By Stephen Owsinski When the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disfavors the policing methodologies of a municipal law enforcement agency, it seeks to impose a federal consent decree containing stipulations that one or more monitors oversee (overhaul) operations and ensure compliance with its conditions, leading to relative dilution of local government sovereignty. In essence, the Read more »
Indianapolis – June 21, 2024. Police agencies across the U.S. are losing officers faster than they can be replaced. It’s a leading factor that is contributing to our public safety crisis and threatening our American way of life. Fewer police officers are available to efficiently respond to calls for service, including those posing a potential Read more »
By Steve Pomper I want to present a lighter yet, nevertheless, poignant tone today by telling you about a couple recent events I attended. First, my annual LEOSA qualification course. The Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2004. The various U.S. states have divergent approaches regarding infringing Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski With the frequent mention of the approximate total of law enforcement officers in America —around 850,000 or so— our minds likely automatically default to projections of those cops patrolling mean streets and eyeing beats with populations aggregated in metropolis regions and inherent cacophony of bustle. But some of the nation’s cops are Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D California’s Supreme Court reveled in racism rhetoric in overturning a drug and weapons case of a black defendant who hid from police because, in the court’s words: “attempting to avoid police officers reflects, for many people, simply a desire to avoid risking injury or death…all out of fear of Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although I make every effort to keep abreast of the latest innovations for law enforcement officers to efficiently perform duties and harness officer safety, my window to the world was Windexed when I came across Flagler County deputies deploying a “Shatterball” to rescue a child from the locked, heated confines of a Read more »
Indianapolis – June 18, 2024. NPA brought the #SupportThePolice message to Newton, Iowa this weekend. Next: Officer Rita Goulet brings the NPA #31 to the ARCA Menards Circle City 200 at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 19th.
By Steve Pomper There’s a particular faction of anti-law-and-order (from here on out, let’s just call them what they are: anti-cop) “leaders” who can’t seem to stop gaslighting the American public. For those who keep hearing the term but are still not sure what it is, it refers to the 1944 movie, set in the late Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Patrolling a construction site, I saw a vehicle driving slowly among unfinished projects. Knowing that tools and lumber can be easy picking for thieves I made contact with the driver. He was immediately incensed and angrily explained that this was his construction site and couldn’t believe that he was Read more »
By Steve Pomper From the results of the “War on Homelessness” or whatever euphemism the HIC (Homeless Industrial Complex) is using these days, you’d swear their actual goal is not to eliminate “homelessness,” but to increase it. And that creates a terrible drain on public safety resources as police and fire personnel routinely respond to the Read more »