By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The October mass shooting in Maine happened in a state with one of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation and a state with permitless carry. Everytown for Gun Safety cites Main as “a permitless carry state, though it continues to have low gun violence relative to its Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In 2019 I wrote a year-end review piece in another publication asking if antagonism toward the police would subside. That was five months before the death of George Floyd, and just weeks before COVID started hogging the headlines. So, 2020 was obviously not our year. To quote myself in Read more »
By Doug Wyllie In January 2002, members of the Roman Catholic Church were shaken to their core at reports of unthinkable—even unforgivable—sins committed by one of their own. Father John Joseph “Jack” Geoghan—a clergyman within the Archdiocese of Boston—was accused of sexually abusing scores children over three decades, with allegations dating back to the 1960s. Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski One of these days, Portland, Oregon police officers are not getting any hard-earned just desserts (and may follow in the footsteps of the exodus of cops who pledged police services elsewhere) due to Portland City Council bureaucrats bloating their city council membership from five to 12, funded to the tune of approximately Read more »
By Steve Pomper Are we doing this again? Yet another cop, in a fight for his life, and still people question his reasonable actions when he’s forced to shoot and kill a violent suspect. Why? Because jurisdictions fail to do what cop advocacy groups like the NPA keep saying: educate the public about what cops do. Read more »
Indianapolis/ November 1, 2023 –As Washington D.C. suffers from its police department being hundreds of officers short, and residents continue to be threatened by a prosecutor and city council who refuse to hold criminals accountable, the National Police Association’s “Cops are Heroes” mobile billboard shows support for law enforcement and public safety. The National Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski While first responders are trained to be ever mindful of the dangers of performing duties and to be hypervigilant while providing public safety, lawless cities have become abysmal for our police and fire/rescue professionals, with callous and reckless people blatantly causing harm to heroes on The Job. The tectonic shift from law Read more »