Police Procedure

"Police were searching the area of Sixth Street after a reported burglary when they spotted the suspect, Charles Cole," officer.com reports. "Officials said that Cole became verbally aggressive and then assaulted an officer during...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dImvLn4Kiog&feature=youtu.be TTAG reader JF writes: It seems NRA commentator Dom Raso just doesn't get the pitfalls of up-arming every cop in America to the point where they could fight the Decepticons. He's made a new video...

"Armed personnel from the Environmental Protection Agency raided The Rooter Guys on Tracey Road Thursday morning," cdapress.com reports. "EPA spokesman Mark MacIntyre the EPA's Criminal Enforcement Unit was armed . . . Jared Jasper,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fmdAS_Z6CY “We were looking for a lost child,” an Salt Lake City police officer tells dog owner Sean Kendall. “He entered the yard looking for a lost child. He was threatened by the dog and shot the dog....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcaBK7vLOl8 We're getting there! Those X-ray glasses coveted by comic book-reading kids -- see nekkid women! -- are almost here. As the video above points out, the Mini-Z X-ray gun uses the same backscatter technology that outraged Americans who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7lpcdScqHs TTAG reader Vhyrus writes: I am from this area so this hits close to home. A prisoner was being transported by police when he became aggressive and began struggling. At one point he was on...

Truth be told, we've already run a story about a woman who secreted a firearm in her vagina. In that case, Jennifer McCarthy was hiding her gat from her boyfriend. In today's tale (so to speak),...

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 TTAG reader BG writes: As a cop, how should I encounter a belligerent possibly intoxicated person open carrying a long gun? After several reports of irrational or possible drunken behavior of an obviously armed person?...

I finally finished reading Radley Balko's book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces. RF did a brief preview of the book last year when it came out, but never got...

"As a bowler pocketed his $21 refund just after midnight at the Kenmore Lanes in February, he had to contend with an off-duty Kenmore police officer – moonlighting as a security guard – who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJQKCe1ej1o Sgt Patrick Hayes saw the Jerry Miculek video on open carry protocol. He couldn't agree more: There have been a number of news stories recently concerning folks running around with long guns. Most were from...

"Ohio is a traditional open-carry state," wikipedia.org informs. "The open-carry of firearms by those who legally possess the firearm is a legal activity in Ohio with or without a license. While legal, the practice...