By Stephen Owsinski One of the reasons I went into law enforcement stemmed from my childhood, watching NYPD cops and FDNY firefighters and all manner of folks standing behind them, in support, proud of do-gooders in their midst. Many years later, I would feel that same way, except I was in a blue uniform working Read more »
By Steve Pomper Logic applies to even the ridiculous defund/abolish the police movement, right? After defunding or abolishing the police, setting aside its massive foolishness, cities must replace it with something else. Most police abolitionists advocate for replacements to be social workers and other unarmed “first responders.” But, some truly unthinking radicals believe the cop void Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested for killing 8 persons and wounding others at 3 massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia area that began Tuesday, March 15th, 2021. Long was arrested in Crisp County, GA as law enforcement staged along routes of escape after an alert about the murders. Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s easy, if you’re not paying attention, to be fooled into believing the efforts to defund, abolish, or otherwise disappear traditional American law enforcement is a spontaneous and organic grassroots uprising. Something terrible happened, and people got pissed. But this is too simple and wrong. The complicity of the legacy media with their Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski I write this a day before the police funeral for Tampa Master Police Officer Jesse Madsen who was killed when he intentionally veered his patrol car head-on into a wrong-way drunk driver traveling at 100 mph on an interstate, saving countless lives in his final action as a law enforcement officer. In Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The short answer is yes. No advocate of quality policing objects to accountability of police officers or police agencies. The honest question is how to achieve that without gutting the essentials of policing. So far, many of the voices calling for police reform range from the abolition of policing Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski With decaying environments exacerbated by anti-police politicians and totalitarian-like governance closeting cops like mere brooms, and the constant barrage of denigration infiltrating every cell of a police officer’s being, the extent to which we feel so compelled to take a grand leap of faith in starting over, far away from the malignancy Read more »
Sunday March 14th at 10am ET with Dr. Jean Kanokogi PhD, Director of Mental Health & Peer Support Services, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, online at https://Pluto.TV/live-tv/The-First or on the https://www.thefirsttv.com app or after broadcast on https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalPoliceAssociation
By Steve Pomper Portland, Oregon government officials conjure a pathetic excuse for the massive surge in violent crime after months of incessant city-sanctioned leftist violence and efforts to defund and weaken the police. Last July 25th, during one of the nightly exhibitions of anti-government violence, two men were shot, one wounded and one killed. The 27-year-old Read more »
NPA Spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) joined Harris Faulkner on The Faulkner Focus for a discussion about the Minneapolis autonomous zone & the attack on the federal court house in Portland. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com