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 >
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
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. To err is human says the poet, but nothing less than perfection is allowed for today’s police officers. It seems that the notions of probable cause and reasonable suspicion have been replaced by standards of certainty previously expected only of juries. With the spread of the elimination of qualified Read More >
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Before COVID the public outcry for school safety developed closer working relationships with law enforcement agencies. Among those responses was expanding police presence in schools to act as a deterrent, first response, and behavioral intervention to reduce the occurrences of school violence. Now headlines continue to report the canceling Read More >
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. President Biden advocates a federal domestic terrorism law. Given that the Constitution guarantees not only free speech but free association, even the ACLU is skeptical that the government can keep from repeating past mistakes in criminalizing political and religious activity. Although concerns about radicalization through social media and hate Read More >
By Steve Pomper President Donald Trump often showered accolades on America’s men and women in uniform. Many appreciated that sentiment coming from the highest office in the land. It was a change from President Obama’s persistent hostility toward cops. Joe Biden made it clear during a recent CNN town hall that he will be following President Read More >
By Stephen Owsinski Yet another occasion to recite the “enough is enough” cry is upon us, and it is once again in my neck of the woods where the community recently said goodbye to Hillsborough County Deputy Brian LaVigne after he was intentionally rammed and killed by a fleeing felon. In stark resemblance, tragedy played Read More >
By Steve Pomper Three quasi-adult delinquents threw a fit and demanded a Massachusetts police officer dig out a car they’d just plowed into a pile of snow. The three, Nathaniel Chickering, 18, Bianca Torres, 19, and 21-year-old Michael Rodriquez were driving through a snowstorm on February 2, 2021, at about 12:30 a.m. The driver, Torres, lost Read More >
By Steve Pomper In an email update from Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), and author of More Guns, Less Crime, Dr. Lott illuminates yet another disturbing anti-police trend. Something lefties might call intersectionality. Gun control radicals are saying police violence equals so-called gun violence—because cops carry guns. I’m sure we can count Read More >
By Stephen Owsinski As we enter 2021 with the anti-police rancor still wafting and a new commander-in-chief supplanting the former law-and-order president, it is astonishing that through it all…our nation’s law enforcement officers who took tons of heat, ridicule, criticism, and hatred unwaveringly report for duty and help mete-out societal woes—as best they’re permitted (Google Read More >