Ultimate in Concealed Carry

In my years as a foren­sic firearms exam­iner I’ve seen some crappy firearms, but this one takes the cake.

Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded.

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National Transportation Safety Board Wants All Cell Phone Use Banned in Cars

I called this 7 years ago while work­ing for a police agency. My co-workers laughed at me, think­ing I was “crazy”.

Now the offi­cial rec­om­men­da­tion has come out.

Now the only thing the gov­ern­ment needs to fig­ure out is how big of a fine they can get away with.

Expect a big pub­lic rela­tions media cam­paign to start in the next few years.

No

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Alcohol Impairs Your Judgment

Good — Having a des­ig­nated dri­ver if you plan on drinking.

Bad — Having your 9 year old be your des­ig­nated driver.

This guy is fac­ing some seri­ous charges. Thankfully no one was hurt. Remember, even at low lev­els, some people’s judg­ment can be impaired.

His obvi­ously was.

BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, Michigan — A sub­ur­ban Detroit man said let­ting his 9-year-old daughter

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San Francisco Offers to be Re-Inspected in Wake of DNA Scandal

So after ASCLD-LAB failed to find the errors in the San Francisco DNA crime lab in the 2010 accred­i­ta­tion cycle, the new chief pro­poses a re-inspection by the same asso­ci­a­tion will increase the public’s faith in the lab?

There ARE other accred­i­ta­tion bod­ies. Maybe ASCLD-LAB isn’t doing that great of a job? We keep read­ing about lab failures

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Federal Drug Charges for Former SFPD Crime Lab Supervisor

In an inter­est­ing turn of events for­mer San Francisco crim­i­nal­ist, Deborah Madden, has been brought up on fed­eral charges, even after the state opted to not press charges (SFGate).

Apparently there is a limit to what even gov­ern­ment employ­ees can get away with, in that crazy San Francisco.

Madden, 61, who has not been jailed on the charge,

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