By Jonah Bennett A Phoenix Department of Veterans Affairs police investigator claims he was pressured by a supervisor to lie and write false statements about a medical patient, in order to justify unlawful detention, according to an internal investigative report. On Nov. 4, 2013, VA police responded to a call from staff at the Phoenix VA. A patient placed…
By Blake Neff An administrator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggested at a recent roundtable conversation that, in order to combat “overpolicing” in the community, police should no longer respond to shoplifting claims at large stores such as Wal-Mart, and shouldn’t agree to prosecute people caught stealing. “I just don’t think that they should be…
By Rachel Stoltzfoos Three unarmed U.S. Marines reportedly shut down a man with an AK-47 who opened fire on a high-speed train heading from Amsterdam to Paris Friday. The Marines reportedly heard the gunman loading his AK-47 in the bathroom before he opened fire, injuring three people, reported The Daily Mail. The Marines tackled the man and detained him, until…
By Jonah Bennett The military services have until Oct. 1 to justify why women should be excluded from combat roles. Time is ticking. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will make a final decision right at the start of next year, albeit one tempered by congressional oversight. Unless the services present incredibly strong evidence, the department’s default policy is…
By Blake Neff A stunning poll of several key swing states for the 2016 election shows Marco Rubio not just leading Hillary Clinton, but flat-out dominating her. According to the poll, released Thursday by Quinnipiac University, Rubio leads Clinton 42-40 in Ohio, 51-39 in his home state of Florida, and perhaps most stunning of all, 47-40…
The latest viral video from World Star Hip Hop shows a man saving his girlfriend from a brutal beating on the streets. Shouting “Get the fuck off my bitch,” the man separates the two, throwing jabs at the woman and pulling her off his girlfriend. After the altercation, the saved female had to be physically…
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump is beating Senator Ted Cruz of Texas… in his own home state. Governor Rick Perry is also being bested by the New York businessman, but that’s not surprising considering that the former Texas gov has been lagging at the bottom of polls for weeks now. Donald Trump is polling at 24%…
By Josh Fatzick The mayor and police chief of Washington, D.C., have offered up various excuses for the city’s ballooning murder numbers, ranging from synthetic drugs to high caliber weapons, but critics from within the police department say its much simpler than that. Police officer representatives from the D.C. Police Union say the city needs…
By Blake Neff A writer for The Huffington Post has come up with a novel rebuttal to Donald Trump and other Republicans who advocate amending the U.S. Constitution to eliminate birthright citizenship: It’s unconstitutional! “It turns out that the very idea of amending the Constitution to end birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants —…
By Casey Harper Turns out a man guarding a store from Muslims should have been more worried about Islamophobic Americans, namely himself. Police say an Oklahoma man was guarding a gun store from Muslims when the man dropped the gun and it went off, shooting him in the arm, News On 6 reports. The store has a sign that reads: “This…