By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The headlines are all too common. Oklahoma, March 2023 “Extremely disturbing’: 5 men charged in child predator sting using decoys posing as 14 and 15 year olds”, Las Vegas, June 2023 “14 suspects arrested in undercover child sex predator sting”, San Francisco, June 2023 “ Seven men were arrested Read more »
By Steve Pomper Shaquille O’Neal Thought I’d drift away from the normal serious discussions we’ve been having (must have) regarding policing in the U.S. today. With all the defunding, anti-police legislation, and cops being prosecuted for doing their jobs, it’s necessary. However, I was thinking about something less serious but still interesting—at least, to cops. Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski I’ve seen many police union figureheads getting the need-to-know messages out by taking to the podium weighted by media mics…but the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) executives have rolled out an even better way to ensure many more citizens are aware of the conduct of the Manhattan district attorney and Read more »
By Doug Wyllie Late last week, police in Nevada ended a weeks-long search for a man who had fled after he reportedly raped a 16-year-old girl. Court documents indicate that the rape allegedly occurred—in a place called Bountiful, Utah—”while the victim was asleep and was forceful.” Almost immediately after committing the sexual attack, 36-year-old Christopher Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Phoenix police Officer Morgan Bullis is definitely bullish on police work, so much so that she pushed through tons of physical therapy and rehabilitative efforts to return to patrolling, after being shot on March 24, 2023. In what Phoenix Police administrators called an “unprovoked attack,” a recently paroled violent felon, armed with Read more »
By Steve Pomper LAPD police union VP Sgt. Jerretta Sandoz The LAPD has lost 1,000 cops since 2019 (actual losses are often higher than reported by officials), according to LawOfficer.com. Let’s begin with that manmade disaster. Like other blue jurisdictions, run by radical leftists, Los Angeles treats its police officers like trash. This treatment is reflected not only Read more »
By Steve Pomper Traffic stop, Las Vegas, Nevada “Do you know who I am?” Do you know how often police officers hear this challenge? People may say it in different ways, but it’s not necessarily the specific words but the nastiness behind them—I’m better than you. Its twin purpose is to demean someone (officer) and elevate Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The ubiquity of dangers we face while driving on America’s highways and byways is being mitigated by law enforcement officers specializing in commercial vehicle enforcement, stopping and inspecting huge rigs carrying major loads of products, some of which are marked “Hazardous,” offering clues to potential disasters if safety features are unheeded. Although Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The National Institute of Justice just released a document entitled “A Landscape Report on Measuring Community Sentiment and Perceptions of Safety and Law Enforcement Performance”. By coincidence, just before I saw the announcement of this report in my email, I was doing an internet search for “police officer hug” Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D With our gunfight-soaked entertainment media and scary assault rifle propaganda, the average citizen thinks “weapon” equals “firearm”. And among many misinformed critics even when a police officer is confronted with a firearm the officer is expected to “de-escalate”. There are some facts relevant to that perception that officers know Read more »