Policing 2023: America Is Losing
I’ve been keeping an eye on the fallout from the “defund the police” bowel movement. This article is a summation …
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Can The FBI Be Trusted?
I had no idea I was a white supremacist! More than 30 years ago now, I was the founding director …
Illinois: Too Much To Ask
We know beyond any doubt Illinois is a D/S/C hellhole. The communist-dominated state legislature recently gleefully decriminalized a wide variety …
Deconstructing Our Centurions
In Destroy Merit, Destroy Lives I wrote about the similarities between the problems we’re increasingly seeing in policing and teaching. I …
Destroy Merit, Destroy Lives
Pretty much anyone paying attention knows about the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police. I …
The Second Civil War #46: Memphis
Early March, 1991. I was then in the second decade of my police service and saw the Rodney King video. …
The Daniel Shaver Case: Sort Of Justice
On 12-12-17, at the request of readers, I wrote Daniel Shaver: A Bad Shoot. It was the story of Shaver, …
The Waukesha Massacre: Harbinger Of A National Divorce?
One would think this a major news story, a story with, as they say, legs. A madman drives through a …
Police IQ In An Equitable, Meritless Society
Circa November, 2022, the state of policing, particularly in America’s blue cities, continues to deteriorate. Convinced by local, state and …
Parkland, Florida: Evil Again 12
Four years and nine months after the Parkland massacre, justice of a sort has finally been done. The killer, who …
You’re On Your Own, 2022–UPDATED
I have often, in writing about firearms and general personal and family security issues asserted, gentle readers, you’re on your …
Guns? You Don’t Need Guns; Let The Professionals Handle It
It was October, 2017, when I last wrote on the topic of police firearm training and general marksmanship under pressure. …
School Attacks: When Things Fall Apart
In a comment in response to School Attacks 2022, Part 4: We’re On Our Own, regular reader/commenter optimisticallypessimistic wrote:
Illinois: State Of Insanity
This is an article about cop knowledge, cop wisdom. Cops know Normal Americans—rational people—sometimes, somewhat, resent them. They’re driving along, …
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