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Category: Police

  • Former Marine dies in LOD, New Bern, NC

    Rick sends us a link to the news that former Marine Lance Corporal Alexander E. Thalmann died in the line if duty in New Berne, North Carolina during a routine stop;

    “Something just told me to look out the window. I see [Bryan Stallings, the shooter] coming up and see him putting the bike down. I’m seeing the police car pull up and asking him to ‘come here’. He was like, ‘sir why are you stopping me’ and I guess it was because of the bike because he did not have a light, but he did have a light on the bike,” Jarman said.

    Jarman said that Officer Thalmann and Stallings spoke for some time, and then Thalmann called for backup. “All I know is a minivan pulled up and more police got out,” Jarman said. She said she could tell that Stallings was upset. She said police started surrounding Stallings. “He cooperated though. He did everything. He just got mad and upset, because all these police were just coming,” Jarman said.

    Jarman said she thinks he might have been afraid of getting caught with the gun he had on him…She said he’d told her several times he would never go to prison again.

    Stallings had previous convictions, and it looks like he might have been a sex offender.

  • C.U.P.I.D., the taser drone

    Police agencies are becoming interested in Chaotic Moon Studios’ Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (C.U.P.I.D.) which tags fleeing suspects with 80k volts, according to Fox 5 (DC) news;

    “If you imagine a S.W.A.T. raid and people running – why send officers, with gun blazing, down an alley way where they can shoot and harm an innocent person or whatever, when you could just have the drone follow them,” said Chaotic Moon co-founder, William “Whurley” Hurley.

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    “This is something that’s affordable for almost everybody and in the next two or three years the technology will probably cut the price in half,” he continued.

    “Right now, the FAA just has some vague, basic rules around them.”

    DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

  • Cities target police pensions

    Pinto Nag sends us a link to an NBC News article about municipalities who are looking to mimic the Obama Administration and cut their costs by exploring ways to screw cops out of what they earned. Cops, however, have a way of striking back;

    In Costa Mesa, California, lawmaker Jim Righeimer says he was a target of intimidation because he sought to curb police pensions. In a lawsuit in November, Righeimer accused the Costa Mesa police union and a law firm that once represented them, of forcing him to undergo a sobriety test (he passed) after driving home from a bar in August 2012.

    That followed a call to 911 by private detective Chris Lanzillo, who worked for the police union and the law firm that represented it, according to the suit. Lanzillo is also named as a defendant, accused of following Righeimer home from the bar.

    Disputes such as these have intensified as Detroit and two California cities, Stockton and San Bernardino, have gone bankrupt in the past two years. Police pension costs were a major factor in the financial troubles facing all three. Now large cities, including San Jose and San Diego, say they have no choice but to alter pension agreements lest they end up in bankruptcy too.

    The suit by lawmaker Righeimer also said that an FBI raid of the law firm last October uncovered evidence that an electronic tracking device had been attached to the underside of the car driven by another lawmaker, Steve Mensinger, one of Righeimer’s allies in the pension fight.

    “What we are alleging is a conspiracy to gather information against political opponents”, said John Manly, a lawyer representing Righeimer and Mensinger.

    Basically, it appears to me that Liberals think they have some sort of mandate from the voters to screw everyone who is not them, the boogiemen cops and troops who are better than them and actually do the heavylifting for society that makes them feel inadequate and coming up short in the shorts. Folks take these thankless jobs because they expect to be compensated, and they expect lawmakers to keep their word in regards to that compensation. I guess that’s expecting too much from bed-wetting pussies.

  • Officer Scott Krissinger saves man in burning truck

    This story is from Cape May, NJ where Officer Scott Krissinger’s dash cam caught him as he heroically pulls 61-year-old Gerald K. Ferrill from his burning truck. I can’t write much that you won’t see for yourself in the video;