Ecole Polytechnique. Columbine. Red Lake Senior High. The Amish School. Virginia Tech. These are only some of the school shootings that have resulted in nationwide changes to how law enforcement trains for an ‘active shooter‘. During training, officers are armed with simunition (little paint bullets fired through the officer’s own gun) and go into a [...]
How is it that a man can walk into a bank wearing a disguise, push people around, yell, demand money while clenching his hand into a pretend gun and not be clobbered by an alert citizen? Oh, how I dream to be in a bank when this sort of buffoon appears. I’ve already got it [...]
The Missing Women Commission of Enquiry commenced today, in downtown Vancouver. For those of you not familiar with the case, Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 for the murders of six women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (map). He was also charged in the murders of twenty more women, all of them from the Downtown Eastside [...]
“Dispatch to Channel Three. We have multiple reports of a roll-over accident at E 49th Ave and Fraser St. EHS and Fire are en route.” As with most accidents, if I’m close and not already on a call, I’ll start rolling that way in the event the collision turns into a hit-and-run or one of [...]
The other day, a business called 911 to report an overnight break and enter. Even though this business has excellent video surveillance, their alarm system has been acting up as of late, so when the alarm triggered in the wee hours of the morning, they disregarded what they assumed was another false alarm. It really [...]
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