cops

March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) – In Texas, to be a cop, you have to be licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). If you lose that license, no one can hire you to...

February 28, 2016 (Fault Lines) — It’s pop quiz time. You’re a police chief interested in adding a cool-looking “Blue Lives Matter” logo to your department’s patrol vehicles. Which one do you choose? (a) A pro-police...

February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On Tuesday, February 21st, an unidentified off-duty Los Angeles Police officer attempted to detain a 13-year-old Latino, Christian Dorscht, for allegedly threatening to shoot the officer in response to something...

February 24, 2017 (Fault Lines)– Joshua Kuiper shouldn’t have been driving: e drove the wrong way on Union Avenue SE in Grand Rapids — going 41 mph in a 25 mph zone, according to the documents...

February 22. 2017 (Fault Lines) — Does anyone in the criminal justice realm have a responsibility to disclose the names and disciplinary records of law enforcement officers with a history of misconduct? If you were asking...

February 21, 2017 (Fault Lines) – We’ve run a number of stories on people filming police buildings and the reaction of police to those individuals. I think that it is basically baiting the police, but to...

February 14, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Millennials get a bad rap. Baby boomers and Gen X like to stereotype them as lazy, self-obsessed and needy, even though some data show that the three generations are pretty...

Jan. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Cops shoot stuff. All kinds of stuff. Grown-ups, kids, dogs, random bodies of water. Whatever. They have guns and stuff is there. That stuff should be shot. Because the people...

Jan. 11, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — People who have read what I have previously written know that I generally like, trust and respect cops. But the cops in Omaha, and their union, have suddenly declared that...

Mar. 23, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Few words have more bearing on the review of a police officer’s actions than “officer safety.” Scott looks a recent article by three major figures in police training that points...