By Stephen Owsinski One of the most common purposes for America’s law enforcement officers is to conduct traffic stops of motorists who are tooling around town unsafely and illegally, resulting in cops potentially discovering and addressing substantive issues during the interaction. Driven by a fusion of preemptive mindsets and lifesaving feats, LEOs’ duties span many Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Our brothers and sisters in law enforcement roles are unrelenting in generating ways to serve the community better. By creating a “Friend Responders” unit of cops expressly looking in on citizens diagnosed with autism, the Suffolk County, NY, police department minted a partnership with Autism Communities, an organization assisting people with neurodiverse Read more »
By Steve Pomper Everything, and I mean everything that involves public safety that the anti-cop radicals touch, they obliterate. You’d think some of the stuff they do would work—even by accident, but it doesn’t. And that will continue until pro-cop (law-and-order) officials replace the anti-cop radicals. Think about it. Petty, property, and violent crime crises and Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D We can’t talk about the heroic rescue of children without stepping into the dark world of crimes against our most innocent victims. Children under the age of 18 represent a little over 8% of murder victims. Kids are most at risk before they start kindergarten where they are mostly Read more »
By Steve Pomper I just finished reading former U.S. Army major and current FOX and Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth’s new book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.” Betrayal. Hegseth writes about the DEI, CRT, and Marxist infection the radicals are intentionally inflicting on the military, which is Read more »
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 »