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Salon.com
November 1, 2000
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Killer cops The slaying of actor Anthony Dwain Lee by a black officer is evidence that many black cops have the same prejudices as their white colleagues...   |
Salon.com
October 19, 2000
Ashley Fantz |
Fatal mistake In a outrageous example of police incompetence, cops burst into the wrong home during a drug raid and kill an elderly African-American man... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
IDB America
June 2004
Charo Quesada |
The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment. |
Fast Company
September 2004
Keith H. Hammonds |
"Nothing Is Easy in Iraq. But You Can't Not Do It." A British brigadier on the rebuilding of Iraq's police force. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
ifeminists
October 27, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Never get naked in front of a cop...or his wife Remember Eric Williamson? He was the Fairfax, Virginia man arrested for making coffee while naked and alone in his own kitchen. |
Financial Advisor
October 2009
Karen DeMasters |
A Police Matter Beacon Financial has worked to attract law enforcement clients. |
ifeminists
March 30, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Mother Sues Cops For Failing to Protect Kids As long as restraining orders are "standard" and "perfunctory" they lose all value as indications of possible violence. Perhaps the police would take them seriously if they were issued only after a genuine threat of violence had been established. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Vince Beiser |
Pistol Cam: When Cops Draw This Point-and-Shoot, Say Cheese In an effort to address public concerns about police accountability, the sheriff's department SWAT team in Orange County, New York, recently started packing cameras on their pistols. |
| AskMen.com |
"Arrest Me!" A man rebuffed in an attempt to get arrested, finally got his wish when he went for an officer's handgun. |
| AskMen.com |
Beware A Man With A Snake Police in South Carolina said an argument between two motel guests ended up with one of the men being hit in the head with a snake. |
CIO
February 15, 2004
Richard Pastore |
Taking IT to the Street How the Chicago Police Department used technology to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2005
Rich Smith |
The Taser Story That Wasn't The media love to hype cases where Tasers took a life, but what about all the times they could have saved one? Investors are waiting for that story. |
| AskMen.com |
Guard Dog Drops The Ball A Eugene man fighting a home intruder to defend his mother and young children was bitten by a police dog after officers mistook him for the prowler they had been chasing through the neighborhood. |
InternetNews
April 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Fresno Cops to Get Broadband Wireless IBM will build a next-generation communications system for real-time images and communications. |
Reason
Charles Oliver |
Brickbats People everywhere run afoul of local laws in surprising ways. |
ifeminists
July 6, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Domestic Violence Victims Need Self-Defense Every American anti-domestic violence advocate should advise victims -- male or female -- to learn self-defense. They should lobby for the repeal of any law or policy that hinders responsible gun ownership. |
Wired
May 2005
Noah Shachtman |
Spycam Force Chicago's street cops have a new kind of backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a citywide crime-fighting database. |
ifeminists
February 13, 2008
WolfmanMac |
Nothing Is Ever That Simple An ex-policemen shares his thoughts on false claims of domestic violence. |
Popular Mechanics
November 28, 2006
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
SWAT Overkill: The Danger of a Paramilitary Police Force This guest editorial from a law professor and instapundit.com blogger argues that overaggressive tactics and surplus military gear have turned some police units into a dangerous menace. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
Radley Balko |
Collateral Damage Public outrage in Tallahassee, Florida, after a drug-dealer-turned-police-informant is killed while under cover. |
Popular Mechanics
January 2008
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Watching the Watchers: Why Surveillance Is a Two-Way Street If governments and businesses can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back. |
Wired
March 2007
Ethan Watters |
Shot Spotter Last year there were 148 homicides in Oakland. Today, when someone fires a gun on a city street, a network of hidden microphones kicks in triangulating the exact location and alerting police. |
Reason
January 2009
Radley Balko |
Death by SWAT Collateral raid damage -- a surprisingly high percentage of raids produce neither drugs nor weapons. |
Reason
April 2006
Radley Balko |
Government Goons Murder Puppies! Among hundreds of botched raids, the ones that are most disturbing are the ones where the SWAT officers shoot and kill the family dog. |
Salon.com
