If you visit Hamilton Avenue in front of Palo Alto, CA City Hall you’ll see a nearly 245-foot-long and 17-foot-tall mural covering the street. The 16 individual murals spell out Black Lives Matter. The second letter to the end is a 17’ tall mural of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur. The below picture Read more »
The National Police Association (NPA) has filed a friend of the court brief asking the U.S.Supreme Court not to accept review of an appeal by Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay McKesson. The brief supports Officer John Doe, who seeks to recover for serious injuries caused by a rock thrown by a participant in the Black Read more »
On January 21, 1987, Morrow Police Officer Jeffrey Phegley was on patrol when he observed a 1977 Monte Carlo traveling 48 miles per hour in a 25-miles-per-hour zone. As reported by the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum, Officer Phegley stopped the driver, Anthony McIntosh. He activated a microcassette recorder in his shirt pocket and walked up Read more »
UPDATE: August 7th 2019 2230 names of signers of our petition asking for the reinstatement of Lt. Jensen were provided to Elgin City Manager Richard Kozal and Elgin Police Chief Ana Lalley. Over the past two decades of public service, Elgin, IL Police Lt. Christian Jensen, has received 22 commendations and more than 70 letters of appreciation. Read more »
The National Police Association (NPA) opposed the ACLU’s attack on law enforcement’s ability to investigate street gangs, arguing to Massachusetts in a friend-of-the-court brief, it should uphold the right of the Boston Police Department to maintain a confidential gang database. The NPA argues against the ACLU which claims in its suit against the Boston Police 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 »
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 »