By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Schizophrenia is a disorder that affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. It is a diagnosis assigned to an individual with the requisite symptoms and behavior. In a broader sense, the description can fit some leadership styles and group behavior. Can you imagine working under a Read more »
By Steve Pomper The federal and many state legislatures are busy “improving” policing by passing law enforcement “reforms” to address radical leftist’s myths. So, with laws passed, how is “woke” “working” for cops on the streets? In my department, this crap has been going on for a long time thanks to a bogus federal consent decree. Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Steve Pompers excellent article for NPA chronicles the efforts of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer De’Joure Mercern suing for defamation. The National Football League is the object of the suit after they published a wrongful implication of Mercern’s killing of a violent criminal listed among the innocent civil rights heroes Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Among myriad matters America’s cops tend to, one static certainty is their allegiance to flag and country and, extraordinarily, all citizens living under constitutional guaranty. The police mission is most certainly succeeded by allegiance to each other. Police presentations of allegiance come in many forms: from patriotic holidays to birthday wish drive-bys Read more »
By Steve Pomper An Indiana police officer is doing what so many more cancel culture victims—cops and non-cops—should be doing: devictimizing themselves by pushing back. Turn it around on those who attempt to “cancel” them. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer De’Joure Mercer has filed a lawsuit against the NFL for defamation. As Susan Ziegler at Police1.com puts it, Read more »
The National Police Association has awarded the Depew, NY PD a grant in support of the department’s new chaplaincy program. The funding will be used to outfit chaplains with identification equipment. To identify the chaplains as non-sworn personnel during a crisis or incident involving the police, the Department will purchase ID cards and badges, ID/badge Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The bizarreness of the defund the police movement depriving law enforcement officers of necessary resources to ensure public safety may have emboldened some among America’s populace…but it certainly has not impacted the ongoing nature of cops paying it forward. Let’s look at a mere few of the many recent examples (un-mysteriously absent Read more »
December 19, 1984 Police Officer Duane Johnson was shot and killed by an armed robber in Chinatown. Officer Johnson and his partner, Officer Archie Nagao, responded to a silent alarm at a jewelry store and were let in by one of the subjects, who was posing as a store employee. When the two officers entered, Read more »
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By Stephen Owsinski Indeed, there is one factor which shares a glaring identity among our nation’s anti-police jurisdictions, and it stands out like the sore thumb that it truly is: liberal-oriented political progressives chanting against the policing institution whose members try to keep malfeasants and mayhem at bay. Just about every episode of the National Read more »