By Steve Pomper Recently terminated (by a civilian commission) Chief of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) Anne Kirkpatrick and I would not agree on everything in policing. After all, we chose to serve different functions. She was a top administrator. I was a street cop (with a penchant for writing articles that pissed off city government). Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Ever wonder who is responsible for the maintenance of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City? Or any of the many other law enforcement monuments in front of police stations or sheriffs’ departments near you? The latter likely has a civic group in the area or a cop or two Read more »
By Steve Pomper How many times can one ask, when will the devastation to America’s criminal justice system stop? It’s become a rhetorical question because there doesn’t seem to be an answer. From the looks of so many social justice prosecutors in many of America’s leftist-run cities, it’s not ending any time soon. Not as long Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Watching even one video of a traffic stop or pedestrian encounter conducted by any police officer in America can provide a glimpse —a mere microcosm— of what cops deal with on the daily. Look at these encounters by police through an exponential lens, and it is not too inconceivable to see why Read more »
By Steve Pomper A little change of pace, today to discuss something I’ve always found strange but interesting. I’ve also wondered what it was like for the cops who had to enforce these blue laws. These, often whacky, laws convey to modern Americans both the transient and lingering nature of religious, cultural, and politically partisan laws. Read more »
By Steve Pomper The problem with a phrase like “stop and frisk” is it doesn’t infer preconditions. Such as an officer must have reasonable suspicion (based on objective and subjective criteria) to believe the likelihood of criminal activity exists before police can even stop a person, never mind frisk them. And though reasonable suspicion doesn’t rise Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It finally happened. And it has been a long-time coming for Florida’s law enforcement officers who have take-home cars and park their response-ready police vehicles at their homes and told by HOAs that they can’t. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday signed S.B 476 into law, otherwise known as the self-explanatory Read more »
By Steve Pomper Here’s another update in the case of a Blackwell, Oklahoma Police Lieutenant John Mitchell who risked his life to stop a woman, armed with a pickup truck and a handgun, from driving through town while shooting her gun out the window at people and objects. Lt. Mitchell’s mission was to stop the woman Read more »
By Steve Pomper Whenever I speak about anti-cop NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, I bestow upon him the dis-honorific: Worst Mayor in America. And I sometimes add “with some stiff competition.” The stiff competition comes from anti-cop Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, Oregon. I keep thinking the hands-off Antifa has gone as far as it Read more »
By Steve Pomper Why doesn’t this surprise me? People lament the violence in cities that have been under one-party political rule for decades. But voters keep electing people who not only fail to make things better but also make things worse. Take Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for example. Voters elected another cookie-cutter, anti-law and order Read more »