Law Enforcement

"I think the leadership of the military is confused," said Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who along with Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Mass., wrote several of the provisions before the subcommittee. "They believe as long as they have programs where they say sexual assault is wrong that they've done enough. No. They have to support the victim, and they have to support vigorous prosecution."

An Air Force officer who led the branch's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit has been charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, authorities said Monday.

Aaron was a 24-year-old college football star at Southern University when he was convicted in 1993 for his role in a drug conspiracy. Although Aaron was not the buyer, the user, the supplier, or the dealer, he was sentenced to a triple life sentence without parole, the stiffest sentence of anyone in the conspiracy.

What happens when you stab a cab driver after refusing to pay the fare and you happen to be a Morgan Stanley banker? Well, nothing.

In Pennsylvania, Judicial and school board candidates can cross file and run for office in both major parties. Jeffrey Schmehl did this when he ran for Common Pleas Court and won on the Democratic side. Thus he was the Democratic candidate even though he was actually a Republican. Such are the quirks of politics in Pennsylvania. I'm curious, though, why a Democratic President nominated him to the federal bench.

16-year-old Yaredh Gaudier of Orange City, Fla. was with friends at the Volusia County library on November 15 examining a .38 special handgun when he unintentionally discharged the gun. Yaredh was shot in the head and died later of his injuries. Police now reveal that the gun was stolen from the car of the wife of Pine Ridge High School's football coach.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) wants to give law enforcement unlimited access to our email without a warrant. After losing the fight on FISA back in 2007 which allowed warrantless wiretapping and with the elimination of habeaus corpus, this is yet another advance towards making the United States a police state.

Former Russian soldier and current firearms trainer and video host Sonny Puzikas was teaching a "close combat class" at the Texas Defensive Shooting Academy in Ferris, Texas.
According to the founder of the academy, the range "allows shooters the ability to shoot the way they want, without the stringent rules imposed like most other ranges."

More than 50 community members gathered for a rally and march in Milwaukee to demand an end to police brutality and in remembrance of Derek Williams and James Perry, two men who died while in police custody. Occupy the Hood Milwaukee organized the rally and march at the intersection of Fon Du Lac and Sherman Avenues on the North side of Milwaukee.