By Stephen Owsinski Recent political winds of change billboarded sentiments about public safety by ousting elected figures who touted fallacies that America’s policing institution is problematic, must be stripped of funding, and ultimately abolished from our free society. Every vowel and consonant spewed by anti-police mouths is a lovely language to criminal ears—surprise, surprise. With Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski We’ve seen what happens when a metropolis municipality lowers its hiring standards to fill vacant slots of police officers. In Memphis, Mr. Tyre Nichols, 29, perished at the hands of rogue cops who were ushered in by rather casualized requirements and handed justice shields. Sadly, they all tarnished the badges that, nationally, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D America’s law enforcement field training officers (FTO) are among the most important components of professionalism in policing. One could reasonably argue that the FTO exceeds the importance of basic academy training. The academy may be the backbone and skeleton of a police career, but those first weeks of supervision Read more »
By Steve Pomper There is encouraging news for cops across our great nation. Two of the most egregious opponents of law enforcement today are being hurled upon, as President Ronald Reagan might have said, the “ash heap of history.” Within days of each other, Chicago’s catastrophic anti-cop mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and the equally loathsome, equally anti-police St. Read more »
Should the public be allowed to encroach on police and distract them while they are working? Or should police be able to carry out their responsibilities without agitators free to get in their face and verbally assault them? Indiana State Representative Wendy McNamara, for example, wants police to have space to operate, and she has Read more »
By Steve Pomper Cities with anti-police governments, such as Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc., have so many—let’s call them “unintended”—consequences from their hate-the-police policies that they should probably qualify as intended. These agencies are some of the most politically oppressed police departments in the nation. And, as we’re seeing in Seattle, it’s not limited to the rank Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski While the current White House administration continues to bumble and spew fairytales about a “secure border,” Customs and Border Patrol agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are continuously disproving the falsehoods paraded by politicians. According to the US Border Patrol’s weekly report, two federal agents were assaulted (more on that Read more »
By Doug Wyllie On February 18, 2023, Janae Edmonson—a standout 17-year-old high school volleyball player who had a promising collegiate career ahead of her in Tennessee—was visiting St. Louis (MO) to compete in a tournament. While walking to her hotel, Edmonson was struck by a car that had been struck by a vehicle recklessly speeding Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s cliché, and maybe even a cop-out (no pun intended) to say everybody’s different regarding handling stress. This is particularly true of people whose career paths are incredibly stressful and dangerous, as cops’ jobs are. Often, which I’m sad to admit, law enforcement officers can be myopic in their handling stress from the Read more »