New reports from across the country show that police departments are unable to keep their numbers up as fewer people are applying to be cops and record numbers of cops are seeking early retirement or simply quitting. There is a police recruitment crisis in America but...
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Episode 440: Why Police Reform Won’t Work w/ Former LEO Pat Watson
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 6, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
63 Minutes Some Strong Language Pat Watson is former military/law enforcement and is the host of the Uncensored Tactical Podcast. Pete asked Pat to come on to talk about ways to reform modern policing but it quickly turned into an exposition of governmental...
When “Defund the Police” Will Turn Serious
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Justice, Libertarianism
Defunding the police is only a small part of only one side of the equation. All anti-vice laws must be erased, and the people, individually and in voluntary combination, must be freed -- including freed from taxation -- to see to their own security, their own...
Minneapolis Plans to Abolish the Police guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 8, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #502, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss ongoing George Floyd protests. Will and Kyle break down some of the worst examples of police brutality. Will explains that the protests are now in 100s of American cities and have even spread to Europe. The...
Minneapolis City Council Will Vote To Abolish The Police Department
by Steven Woskow | Jun 7, 2020 | Blog
In spite of the Mayor's opposition, the Minneapolis City Counsel will vote to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and develop a new community based model for the city. The Minneapolis Appeal is reporting that it will be a veto-proof majority. From The Appeal: On...
Episode 414: An Active LEO Talks About Why He’s Quitting and Policing During Covid-19
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 6, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
37 Minutes Safe for Work Pete welcomes an active duty LEO who wants to be identified as Zan to the show. Zan is leaving the force due to a change in ideology but is still on the job. He talks about why he's leaving and answers the big question as to whether most of...
The Louisville Metro Police Department Child Sex Scandal
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Civil libertarians and police corruption watchdogs have much to celebrate these days. The fact that most people are walking around with high definition video cameras in their pockets has done much to shine a light on what these groups have been talking about for...
Episode 363: How The Monopoly On Violence Handles A ‘Libertarian Cop’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 13, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
41 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited John Baeza to come on the show. John recently wrote an article for LewRockwell.com entitled, "How I Survived 3 Years as a Libertarian Cop." John details his successes in applying libertarian principles to monopolistic policing and talks...
Episode 359: Pete Talks About Solutions To Modern Policing And A Host Of Topics
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 3, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
57 Minutes PG-13 Chris McMillon of the Truth Conduit Podcast asked Pete to come on and they talked about a bunch of subjects including solutions to modern policing, Pete's documentary, Pete's books as well as his forthcoming one. Pete also explains the different...
Episode 356: ‘The End of Policing’ with Dr. Alex Vitale
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 27, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
31 Minutes Safe for Work In another throwback episode, Pete welcomed Brooklyn College professor Alex Vitale to the show to talk about his book "The End of Policing." Dr. Vitale talks about how violence by police has been amped up in the last 40 years and talks about...
Eliminating the Horror of Modern Policing
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 11, 2019 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
If people properly understood the role of police in the American system, they would probably trust anyone standing next to them in the grocery store to have their best interests at heart more than a “law enforcement” officer. There’s an important reason for this....
Episode 339: ‘Death to Tyrants’ and Their Police State
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 18, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
47 Minutes PG-13 Pete wanted to do another episode highlighting police abuses throughout the country so he invited Buck Johnson from the "Death to Tyrants" podcast to add to the conversation. Death To Tyrants Podcast Articles Discussed...
What if the Police Don’t Identify Themselves?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 21, 2019 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Anyone who pays attention to cases involving police shootings, especially those that result in a fatality, has noticed that the narrative we first hear coming from the press soon changes. It is no different in the case of Atatiana Jefferson, who was gunned down...
A Redcoat Murders a Colonist in Her Home
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Peter Quinones
If the people heeded the words of certain founders, had an unquenchable thirst for liberty and were not lost in their comfort and seeming security, the headlines in regard to the shooting by a local tax-feeding-jackboot of a 28-year-old woman through the window of her...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
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