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 »
By Stephen Owsinski School districts across the country seeking to completely eliminate or significantly diminish the role of law enforcement personnel assigned as school resource officers are doing a huge disservice to students, in effect trading off kids’ welfare for a stake in the illogical anti-police thrust. In May 2021, the City of Alexandria voted Read more »
By Steve Pomper Sometimes it takes violent crime—murder often qualifies—to prompt action from a politicians. But, as we saw with Seattle Mayor Jenny “Summer of Love” Durkan, who presided over the infamous CHOP/CHAZ (true) insurrection (with real guns and everything), with some “leaders” even a murder or two isn’t enough to extract action from a government. The Seattle Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Of the many deployments law enforcement agencies have as public services for citizens, special certifications and ongoing training results in highly skilled public safety professionals doing a certain job where gills would really help but human adaptations are nonetheless employed. Law enforcement marine units and dutiful dive teams, albeit rarely mentioned in Read more »
By Steve Pomper With the intensified efforts toward gun control, it’s a good time to revisit Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPO), also called “red flag” laws. Protecting people from a person using a gun to commit violence is important. Some people should not have guns. However, shouldn’t we be suspicious of people who support gun control Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although I recently wrote about the so-called “silent majority” standing in solidarity with American law enforcement despite the pesky haranguing of the anti-cop crowd, the reference is humans and where they stand on law and order in present-day society. But there is another demographic, a large one, which is a different breed Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Although we still hear about the doctrine of the Use of Force Continuum (UOFC), it is a teaching tool and policy that has been abandoned by most law enforcement trainers and police departments. Unfortunately, the concepts are being raised again. The UOFC requires a stair step approach, meeting each Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s difficult to remain optimistic when there is so much horrible news for American cops in so many blue jurisdictions. Fortunately, red cities, counties, and states remain havens for the multitude of thin-blue-line refugees (a different blue) fleeing their agencies. FOX News Channel’s Laura Ingraham recently showed what one red state sheriff’s office is Read more »
The Biden crime plan fails to address the need for crime fighting, the need to end the vilification of police, and the refusal of progressive DAs to prosecute. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6260832428001#sp=show-clips
By Stephen Owsinski Praying it forward is an empirically applied endemic feature of America’s law enforcement institution and those who take up the nation’s battles. And there is no escaping the harsh fact that those battles often culminate in casualties, with annual statistics recently increasing in the number of gut-wrenching line-of-duty deaths of cops. Although Read more »