Police Procedure

"A grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict a Texas trooper  who fired from a helicopter on a fleeing pickup truck along the U.S.-Mexico border, killing two Guatemalan immigrants," the AP reports. "The DPS...

  Class, say hello to MIRANDA. MIRANDA stands for Millimetre Wave Radar using Analogue and New Digital Approach. Here's a nice man from defenceiq.com to explain who MIRANDA is and what she can do to keep us all...

On Monday, September 9, 2013, the Concord, NH city council voted 11 to 4 to accept a Department of Homeland Security grant to furnish a new Lennco Bearcat armored assault vehicle. The Bearcat is intended...

Do you run a law enforcement agency? Maybe one in, oh, Chicago or California? You know, a designated civil rights-abrogation zone that's been confiscating firearms just as fast as your officers possibly can? Maybe...

"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...

"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."...

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...

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...

"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

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...

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...

"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,"...