Cop Block

Via Technically, That’s Illegal (on of my favorite new blogs): I seriously didn’t intend for this blog to be an anti-police haven.  However, I do see the police as playing a role in the bigger problem of over-regulation in my life.  The police have a job to do, but their job is getting more and [...]

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From MSNBC.com Sgt. Ronald Watts, 48, and Officer Kallat Mohammed, 47, were arrested Sunday night on federal charges alleging they stole $5,200 in government undercover funds on Nov. 21, 2011, from a homeless man who claimed to be a drug courier but was working as an FBI informant, reported NBCChicago.com. This is yet another story of unintended consequences [...]

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Published almost four years ago, The Myth of the ‘Rule of Law’ by Brainpolice is a damn solid write-up. That said, it’s almost certain that some readers may take issue with the article’s stated premise: there is NO ‘rule of law.’ But why? Is Brainpolice wrong? Or might some readers unthinkingly default to a support-the-current-system [...]

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Orginally posted at the Huffington Post: “We’re going to have our own tank.” That’s what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwood during a December city council meeting. It’s not quite a tank. But the quaint town of 23,000 — scene of just two murders since 1999 — had just accepted a [...]

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Two of our four bad apples this week come from the Big Apple, one for planting drugs and one for transporting them. Of the other two, one picked the wrong friends and the other picked the wrong wife. Let’s get to it: In Annapolis, Maryland, an Anne Arundel County police officer was arrested last Thursday [...]

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  CAPTION By Toby Talbot, AP Prison inmates who make decals for the Vermont State Police slipped a pig into the official seal, and up to 30 patrol cars wound up sporting the subliminal epithet, the Burlington Free Press tells us.   The police emblem features a cow, an evergreen tree and snowy mountains (along with three [...]

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Too many laws, too many prisoners via the Economist THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped out. Thinking they must have come to the wrong place, Mr Norris opened his front door, and was startled to be shoved against a wall and frisked [...]

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Another gem brought to us by Austin White, originally posted to his site, Stop The State: Walter Block has a very interesting defense of the inciter of a riot.  He argues that a person who inspires others to commit violent acts is guilty of no violent act at all because the inciter is doing no [...]

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