What a Great and Terrible Idea!

I saw this in an advertising email, and I thought to myself, "Wow! what a terrible idea. Or maybe a great one?" Terrible for police departments. In a holster, this would feel to your hand very much like your service weapon. I have read too many accounts of officers who meant to tase a subject, reaching for, drawing and mistaking their service weapon for their taser.
For a Rent-a-cop? This might be more than ideal. Holstered, it would look from a distance as if the security guard was armed with deadly force, the orange part concealed by the holster. That could provide additional deterrence because of the uncertainty in the potential offender's mind. And, if wrestled away from him, the guard would not be subjected to deadly force.

So let the buyer beware. If you are a civilian, open carrying this and so much as rest your hand on it, an armed peace officer might think he was being confronted with a deadly weapon. Paul Blart, Mall Cop? Knock yourself out! Police departments? Do. Not. Touch. When the adrenaline starts pumping in a dicey situation, you don't want your officers hesidtating or making any mistakes.

Let's be careful out there!

Quentin Tarantino Moons Police

Director Quentin Tarantino has indiscriminately called police "murderers". Below he demonstrates his superior knowledge of gun control. Basic gun safety laws include:

Always treat every gun as if it was loaded.

Never point a gun at anything you do not wish to destroy.

Always keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

Of course, if what you are pointing your gun at has already been destroyed, then, no harm, no foul!

Drugs: The Gift That Keeps on Giving!

Heard this on the radio the other day.

LINCOLN, Neb.- The Nebraska State Patrol says 15 1/2 pounds of pot was found gift-wrapped following a traffic stop on Interstate 80 in Lincoln.

...a trooper pulled over an eastbound car for speeding near the Lincoln Airport exit on Wednesday afternoon. A patrol dog taken to the scene alerted officers to drugs in the rear of the car.

The patrol said troopers then found the marijuana and a half pound of hashish...in two gift-wrapped boxes.

Troopers arrested the driver, 52-year-old Edwin Yearout, of Sacramento, Calif.

Stupid crooks! Ya gotta love 'em! No entrance exams or IQ tests for the School of Hard Knocks. These "gifts" ought to give him what? Five to ten?

Jerry Brown: Police Chiefs Don't Read

Jerry Brown sticks his other foot in his mouth! Gosh, Jerry! How do you think they got to the top of their profession without reading? (3:23 in the video)

Let's not sound desperate, Jerry!

More at William A. Jacobson's, Legal Insurrection

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel

Jerry Brown: Fictional Crimefighter

In 2006, while running for AG, one of Brown's opponents ran this ad. It may be noteworthy today, in light of ads that the former Governor Moonbeam is running these days portraying himself as a law and order candidate, and the news that California may be executing a death row inmate soon.

For those with short memories, or who weren't born when Jerry actively opposed the death penalty, to the point of appointing the infamous Rose Bird as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, according to wiki:

She reviewed a total of 64 capital cases appealed to the court. In each instance she issued a decision overturning the death penalty that had been imposed at trial.

Sixty four cases. Sixty four times Bird voted to overturn the death penalty. Rose Bird was ideologically opposed to the death penalty as was Brown. Brown appointed Bird as Chief Justice in a state where the electorate voted to uphold the death penalty by a two to one margin.
We used to say that "Jerry Brown gave California the Bird!"

As AG, Brown is touting his position as "Chief Law Enforcement agent of the state", as in order to appeal to the center (or the uninformed). He may even play a role in this upcoming execution to bolster his law and order cred. Whether he cynically takes credit for it or subtly undermines it on some point of procedure remains to be seen.

In the meantime, look for Brown to continue to tout his imaginary zeal for law enforcement with a straight face.

Cross posted at Left Coast Rebel, Say Anything

Always Wear Your Seat Belt

Although I dislike the mandatory aspect of seat belts, I have worn them personally, religiously long before the nanny state told me I had to. Still, I have to admit that this is a good and heart warming ad for their usage.



Someone is counting on you to come home in one piece!

H/T Threedonia

What Price Closing Guantanamo?

Aside from the security concerns in bringing terrorists into the homeland and the questions over the precedents set by granting Constitutional rights to enemy combatants, is anyone asking about the physical pricetag for Obama's Folly? Illinois State Sen. John O. Jones raises some interesting points.

“Our minimum price for Thomson should be $1 billion; it will cost more than $80 million to pay off the existing debt for Thomson and another $200 million or more to build another correctional center,”

A billion dollars is a tad excessive, but what will the cost of the property and a replacement facility be to state and federal taxpayers? A couple hundred million? More? I've heard figures from 3,800 to 10,000 new jobs bandied about. And that new single family homes would be built and sold to prison employees. So, if the feds are going to hire 4-10,000 new civilians, with good wages and benefits plus the cost of the facility and security upgrades, what is this doing to the budget in poor economic times? According to the State of Illinois, the current cost per inmate is about $44 grand to house a Total Average Daily Population of 144

Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $43,803.00

Obama proposes putting as many as a hundred terrorists here. At the current level of security, that would raise the cost to as much as $63,000 per inmate, but I imagine that security would be (should be) enhanced for this type of inmate. Daniel Foster notes

The facility sits beside the Mississippi River, five miles south of a a municipal airport and one mile north of the West Carroll School District.

