By Steve Pomper Every law enforcement officer and lucid mind in America knew the defund-the-police movement was foolish. There was no question it would not work and would make things worse. In a recent front-page story in the Epoch Times, reporter Cara Ding highlights mayors increasing their budgets for the nation’s three largest police departments: the New York Read more »
By Steve Pomper We all know that the “homeless crisis” infecting so many American cities affects police officers profoundly. First, the nuances of the political manipulation, compounding for decades, must be understood to fully understand the surrounding issues. I believe it began in earnest with the transition in the lexicon. Control the language, control the conversation, Read more »
By Steve Pomper Mike Solan, president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, according to KING 5 News, has announced that, after Monday Oct. 18th, Mayor Jenny Durkan will not immediately fire police officers who have refused, in opposition to a city mandate, to provide the city with private medical records documenting they have received the mRNA Read more »
By Steve Pomper A porous U.S.-Mexico border affects law enforcement officers in two ways—at least. It affects federal cops and their state and local partners working the insanity at the border. Then it also affects state and local law enforcement officers as the illegal immigrants, within which criminals hide, flow into various communities across the United Read more »
By Steve Pomper How many times can police say, “Here we go again?” I don’t think a day passes where a prosecutor somewhere doesn’t charge a cop with murder for doing his or her job. We all know about George Soros’ posse of non-prosecutors proliferating across America. We’ve seen the destruction of justice wrought by his Read more »
By Steve Pomper Prosecutors across America continue to play around with cops’ lives. The Village Police Corporal Chance Avery was first charged with murder and manslaughter for shooting a suspect armed with a bat. After a police lieutenant in a similar case had his charges dismissed, the judge also dismissed Cpl. Avery’s charges. Now, another judge has Read more »
By Steve Pomper These days it’s crucial to define terms before engaging in any serious debate about an issue. And with the political left’s Orwellian redefining of terms to fit their ideology and control the narrative, it’s become even more essential. Take decertifying bad cops. Six states reportedly have no mechanism for decertifying “bad” police officers: Read more »
By Steve Pomper What if you hired a lactose intolerant milkman and then he refused to deliver milk? You’d fire him, right? Well, perhaps voters in blue jurisdictions should also fire their public prosecutors. In L.A., they’re trying to do just that by recalling DA George Gascon. Like the milkman who won’t deliver milk, voters are Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D If we haven’t had enough forehead slapping, eye-rolling, what the heck moments in the past year, here’s another: paying people not to shoot other people. Saying “Don’t shoot, here take my money” sounds more like a robbery than a social program, but some social engineers think it will save Read more »
By Steve Pomper If there is ever going to be genuine change to decrease Baltimore’s soaring crime, it can come only after an honest realization of the true problems there. But that’s not likely. Creating a myth about bad cops has become too necessary for political fundraising. But it’s not so great for people who need Read more »