Under a policy adopted in 2008, The Nebraska State Patrol has rejected potential recruits with tattoos or other body art that would be exposed while in uniform. Five of the 228 candidates invited to a pre-training camp orientation session back in October of last year were immediately rejected because they had "visible tattoos."

Two Manhattan Beach, California police officers, fired for their roles in an off-duty hit-and-run crash, are both seeking $10 million from the city in damages.
According the Daily breeze newspaper, the cops allege they have not only been inhumanely treated, they also might have to flee the country.

At a recent public hearing in Toledo, a parade of people showed up to testify about their police department. Probably no one was more surprised than the cops themselves, when every person who spoke had nothing but nice things to say about the officers who work for the Toledo, Ohio P.D.

What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. And it's not hard to see why that old joke is still funny when you consider the case of one Lewis B. Moon. Moon, an attorney, stands accused of being drunk, driving the wrong way in a fast-food drive-thru lane, impersonating law enforcement and then spitting on a police officer.

Even though their pleas will likely fall on deaf ears in Washington D.C., State Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez joined law enforcement and other officials outside Clifton City Hall in New Jersey recently to call on lawmakers to fund a program that would allow police departments to hire more officers.

In Chicago, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police says his organization will try to intervene in a recent lawsuit that alleges inequalities in how Chicago police deploy officers in minority neighborhoods. According to a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, FOP president Michael Shields gave a speech at the City Club of Chicago on the topic.

One of the main flaws with the drug war is its singular focus on supply rather than demand. As long as there is a demand for illicit drugs, suppliers will find a way to satisfy it. And the demand is overwhelming. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times by Lisa Girion and Doug Smith, prescription drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States.

Maybe when the economy turns around we can get back to the war on drugs, but for now budget cuts are making life easier for those who make their living growing, manufacturing and distributing illegal narcotics. Law enforcement officials in Georgia say a cut in federal funding means the Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad and Gang Task Force will be forced to focus more on local cases and not on the bigger state and federal cases.

It turns out drones, typically used for military action in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya, may soon be flying in the skies near you.
Law enforcement agencies want drones for air support when chasing criminals on foot or in a vehicle, utility companies believe the drones will provide invaluable help monitoring oil, gas and water pipelines and farmers think the drones will be useful and farmers are convinced drones will be the perfect way to spray their crops with pesticides.

The following is posted on the official web site of the Obama Adminsistration’s www.whitehouse.gov. President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history, and WhiteHouse.gov will play a major role in delivering on that promise. But that’s what they say. The question of what federal officials actually do is a different proposition entirely.