By Steve Pomper While I’ve never liked that so many people take cops for granted, I’d exchange the antipathy of whatever this is that we have now for the apathy of being taken for granted. Here’s a current example of the antipathy. The extremely anti-police business owner of Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream has posted a Read more »
Year: 2020
Back the Blue: Keep Lt. John Mitchell in Your Thoughts and Prayers
By Steve Pomper By now, you probably know about the case in Oklahoma of an overzealous district attorney prosecuting a decorated Blackwell Police Department Lieutenant John Mitchell for manslaughter for risking his life to stop an active shooter. For those who want to catch up on this case, you can find several articles at www.nationalpolice.org. This Read more »
Law Enforcement Trainer and NPA Contributor Sgt. Betsy Smith Interviewed by KTVU TV on Palo Alto’s Cop Killer Mural
Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith, being interviewed about the NPA’s petition asking Palo Alto to remove its mural of a cop killer across from City Hall. Betsy is the creator of the only course of its kind for women in law enforcement, “The Winning Mind for Women” and is the owner of The Winning Mind LLC. Read more »
Anti-Police City Officials Oppose the Law and Order They Are Obligated to Uphold in Court
By Steve Pomper Is there anything more dangerous to our culture than elected officials trading equal justice for social justice, exchanging the rule of law for the rule of man, and swapping law and order for chaos? The quick answer is, no. But it goes even deeper. In America today, city, county, and state officials, obliged Read more »
The City of Palo Alto, California Needs to Hear from You
If you visit Hamilton Avenue in front of Palo Alto, CA City Hall you’ll see a nearly 245-foot-long and 17-foot-tall mural covering the street. The 16 individual murals spell out Black Lives Matter. The second letter to the end is a 17’ tall mural of Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur. The below picture Read more »
Police-hindering Mayors Under Fire—They Deserve All the Heat
By Stephen Owsinski As just about everything bizarre in life, things have a way of turning around. It is the interim that hurts most, and the time waiting patiently is often tested by elected officials who deliberate much too long, who tally ticks of fatalities while spewing talking points from a podium. These same so-called Read more »
Howard Berger Stands With Cops And Community
By Stephen Owsinski A Black Lives Matter resolution in Lauderhill, Florida created a blowback for one of the municipal government’s officials, Vice Mayor Howard Berger, when he voted against the city’s bill which reads more like an outright indictment of law enforcement (empirically, not just Minneapolis’s Derek Chauvin) than caters deserved dignity of African American Read more »
Eliminating School Resource Officers to “Make Students Feel Safe.” How About We Make Students Truly Safe?
By Steve Pomper The school board for the school district I live in, which contains the schools my children attended, and grandchildren now attend, recently voted to eliminate school resource officers. Lucid people immediately recoil at such raw stupidity while political radicals convulse with delight over their “wokeness.” According to Q13 FOX, school district officials defended Read more »
‘Cops Bounce Back Better Than Anyone’: Tampa Police Chief Signals Resiliency
By Stephen Owsinski In my neck of the woods a fake “shots fired” call with reports of a “man down” amounted to nine Tampa police officers risking their lives racing to the seen. Once at the purported incident/intersection provided by the phantom caller, all nine cops were pelted with bottles launched by a crowd of Read more »
Are Some Cops’ Friends and Family Increasingly Anti-Police?
By Steve Pomper It’s not just large corporations leaping onto the corporate bandwagon of support for violent, anti-police political pirates who plunder, destroy, assault, and kill—including killing police officers. These corporate folks hop onboard because of an age-old tradition of appeasing radicals: you hope they’ll destroy you last. But this militant propaganda-come-to-fruition is broader and has Read more »