Crime and Punishment

In New York State, the battle over the NY SAFE Act (the legislation rushed through the legislature without being read in the immediate wake of the Sandy Hook shootings and bans almost all modern...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v__icFT634s#t=26 Almost a million people have watched this video on YouTube. Back in the day, no one had a video camera upon which to record these sorts of police "antics." If a local newspaper reporter happened...

Continuing our exploration of the theme that America has way too many cops, expanding into a discussion of who the hell needs the ATF anyway . . . "Within hours of the Navy...

  I've written a large numbers of posts attacking the up-armoring and military mindsetting of U.S. police. My main point: SWAT comes in, civil liberties go out. America moves closer to a police state. Meanwhile,...

That's the obvious implication, anyway, from the governor's latest pronouncement that he'd consider sending state assets into Chicago to try to tamp down Murder City's out-of-control violence problem. "Speaking about this week’s mass shooting...

"Militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 25 people, including children, and sending scores fleeing in panic from shops and restaurants onto the streets, according to witnesses and...

"A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable. This kind of shocks the consciousness just like the other high-profile incidents that happen across this country." - Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy...

  A shocking new study produced by Boston University professor Michael Siegel and two other authors has found a link between firearms and firearm-related homicides. Extrapolating the study’s findings to their logical conclusion, it appears...

"Chicago police were making no information about what happened public," chicagotribune.com reports, "Except to say that the shooting appeared to be gang-related." Nuff said? Oh I could say something about the parallel between disarmed...

Here's a fun thought experiment - which piece of news do you think they find more upsetting at Chicago City Hall this week? Is it that a Cook County judge ruled that residents have a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_C8U2LSY0#t=208

  Now there's a surprise: the gunman who launched a horrific attack at the Washington Navy Yard was having mental issues---of which the police were aware. CNN: "Aaron Alexis -- the man authorities say is...