Friday, August 30, 2013 From the Files of the Nineveh PD Life was uncomplicated for emissaries of the Assyrian Empire. They weren’t burdened by conscience, or hindered by the need to make moral distinctions. Their role was to extract tribute for the king in Nineveh, destroy all potential resistance to his rule, and maintain order. […]

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Pelosi: Willing to “Protect” Syrian Children To Death It’s hard to tell which of these two is worse. Whenever the ruling elite wants to engage in another bout of humanitarian slaughter, it will have its media auxiliaries soften up the public by barraging it with images of innocent people – particularly […]

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 The Pine Bluff PD: From Merely Dysfnctional to Downright Deadly No tactical genius is necessary to bring about a bloodless end to a standoff involving a 107-year-old man armed with a handgun and surrounded by police officers inside an otherwise vacant house. All that is necessary is a willingness on the […]

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 The Enforcement Caste’s War on Women Under what circumstances, if any, is it appropriate for two large men to throw a small woman face-down into a paved street, shattering her face? Is such an act justified because the woman is drunk and unpleasant? Does the moral nature of the assault change […]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 “You Know How to Leave”: Scenes from a Police Riot in Idaho Falls Officer Clark Lund and illegal arrest victim Delosanto Madrigal. “You’re under arrest!” snarled Officer Clark Lund as he lunged into Victor Madrigal’s home, his Taser at the ready. Madrigal had triggered that response by moving to comply with […]

Saturday, May 25, 2013 The Protected Predator Class Deputy Creeper, I presume? Scott Womack in court. In Utah, as elsewhere in the Soyuz, “battering” a police officer is considered an especially grievous crime. Until earlier this year, this offense was treated as a Class A misdemeanor. Under SB 131, a measure enacted earlier this year […]

Monday, September 23, 2013 Making the Victim Pay for the Bullet In overtly totalitarian countries, families of condemned state enemies are often required to pay for the bullets used to execute their loved ones. Two recent federal court rulings indicate that a very similar custom has taken root in proto-Soviet America. On June 3, 2011, […]

Saturday, September 28, 2013 It Won’t Stay in Vegas: The Metro PD’s Homeland Security Theater   “Sovereign” Villain from Central Casting: David Allen Brutsche in court. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has an acute public relations problem: Officers in its employ routinely murder and mutilate innocent people. The established review procedure for police killings […]