June 15, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Why didn't the NYPD stop the Central Park wolf pack? With Amadou Diallo, the cops went too far. In Central Park, not far enough. But guess what? It's the same problem. |
Reason
May 2007
Charles Oliver |
Brickbats Durrell Jones woke one morning in his Sarasota, Florida, home to find sheriff's deputies standing over him and his 4-year-old son, pointing guns at them... In Beijing, police briefly detained and questioned four huggers... etc. |
Reason
June 2008
Radley Balko |
RateMyCop.com RateMyCop.com encourages users to rate their experiences with individual officers. |
| AskMen.com |
To Protect, But Not To Serve Columbus, Ohio city council members are hearing complaints that police officers are saying citizens who are fed up with crime in their neighborhoods should move out. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
ifeminists
September 22, 2004
George Rolph |
Tom's Tale One man's moving story of how his ex-wife and British Family Law kept him from his children, precipitating his digression into depression and despair. |
Reason
November 2003
Jesse Walker |
Intelligence Failure Long faulted by civil libertarians as too weak a restraint, New York City's "Handschu guidelines" against harrassing police surveillance were relaxed in March. It didn't take long for police to begin taking advantage of their new harrassment powers to intimidate anti-war protestors. |
Reason
November 2005
Daniel Koffler |
Breaking Curfew Citing the European Convention on Human Rights, a 15-year-old brought an anti-curfew suit against the London suburb of Richmond and the Metropolitan Police, and convinced Lord Justice Brooke that he has the right to "walk the streets without interference from police." |
ifeminists
February 16, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Beat up the Kid, Spare the Adults Police removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state's Baker Act -- against the wishes of his outraged parents. |
Reason
November 2008
Radley Balko |
Publius Blogs In some communities, the targets of anonymous blogs are trying to crack down on their Internet critics with a vengeance. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Olivia Mellan |
Child Is Father to the Man Few money messages are as enduring as the ones a son learns from his dad. Here's what financial planners need to understand about this special relationship. |
Popular Mechanics
September 26, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
After Deadly Cop Incident, Re-examining NYC's Pro-Taser Study Even following a U.N. declaration that Taser's products amount to torture devices, Taser has become a major client for thousands of other law-enforcement agencies worldwide that want fewer officers firing guns |
IDB America
June 2004
Charo Quesada |
Sherlock Holmes Didn't Work Alone In Bogota, traditional turf battles within the police system are giving way to cooperation and a focus on results. |
ifeminists
February 1, 2006
Matthew Reed |
How to Fight Back Against Pat-Downs by Airport Security Screeners You must use 911 and *677 to call the police first and get them on your side... The second the security screener goes over your breasts or genital area with their hands after wanding you... If the local police don't arrest the screeners... etc. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Susan Berfield |
Bill Bratton, Globocop He tamed crime in New York and Los Angeles. Next stop... Kabul? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009 |
6 Mods for the Ultimate High-Tech Police Car The typical cop car isn't born -- it's slapped together. Traditionally, this involved taking a production vehicle, bolting on a reinforced bumper and adding some lights and a divider between the front and back seats. |
Job Journal
October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
| AskMen.com |
Asking For It Police said 32-year-old Jacob Segura walked into the Madison, Nebraska Police Department on Jan. 30 and asked for a ride to Columbus. |
Reason
April 2005
Brian Doherty |
Shocked to Death A report cites 84 deaths of taser-shocked suspects since 1999 in the U.S. and Canada. Manufacturer Taser International claims the suspects would have died whether shocked or not. The company's stock has fallen almost 10% since the report. |
Reason
October 2001
Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
Reason
January 2002
Michael W. Lynch |
Battlefield Conversions Reason talks with three ex-warriors who now fight against the War on Drugs... |
Wired
November 24, 2008
Vince Beiser |
Seismic Siren Shakes Up Distracted Drivers Fed up with earbud-wearing, cell phone-yakking motorists who don't heed sirens, police across the country are turning to a new attention-getting tool -- low-frequency sound waves so strong they can actually be felt up to 200 feet away. |
| AskMen.com |
The Phone Never Lies Las Cruces police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her ex-husband. |
CIO
September 15, 2005
Malcolm Wheatley |
London's Cameras In the eyes of the British public, CCTV has become the police's first port of call and a high-tech crime-fighting tool. Yet police receive no special training in analyzing CCTV footage, nor any high-tech tools, a technical support officer. |
