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Police Officer Gun Control Survey Belies Common “Wisdom”
PoliceOne, a website dedicated to law enforcement personnel, recently conducted a survey of current and former law enforcement officers on gun control. The survey is not going to be liked or...
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Police Myth: Cellphone Guns in the United States
In a post at a great blog, Photography is Not a Crime (PINAC), there is a video of a San Diego, California police officer issuing a citation to for smoking on the boardwalk. The officer tells the...
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Are Police in Bell County, Texas Violating Citizen’s Rights?
A while back I came across a disturbing video from Belton, Texas. Then just a few days ago, a reader sent me a link about another disturbing video from Temple, Texas. Both cities are in Bell County,...
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Hialeah, Florida and the Courts
The City of Hialeah, Florida, just doesn’t seem to get it. Is it something in the water down there? In 1993, Justice Kennedy wrote “Our review confirms that the laws in question were enacted by [City...
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Does Boston Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Security?
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, A Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of...
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Mass. Police (and Citizens) Have Lost Their Mind
I am firmly convinced that Massachusetts has lost its collective mind. An 18-year-old high school student who is known for posting “rap” videos to YouTube and Facebook has been arrested based on the...
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Newark California Police Must Also Believe in the Tooth Fairy
Here we go again. Another California police officer has to inspect a cellphone to make sure that it’s not a gun. Haven’t we gone over this before, both here and at PINAC? In this case, a female...
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Texas Failure to Identify Law, What it Says vs. What Police Think It Says
The Texas Failure to Identify law is fairly simple. Why don’t police get it? It states: (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally refuses to give his name, residence address, or date of...
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Does the DC Police Chief Understand what Civil Disobedience Really Means?
Adam Kokesh has called for an open carry march on Washington, D.C. as an act of civil disobedience. Basically what he wants to do is to push back against the government and stand up for Second...
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Smith v. Baltimore City Police Dept., No. 1:13-CV-1352
D.Md._1-13-cv-01352_1 This is the original complaint in Smith v. BCPD. Smith is alleging that the officers prevented her from filming an arrest by destroying her cellphone, beating her, and filing...
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Cotati, California Police Kick in Door, Taser Disabled Vet without Warrant
According to this Youtube video, officers of the Cotati California Police Department kicked in a door of a residence and tasered a disabled veteran because they residents would not allow them to enter...
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Did the Kern County Sheriff Illegally Seize Videos of Deputies Beating a Man...
It is quite possible that under federal law, the Kern County Sheriff’s Office illegally seized two cellphone videos from citizens. The Privacy Protection Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000aa(a) (hereafter PPA),...
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Downey, California Settles with Widow of Unarmed Man Killed by Police
Michael Lee Nida, with his family On Saturday, October 22, 2011, Michael Nida was filling his car up with gas. A Downey police officer, Officer Steven Gilley, fired a three round, fully automatic...
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Another Example of Police in Texas not Knowing the Law – Corpus Christi
Here we go again, with Texas cops not knowing the law. This time it is out of Corpus Christi and not only one, but two lieutenants are involved. Here are the four videos of the incident. Here the...
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Two Jasper Police Officers Fired for Beating a Prisoner
The video really says it all, and tells officers even more. The first officer, Officer Ricky Grissom, was obviously irritated – note how he hangs up the phone on the prisoner, Keyarika “Shea”...
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Scattershooting
A long time ago in Dallas, there was a sports reporter named Blackie Sherrod, who wrote a weekly Sunday column called “Scattershooting.” In it he would cover a series of news items that interested...
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What an Out-of-Control Police Dept. Looks Like: Middletown, CT
Middletown, CT is a typical New England town of about 47,000, located about halfway between New Haven and Hartford on the Connecticut River. It is also the headquarters for the Connecticut State...
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1 “Resisting” Man + 4 Officers = Death: Hampton, VA
Marlon Dixon, a 41-year-old black man, took medicine for a heart condition. When police contacted him, they decided that he needed to be taken into “Emergency Custody” for a mental evaluation. Marlon...
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Open Carry in Clifton Heights, PA; Mark Florino
A good example of how to handle an open carry stop in Pennsylvania. Mark (who has had several contacts with police while open carrying) determined that he was not suspected of a crime, refused to ID,...
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The Lakeland Shake and Possible Officer Perjury
The Lakeland Police Department is seeing controversy after controversy. An officer (Dustin Fetz) has a female lift up her shirt and shake out her bra looking for drugs (twice), and then searched her...
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