Several years ago when I was a patrol sergeant we made it a practice to have new officers coming into the agency and onto our shift show us what they knew relating to critical tasks for the job. We wanted to know, tactically, where they stood and what we needed to work on to make ...
A man who brandished and fired a handgun while walking near the Northern Arizona University's Flagstaff campus was killed by police Monday in a shootout after he tried to carjack a vehicle in a busy intersection, authorities said.
The shooting of Verl Bedonie, 26, of Tuba City, ...
Seven Clinton, N.C., police officers and a member of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol were on administrative leave Monday after they fired on an armed man to end a stand off in a Burger King parking lot. The suspensions for the officers are standard procedure whenever law ...
As cops shout about the “war on cops” and activists try to debunk that any such war exists, we are missing the real point: which is that we are at the low-point of a cycle that repeats itself every 10 to 15 years or so.
That problem is cynicism.
Right now, the media and activists ...
Last week the chief of the Brooklyn Park, Minn., police department released a video from last November that shows Officer Sean Hyman in a fight for his life. The incident began as a simple loud music complaint. After initial contact with the car's occupant, 25-year-old Lance Carr, ...
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