Author Archives: RJ Beam

Europe thinking about arming more cops

In the wake of various incidents in Europe, many police forces are looking at giving more police officers firearms. For anyone not aware in some parts of Europe many patrol officers don't carry firearms.

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Police save more people than they kill

Last night I was watching some talking head on the news saying that police have stopped protecting as in the old adage of Protect and Serve. So I decided to run some numbers. Now I can't speak for the full USA but here in my community we saved people, with out killing anyone!

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Free Community College, Good or Not Going to Work?

A popular video going around right now is the president talking about his plan for free Community College access for “anyone willing to work for it”. This video has got me thinking… this could be good… but will it work? If you have not seen the video it is embedded at the bottom of this post. According to the official ...

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Happy Birthday to RescueHumor

Today (January 4) is the anniversary of the first posting on RescueHumor.com. Eleven years ago on January 4, 2004 I clicked upload on a program called Dreamwaever and a few minutes later a new web page was live. At that time all I was posting was silly photos and jokes related to Police, Fire and EMS. RescueHumor was born out ...

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