Quick Hitts

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. [...]

What’s the best response when a cop asks you something? Silence, or a short, polite non-answer. Shut up. Just. Shut. Up. The police are not your friends. They are not there to protect you. They are there to arrest you, convict you, and take your money or your freedom or both. You should be polite [...]

In an effort to make New York an even crappier place to live, State Troopers are infesting the landscape everywhere, helping to fund the bankrupt and corrupt state by handing out tickets for the most minor of offenses.  Earlier this week I was given a ticket for driving without a seat belt.  I was driving [...]

It was about 8 PM, and Ryan Fredrick was sleeping.  He had to get up early for his soda delivery job.  Two days before he his home was burglarized, and in a nearby neighborhood people had been killed in a home invasion.  He had bought a gun to protect himself. He woke to pounding and [...]

I swear I’m not going out looking for stories about cops shooting dogs. They’ve just become so common that I stumble across them every couple of weeks in the course of casual surfing. This time it was in Pittsburgh. A sheriff’s deputy, looking to serve papers on someone, went into the wrong backyard, where a [...]

I’m not even looking for these stories.  They’re so common I’ve been stumbling across them without effort.  Via Windypundent here’s yet another story of a Thug in Blue shooting a dog for no reason.  The dog runs up to him, which is what dogs do when a stranger comes on his property, but doesn’t look [...]