WARNING SHOTS?
National Public Radio just did this story on the International Association of Chiefs of Police conditionally approving warning shots, which have long been verboten in American police work. Not mentioned in the article is...
FERGUSON PART V: WHY OFFICER WILSON WAS JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING AN “UNARMED” MAN
Much of America, including CNN’s Attorney Sunny Hostin, can’t seem to grasp how Officer Darren Wilson could have been justified in shooting an ostensibly unarmed man. If Ms. Hostin got through law school without...
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS
Mark Walters’ nationally syndicated radio show and podcast, Armed American Radio, is one of my favorites. I’m a regular listener and an occasional guest. This past Sunday night, after Mark had completed one of...
AND NOW, FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT…
Among other things, regular readers here know that (A) I don’t usually host guest blogs and (B) as sort of the “resident cop” in the Backwoods Home writers’ stable, I frequently visit criminal justice...
THE COLOR OF JUSTICE
There has been a lot of talk lately about self-defense shootings of black suspects by white people being treated differently than if it had been a white person harmed by an African-American. The perception...