By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D People are dying. We can talk stats, we can talk policy, and we can lament the state of the nation, but higher crime rates mean people are hurting. Fear stalks behind the numbers and gets amplified in the headlines. Can we do anything about it? History tells us that Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski States prohibiting cops from conducting traffic stops are effectively permitting all manner of criminality a free pass to ride on by, victimize innocents down the road, and poison American streets with narcotics. The notion of any policymaker anywhere to bar law enforcement officers from enforcing the laws, both traffic and criminal, remains Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D You can’t read very far in the news without hearing about police officers being sued. But justice is not blind to cops and they, too, have the right to file a lawsuit when unlawfully harmed. Columbus, Ohio police officer Traci Shaw was summarily charged by Richard Wozniak, Deputy Director Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski There have been many mind-boggling things emanating out of the Big Apple. One of the latest legislative ideas put forth by the New York City Council is a bill to diminish the decibel of all emergency vehicles, meaning the NYPD police cruiser sirens will have to be toned down, largely defeating the Read more »
By Steve Pomper The signing of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, 1776, painted by John Trumbull, 1819 During the Independence Day weekend, my wife and I always watch the John Adams miniseries and The Patriot because it makes us feel proud of our miraculous and exceptional nation. Some folks claim the U.S. is not exceptional. But Read more »
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in March 2022 with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the National Police Association (NPA) argued that the Fourth Circuit should overturn the denial of summary judgment to an officer who had arrested protestors on the grounds of the Maryland State Capitol building after those Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The chant of “Hands up, don’t shoot” echoed in the streets of protests across the country after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. In the immediate aftermath of the false narrative that caught fire on social media faster than the torched convenience store in town. Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski With school out for summer and kids’ likelihood of being exposed to some gruesome depictions of malcontents exhibiting disregard for law and order, especially in metropolis cities catering to soft-on-crime policies, public safety pros engage youth by hosting a “Respect for Law Camp.” As the program name implies, the Respect for Law Read more »