By Steve Pomper There are two reasons I like the idea of a sheriff’s citizens posse: one, it is practical and will make additional, trained bodies available to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office for emergencies. And two, as Loiuse Beven wrote in The Epoch Times (ET), “residents are invited to learn more about how, and Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski I am the type of individual who is easily captivated by fortuitous discoveries, especially those that glow with authenticity, appeal, and humanitarian honor. Such was the case recently when I came across an image of what seems to be a squad of on-duty deputies with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The search for the elusive predictive profile of active killers continues. The U.S. Secret Service recently published “Mass Attacks in Public Spaces” outlining statistics from attacks in the U.S. in 2018. As the world’s foremost experts on public violence, the United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The oddities of life continue to abound and astonish. While Seattle City Council plows forth with the ridiculousness of downsizing their police force amid the reverberations from “defund the police” mouthpieces, a massive annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2020 has hundreds of thousands of motorbike enthusiasts enjoying America as a whole, in one Read more »
By Steve Pomper Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best did her best, but her best wasn’t good enough for the extremists on the Seattle City Council. Despite her efforts to back the men and women of the Seattle Police Department (SPD), the city council voted 7-1 to implement their plan to defund, and perhaps abolish, the SPD and Read more »
By Steve Pomper I recently read a former local TV news reporter’s post on Linkedin. I know her a little from when I was still an active cop, and I like and respect her. She brought up the topic of whether police officers should be viewed and trained as guardians of democracy or as warriors. I Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Despite the tsunami of anti-police din, diehard police supporters are waving Thin Blue Line flags and/or exhibiting cop-supporting icons and such. It is always refreshing to see adults act maturely and with objective reasoning, especially in the face of utter emotion-based drivel baselessly denouncing America’s frontline heroes. Yet, in all of this Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. In my recent interview with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, he pointed out the inflationary effect that obscures our national statistics on homicide. Current FBI statistic on homicide indicate a general downward trend. Does this mean there is less violent crime? According to Grossman “We have ‘inflation adjusted dollars’ and Read more »
By Steve Pomper In my most recent NPA article, I wrote, “The radicals are fighting a multi-front war with traditional America….” Three recent examples of this war strategy stood out. The first two involve the legislative and the judicial branch of local government, and the last is a chilling example of what used to be considered Read more »