Tag: Tactics & Weapons

When deploying less lethal munitions, officers should take extra precaution to read the scene.

How are we going to stop a 4,000–6,000 pound threat? We'd obviously prefer to prevent an attack than try to stop it once it's already begun.

Police investigate a drive-by shooting at a Stockton store.

Alternative ways to stop a suspect

The Obama administration is considering banning a type of ammunition used in one of the most popular types of rifles because it says the bullets can pierce a police officer's ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A mentally ill teenager killed by police in an East Texas police station last month had gone there believing authorities would hospitalize her and was shot ...

MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A teenager who police say opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area mall, shooting his intended target as well as a couple, was arrested early Sunday after police ...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities planned Monday to release more details of a weekend shooting in which a gunman killed four people and wounded two others before taking his own ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two people died Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide inside a building on the University of South Carolina's campus, a shooting that authorities called "very isolated." The ...

Know what's important after your patrol rifle program gets off the ground.