By Steve Pomper Three quasi-adult delinquents threw a fit and demanded a Massachusetts police officer dig out a car they’d just plowed into a pile of snow. The three, Nathaniel Chickering, 18, Bianca Torres, 19, and 21-year-old Michael Rodriquez were driving through a snowstorm on February 2, 2021, at about 12:30 a.m. The driver, Torres, lost Read more »
Year: 2021
Charging Police with Crimes in the Line of Duty: Justice or Petty Politics?
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. No one invested in quality law enforcement wants police officers to get away with violent crime. No one who needs quality law enforcement wants officers who survive a violent encounter to be prosecuted for political gain. Kim Foxx, Chicago’s top prosecutor, says “this is time to be aggressive” as Read more »
Police Parlay Plans for Super Bowl Safety
By Stephen Owsinski Up front: this piece is relegated to the significant efforts planned and performed by tons of law enforcement agencies whose collective spirit is based in public safety and delivery of a fun-filled time for spectators of an annually ritualized athletic event that happens to involve an entity —the NFL— which is not Read more »
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Politicians Shed Crocodile Tears for Capitol Police Officer
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. It would be fitting to properly honor the life, service, and sacrifice of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. Given so many of the Biden administrations’ disdain for law enforcement, it was hard to get past the hypocrisy as so many supporters of the anti-police movement somberly lamented Brian’s death Read more »
Billionaire Visionary Elon Musk Investing in Law Enforcement
By Stephen Owsinski As for billionaire Warren Buffett, folks follow his every move when it comes to wisdom, experience, and carefully considered investments amounting to unfathomable wealth. Similarly, people lean in when it comes to billionaire Elon Reeve Musk and what he is up to. Musk is known for industrial innovations and redefining boundaries when Read more »
A New Attack on Police: Police Violence is Gun Violence
By Steve Pomper In an email update from Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), and author of More Guns, Less Crime, Dr. Lott illuminates yet another disturbing anti-police trend. Something lefties might call intersectionality. Gun control radicals are saying police violence equals so-called gun violence—because cops carry guns. I’m sure we can count Read more »
National Police Association Files Amicus Brief Supporting Minneapolis Residents Seeking Adequate Staffing of Their Police Department
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 3, 2021 — The National Police Association (NPA) has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief supporting Petitioner Minneapolis resident Cathy Spann and others seeking state district court relief demanding that the City maintain its police force as required under the City Charter. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor have sought to circumvent the Read more »
Law Enforcement ‘Leaders’ Giving Up the Thin Blue Line Without a Fight
By Steve Pomper What’s worse than cop-haters hijacking the meaning of a symbol beloved by cops, so they can attack it—cancel it? Police leaders who concede to cop-hating liars that the symbol is now offensive. Don’t cops have enough reasons for low morale already? A cop friend of mine recently received a thin blue line (TBL) Read more »
Cops: Reporting for Duty Despite Calls for ‘Unity’ Contradicted by Anti-Police Noise
By Stephen Owsinski As we enter 2021 with the anti-police rancor still wafting and a new commander-in-chief supplanting the former law-and-order president, it is astonishing that through it all…our nation’s law enforcement officers who took tons of heat, ridicule, criticism, and hatred unwaveringly report for duty and help mete-out societal woes—as best they’re permitted (Google Read more »