When Serus Walters, a 20-year-old drifter with a taste for random violence, pleaded guilty on May 19 to three savage assaults in Cleveland, the victims thought the nightmare was finally over. Attorney David Dudley—64 years old, ribs fractured, shoulder cartilage torn, skull kicked like a football—sat in the courtroom waiting for justice. Instead, he watched Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The National Police Association (NPA) is pitching in with expert analysis of an important upcoming SCOTUS case: Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, et al. The primary issue is whether the use of body weight to control a combative person is an acceptable use of force. For the sake Read more »
The recent arrests of nearly two dozen Trinitarios gang members in Massachusetts should be a wake-up call to every law-abiding citizen. These arrests, part of a sweeping federal RICO conspiracy case, reveal a chilling reality: ruthless criminal gangs like the Trinitarios are operating in our communities, engaging in violence, and spreading terror. In Massachusetts, federal Read more »
Across America, the iron grip of Washington bureaucrats tightens around our police departments, smothering them under layers of federal decrees that serve only to paralyze law enforcement and embolden criminals. These so-called “consent decrees” are not about justice. They are not about accountability. They are about power—federal power overriding local governance, imposing an agenda dictated Read more »
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a sweeping directive that empowers the Department of Justice to deploy federal law enforcement agencies under its umbrella in support of immigration enforcement efforts. Under this new mandate, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Read more »
In a bold act of defiance, Huntington Beach, California—known to many as “Surf City, USA”—has taken up arms against Sacramento’s leftist regime, filing a lawsuit against the state over its infamous “sanctuary state” law. This brazen assault on local autonomy, formally known as Senate Bill 54, represents everything wrong with the tyranny of coastal elites Read more »
It took the voters of Los Angeles County far too long to wake up, but when they did, they roared. Last month, they delivered a decisive, earthshaking blow to George Gascon, the man who spent years turning the District Attorney’s office into a circus of chaos, lawlessness, and disgrace. Enter Nathan Hochman, a man whose Read more »
New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), once envisioned as a mechanism for fostering trust between the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the public, has degenerated into an overreaching anti-crimefighting nightmare. Originally designed to ensure accountability, this organization now serves as a blunt instrument wielded against the very officers tasked with maintaining order Read more »
By Steve Pomper On the heels of a recent NPA story regarding the cop-hating, Soros-funded Travis County prosecutor José Garza comes yet another allegation of corruption. This isn’t piling on; it’s just following up—but not without a bit of schadenfreude. While DA Garza is no stranger to accusations of rule-breaking, as you can read here about Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Many of our legal traditions and public officials have roots in our British history (they used to own us, if you recall). From about the 12th century, two high offices of the crown as the royal government was called, were the Sheriff and the Coroner. The Coroner (derived from Read more »