GrokTALK! – Mark Richardson Mistrial

Max Abramson joins us to talk about the mistrial of former Seabrook Police Officer Mark Richardson who was charged with assault by an on-duty law enforcement officer for slamming Michael Bergeron into a cement wall at the Seabrook police station.  Part 1 of 2  

GrokTALK! – Stormtroopers, Foreign and Domestic

Last week we opened the show with a heap of tech issues but while I wrestled with them Mike and Jane had a great conversation about the current terror in the middle east, evidence if any of a US policy in the region, and then closer to home regarding militarization of local police forces and … Read more

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From this mornings Concord fish wrap: Bow police disband collective bargaining unit

“Citizens With Guns:” Better Trained Than Police? Really?

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”   George S. Patton

Pistol_ClassI was at the State Senate hearing yesterday on HB 135. I heard a great deal of testimony. Senator Carson asked people not to read their testimony, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, boringly read hers. Other such liberals gave us the same old boring crap.

Alton’s Police Chief Ryan Heath, speaking in favor of passage of HB 135, told the committee that the average person simply isn’t trained to make these on-the-spot decisions regarding use of deadly force. He asserted that Police have training in the handling of firearms, use of force and it is part of their jobs.  And Chief Heath is correct. there is nothing incorrect about his statement. In fact, I had become so used to hearing it.

Something happened at that very moment. I received a text message question from an individual organizing a “training”

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Cops And The Second Amendment

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”   Aristotle

Doug Wyllie, Editor-in-Chief, PoliceOne.com
Doug Wyllie, Editor-in-Chief, PoliceOne.com

Doug Wyllie, Editor-in-Chief at Police One.com conducted a survey of More than 15,000 verified law enforcement professionals. The scope and purpose of this survey was aimed at bringing together the thoughts and opinions of the only professional group devoted to limiting and defeating gun violence as part of their sworn responsibility.  Wyllie says, “It’s important to note that 70 percent of respondents are fieldlevel law enforcers — those who are face-to-face in the fight against violent crime on a daily basis — not office-bound, non-sworn administrators or perpetually-campaigning elected officials.

Wylie’s comprehensive  30 question survey afforded police officers across the Nation to share their

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Cop Troubles

“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”   —Albert Camus

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Former Detective Sergeant Stephen Coco in Court

The Union Leader reports today that another Police officer is under arrest. Fired Manchester Police Detective Stephen Coco is charged with two felony counts of conduct after an accident after Bedford Police allege he hit two teens with his police-supplied under cover vehicle and fled the scene. It would also appear that Coco lied when he told investigators he had been home the night of the crash and that no one had used his department issued undercover Nissan Pathfinder that evening.

And certainty followed with sixty-two comments to date, the same usual pejoratives and slurs against the Chief, Police Unions,

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What Will The Weare NH Police Budget Look Like?

  “It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” -Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security specialist, and writer. Today, the Union Leader’s Dan O’Brien informs us that, Weare Police face more federal lawsuits. Free-stater Carla Gericke is the most recent filing on the heels of a suit filed … Read more

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