2013 has been a dark year as far as police brutality and corruption is concerned. No longer does the phrase “isolated incident” or “bad apple” apply. Americans have been privy to gruesome and debauched acts of cruelty from California to New York and they are anything but “isolated.” It seems …

After being caught on camera shoving a 15 year old girl, Phoenix PD Officer Patrick Larrison received a 40-hour suspension for his use of force.

Welcome Back, Killer William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com (With apologies to John Sebastian) Welcome back — your badge was your ticket out…. Erick Gelhaus, the Sonoma County, California Sheriff’s Deputy who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, has returned to “duty.” Gelhaus and an unidentified deputy spotted Lopez walking …

‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.’ -George Orwell   TomDispatch.com By Chase Madar If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or …

By William Norman Grigg 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 part of the officers to …

LewRockwell.com  By William Norman Grigg Pro Libertate Blog     Either as a result of their hyper-acute sense of smell, or an instinctive ability to decipher behavioral cues, dogs have an uncanny ability to detect fear. Owing to the relentless indoctrination they undergo regarding the primacy of “officer safety” and the …

Washington’s Blog October 22, 2013 Wired notes: James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and former defense attorney, notes in his excellent lecture on why it is never a good idea to talk to the police: Image: Do you break the law? Estimates of the current size of the body of federal …