Topic: cops

from wsmv: While the Metro police had banned the use of Tasers for a time, they still used a controversial method to subdue unruly people, according to an I-Team report. The city's policy to use the method, which calls for the injection of a drug into a person, came as a "total surprise" to people most would expect to know all about it. For almost two years, Metro police have had the option of...

So they shot her to death "SALINAS, Calif. — A disoriented woman holed up in a minivan and repeatedly stabbing herself in the neck was shot to death by local police officers who thought the distraught woman was lunging at them with a knife or pick ax. But the 45-year-old Maria Irma De La Torre had only a metal crochet hook in her hand, the Salinas Californian reported Monday. (...) "It's a...

Ok, so in the last two weeks, maybe one and a half, I have witnessed two huge cops takedowns. One was outside Dante's, where apparently 5 kids were brandishing a rifle while driving around in their SUV (no idea what kind of rifle or SUV, but apparently after everything went down, they let the guys ...

Things have changed, and not for the better for those of us who are not snakes -- the cops are cracking down on snake-handling for god:The pastor of a Kentucky church that handles snakes in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife officers in a crackdown on the venomous snake trade. ... Most were taken from the Middlesboro home of Gregory James Coots, including 42 copperheads, 11...

....then it is probably too complicated! Today, as I drove into town, there were about 20 cops handing out these handbooks about driving around the center circle in downtown. It is a huge help to me- but if you need two pages of text, plus two diagrams- the traffic pattern is probably too complicated! At the end of the booklet, it says, "If everyone is doing it right...." seems unlikely...

Interesting piece here on the City of Portland parking patrol's ticket writing campaign for vehicles lacking front license plates. Apparently, our parking cops have written 3,000 high-dollar tickets on parked cars without front plates. Assuming the report is accurate-and sometimes they aren't-here's the problem. While I could be mistaken, I believe that the basis of these...