Police Procedure

http://youtu.be/1XExqABO4kc You don't really need a backstory to this gone-viral video. We publish it here because the entire incident was rifle-related. It all started when a man named Colin Fitch purchased a .22 caliber long gun....

The ASPCA believes that most instances of police shootings of dogs are avoidable. The Force Continuum concept has been helpful in reducing unnecessary injuries to the public and professionals in encounters with potentially...

“Officer Gilkerson has a tremendous love for animals,” Chief Whitehead told toledoblade.com. “At no point in our careers as officers do we hope to pull a firearm and have to shoot anyone or anything....

http://youtu.be/pgJS8jMwlqo "A SWAT team sent to handle an alleged neighborhood dispute over dog waste ended up killing the dog, and igniting a firestorm of criticism against the local police force," nydailynews.com reports. Wait. What? Why...

"Cops shot a 25-year-old man after he jumped in the backseat of their unmarked squad car and grabbed a sergeant's pistol in Brooklyn early Sunday," nydailynews.com reports. "Authorities say the suspect hopped in the...

"All I see is guns pointed at me, officers coming through the door. I hear, 'boom, boom, boom,' two to three times," reports wftv.com. That's how King Baker described being awoken Thursday by members...

http://youtu.be/CiJbHiQTe2c The YouTube video involving a brace of La Quinta, California cops and pair of citizens above is highlighted by freethoughtproject.com. As regular readers know, context is everything. Here's cameraman Alejandro Natividad's account of what...

Surveying the evidence released by various sources, it seems probable that the grand jury will not indict Officer Darren Wilson, the man who shot and killed African-American teen Michael Brown. Quoting anonymous sources, the...

http://youtu.be/2Iigvm5iPkU "The video, captured by a police car dashboard camera , appears to show six police officers gunning down Milton Hall, 49, in broad daylight, during a tense confrontation in a Saginaw parking lot," huffingtonpost.com...

"I've been involved in about five standoff situations where, as soon as the MARV showed up, the person gives up, saving time, money and increasing safety." That's Sheriff's Capt. Greg Bean paean to his 2001...

When I worked as an EMT in Fairfax, the radios we were issued had a big orange button on the top that we were never supposed to press. Unless we really needed it. That...

"Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department refused to release data about what license plates police cameras had captured on the grounds that every single car...