By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has spawned a new layer of management and influence in business, industry, government, education, medicine, and criminal justice. In many ways, law enforcement has been at the forefront of moving toward inclusion of women and minorities in hiring and leadership. At the outset let Read more »
By Doug Wyllie It’s no longer evening but it’s not yet nighttime in the very northwestern corner of the Vermont Knolls section of South Los Angeles. The atmosphere isn’t out of the ordinary. In fact, as the time approaches for the local ten-o’clock news broadcast on this Tuesday in late May, most of the adults Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Given the incessant maligning of cops and ignorance of facts by many members of the media, several employees of various news organizations in Florida were invited by law enforcement personnel who took the time to expose the realities of police work to journalists. It is no secret that the law enforcement community Read more »
By Steve Pomper Federal Courtroom Providence, RI. Time to rebalance the scales of justice. I bristle when after someone commits a heinous act and partisans blame their political enemies for the violence. Like blaming the NRA and Second Amendment supporters after a mass shooting. Most conservatives, me included, instead, place the blame squarely on the perpetrator. Read more »
Indianapolis June 7, 2023 – The National Police Association (NPA) has endorsed U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) introduction of the End Child Trafficking Now Act, which would require a DNA test to determine the relationship between illegal aliens coming across the border and any accompanying children. The End Child Trafficking Now Act would: Sgt. Betsy Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Thanks to the abysmal idea of defunding the police, exacerbated by soft-on-crime initiatives instigated by people who have zero business leading, police work is increasingly perilous, causing cops to exercise even more hypervigilance at every turn. Politicos trumpet reforms. Cities are in ruin. Hatred abounds. Dwindled police forces do their darndest to Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Dennis Guider Jr was recently sentenced to five years in prison for a 2021 incident that severely injured Carrol, IA Officer Patrick McCarty. Body camera footage released for the trial tells the dramatic story of what started as a traffic stop during which McCarty learned there was an arrest Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D According to biographer Beverly Gage, J. Edgar Hoover never wanted his FBI to do traditional law enforcement. He had philosophical problems with federal involvement in local affairs and wanted his agents, recruited from accountants and lawyers, to stick with non-violent federal crimes. Realizing an itch to be science-oriented and Read more »
By Steve Pomper Chicago, Illinois (Sanctuary City) When I was a kid and got a minor injury because I did something stupid, my mother would say, “That’s what you get!” I mean, Chicago voters get rid of one disastrous, anti-cop, pro-criminal mayor only to elect another mayor who may hate cops and love criminals even more. Read more »
By Doug Wyllie On Christmas Eve 1987, a 10-year-old girl was savagely sexually assaulted and then stabbed to death—left lying naked in a second-floor bedroom of her family’s home the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York. The brutal rape and murder of little Vanessa Broughton shocked a population ostensibly desensitized to incidences of violence Read more »