By Steve Pomper The NPA has been following the case of Blackwell, Oklahoma police Lieutenant John Mitchell. In early 2019, Lt. Mitchell engaged in a roaming gun battle with an armed active shooter. A woman had been driving her pickup truck around town, shooting at objects and people, including at police. Lt. Mitchell and another officer Read more »
By Steve Pomper A domestic violence suspect allegedly began beating a woman in a Des Moines, WA. motel earlier in the day. The man and woman had their one-year-old baby with them. The violence continued when the man left the hotel and drove the woman and baby north to a Seattle playfield. That’s when the victim Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Given the ushering in of waiting out a pandemic, we’ve seen some pretty innovative ways for community policing to still thrive among a populace under orders to be far less communal. Cops are a resourceful bunch and will determinedly find ways to “protect and serve” despite the silent threat of an airborne Read more »
By Steve Pomper Back in the 1990s the Seattle Police Department (SPD), under Police Chief Norm Stamper, updated/upgraded officers’ department-issued sidearms from .38 cal. S&W revolvers (6 rounds) to the semi-automatic .40 cal. Glock 17 (15 rounds +1). The anti-gun, anti-cop political establishment had a reflexive freak-out. They had another similar reaction several years later when the department Read more »
By Steve Pomper As in many cases where government treads and in all cases where it tramples, there arise unforseen consequences. For example, according to the Albuquerque Journal, the Albuquerque police department (APD) has run into issues with the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC). APD says the MDC refused to accept a man they’d arrested for felony Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski April marks Autism Awareness Month, bringing about all-things autism, emphasizing the iconic blue solitary puzzle piece idled…symbolizing the desire to fit in to the planetary placement of people with respective uniqueness. I am more than intimately aware of autism: my daughter is intensely autistic with comorbidities, including self-injury and non-verbal nature. My Read more »
By Steve Pomper What a difference a sheriff makes. I’ve been reporting on government officials who’ve been taking advantage of the CCP virus to implement a partisan political agenda, which is inflicting overly harsh, unnecessary, and contradictory restrictions on their constituents. And also on how enforcing these restrictions is setting law enforcement officers up for ugly, Read more »
By Steve Pomper I wanted to stop writing about matters involving the CCP virus pandemic—I really did. I’ve grown so tired of the politics now saturating the issue I’ve had to turn off the news before my ears bleed. But when I sit down to write, all I can think of is how this crisis is Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Campus cops are doing what they always do: plenty! Especially for the children of the schools to which they are assigned. While the nation’s labyrinth of school districts responsible for providing education are mandatorily shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, students are navigating the new norm of “distance learning.” That is, Read more »