By Stephen Owsinski Many among aspiring, present, or retired law enforcement officers can say they had one or more beat cops or TV characters role-modeling heroic police work when growing up as a kid. I was enamored by NYPD cops while growing up in New York City, thus I, for one, can attest to this. Read more »
By Steve Pomper While no one wants bad cops going from one jurisdiction to another, we also don’t want good officers sacrificed on the altar of wokeness. And we know what the radical left’s definition of “bad” cop is: all cops. It could be illustrative to contrast two public employee groups: public education and public safety Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The I told ya so crowd deserves heralding; there was really never an iota of doubt that politicos went whacko with anti-police scripts emboldening criminality. Police are not the problem and continue to persevere despite the quacky quest of political brainwashers unrelentingly retailing a shameful vision of a police-less society. The increasingly Read more »
By Steve Pomper The radical left has done a belly flop into political quicksand by championing policies despised by most Americans. They tried to hedge their bets with H1, the so-called, For the People Act of 2021 (more like, For the Democrats Act), but Americans are getting increasingly wise to their repeated power grift. The one Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As LA Times writer Jill Leovy noted in an article nearly 20 years ago “The era of long-time chiefs has given way to an era of short-timers (who) rarely last longer than three years anymore.” The average tenure of police chiefs, although shorter for large agencies than smaller agencies, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Crime rates have always been a target of debate and manipulation. The dramatic increase in violent crime in selected locations around the country has anti-police voices choking on their twisted logic. More crime? Must be all the guns that have been sold! Must be because of corrupt police! Must Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Abolishing law enforcement has been a topic in some academic circles for decades. It seemed so ludicrous to those outside the ivory towers where ideas are churned about that no one in the real world gave any attention to the threat that the idea of ridding America of police Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It bears repeating that traffic stops are absolutely one of the most dangerous for any law enforcement officer Anywhere USA, from fictional Mayberry RFD to stark reality streets of New York City. In a phantom-like way, every motorist stopped by police can very well be monstrous, even murderous, as we’ve seen in Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A recent, encouraging piece of legislation out of Minnesota has increased penalties for assaults on police officers. Included in the law are corrections officers (an often overlooked group), judges, and prosecutors. The bill, named after injured officer Arik Matson, amended state law to make penalties harsher for offenses of Read more »
Cathy Spann, and seven other Minneapolis residents sued their City Council and Mayor for letting the Minneapolis PD fall below minimum staffing requirements in violation of the City Charter. The National Police Association (NPA) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief supporting their suit. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor had sought to circumvent the Read more »