By Stephen Owsinski On the day I received my t-shirt commemorating the line-of-duty-death of Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Michael Magli…I find myself ordering yet another t-shirt memorializing fallen Tampa Police Officer Jesse Madsen who was killed by a wrong-way driver at approximately 1 a.m. on March 9, 2021. Although every single cop killed in Read more »
Month: March 2021
Police not welcome in George Floyd memorial site
National Police Association spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) joined Fox and Friends to discuss the George Floyd autonomous zone, trial, and potential for new riots
The Quest for Perfection in Policing
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. To err is human says the poet, but nothing less than perfection is allowed for today’s police officers. It seems that the notions of probable cause and reasonable suspicion have been replaced by standards of certainty previously expected only of juries. With the spread of the elimination of qualified Read more »
Minneapolis City Council Advances Toward Abolishing Police Department
By Steve Pomper The politically schizophrenic Minneapolis City Council (MCC) is at it again. According to the Star Tribune’s Liz Navratil, as reported at Police1.com, a committee has just voted 5-1 to send a proposal to the full city council to “replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).” If passed, and Minneapolitans vote for it, their law enforcement department Read more »
Charlatans Imperil Public Safety by Filleting Law Enforcement via Legislative Lunacy
By Stephen Owsinski It was George Washington who said, “The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism… It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only Read more »
Police Chiefs Keep Surrendering Sacred Police Traditions to the Cop-Haters
By Steve Pomper I wrote about this issue just a month ago, but it bears repeating as often as necessary. Law enforcement leaders continue to surrender time-honored law enforcement traditions to the anti-cop radicals. Specifically, I’m talking about the thin blue line (TBL) symbol often seen based on the American flag but in black and white with a Read more »
‘BadgeWives’ and ‘Portraits on Patrol’ Focus on Police Heroes and Family of Fallen Deputy
By Stephen Owsinski Sometimes it does take a village, and the family of recently fallen Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Michael Magli mourning his tragic line-of-duty death (LODD) will feel the heartfelt embrace of folks whose behind-the-scenes efforts are nothing shy of poignant and altruistic, thanks to a self-explanatory group called BadgeWives…”The Family Behind the Read more »
Did We Forget About School Safety?
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Before COVID the public outcry for school safety developed closer working relationships with law enforcement agencies. Among those responses was expanding police presence in schools to act as a deterrent, first response, and behavioral intervention to reduce the occurrences of school violence. Now headlines continue to report the canceling Read more »
Ithaca, NY Mayor to Conduct Public Safety Experiment Using Constituents as Lab Rats by Ending Police Department
By Steve Pomper I’m giving up saying, “what’s next?” in response to the anti-police psychosis perverting our political leaders’ sense of equal justice. It seems, every time I even think what’s next? some leftist buffoon answers it. Case in point, according to Syracuse.com, Ithaca, N.Y. Mayor Svante Myrick has announced a mind-twisting plan to dismantle the Read more »
Kids Know Heroes When They See Them
By Stephen Owsinski Despite the divisive strategies and shallow rhetoric employed by politicos in tax-payer-funded fiefdoms, youngsters with ground-level presence and organic heartstrings know best when there’s a boots-on-the-ground hero in their midst. And thank goodness for that. A neighbor of mine, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Chris Mosesman was on duty in his assigned patrol Read more »