By Steve Pomper I’m reading True Believer, a book written by former U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr from his James Reece series about an ex-Navy SEAL. This book series generated the immensely popular TV series, The Terminal List, starring Chris Pratt, based on the series’ first novel. The character evolves throughout the book series, going from a somewhat Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Serious philosophers, theologians, and scholars rightly have wrestled with the serious questions of government power, justifiable war, the death penalty, and killing another in self-defense. None of these deep thinkers include Associate Justice Troy K Webber of New York State’s Appellate Court. When NYPD Sgt. Patrick Marsteller sued for Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D If you’re like me, you might miss the day when you could read something in the newspaper and have to wait a few days to see if anyone wrote a letter to the editor about it. Now with immediate reactions affixed to online articles, it takes little effort and Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Around the country, we hear the cry for more police training. Unless you don’t want police training. In Atlanta, despite sometimes violent protests, the city council approved millions in funding for a new training center for law enforcement dubbed “Cop City”. The decision was not unanimous and after the Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In early June, a series of more than 200 wildfires began to break out in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Ever since then, the air quality index (AQI) over a massive swath of the United States has been something akin to ancient Pompeii the day after Vesuvius popped. In New Read more »
By Steve Pomper No offense intended, but a majority of the Seattle City Council are morons. Okay, offense intended. Why be polite to people who consistently support anti-police policies that not only hurt cops but also their constituents? However, I will concede the narrow 5-4 vote was a pleasant surprise. Credit where credit is due for the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski One of the many programs initiated by law enforcement agencies on behalf of citizens, raising the bar for more robust community relations, is called the Front Porch Roll Call (FRPC). Fairly new, this concept brings the police tradition’s inner sanctum of reviewing crime trends and mitigation efforts directly to residents in various Read more »
By Steve Pomper Rosebud Sioux Tribe Police Highway Patrol SUV This brief look at the unique operations and relationships between tribal and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in those areas where they converge puts lesser-known aspects of American policing on cop supporters’ radar. There are distinctive issues facing Indian nations that can severely affect Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski School resource officers (SROs) bid farewell to students departing campuses as the school year ends, with youngsters eyeing gobs of summertime fun. Cops everywhere are picking up the ball —figuratively and literally— and rolling out numerous activities and life lessons to keep kids’ minds blooming while forging new or deeper friendships with Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Daryl Gates, a Los Angeles police Inspector nearing his 20th year of service with LAPD during the Watts riots of 1965, is often credited as the “Father of SWAT”, a small, specially trained, and equipped unit of police officers created to deal with unique tactical challenges beyond the ability Read more »