Thousand Oaks, CA —Exactly one month to the day,  Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayob  and his PR department held a press conference to release some “new” details.  In reality those details were not so new since a small 5.56 MM projectile was removed from the body of  Sergeant Ron Helus during unsuccessful emergency surgery.   Since they knew immediately that  Ian David Long, the shooter was only armed with a .45 automatic Glock pistol and only the police were using Ar-15 style rifles capable of discharging the 5.56 MM rounds.  They did learn definitively from the FBI laboratory that the round came from a CHP officer’s rifle.  This was and is beyond humiliating as well as epically tragic.  I don’t envy these fellows that had the duty to let this troubling cat out of the bag.  I did not make things easier for them when I asked about several off duty officers from at least three departments socializing in the Borderline club that wer...

The official star of the CTA Police In Chicago, the Chicago Transit Authority best known as the CTA once had its own police department.  There were about 100 male cops that were called, CTA dicks.   They were trained and armed to deal with the muggers, sex offenders and fare jumpers that always plague public transit.  There was a slight problem.  Since they wore plain clothes and were a predominantly white group they were choice targets of roving groups of black criminals.    The CTA dicks were sending more thugs to the hereafter then any police agency in the state of Illinois including Chicago cops.  Most of these shootings were somehow magically kept out of the news!  The vast majority of the thugs killed by the CTA dicks were career felons.  Others were youngsters just beginning their lives of crime.   The bogus screams of racism and murder by cops became a PR nightmare.  So in the early 1970s they put a...