And they tell me we already had a facility in Guantanamo, maintained by the military, housed in military barracks, who we presume are not going to be laid off when the facility moves. (Or is reduced in population) Since Obama has been running up debt like it was Monopoly® money, I don't think that Obama will be deterred in making this largely empty symbolic gesture.

TSA Puts Secret Security Manual On-line

The government some want to give complete control over your health care (and medical records) has made a minor faux pas:

In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.

The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operating Procedures manual were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame.

TSA...isn't security their middle name???

"This is an appalling and astounding breach of security that terrorists could easily exploit," said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. "The TSA should immediately convene an internal investigation and discipline those responsible."

"This shocking breach undercuts the public's confidence in the security procedures at our airports," said Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking Republican member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "On the day before the Senate Homeland Security Committee's hearing on terrorist travel, it is alarming to learn that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted its own security manual on the Internet."

"Massive", "appalling", "astounding", "shocking", "alarming"... I don't think I've ever seen that many loaded words in one news story before! It's hard to say what the impact of this boneheaded security breach will be, but I'll tell you one thing:

On the bright side, the free colonoscopy you'll get before your next flight will help lower health care costs!

H/T Legal Insurrection
Cross posted at Say Anything

Suspect in Police Slayings Pardoned by Huckabee?

By now you've heard of the cowardly assassination of four police officers in Washington.

Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.

Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protests of prosecutors.-Seattle Times

Although no one wants to make these killings political, if this guy is guilty and this is true, this is likely to do for Huckabee what Willie Horton did for Michael Dukakis.

Update: From the same Seattle Times story:

When Clemmons received the 60-year sentence, he was already serving 48 years on five felony convictions and facing up to 95 more years on charges of robbery, theft of property and possessing a handgun on school property. Records from Clemmons' sentencing described him as 5-foot-7 and 108 pounds. The crimes were committed when he was 17.

Clemmons served 11 years before being released.

Let me see...48 plus 60 plus 95 is...203. This guy should have been released around 2193 AD. Maybe with time off for good behavior...or death from old age!

H/T Ace of Spades
Cross posted at Say Anything

David Spade Gives $100,000 to Phoenix Cops

Could give a whole new meaning to Just Shoot Me!

David Spade is a class act!

LOS ANGELES - The Phoenix Police Department has gotten some high-powered goodies courtesy of actor David Spade.

The one-time Phoenix resident donated $100,000 so that the department can buy approximately 50 AR-15 rifles.

Spade said he wanted to make the donation after seeing a TV news report about Phoenix officers having to buy their own rifles. Spade grew up in the Phoenix area and graduated from Arizona State University

Let's all give Mr. Spade a round of applause for his generosity and for giving Phoenix cops a break!

Hat tip The Jawa Report
Cross posted at Say Anything

"Find Out Where His Kids Go to School"

Sounding rather like dialog from a "B" gangster movie, is former Democrat Presidential candidate Mike Gravel. According to Fox News:

Former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel was caught on tape last week telling a crowd in Washington, D.C., that they should harass a federal prosecutor who helped bring criminal contempt charges against a Palestinian activist.

Now, I know my memory shortens with age, but I don't even remember this Presidential wannabee! Still, his thuggish behavior is worth noting!

“Find out where he lives, find out where his kids go to school, find out where his office is, picket him all the time,” Gravel said, in an audio tape obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism and provided to FOX News.
“Call him a racist in signs if you see him. Call him an injustice. Call him whatever you want to call him, but in his face all the time.”

Wow! Someone must have read "Winning Through Intimidation" and is taking it to the extreme! Now, here's the "Do as I say, don't do as I do" moment:

Gravel told FOX News that he doesn’t want people to break the law and that he personally wouldn’t do the things he’s recommended — but that it could be an effective way to change the behavior of U.S. officials.

Oh, I personally wouldn't get my hands dirty harrassing this man or his children, I just instigate others to do it! What a pillar of moral rectitude this man is! /sarcasm
"It could be an effective way to change the behavior of U.S. officials". I think this guy went to the Tim McVeigh School of Public Relations!

Among others not buying into the "moral rectitude" of Democrat thug politician Mike Gravel is Steve Emerson, whose field of expertise is counter terroism:

“The question is whether he crossed the line in saying ‘find out where his kids go to school,’” said counter-terrorism expert Steve Emerson. “That to my mind and to government officials including those in the FBI crosses the line into a direct veiled threat.”

He said the evidence at the Al-Arian trial “overwhelming showed and incontrovertibly demonstrated that he was head of the Islamic Jihad network in the United States.”

So we have Democrat thugs politicians, making veiled threats against federal prosecutors and their children, for prosecuting known Jihadists, but...it's okay! Because he wouldn't do it personally! Oh. And did I mention...he's a Democrat?
I'm feeling much better now!

Hat tip James Taranto
Cross posted at Say Anything

What to Get the Woman Who Has Everything

...a bullet proof brassiere! From The Telegraph:

Carmen Kibat, a policewoman in Hamburg who tested the new underwear, said: "These can save someone's life so it's not a laughing matter." She organised "Action Brassiere" across Germany, getting hundreds of policewomen to try the bras out in the line of duty.

...Three thousand front-line women police officers will now be required to wear the bras on duty. Their bosses have decided to allow them to have three each.

Front-line? Here's a marketing slogan for them (Übersetzungen extra!):

Changing the front line of police women, one officer at a time!

Cross Posted at Say Anything