By Stephen Owsinski Down to the final nail driven into new frameworks and reinforcements of many SW Florida homes and businesses bullied by Hurricane Ian, multi-skilled cops rebuild foundations for the region’s future. As the body count ticked upward, law enforcement officers from Florida and numerous other states looked ahead and got busy with roof Read more »
By Steve Pomper Elementary School Classroom (File) The NPA’s own Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) recently noted on Twitter, “Perhaps it’s time for teachers…like cops, firefighters and military recruits…to successfully pass a psychological test before they are hired.” It seems odd that they don’t, right? But, with the powerful teachers’ unions, that’s not going to happen Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Broken record or broken system policymakers bulldozing law enforcement principles and scraping away gobs of funds necessary to effectively ensure public safety…are now grabbing the podium mics and demanding to know why their community is not safe. For real! A large law enforcement agency is feverishly trying to ensure the public safety Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The fast-talking video pitchman pounding on the variety of vehicles available to viewers and flashing the number to call now wasn’t a car dealer but a Ft. Worth, Texas police officer recruiting for applicants. While other recruitment efforts are not as clever, similar tactics are being used to convince Read more »
(Indianapolis, IN) – The National Police Association has awarded the Kinnelon Borough, NJ Police Department a $1000.00 grant. The grant will support the department’s school resource officer (SRO) program. Kinnelon Borough is located in Morris County, New Jersey, approximately 33 miles (53 km) west of New York City. As of the 2010 United States Census, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I don’t know what act the President is in when it comes to criminal justice reform theatre. His schizophrenic rhetoric makes it hard to pin down what he believes about justice. And perhaps that is a skill from decades as a politician that he brings to the White House. Read more »
By Steve Pomper South Texas, Border Patrol Agents, McAllen Horse Patrol Unit, 2013 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a petty man working for another petty man, Joe Biden, who happens to be occupying the Oval Office. This contention is not hard to support when you ask yourself what kind of petty, pathetic Read more »
By Steve Pomper Too often, we on the pro-cop side get so used to playing defense we lose the agility to play offense when we need to. We react to what we’re accused of and defend it, and we all know that’s a long list. That’s because what the radical left accuses cops of doesn’t Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Due to abysmal leadership fanning flames of hatred resulting in unprecedented violence against our nation’s law enforcement officers, daily duty briefings sometimes include prayers for protection over men and women doing dangerous public safety work on behalf of citizens. The state of our nation in terms of a faltering economy, while federal Read more »
(Indianapolis, IN) The National Police Association announced today it has awarded the Berea, OH Police Department, a $1000.00 grant in support of their school resource officer program. Berea is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio and is a western suburb of Cleveland. The population was 19,093 at the 2010 census. Read more »