Crime

Why Is Homeland Security Paying to Put Cities Under Surveillance?

Every day, scores of local police departments use DHS grant money to deploy sophisticated surveillance equipment. ...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 30, 2014

States Slowly Demanding SWAT Team Transparency

Bob Adelmann March 27, 2014

Examples around the country of no-knock raids performed by SWAT teams on innocents has many concerned that the police have become too militarized....

Anti-gun California State Senator Charged With Gun Trafficking

Bob Adelmann March 27, 2014

In a move that surprised nearly everyone who knows him, California State Senator Leland Yee was arrested by the FBI on March 26...

CUPID Drone Has 80,000-Volt Taser Dart

Warren Mass March 25, 2014

Chaotic Moon Studios, a Texas firm, recently unveiled its new CUPID drone equipped with a Taser capable of delivering an 80,000-volt shock. ...

Bill to Register all Firearms in Illinois Introduced

Bob Adelmann March 12, 2014

The latest blatant attack on the Second Amendment may be viewed as a last gasp of a fading effort to turn Illinois into...

Momentum Gaining to Allow Firearms on Campuses

Bob Adelmann February 25, 2014

There has been a definite momentum shift in the long war against guns, as colleges and other public institutions are beginning to allow...

Connecticut Gun Owners Ignore Registration Deadline

Bob Adelmann February 17, 2014

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of Connecticut gun owners have ignored the new state law requiring them to register their “assault” weapons and...

IRS Insider Blows Lid Off “Culture of Corruption”

Alex Newman February 13, 2014

As a growing cloud of perpetual mega-scandal continues to swirl around the embattled Internal Revenue Service, an IRS insider who has worked as...

Announcement of AG Eric Holder’s Departure may be Premature

Bob Adelmann February 11, 2014

After a New Yorker article said Attorney General Holder may be leaving office soon, the Justice Department said that was not the case....

War on Drugs Claims SWAT Team Member Using No-Knock Warrant

Bob Adelmann February 10, 2014

Another botched drug raid under a no-knock warrant. Only this time one of the SWAT team members was killed and the grand jury...

Detroit’s Bankruptcy Plan Reveals Fraud in Funding Pensions

Bob Adelmann February 10, 2014

During his deposition in front of Detroit's bankruptcy judge, financial manager Kevyn Orr revealed how a couple of banks and an insurance company...

Militarized Police: The Standing Army the Founders Warned About

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 8, 2014

Radley Balko makes a compelling case that the militarized police is the type of standing army our Founders said was inconsistent with liberty....

Super Bowl Sting Rescues 16 Juveniles, 50 Women From Sex Trade

Raven Clabough February 4, 2014

As Americans gathered around their televisions Sunday night to watch the showdown between the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks, an FBI sting operation...