The NPA’s nationally released radio ad campaign encourages residents to contact their local officials to report vandalism and code violations to support ‘broken windows policing’. The broken windows theory says signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and public disorder create an environment that generates more crime and disorder, including violent crimes. Policing methods that address minor Read More >
The National Police Association has written President Trump advising him the Baltimore Police Consent Decree, a two hundred twenty-seven (227) page document with more than five hundred (500) articulated paragraphs of content, written by the Obama era Justice Department and forced upon Baltimore Patrol Officers, is without exception a hammer being used by the City Read More >
On April 5, 1986, Columbus, Ohio Officer Gordon Joe Rich was working a federal traffic enforcement detail. While on patrol he stopped a vehicle on Interstate 70 at State Route 315. James Lumpkin Rattler was removed from the car and attacked Officer Rich, gaining control of his gun and shooting him, leaving Officer Rich, a Read More >
National Police Association has filed a Massachusetts state bar complaint against Suffolk County, Massachusetts DA Elect Rachael Rollins (“Rollins”), alleging the Boston lawyer violated ethics rules when she campaigned for District Attorney representing to the public that Rollins, regardless of what laws were in place and regardless of the rule of law itself, would affirmatively Read More >
On December 28, 1991, twenty seven year old NYPD Sgt. Keith Levine was off duty and outwith friends in midtown Manhattan. Levine, son of a decorated career DEA Agent,observed an armed robbery in progress of an individual at an ATM. The armed robber was Michael Alston, then thirty five, who was a twice convicted killer Read More >
By NPA | 30 Sep, 2018 The National Police Association joined with the National Sheriffs’ Association and two organizations that support victims of crimes by undocumented immigrants in backing the United States in its opposition to sanctuary laws in California, arguing to the Ninth Circuit in a friend-of-the-court brief, it should overturn California laws interfering with Read More >
By NPA • 19 Aug, 2018 The National Police Association has filed a request for an Investigation of San Jose, CA Independent Police Auditor (IPA) Aaron Zisser with the San Jose Board of Fair Campaign and Political Practices. The National Police Association’s concerns regarding the San Jose, CA Independent Police Auditor are three-fold. First, IPA Read More >
By NPA • 03 Jul, 2018 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to have violated his ethics obligations by offering the ACLU and Black Lives Matters Chicago seats at the table in supervising the Chicago Police Department, according to a request for a full and formal investigation ofEmanuelby the Chicago Inspector General filed by the National Police Read More >
By NPA • 26 Dec, 2017 The National Police Association has filed an amicus brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the City of Ferguson, Missouri; former Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, and former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, supporting their motion to dismiss in the case of Johnson v. City of Read More >