By Stephen Owsinski Well before the March 28 White House announcement regarding the 2023 fiscal budget, especially the portions pertaining to law enforcement, America’s police academies have all been business as usual. Although police recruitment efforts have been a challenge in some regions of the nation, law enforcement training centers I continue analyzing are priming Read more »
By Steve Pomper When the left tries to “fix” something, they often break it. This is not only true of “fixing” history by breaking statues but also of “fixing” American law enforcement. After high-profile police shootings, exploited as “police brutality” regardless of the truth, they try to “fix” the cops. This was never truer than after Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although there are formal websites dedicated to monetarily supporting cops with cancer, which is self-explanatory in two distinct ways, a contingent of law enforcement officers with the Jamestown Police Department informally sought out shears and snipped away their coifs to show solidarity for one of their own: A cop with cancer, experiencing Read more »
Sheriff William Bowman The National Police Association has awarded the Liberty County, GA Sheriff’s Office a $1000.00 grant in support of the purchase of equipment to serve, protect, and ensure public safety in the community. The mission of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office is to serve the citizens through dedication, professionalism, and cooperation in order Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D There is a biblical proverb among the words chiseled in the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C.: “The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.” One might not expect a Bible verse to be the rationale for a proven law enforcement Read more »
By Steve Pomper Lowering hiring standards for law enforcement officers is not new. But it’s happening again in many places, including Chicago. In the past, people criticized, for example, lowering fitness standards because they saw it as a way to hire more women. Now, they’re lowering standards to replace all the officers they’ve been chasing out Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although technology is prevalent in modern-day policing, some old-school methods remain as pointed as a sharpened pencil. Police sketch artists putting pencil to paper were all the rave back in the day, well before the tech we have nowadays. Yet some law enforcement agencies retain the antiquity of a police sketch artist Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As I review law enforcement news daily I am reminded of the role of the police car in the lives of officers working the streets of America. Just as the steeds of the cavalryman of old were essential to the troopers of the day, so are the glass and Read more »
By Steve Pomper On June 23, 2021, at about 3 a.m., Sgt. Michael Davis, a nine-year veteran of the Lanoke County Sheriff’s Office, stopped Hunter Brittain and two passengers. The AP reported, according to Davis, Brittain quickly got out of his truck and reached into the bed of his pickup. Sgt. Davis said he told Brittain Read more »
“On March 14, it was discovered that the National Police Association billboard reading “Support The Police, Thank a Cop”, on Brill Street in Northeast Philadelphia was graffitied. This type of vandalism only incites violent acts against law enforcement not only in Philadelphia but around the country. The National Police Association condemns the defamatory and repugnant Read more »