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Sturm, Ruger & Co. announced a recall of their LCP .380 pistols due to a problem with the guns possibly discharging if dropped on a hard surface.  Ruger’s recall program will upgrade the hammer assembly of your LCP firearm free of charge and return the gun to you with a new magazine.
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Baltimore has discovered what cops have known all along:  to reduce violent crime bad people need to be kept in prison.
I have long railed against the revolving door our criminal justice system has become.  I have arrested the same people again and again because the state refuses to actually incarcerate these dregs.  Every police officer […]

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Seriously, when IS the last time you pulled “trusty Rusty” from the holster and gave it a good cleaning?  Last month?  Last year?  Ever?
As cops, we walk around in all sorts of dirty environments and in all of the elements.  This past week, my Sig has been sprayed with salt water and been subjected to […]

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Starting today, October 14, the new Carbon Motors E7 purpose built police car will be on tour throughout the United States.  The 2008 Pure Justice Tour will stop in nine cities and will give officers and administrators the chance to see the car up close.
The E7 is built by Carbon Motors specifically for law enforcement […]

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Here in the United states, government assistance, or “welfare”, comes in many different forms: SSI, food stamps, section 8, etc.  These programs amount to more than $354 billion in fiscal year 2006 at the federal level.  That was almost 3% of our gross domestic product.  Millions, if not billions, more went into similar programs at […]

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I recently purchased and read Advanced Vehicle Stop Tactics by Michael T. Rayburn. I had previously read Advanced Patrol Tactics by Rayburn and thought it was a good book, so I figured I would give his traffic stop book a read also.
Let me start by saying that Rayburn covers nearly any type of traffic stop […]

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Here are a few police news stories that I thought may be of interest to some of my readers.
Stay safe!
One in three recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have criminal records
Keeping Wary Eye on Crime as Economy Sinks
Providence police to become ‘teaching department’
Phoenix Police Department to get more rifles
Metal theft on the rise
Violence against police on […]

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During the past few weeks, Americans have been watching their 401(k) and other retirement funds sink.  Most people are just now starting to wonder how bad things will get.  I’m no economist, but I suspect things are going to get a lot worse before they start to get better.
Cops get to see a wide cross-section […]

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