By Steve Pomper A little change of pace, today to discuss something I’ve always found strange but interesting. I’ve also wondered what it was like for the cops who had to enforce these blue laws. These, often whacky, laws convey to modern Americans both the transient and lingering nature of religious, cultural, and politically partisan laws. Read more »
By Steve Pomper The problem with a phrase like “stop and frisk” is it doesn’t infer preconditions. Such as an officer must have reasonable suspicion (based on objective and subjective criteria) to believe the likelihood of criminal activity exists before police can even stop a person, never mind frisk them. And though reasonable suspicion doesn’t rise Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It finally happened. And it has been a long-time coming for Florida’s law enforcement officers who have take-home cars and park their response-ready police vehicles at their homes and told by HOAs that they can’t. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday signed S.B 476 into law, otherwise known as the self-explanatory Read more »
By Steve Pomper Here’s another update in the case of a Blackwell, Oklahoma Police Lieutenant John Mitchell who risked his life to stop a woman, armed with a pickup truck and a handgun, from driving through town while shooting her gun out the window at people and objects. Lt. Mitchell’s mission was to stop the woman Read more »
By Steve Pomper Whenever I speak about anti-cop NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, I bestow upon him the dis-honorific: Worst Mayor in America. And I sometimes add “with some stiff competition.” The stiff competition comes from anti-cop Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, Oregon. I keep thinking the hands-off Antifa has gone as far as it Read more »
By Steve Pomper Why doesn’t this surprise me? People lament the violence in cities that have been under one-party political rule for decades. But voters keep electing people who not only fail to make things better but also make things worse. Take Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for example. Voters elected another cookie-cutter, anti-law and order Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski In a recent Fox News TV interview with Anthony Barksdale, the former Baltimore deputy police commissioner, analysis of Baltimore’s escalating homicide rate was the focal point. More precisely, it is what Baltimore street cops need to do about it. More applicably, it is who is running the Baltimore Police Department, along with Read more »
By Steve Pomper You hear a lot about the divide, chasm even, between many cops and their bosses. This is especially true where people with anti-cop ideologies hold political power, and they’re the ones who appoint police chiefs. And what increases that divide? Police chiefs tied ideologically to their political benefactors. Take for instance Toledo Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Days ago, the National Police Association (NPA) published a piece regarding the murder of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Joseph Bullock. Today, NPA brings you a poignant perspective of what life is like as a law enforcement officer. For the murder of Trooper Bullock, I bowed my head from the opposite Florida coast Read more »
By Steve Pomper Since last year, the National Police Association (NPA) and other local and national media have covered the inexplicable case of an Oklahoma DA who insists on prosecuting veteran Blackwell Police Department Lieutenant John Mitchell—for doing his job. The DA is prosecuting the police supervisor despite his having placed his life in danger Read more »