By Steve Pomper If you go to the Boston Police Patrolman’s Association (BPPA) website, you’ll find something curious. An offer to purchase a challenge coin, which commemorates the “Boston Police Strike of 1919.” The BPPA recognized the event’s centennial last September. Intrigued, I read on. Seems in the shadow of the end of WWI and the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski By now you’ve likely heard about potty-mouth New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot who, as reported by the New York Post, said “I don’t give two rats’ asses about your cops!” This stemmed from NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan requesting about 500,000 medical face masks for his police force, Read more »
By Steve Pomper As a retired Seattle cop, it’s difficult for me to see news items about the sham federal consent decree placed on the stellar officers of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) (incidentally, with the participation of Seattle’s current mayor, Jenny Durkan, when she was the U.S. Attorney for the region). It’s difficult to see Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski With all the surreal stipulations stemming from the pandemic and its inherent quarantine, ever wonder how our nation’s police academies are managing to train our newest law enforcement officers? From a social distance, the National Police Association took a virtual tour of a few police academies around the nation, from completely online Read more »
By Steve Pomper I once had a confrontation with a persnickety woman at a coffee shop. I’d parked my patrol car in an admittedly unauthorized parking spot (a wide concrete buffer between the sidewalk and the road). Apparently, she took offense and needed to make sure I had just a bit more unpleasantness in my day. After Read more »
Greetings, The Castleberry Independent School District strives to provide the finest education to our students. Through this learning process, they prepare our students to be lifelong learners in our diverse, changing world and competitive workplace. The school district is located five miles west of downtown Fort Worth, in a densely populated community covering an area Read more »
By Steve Pomper Suffolk County District Attorney Racheal Rollins has been on law enforcement’s radar ever since people saw fit to vote her into the prosecutor’s office. DA Rollins is one of those infamous “progressive” prosecutors, funded by socialist tycoon (I know… oxymoron) George Soros, who have taken control of district attorney’s and prosecutor’s offices across Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It’s not every day that someone tosses almost $1 million out the car window. It is every day that keen cops armed with acute observation skills detect basic traffic infractions leading to some enormous catches. That is what unfolded May 2 when a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer and his police K9 Read more »