Page 16 - Armed Response News Today

In the article, Andrew Coster wrote of the balance between privacy and safety.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Coster wrote in the On one side, they were panned for only learning of threats to mosques posted to a website used by extremists and white supremacists after a member of the public told them. And on the other, there are reports of police approaching innocent young Māori, photographing them, collecting their personal details and sending it to a national database. Coster writes these both speak to the question about what trade-of...

Costs of protecting yourself against crime must be tax deductible, says lobby group 23 February 2021 - 12:10 By TimesLIVE Anti-crime tech costs should be tax deductible, says TLU SA. Stock photo. Image: 123RF/prykhodov High walls, security cameras, burglar alarms, electric fences, razor wire, armed-response services and home insurance: A lobby group has launched a campaign for all these expenses to be deducted from tax. TLU SA said on Tuesday it wants a change to sect...

Collins on Bridges wokester jibe: I wouldnt call someone that © RNZ / Samuel Rillstone National Party leader Judith Collins says justice spokesperson Simon Bridges should direct criticism to ministers not the police commissioner, who he labelled a "wokester". The partys justice spokesperson, Simon Bridges, called Police Commissioner Andrew Coster "our wokester commissioner" in response to a police operation targeting guns held by organised crime groups and gangs. © RNZ / Sam Rillstone, Dom ...

Road police in Surrey arrested two men they said tested positive for cocaine after they were stopped in a hair-raising pursuit on Valentines Day…

11:20, 10 FEB 2021 A balaclava discarded in Meir Park (Image: Staffordshire Police) Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and you...

Phil Spector, who has died from Covid-19 aged 81, was a highly gifted record producer and songwriter whose recordings in the 1960s, and later with the Beatles, revolutionised pop music, but whose talents were undermined by a mercurial temperament that would lead to him twice standing trial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. In his heyday in the early 1960s, Spector pioneered what became known as “The Wall of Sound”, producing some of the most exhilarating and uplifting recordings ever...

Phil Spector, brilliant record producer behind the ‘Wall of Sound’ – and convicted murderer – obituary A troubled figure, he produced Be My Baby by the Ronettes and John Lennon’s Imagine, but in 2009 was found guilty of murdering an actress Phil Spector circa 1965 Credit: Michael Ochs Archives Phil Spector, who has died from Covid-19 aged 81, was a highly gifted record producer and songwriter whose recordings in the 1960s, and later with the Beatles, revolutionised pop music, but wh...

Some republicans saying that demand did more harm than good in terms of get something, getting anything passed. are they right? >> well, as you mentioned, ive been in negotiations with the white house along with senator toomey and senator manchin. we are not going to be able to get the white house to degree to universal background checks. we may be able to expand background checks to all commercial sales. i understand that thats senator schumer and speaker pelosis position. i, of course, would l...

Some sort of armed response? >> what the united states of america should be doing right now is de-escalating this conflict between the saudis and the united states and the iranians instead of escalating it. lets remember how this all started. it started when the united states pulled out of the iranian nuclear accord and started sanctioning the iranian oil economy. and so iran has responded in kind by going after saudi and american oil assets in the region. it would be a disaster for the united s...