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Why Uvalde Cops Were Too Cowardly to Charge a Mass Shooter American police are taught first and foremost to fear for their own lives. BY RYAN COOPER MAY 27, 2022 To the layman, it might seem strange to read an Associated Press story about how, when a mass shooter invaded an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the local police refused to attack him for about 40 minutes despite the urging of nearby parents. “Go in there! Go in there!” one said. The police instead waited for a tactical unit from the Border Patrol (which reportedly got another student killed by...

Rochester Police Department officers have been allowed to hide name tags while on duty after Black Lives Matter protesters started doxing them, “putting the safety of their families in jeopardy.” The story: Officers have already been allowed to remove the name tags from the uniforms but the decision was revealed during a virtual meeting Wednesday between Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and members of the city council. The city leaders convened to discuss their plan of action following the resignations of Police Chief La’Ron Singletary and six other command staff amid backlash over the department’s handling of a recent arrest that...

<p>UPDATED: Tuesday, March 17, 2015---9:05 a.m. KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- Police say the Kenosha officer who shot and killed an armed man had just returned to duty after shooting another man about two weeks ago.</p> <p>Authorities have identified the 26-year-old fatally shot on Saturday as Aaron Siler, of Kenosha. Police say he had armed himself with a weapon before he was shot by Officer Pablo Torres. Siler was wanted on a felony warrant and led police on a vehicle chase and a foot pursuit before he was shot.</p>

When a deputy sheriff began questioning Melissa Greenfield's boyfriend at a Delaware County truck stop, she began recording video with her cell phone. She never thought that she, or her phone, could be viewed as a danger while she documented the activities of public employees in a public place. Sgt. Jonathan Burke wrote that he repeatedly ordered Greenfield to place the "unknown" object in her pocket and keep her hands free. When Greenfield refused, she was arrested and charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest. Burke wrote in his report that he feared that Greenfield could have been holding...

Despite evidence to the contrary, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton fed his own officers to the dogs at a press conference held yesterday. Obviously, his career advancement comes before officer safety. Bratton stated that a "'command and control breakdown' and poor officer communication fueled violence" between police officers and demonstrators at a May 1 immigration rally in MacArthur Park. But the LAPD's own "transmissions, video footage and dozens of interviews from command staff" show that some of the demonstrators violently attacked police, according to a report aired on NPR yesterday. Jack Dunphy has "spoken with people who were directly...

No doubt California is not the state that would come to mind first when anyone has thought about tough-on-crime state governments, at least not since Ronald Reagan was governor, way back when. There was a time when “officer safety” was paramount and it was understood that virtually any, even remotely, reasonable action that would ensure the safety of a peace officer would be implemented as part of a policy when dealing with suspects. Not anymore. Nowadays, it appears that the folks up in Sacramento have a balancing act going. Officer safety concerns are now outweighed by how much money the...