By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The only thing more expensive to a community than funding a police department is not having an adequately funded police department. September’s hurricane Sally hit Alabama with an estimated destruction cost of 3 billion dollars. Like an unexpected storm, estimates from rioting related to the George Floyd in-custody death Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski For anyone to understand how a NYPD cop can tolerate the tenor of a constantly anti-police climate rife with crime, just know it is not necessarily only the criminal element which is placing too much weight on the camel’s back. No one joins the largest police department in the country thinking it Read more »
By Steve Pomper The year, 2020, is kicking our butts as a nation, especially with some politicians who are determined to make it as difficult as possible, while others try to return our nation to some semblance of normality. Through it all, America’s law enforcement officers keep doing what they do: helping to keep Americans Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski This past week the rubber hit the roadways in Florida as a phalanx of red, white, and blue-clad bicyclists traversed through Sunshine State cities until they chronicled 500 miles of trekking in honor of fallen police officers, firefighters and EMS technicians. This band of brothers on bicycles were dedicated members of the Read more »
Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) joined Christina Bobb on OANN to push back against ‘reimagining police’ and the ‘defund the police’ movement.
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. In their rush to claim credit for police reform, many states have banned the “choke hold” , tear gas on rioters, and “military” grade equipment. These measures are more likely to get more citizens hurt as well as police officers, because the equipment and techniques are valuable assets in Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s not unusual to see a butcher holding a knife or a carpenter holding a hammer while not technically using them. Someone could kill a person with both, right? But, sadly, guns in the hands of police officers have become things of evil—even if in the context there is no threat. Recently, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. We can’t pick on Joe Biden for quoting FBI Director Chris Wray, but we can look for some context. Ask the business owner whose building and livelihood was burned out by arson, or the police officer struck by a brick, whether antifa is “a thing” or not. Director Wray Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski So many provisions enabling successful police work are tested and retested quite often. No law enforcement officer is unfamiliar with the term “in-service training.” And police service animals are included in order to stay sharp on their super skills while their human handlers learn from them so the duo can get the Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Qualified immunity is just that – qualified. In other words, it is not blanket immunity, and not immunity with impunity. In the words of the U.S. Supreme Court “The doctrine of qualified immunity protects government officials “from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly Read more »