UPDATE: Boy Who Shot SWAT Skates
"More than a week after a young boy pulled the trigger of an Officer's gun, causing it to accidentally discharge at a children’s event, Lodi Police Chief Mark Helms issued a statement about the...
British Understatement
"On Wednesday, 4 September at approximately 1800hrs two uniformed officers approached a man in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to verify his identity," the Metropolitan Police statement conceded. "The man was satisfactorily identified."...
Question of the Day: Whatcha Gonna Do If They Come for You?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7zYKgDTuDA
"There were probably worse consequences in some of the other August reports," Tim Lynch avers at policemisconduct.net, "but the DeKalb case didn’t result from a mere momentary lapse in judgment. It resulted from an environment where...
BREAKING: AR SWAT Team [Not Shown] Take Out 107-Year-Old Perp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VJaNVHa88
"Police were called to a home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas," cnn.com reports. ''When they arrived, they were able to determine that an aggravated assault had occurred against two people at the residence,' Lt. David...
Quote of the Day: I’ll Take Door Number Two, Monte
"Police did not make clear whether the officer’s weapon malfunctioned or whether the officer inadvertently pulled the trigger." - Marcus K. Garner and Ben Gray in Police: DeKalb officer shot teen skipping school
State Trooper Draws Gun On Undercover Cops [NSFW]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vx4vGNytSc
A New Jersey State Trooper pulls a gun on undercover cops. The party gets started at 6:38. The tape shows the cops carpet bombing each other with f-bombs. "You don't know what goes on...
Annals of Police Militarization: Something In The Air
By Hasdrubal
Well, here's another example of the 'militarization of police.' As usual, it sounds pretty bad. Or at least, it's made to sound bad. Armed officers swarming out of the woods to perform compliance...
Lodi, CA SWAT ND Down to “Holster Issues.” Or Not.
"A Lodi Police SWAT officer had a Glock 35 with a flashlight in his thigh holster at a children’s reading event when a boy managed to pull the trigger and shoot the officer,"...
From the Annals of Police Militarization: How Many NDs Don’t We Hear About?
"A former member of the Pharr police SWAT team has sued a colleague and the city after suffering a gunshot wound to the leg two years ago during a training exercise the victim...
DS ARMS SA58 PARA: Man the Barricades! Or Not.
"The history of the FN FAL is replete with stories of hard men who chose the 7.62x51mm NATO-chambered rifle, officially Fabrique Nationale’s Fusil Automatique Léger or 'Light Automatic Rifle,' when lives depended on their...
Irresponsible Gun Owners of the Day: Deputies Dejay Barber and Matthew Rincon
"An apparent booze-fueled dispute over loud music between two groups at a Chino campground over the weekend escalated to the point where men from both sides drew guns and opened fire." Yes, yes, a...
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: How’s That Whole School Resource Officer...
"A gun belonging to a York County Sheriff’s Office deputy accidentally discharged Monday morning outside York High School," charlotteobserver.com reports. "The gun discharged into a sidewalk at the school, on S.C. 5 a short distance...