportedly missing"? Don't they mean had been missing?...
Eyewitness: Unarmed French Police Arrived at Terrorist Attack, Left
http://youtu.be/ijz-ZtVwLE8
TTAG reader RA writes: "It's unfortunate, but it is hard to stop a shooter when you have no weapon. From paragraph 9 of the CBS article: 'Benoit Bringer, a journalist with Agence Premiere Ligne...
LA County Sheriff Loses Beanbag Shotgun
By Johannes P.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies have lost a beanbag shotgun that went missing from the trunk of a Sheriff's Department vehicle after a 33-mile, hour-long drive from Agoura Hills to Hollywood on Saturday. "The...
Police Attitudes on Armed Self-Defense are Changing
It was not very many years ago that the common refrain echoed by the media after any self defense shooting was that the police advise against "taking the law into your own hands" along...
Note to New York Mayor Bill De Blasio: Fire Some Policemen STAT
Many TTAG readers think I'm anti-cop. Not true. I'm anti bad cop. For the sake of argument, I'd also like to point out that I'm anti-politician. Not bad politician. Politician. I consider all politicians inherently...
Are MD Cops Targeting Out-of-State Gun Owners for Traffic Stop Searches?
"A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to...
NYPD On ‘Virtual Work Stoppage,’ Citizens Still Disarmed
By Johannes P.
Offices of the New York Police Department are reportedly on a "virtual work stoppage" because they "feel betrayed by and fear for their own safety," reports the New York Post. As a result, "traffic...