What Has Changed Since George Floyd’s Death and Protests
Month: November 2020
Cops, Mother Nature, and You
By Stephen Owsinski No matter where one lives, the chances of Mother Nature throwing a curveball or two here and there are inescapable. With her hands on the joysticks, inclement weather consisting of icy snow or unstoppable hurricanes or intense heat causing consternation for Smokey the Bear…Mother Nature’s elemental pedigree and planetary diversity poses often Read more »
Just What is Community Policing Anyway
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Joe Biden still says he is a proponent of community policing, even when surrounded by voices advocating defunding of the police. If his proposal to increase funding for community policing comes to fruition, what will that look like? What community policing looks like is still an open question. A Read more »
Mindset of Brand-new Police Officer: ‘I Want People to Need Us Again’
By Stephen Owsinski Recent reports explored the stand up and step forward bravado of future cops training at the police academy and active-duty law enforcement officers continuing to do the job despite the insidious harangue of anti-cop vocal chords blasting hate via bullhorns. Despite the din-makers’ heaping hatred for all-things-police, new cops are hitting the Read more »
Not a Chief of Police, LAPD Has a Chief of Mayor, Leading to Serious Rank and File Discontent
By Steve Pomper In many American cities, the leadership—mayors, city councils, and prosecutors—are so aligned with the rioting radicals, there is no way they will ever appoint a police chief in whom rank-and-file officers can have confidence. This has been the case for a while, but it’s gotten worse. When I was hired back in Read more »
National Police Association spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith on Fox & Friends regarding the defund the police movement and how it ignores criminality in its goal of abolishing law enforcement
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Future and Current Cops Stand Strong, Despite Anti-Police Whiners
By Stephen Owsinski One of the most difficult challenges in my life was enduring the police academy and its rigorous demands toward graduation. And I would do it all over again, without reservation. Others harbor the same notion and conviction to serve their respective communities. Academy classes commence, badges are pinned at graduations, and newly-certified Read more »
THE NATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION RELEASES NEW RADIO PSA URGING AMERICANS TO IMMEDIATELY ASSIST POLICE OFFICERS IN DANGER
Latest PSA Asks Citizens to Stop Filming Police Officers in Danger with Cell Phones, and Instead Call 9-1-1 Indianapolis, Indiana –The National Police Association (NPA) announced today their latest public service announcement on the dangers of filming, instead of helping, struggling police officers to radio stations nationally. This PSA urges listeners to help law enforcement Read more »
Will Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Reduce or Increase Addiction and Crime?
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Oregon has reduced the penalty for most drug possession cases from being a felony offense to being no offense at all. The $100 that a defendant would pay will be a ticket to rehabilitation. Such a radical departure from a criminal justice response to a health care response just Read more »
Portland Continues to Thwart Efforts to Protect Police
By Steve Pomper Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was just reelected, as the alternative candidate, if you can believe it, was even worse than him. You’ll recall this anti-cop mayor. The one who refused to allow Portland police officers to respond to a 911 call (from a civilian employee) from the ICE facility when it was Read more »