By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I remember being the on-call investigator when the phone rang sometime in the middle of the night. At the time I didn’t live very far from the police station so I sprinted down to grab the unmarked car and head out to the scene where an officer had been Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski By all accounts, children everywhere come aglow in the presence of law enforcement officers, and police stickers typically provide the glue to form bonds that often carry forward throughout a kid’s lifespan. Maybe, just maybe, the distribution of police badge stickers is not only cherished as a souvenir for that day but Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The brim of the academy instructor’s campaign hat shudders just inches from the forehead of the rigid cadet straining not to bend over backward to retreat from the intense tirade. It was a typical start to a day that would be filled with push-ups and classroom studies. Even the Read more »
By Steve Pomper I just wrote an NPA article about a police officer from Norfolk, Virginia, Edmund “Ryan” Hoyt, who was wrongly tried (twice) for voluntary manslaughter (first was a mistrial) and then finally, rightly, acquitted—because there was never any evidence the officer committed a crime. One more time: just because you don’t like the outcome, Read more »
By Steve Pomper In places where the radicals are running things, it’s distressing how often something that should never have become a thing have become a thing. This happens when people forget who they are, what their jobs are—oh, and what color the sky is in the real world. Every judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, and cop Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Despite the vocal minority’s harangues hurled at cops in recent years, and politicos’ antithetical reforms designed to diaper malcontents conspicuously preying on your safety, the oft-called silent majority girds our guardians at the gates with unambiguous symbolism. Respectfully subdued and hugely meaningful counterparties to the anti-police barkers are mindful merchants witnessing the Read more »
(Indianapolis, IN) – The National Police Association announced today it has awarded the Jamestown, KY Police Department a $1000.00 grant. The grant will support the department in obtaining a K9 shelter. Jamestown is a home rule-class city and the seat of Russell County, Kentucky with a population of approximately 2000. Lake Cumberland, completed by the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As the largest municipal police agency in America, the NYPD employs a robust contingent of law enforcement officers to respond to just about anything imaginable, ranging from crimefighters investigating morose depravities to Mounted Unit farriers fashioning new shoes for its police horses. Then there is the NYPD staff uniquely skilled at conducting Read more »
By Steve Pomper After I retired, I kept finding myself telling my fellow officers, “I didn’t think it could get any worse.” But the number of cops leaving their agencies keeps getting worse. But that’s the disaster of radical incrementalism that leftist jurisdictions apply by policy through propaganda and indoctrination, which forces good officers to retire or Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It is not every day that police cadets endure the rigors of the police academy and receive carrots as rewards for their hard work, but a batch of 10-foot NYPD cops did and hoofed it to a generous round of applause. On October 20, 2022, the New York City Police Department’s Mounted Read more »