BREAKING: Police Scanner Recording Reveals Plan to Burn Dorner Cabin

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdqybEfy9w Nick reported this last night when the audio recording of the police scanner wasn't exactly clear. It seemed that the cops had planned to burn down the cabin where ex-LAPD and cop killer Christopher...

Quote of the Day: Politically Unrealistic Edition

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  "Liberals criticize stop-and-frisk because those stopped and frisked and sent to jail under New York's draconian gun enforcement are disproportionately black and Hispanic. Never mind that those who commit murders and those who are...

I Didn’t Even Notice Until Muir Pointed It Out . . .

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All seven of those "no hesitation" targets are white people.

NY Gov. to Exempt Film and TV Industry from SAFE Act

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  As we reported when the New York's SAFE Act was passed, the bill forgot to exempt police from magazine capacity limits. (That's what happens when you rush a piece of legislation through the Assembly,...

New DHS Drones to ID Firearms Carriers

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Well d'uh. Why wouldn't the Department of Homeland Security want their Predator B drones--currently deployed on our northern and southern borders---to be able to ID individual groundlings and detect whether or not the two-legged...

Question of the Day: Is This What Cops Should Look Like?

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Regular readers know I'm a little touchy on the subject of police militarization. As in I'm dead set against it. The proliferation of up-armored LEOs and the increasing use of these AR-wielding civilians for...

What’s Wrong With This Picture: Pellet Gun Takedown Edition

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"Officers were dispatched to the 2100 block of South Bertelsen Road near West 18th Avenue," registerguard.com reports. "A resident of the area had reported that a man was wandering around outside a duplex and pointing...

Update: LAPD Pay-Up for Pickup

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A reader writes: FYI, yesterday's blog post about the compensation offered to the victims of a mistaken identity LA PD shooting  ("Keep your truck and FOAD") was based on an NBC-Los Angeles article from Mar....

Defending Your Castle in Bloombergia

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Let's say you're the Linen King of New York. And having a palatial east side apartment that can draw the wrong kind of attention from the peasants, you're confronted one night by a burglar...

OMG! A Monopod! OMG! [Based on a True Story]

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"A student with a bloody nose left his Talbot East classroom around 8:30 p.m. on Monday night and saw a monopod that he mistook for a gun in a bathroom ," chimes.biola.edu reports. "He...

Ban Umbrellas!

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"A man carrying an umbrella at N.C. A&T on Friday morning may have triggered a nearly three-hour lockdown at the campus and eight nearby public schools," news-record.com reports. "Campus police made that determination...

Question of the Day: Do You Know When Not to Draw?

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A number of readers have sent this picture in to TTAG central, obviously taken in the immediate aftermath of one of the explosions in Boston today. As one reader comments, "Although not related to...