By Stephen Owsinski You might think it is not too often that you see the police chief on the beat, but it does occur, even on midnight shifts. As one might expect, it does a world of good for patrol officers seeing their CEO of cops taking calls and clicking cuffs on bad actors. What Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I remember being the on-call investigator when the phone rang sometime in the middle of the night. At the time I didn’t live very far from the police station so I sprinted down to grab the unmarked car and head out to the scene where an officer had been Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As the largest municipal police agency in America, the NYPD employs a robust contingent of law enforcement officers to respond to just about anything imaginable, ranging from crimefighters investigating morose depravities to Mounted Unit farriers fashioning new shoes for its police horses. Then there is the NYPD staff uniquely skilled at conducting Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It is not every day that police cadets endure the rigors of the police academy and receive carrots as rewards for their hard work, but a batch of 10-foot NYPD cops did and hoofed it to a generous round of applause. On October 20, 2022, the New York City Police Department’s Mounted Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As a former university police chief, I have encountered a lot of misconceptions about campus policing. There are plenty of reasons for the notion that college law enforcement isn’t “real police work”. Foremost is the average person’s template for what policing looks like is the city or county law Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Down to the final nail driven into new frameworks and reinforcements of many SW Florida homes and businesses bullied by Hurricane Ian, multi-skilled cops rebuild foundations for the region’s future. As the body count ticked upward, law enforcement officers from Florida and numerous other states looked ahead and got busy with roof Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Poignant backstories emerging after the havoc of Hurricane Ian are starting to flood the web, generating the positivity that we long for, and many of the chapters involve cops caring for our elderly folks who may need that extra helping hand, respectfully extended by law enforcement officers. Since Florida is world-renowned for Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As a writer on law enforcement issues, I get almost daily notices of officers killed, injured, or being prosecuted in the line of duty. Many of those announcements include the request for “thoughts and prayers”, and the occasional “vibe”. Some organizations have dropped the “prayers” part in order not Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski A few days ago, with the new school-year horizon in view, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced investments in evil-stopping equipment for his school resource officers (SROs) assigned to school campuses throughout his coastal county. “Our children and our teachers will be protected at all costs,” said Sheriff Ivey. With application to Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Another sticky-fingered kleptomaniac whose poor decision to heist a young kid’s bicycle found out that cops can cover all kinds of terrain with varying modes of travel to get the crime-fighting mission accomplished. Police officers in Menlo Park, California, caught up with a bicycle thief after a fresh pursuit was initiated by Read more »