Monday, January 27, 2014 (No) Honor Among Thugs Like countless other people, Los Angeles resident Sergio Arreola was the victim of criminal violence by the police, and forced to defend himself in court because his assailants were encouraged to lie and allowed to do so without punishment. The Pomona, California police officers who beat Arreola […]

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 “Cooperate” With the Police — Or Be Assaulted in Front of Your Children Post Falls K9 “officer” Andor and his handler.  “See – this is what happens when you don’t cooperate with the police!” snarled Neil Uhrig as he pinned Melissa Miller to the floor of her home. It’s not clear […]

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 How To Kill a Law Enforcement Career: Criticize Revenue Farming The arrival of a 450-ton, 380-foot-long “megaload” of oil refinery equipment near Marsing, Idaho last Christmas attracted the attention of protesters, spectators, and revenue farmers. A few days later it moved on, leaving in its wake scores of people who had […]

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 The Verdict: Murder as an Official Entitlement Support Your Local Police, Orange County Chapter: Anaheim cops respond to an anti-police protest.  “Among other lessons we’ve learned in this trial,” pontificated Judge William Froeberg just before a jury acquitted Kelly Thomas’s killers, “is that violence begets violence.”  This statement was either a […]

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 The Right to Resist — and the Duty to Interpose “Get on the floor! Get on the floor!” ordered the assailant, dragging the college-age victim into a campus building and shoving him to the ground in front of an astonished student. As the vessel of his wrath curled up in a […]

Monday, January 7, 2013 Lights, Camera — Entrapment! Homeland Security Theater in Portland Osman Barre, a Somali-born software engineer living in Portland, Oregon, was concerned that his teenage son Mohamed Osman Mohamud was being radicalized by exposure to jihadist literature. Barre expressed his concerns to the FBI, which quite helpfully arranged for two of its […]

Monday, January 14, 2013 From Undercover Narco-Creeper to Police Chief Craig Kingsbury, the veteran bureaucrat who was recently appointed to head the Nampa, Idaho Police Department, began his law enforcement career by hanging out near schools and buying drugs in what should be seen as an attempt to stimulate the local narco-economy. As a 23-year-old […]

Saturday, January 19, 2013 Put Not Your Trust In Federalized Sheriffs He sold his soul at a steep discount: Richard Rich (l.) displays the badge he earned through collaboration. “You look depressed.” “I was lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.” “You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very […]