"Burn that fucking house down"

It seems the local NBC affiliate KCAL accidentally broadcast the instructions of an unknown officer to burn down the house that Chris Dorner was barricaded in. In the video (below) you can hear at least one officer repeat his instructions several times to "burn that fucking house down" over a loud speaker.

The person that uploaded the video states the video was taken around 1:30 PM PST, which would have been far earlier than the time the cabin actually burned down. But it does clearly show that someone on scene with the authority to give orders during the stand-off wanted Dorner dead. And if that were that the only evidence that suggested intent on the part of officers on scene to kill Dorner then a reasonable argument could probably be made that those instructions and the fire that Dorner allegedly set were unrelated. But then there's this troubling audio.

If you are the impatient sort skip to the 1:00 mark.

Officer 1: "Alright Steve, we're going to go forward with the plan...with the burn"
Officer 2: "Copy"
Officer 1: "Like we talked about"
Officer 1: "Seven burners deployed and we have a fire"
Dispatch: "Copy seven burners deployed and we have a fire"

Aaaaand, at the 3:00 mark an officer reports to dispatch that he heard one shot fired from inside the residence.  This was a full minute and a half AFTER the fire was reported to have been set, not before as was reported to the media.

Drug dogs are wrong more than they are right

From the "I told you so" files comes a scathing new report from the Chicago Tribune that shows drug sniffing dogs are right about finding drugs in less than half of the cases studied. Well duh.

But even advocates for the use of drug-sniffing dogs agree with experts who say many dog-and-officer teams are poorly trained and prone to false alerts that lead to unjustified searches. Leading a dog around a car too many times or spending too long examining a vehicle, for example, can cause a dog to give a signal for drugs where there are none, experts said.

Just because something is accepted doesn't make it right. Read the rest of the Tribune article here.

Police Lying Under Oath: As Simple as Tying Your Shoes

THE pressure to boost arrest numbers is not limited to drug law enforcement. Even where no clear financial incentives exist, the “get tough” movement has warped police culture to such a degree that police chiefs and individual officers feel pressured to meet stop-and-frisk or arrest quotas in order to prove their “productivity.”

Police would LIE? Say it aint so! Read on.