Quick Hitts

I used to like cops. I thought there were just a few bad ones, and that most of them performed a vital service. Some of that opinion was the result of conversations with them on GEnie, a pre-internet dial up service similar to CompuServe and Prodigy. People paid six bucks an hour for a 1200 [...]

That would be Ex-cop Jason Faluk, of Portland. You can’t get into his record, so don’t even try. And if you google his name, all you’ll find is this article that says the record of him having sex on the job with an autistic woman who called the cops for help is sealed. You can’t [...]

Four weeks ago Jose Guerena was gunned down in his home by a heavily armed gang. Jose, an ex-marine who survived two tours in Iraq, was sleeping after working a 12 hour shift in a mine. He heard a violent commotion outside and, knowing his wife and child were inside, grabbed his rifle and stepped [...]

Imagine an iPhone app that would give you real time updates about the location of violent gangs that want to rob you at gunpoint and mess your life up as much as possible.  Gangs whose members are known for committing murder and getting away with it.  Gangs that use tazers on old people and children [...]

Since it was formed The Theatrical Security Agency has been trying to figure out just how much crap Americans will tolerate before they say “screw it, I’m driving.”  They have heaped inconvenience upon stupidity upon insult upon indignantly, and still we keep flying.  But they may have finally achieved their goal with their full body [...]

I came home from running a few errands and saw two police cars and several other vehicles parked in front of my house.  There were quite a few other people standing around, people I recognized, and four cops, two on the sidewalk and two on the stoop next door.  The people were relatives of my [...]

In February, acting on nothing more than a tip from an informant and the resulting eight-day-old search warrant, police raided a home in Missouri, shot both of the family’s dogs (cops love to shoot dogs), and roughed up the occupants.  They pointed guns at everyone, including a child, then arrested the man of the house. [...]