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National Police Association spokeswoman Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) joined Rob Schmitt on Newsmax TV discussing the lawsuit by Palo Alto police against the City
Mentors Made in Heaven—Cops in the Wings
By Stephen Owsinski Many among aspiring, present, or retired law enforcement officers can say they had one or more beat cops or TV characters role-modeling heroic police work when growing up as a kid. I was enamored by NYPD cops while growing up in New York City, thus I, for one, can attest to this. Read more »
Brainwashing Politicos Dwarfed by Police Perseverance
By Stephen Owsinski The I told ya so crowd deserves heralding; there was really never an iota of doubt that politicos went whacko with anti-police scripts emboldening criminality. Police are not the problem and continue to persevere despite the quacky quest of political brainwashers unrelentingly retailing a shameful vision of a police-less society. The increasingly Read more »
Protect Our Police Chiefs
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As LA Times writer Jill Leovy noted in an article nearly 20 years ago “The era of long-time chiefs has given way to an era of short-timers (who) rarely last longer than three years anymore.” The average tenure of police chiefs, although shorter for large agencies than smaller agencies, Read more »
Laws Protecting Police Should Equal Laws Protecting Judges and Prosecutors
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A recent, encouraging piece of legislation out of Minnesota has increased penalties for assaults on police officers. Included in the law are corrections officers (an often overlooked group), judges, and prosecutors. The bill, named after injured officer Arik Matson, amended state law to make penalties harsher for offenses of Read more »
Judge rules in favor of lawsuit, orders Minneapolis to restore police staffing
Cathy Spann, and seven other Minneapolis residents sued their City Council and Mayor for letting the Minneapolis PD fall below minimum staffing requirements in violation of the City Charter. The National Police Association (NPA) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief supporting their suit. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor had sought to circumvent the Read more »
Underwater Policing—Diving In
By Stephen Owsinski Of the many deployments law enforcement agencies have as public services for citizens, special certifications and ongoing training results in highly skilled public safety professionals doing a certain job where gills would really help but human adaptations are nonetheless employed. Law enforcement marine units and dutiful dive teams, albeit rarely mentioned in Read more »
NPA spokeswoman Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) on Fox & Friends discussing the failures of the Biden crime plan
The Biden crime plan fails to address the need for crime fighting, the need to end the vilification of police, and the refusal of progressive DAs to prosecute. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6260832428001#sp=show-clips
Praying it Forward
By Stephen Owsinski Praying it forward is an empirically applied endemic feature of America’s law enforcement institution and those who take up the nation’s battles. And there is no escaping the harsh fact that those battles often culminate in casualties, with annual statistics recently increasing in the number of gut-wrenching line-of-duty deaths of cops. Although Read more »