Monday, February 11, 2013 Officer Safety Uber Alles: Christopher Dorner and the “Rickoverian Paradox” The intrepid Captain Phillip Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department has come down with a sudden case of “Blue Flu.” This is an oddly selective malady, one that only afflicts police officers. “Sick-outs” are a common police union tactic in […]

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Ed Flynn: Milwaukee Crime Lord, Citizen Disarmament Advocate Police Chief Ed Flynn of Milwaukee believes that his department is at war with the gun-owning public. In his February 27 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Flynn claimed that “in the last 20 years we’ve been in an arms race” with private […]

Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Never Trust a Costumed Stranger Within the space of seventy-two hours last weekend, three women were detained and sexually assaulted by armed strangers in official-looking costumes. Two of those incidents occurred in Texas, the other happened in Minnesota.  The first attack took place on a highway near Carrollton, Texas on Thursday, […]

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 “No Hesitation” You know the score… You’re not a cop, you’re little people! LAPD Captain Harry Bryant to retired “Blade Runner” Rick Deckard, who was reluctant to resume his career as  a state-licensed killer. Barack Obama’s advertised purpose in visiting Minneapolis on February 4 was to combat the scourge of gun […]

Thursday, December 5, 2013 What’s Wrong with Police in Iceland? In Iceland, police are mourning the unprecedented shooting death of a suspect. In the United States, police are scandalized by the unfamiliar spectacle of an officer using non-lethal means to subdue and arrest an emotionally unstable man who appeared to be armed. Icelandic police are […]

Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Drug War “Justice” in Utah Members of Utah’s most violent gang strike a pose. (Updated and revised) Utah resident Virginia Ward cried on November 18 as she was sentenced to 90 days in jail – and three years of probation — for drug trafficking. This meant that she would join the […]

Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Of Poker and Plunder: Commissarina Olson Strikes Again   In spite of the fact that he has not committed a criminal act, Boise resident Skinner Anderson faces three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Wendy J. Olson, the Soviet-grade legal functionary who afflicts Idaho as U.S. Attorney, has wrung a […]

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 When the Right to Resist Becomes the “Duty to Submit”    Anne Dekins was a loud-mouthed party girl — or at least, that’s what the arrest warrant suggested. Whatever she may have done in the past, Miss Dekins was quietly minding her own business when Officer Samuel Bray found her on […]