By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. We can’t blame citizens for not understanding how and why police officers have to sometimes fight and even kill. Our humanity should bristle at such things. We wish we could live without the reality of those decisions. Despite our fears about violence, research shows that most humans have a Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Pridefully, I’ve been scoping out all the latest innovations, strategic deployments, and brilliant public services being employed by our nation’s law enforcement. Not that any of this is new, only that it justly counters those barking “defund the police.” It’s not a competition; it’s a perseverance and resilience of cops to keep Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The Virginia General Assembly (Legislature) scripted and passed two bills which would largely sideline cops’ ability to enforce traffic laws and ensure public safety, effectively signaling a relative free-for-all on roadways which will amount in otherwise preventable calamities. Virginia SB 5029 and HB 5058 are identical bills, both unambiguously rendering police personnel Read more »
By Steve Pomper Is the defund the police movement losing steam? There are radicals who will never give up on any of their perverse goals. But many officials who initially supported defunding the cops have faceplanted into a reality wall. They’re learning that defunding the police results in increased crime. Who knew? The Minneapolis City Council Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Soon news agencies will be reporting on the annual FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR). This annual summary of crime in America has been a staple of criminal justice planning and observation since 1930. How it works Statistics for the UCR are derived from police agencies that report statistics from Read more »
By Steve Pomper There was an interesting recent discussion on a national social media cop page. One member noticed in his area there were more campaign signs for one presidential campaign than for another. He wanted to know what the sign comparison was in other parts of the country. Officers from around the nation began letting Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski If anyone is chronically marking a calendar for each day anarchy rears its ugly dome, the letter X is likely getting lotsa play. Baseless, unruly behavior persists. Political pundits lob low blows at each other while Americans endure a pandemic rife with uncertainty. Social media channels plunge seemingly surreal hubbub at us Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The only thing more expensive to a community than funding a police department is not having an adequately funded police department. September’s hurricane Sally hit Alabama with an estimated destruction cost of 3 billion dollars. Like an unexpected storm, estimates from rioting related to the George Floyd in-custody death Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski For anyone to understand how a NYPD cop can tolerate the tenor of a constantly anti-police climate rife with crime, just know it is not necessarily only the criminal element which is placing too much weight on the camel’s back. No one joins the largest police department in the country thinking it Read more »
By Steve Pomper The year, 2020, is kicking our butts as a nation, especially with some politicians who are determined to make it as difficult as possible, while others try to return our nation to some semblance of normality. Through it all, America’s law enforcement officers keep doing what they do: helping to keep Americans Read more »