Police Procedure

http://youtu.be/yvvGEYrVo_w "When I was in Washington DC, that's when Virginia first passed its concealed carry into law and we in law enforcement thought, 'Oh man, it's going to be terrible, it's going to be the...

"Grand Rapids police expect to move to a 9mm handgun next year and trade in the department's .40 caliber guns," mlive.com. "Police say the decision was made, in part, because many of the existing...

http://youtu.be/cEnKUjk_owM I'm not a SWAT team member nor do I play one on the Internet. But that did not look like a smooth, well-coordinated operation to me. Especially the part where one of the cops who...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-U9S7aV6M#t=21 "I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. They could have been shot because you chose to SWAT my stream. They could have died. I don't give a sh!t...

TTAG previously reposted Mr. John S. Farnam's article, posted on the Defense Training Institute's web site, titled "Police Use of Force."  In that article, Mr. Farnam writes "The problem is not that we’re shooting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-0uqFTBclo "Washington state police are investigating a video uploaded to YouTube that captures the death of a man shot repeatedly by police. The video, taken by a bystander, surfaced Wednesday, a day after the Tuesday shooting death...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_7RG7wL5V8 "'At some point in there, a struggle over one of the officer's weapons occurred,' Smith said. 'At that point an officer-involved shooting happened.'" That's the report at latimes.com quoting Cmdr. Andrew Smith of LAPD's Central Division and...