Recent content by vanlutz

I've heard that roughly 800,000 people are reported missing every year. Of course the majority aren't missing. But, just imagine if 1/16 are. That's a lot of actual missing persons.

There's no such thing as 100%. Given their position and authority there's nothing worse than a corrupt police officer. That's why it's important when you encounter an officer to treat them with respect. If you give respect 99.99% of the time you get respect. Even corrupt cops don't go out...

Yes. But, the defense attorneys demanded the knife, and now she's changed her tune. She's completely incompetent. Baltimore will burn when these two innocent police officers are found not guilty, or better yet the charges are dropped. Of course that would be justice, and who needs that.

First: LE are given the benefit of the doubt given the position they hold. For instance the knife. It's actually NOT a crime to arrest someone who carries a knife LE believes to be illegal. That's what the trial is for. Just because it became law does not mean that officers were told the...

I've heard that the seat belt law took effect 9 days before the incident. But, it's not known whether the memo or law was informed to officers. Will it be a problem at trial? Maybe. But, if you look at the width of the aisle and such, there's an argument to be made (as one cop did) that when...

It's what the people want. It's democracy at it's finest. For anyone who says the people just want justice. I'll just point to the two arresting bike officers, who have been charged with false arrest and imprisonment. That ties the hands of EVERY cop on the street. They do something they...

A few of the cool things I heard and read about this today. First CNN.com ran a story about a paragraph long regarding this incident and spent the rest of the article talking about the Martin case. One paragraph read "Zimmerman was told to stay in his car, not to exit or follow Trayvon...

This is kind of Off topic, but interesting. On the Kelly File they said something that really stood out about the knife. Police officers are given leeway when making arrests, they can believe something is illegal and in good faith arrest that person. They then present the evidence to the...

The knife comes into play with the two arresting bike officers. The charges against them are unlawful imprisonment, false arrest and assault. If it was an illegal knife those charges should be dropped. As many have emphasized and the statute reads "spring assisted or OTHER DEVICE" it's the other...

There are good and bad in every facet of life. Every person and incident is singular. If there was widespread everyday beating of suspects there'd be hundreds of suits each year. What this ex-cop describes is wrong, it shouldn't have happened. But, that's one incident. Since we don't have...

If that's the case, then this was a legal arrest. I completely understand that Mosby saw Baltimore unraveling and she wanted to do something fast. But, if the charges are dropped or they're found not guilty, what she wanted to stop will unfold ten times over.

That all depends. If a police officer shoots a suspect they feel is a threat, they of course have to shoot someone facing them. However, they shoot till the threat is gone or basically once the suspect falls. So, in theory if a person is shot and they turn they can be shot in the back. You just...

The 21 ft rule is if the suspect is charging the officer not running away. No rules apply to shooting a suspect in the back.

The sad part is, many of the murders in Baltimore are probably condensed to a small area of Baltimore. Just as the majority of NYC murders are set in a condensed area. Before Guliani implemented stop and frisk there were roughly 2000 murders a year. Now that DiBlasio decreased stop and frisk the...

This is just my take on it: It was a normal traffic stop... Scott got out of the car and was told to get back in, which he does... A few moments later Scott takes off (as people who know the story after the fact, we know he ran probably because of the child support, the officer might not have...