New Illinois Law Makes It Easier for Foreign Operatives to Become Cops

New Illinois Law Makes It Easier for Foreign Operatives to Become Cops

By Steve Pomper Some time ago, I wrote about the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) establishing police departments abroad, including in the United States. The communists apparently use these agencies to intimidate and gain leverage against Chinese dissidents in America, sometimes threatening their relatives back in China. Who knows what other nefarious activities they have planned? Now, Read more »

Retired Seattle P.D. LT’s Exit Letter Torches City and Department Leadership

By Steve Pomper Seattle Police Dept. East Precinct during 2020 CHOP/CHAZ debacle Some people get writer’s block, struggling to put words on the page. Others, like recently retired Seattle police Lieutenant Jessica Taylor, seem to suffer from a writer’s logjam—that finally breaks. She had so much built-up over her 23 “soul-draining” years on the SPD that Read more »

Cops Can Sue, Too!

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D You can’t read very far in the news without hearing about police officers being sued. But justice is not blind to cops and they, too, have the right to file a lawsuit when unlawfully harmed. Columbus, Ohio police officer Traci Shaw was summarily charged by Richard Wozniak, Deputy Director Read more »

No Safe Space for Cops

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Whether it was the break room at the battery factory, the hay truck parked under the shade of a tree beside the field, or the truck stop café with the diesel left running, there was always a place I could find to get a little thinking done or get Read more »

What’s the Big Deal About Cop City

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Around the country, we hear the cry for more police training. Unless you don’t want police training. In Atlanta, despite sometimes violent protests, the city council approved millions in funding for a new training center for law enforcement dubbed “Cop City”. The decision was not unanimous and after the Read more »