Cop Block

Proponents of the drug war often suggest that if we decriminalize or legalize drugs then crime will increase.  Drug arrests in San Francisco have dropped sharply in the last two years but there has been little change in the rate of violent crime. The San Francisco Examiner reports: A huge drop in narcotics arrests citywide [...]

Read the full story

Last week CNN published yet another article claiming that violence against police officers has “spiked”.  The mainstream media continues to publish these claims without doin any research to verify whether or not the claims are true. CNN claims that the number of police officers killed in the line of duty during 2011 has increased by [...]

Read the full story

So we know that assault and theft will often not end with a cop receiving a pink slip.  So what will?  Well if you are a cop for the North Miami Beach Police Department, attempting to cast a “magic” spell may very well get you fired.  From the Miami Herald: Two North Miami Beach employees [...]

Read the full story

If you spend any amount of time reading the laundry list of crimes committed by police officers at Injustice Everywhere, you may start to think to yourself, “Man, what does a cop have to do to get fired?”  Corrective counseling, short suspensions, or just a good ole talking to, seems to be the punishment of [...]

Read the full story

Any conversation with a proponent of the TSA and their intrusive airport searches inevitably ends with them telling you, “If you don’t like it, don’t fly.”  What will be their argument now that the TSA is inserting themselves to all other modes of transportation. As with many policies that now intrude deeply into everyday life, [...]

Read the full story

In September, I told you the story of KC activist, Michael Mikkelson, and his mission to warn Kansas City drivers of the checkpoints that he viewed as intrusive and a violation of an individuals right to be secure in their person and property.  In the course of Mikkelson’s activism, he has endured harassment by the [...]

Read the full story

The Twin Rivers Police Officers Association, which is a California school police officers union, has sparked public outrage for creating and selling a t-shirt depicting a child behind bars with the slogan “U Raise ‘em, We Cage ‘em”.  The Sacramento Bee reports that: On Monday, community leaders and child advocates said the T-shirts are highly [...]

Read the full story

The headline “Violence Against Law Enforcement Officers Up Sharply” was recently featured on Drudge Report.  Once again the media gets it wrong and only tells half the story.  MyFox out of New York recently reported that: The number of law enforcement officers who were killed nationwide has jumped nearly 17 percent. Newly released statistics from [...]

Read the full story