By Stephen Owsinski Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is unambiguously pro-police and pro-public safety. On August 4, 2022, he traveled to Tampa, Florida, and took to the podium to announce the official removal of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, a Soros-backed prosecutor, for undoing tons of police work by letting criminals walk and refusing to Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Georgia State Patrol troopers confirmed that 54-year-old Officer Jean-Harold Louis Astree of the Fairbanks, GA police department was pronounced dead at the scene after a four-vehicle crash. Astree was driving an unmarked Fairburn Police Department Dodge Charger. Among his surviving family is his daughter, Laurali, as a student at Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Amid the cries for more transparency and accountability in law enforcement, the reality of the microscope under which our police officers go about their daily work simply isn’t known to most of the public. Comparing the accountability of our police officers to any other career path yields no other Read more »
The National Police Association has awarded the City of Muskegon Heights Police Department a $1000.00 grant. The grant will support the purchase of ballistic helmets and eye/ear protection. The City of Muskegon Heights is one of the oldest communities located in the southwest quadrant of Muskegon County, just a 10-minute drive from the shores Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Citing “crime” and victimized employees, corporate America is making moves out of anti-police locales and conducting commerce in pro-police territories. I guess the cocky liberal leaders tacitly or openly touting anti-police sentiments never thought that corporate America, major money makers employing tens of thousands and contributing billions in tax dollars to government Read more »
By Steve Pomper “Bond-villain” George Soros is not sorry, or even having second thoughts, about funding ultra-leftist prosecutors like Alvin Bragg (New York City), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), and George Gascon (Los Angeles) for all the devastation they’ve inflicted on American communities. Instead, according to the New York Post, Soros “vows he won’t stop Read more »
By Steve Pomper Fair warning: This article is intentionally wide-ranging and, admittedly, perhaps, a bit erratic. But, if you take nothing else away from this article, just remember cops respond, back-to-back, to incidents from minor to major and vice versa, and then they go back into service. Regardless, cops must adjust and respond appropriately to all Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Despite the onslaught of guff constantly hurled at cops, they nevertheless develop and roll out ways to interact with the community. I thought I knew of most of the novel police programs…until I came across a multi-agency effort involved in a concept called “Casting with a Cop.” Similar to “Shop with a Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Some positive conversations about non-law enforcement (NLE) response are ongoing in the aftermath of cries for police reform. The mythology that often underpins these conversations is that police have no skills or training to deal with persons in a mental health crisis and are prone to using deadly force Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D With 11, 669 police officers as of March of 2022, Chicago PD is one of America’s largest police forces. If this number sounds big, consider that it is down by 300 officers since the start of the year, down over 1300 since 2019 from 2021 levels. During the same Read more »