Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New CBP documents raise more pressing questions about how the federal government is handling complaints of abuse by Border Patrol agents, the Arizona Republic reports. The reports show that only 13 of 809 complains of abuse filed against agents from January 2009 to January 2012 resulted in CBP action. Of those, one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Some ATF agents involved with a botched gun-buying storefront operation in Milwaukee face disciplinary action, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The investigation was so bungled that agents last year had their guns stolen and their storefront pillaged. The Journal Sentinel discovered through a letter sent to Congress that the Justice Department is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating whether a Pittsburgh police detective was out of control when he pulled a Taser on a man in Pittsburgh over the weekend, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The incident captured a national audience after a cell phone video caught Detective Frank Rende walking up to a man and…
