Category: episode 22 - 3 Mar 2010

U.S. owes Toyota fair, careful treatment on safety issues

March 3, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

Maybe - just maaayyybeee - the federal government is less than the fairest judge of Toyota, considering that it is a majority shareholder in one of Toyota's biggest competitors. Just sayin'....

4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day

March 3, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results

Chef Invites You to Taste His Wife’s Breast-Milk Cheese

March 3, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Under Investigation by Attorney General Over Fishy Bank Accounts, TV Station Reports

March 3, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

The Arizona Attorney General has launched a probe of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office over bank accounts kept separate from normal county accounts and over the money from these accounts getting spent without approval from an outside agency, a television station reports.

The money in question: the Sheriff's Office's RICO fund, which includes confiscated drug money and funds taken from other criminal activities, and its Jail Enhancement Fund, which is supposed to be used to keep the jails in good condition so they hold their value.

Ex-Cop Chides Calvo for Questioning the Cops Who Nearly Killed Him

March 3, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

Someone named Lawrence Schweinsburg wrote a letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun this week to criticize Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Mayor Cheye Calvo and to offer a general defense of the widespread use of SWAT teams. His letter is worth breaking down and addressing piece by piece.

ATF seizes 30 toy guns, infuriating local business owner

March 1, 2010 by Rick Caldwell

Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.

"With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.