Penny Dean and Your Rights

A former California Highway Patrol officer has been sentenced to three years' probation for sharing explicit photos from the cellphones of two women while they were under arrest.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1z7brao ) the judge also gave Sean Harrington six months in jail Tuesday, but she suspended the sentence as long as Harrington attends a violence prevention training program and obeys the law while on probation.

WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced it is looking into whether or not six NYPD officers planted guns on innocent people in order to arrest them for illegal possession of firearms.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced the investigation after prosecutors were forced to drop a weapons case involving a man accused of having a gun outside his Brooklyn apartment. The probe will center on allegations that police officers have been planting guns on innocent people.

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[It is worth noting that the homeowner's wife had already called 911. The police did eventually arrive. - ed. ]

An internal audit by the FBI, completed last month, found that every one of the nation’s field offices had problems tracking gun and drug evidence and that in some cases, drugs disappeared for months without notice. The Washington field office was among those with the highest error rates; 90 percent of drug evidence examined had been mishandled or had record-keeping problems.

<img src="http://police-praetorian.netdna-ssl.com/article-images/londonart.jpg" align="right">BRULE COUNTY, S.D. — A nearly two-day standoff in a South Dakota town resulted in one highway patrol officer shot and a father-son pair arrested.

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Show and tell on your parents.

The PSA video below shows a young teen dramatically rifling through his parents’ drawer, only to take out a handgun and put it in his backpack, all while his mother is downstairs reading.

The evidence is clear, constitutional gun ownership saves lives and gun free zones end them.

The latest example comes to us from the horrible shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

MILFORD, Mass. (WHDH) - A fifth grade student in Milford was suspended because according to school officials he made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at other students.

School officials said the 10-year-old's actions indicated a threat, but his family didn't agree.

"It was absolutely ridiculous. Nickolas is a sweet little boy that was just standing in line at lunch playing with his hands,” Linda O'Brien, the boy's grandmother, said.