By Stephen Owsinski Lately, I’ve been hearing first-hand accounts from friends and family mentioning instances of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s…and how the police handle reports of missing person cases in the demographics. On March 21, 2024, officers with the Hemet Police Department encountered such a call, involving an elderly individual with dementia who wandered Read more »
By Steve Pomper San Francisco, California (Photo: Frank Schulenburg, Wiki Creative Commons) In today’s politically corrupt version of the United States criminal justice system, the government can fabricate a make-believe offense, declare an American “guilty,” fine him nearly half a billion dollars, and then prevent him from appealing unless he essentially pays the entire fine upfront Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In September of 2023 Colorado parole officer Christine Guerin Sandoval was joined by other law enforcement officers to serve an arrest warrant on Justin Kula for violating his parole after being released from prison just seven months earlier. Kula, claiming that he thought he was being robbed, fled from Read more »
Indianapolis – March 27, 2024. The Public Safety Free Speech Act (H.R. 7398) protects the First Amendment rights of police officers and other first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical responders, while off-duty. This bipartisan bill, which was introduced in February by Rep. Jefferson Van Drew (NJ-2) currently has seven co-sponsors and has been referred Read more »
By Steve Pomper After reading the NPA’s own Chief Joel Shults’ recent outstanding article expounding on his so frequently having to assert, “I told you so,” to the radical leftists’ anti-police “police reform” failing legislation, I almost changed my topic. But my main point is that these activists need to hear, “I told you so”—repeatedly. Chief Shults wrote, Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The annual Spring Break season is upon us throughout Florida. It is certainly no picnic for cops working the dunes and oceanfront strips laden with revelers who temporarily departed their college dorms for fun in the sun, partying with no Off switch, often culminating in major melees and destruction. Weeks before the Read more »
Indianapolis – March 24, 2024. In June 2022 the National Police Association (“NPA”) filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case of Estate of Daniel Hernandez, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Nos. 21-55994 & 21-55995. The case raised important questions about the right of police to use Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D When New Mexico State Policeman Officer Justin Hare stopped to assist a motorist he was doing what public servants do, helping people when they can. After seeing the vehicle had a flat tire, Hare offered to give the motorist a ride. He was murdered for his efforts. Another New Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The euphemism You can run but you can’t hide! came to life, once again, when a youngster operating a “crotch rocket” motorcycle bearing a counterfeit license plate “WILL RUN” illustrated reckless behavior and lived up to his brazen advertisement by…running from the police. Little did he know the sheriff’s office eye-in-the-sky aviators Read more »
The National Police Association believes that the Criminals Off Our Streets Act introduced by Sen. Marsha Blackburn will help hold prosecutors accountable and encourage them to reenact bail policies that benefit law abiding community members instead of the criminals who prey on them,” – Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret) More here…