Calling For Backup Is No Guarantee of De-escalation

Calling For Backup Is No Guarantee of De-escalation

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In 2016, Officer Joseph Mensah shot and killed Jay Anderson. Anderson was apparently asleep and possibly intoxicated in his vehicle at 3 a.m. in a park in Wauwatosa, a Milwaukee suburb when Mensah approached to investigate. Seeing a handgun near Anderson, Mensah drew his sidearm and attempted to make Read more »

Police Dogs Dialed in Better Than Anti-Police Leaders

By Stephen Owsinski I imagine a litany of askance looks are happening, what with all the waffling going on among Anti-Police leaders’ defund-to-refund the police embarrassment. Definitely deserving of the I told ya so brigade resounding the mantra over such a boneheaded maneuver, one which needlessly cost lives. While certain Anti-Police leaders lorded over (read: Read more »

The Real-Life Consequences of Real-Life Stupidity

By Steve Pomper A recent social media post I received, inserted below, is instructive when attempting to navigate the truly stupid “police reform” laws, which rode in on the coattails of disastrous “defund the police” politics. After suffering through so many inane media comments from radical leftists, it always grounds me to get a dose of Read more »