By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The past year has seen major efforts to tear up the agreements that make for an orderly society. The idea of a social contract arose during the Enlightenment and had influence on the founding principles of the United States. The social contract is defined as an implicit agreement among Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It never ceases to amaze how cops and public safety professionals are not only fashioned to mitigate and survive the most grotesque circumstances on the planet but also to hold each other up to maintain vigilance in service to the community and its citizens. One of the latest examples of this is Read more »
The National Police Association (NPA) has filed a friend of the court brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the family of Deputy Daniel McCartney, who was fatally shot while responding to a call. Deputy McCartney, 34, was shot in the line of duty on January 7, 2018, while responding to a home invasion Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The hypocrisy of politicians who switch from condemning to praising police officers is dizzying. The same Colorado Governor who gleefully signed new punitive laws against police officers in 2020 is distraught over the death of Officer Eric Talley who was among those killed in the supermarket mass shooting in Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The criminal justice system has some weak links, and the police component is not one of them. The ongoing lunacy regarding liberal enclaves and their district attorneys and/or judges handing out go-free keys to bona fide criminals’ zero intent on going straight pervades communities, imperils police who keep repeating the cycle of Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski With decaying environments exacerbated by anti-police politicians and totalitarian-like governance closeting cops like mere brooms, and the constant barrage of denigration infiltrating every cell of a police officer’s being, the extent to which we feel so compelled to take a grand leap of faith in starting over, far away from the malignancy Read more »
NPA Spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) joined Harris Faulkner on The Faulkner Focus for a discussion about the Minneapolis autonomous zone & the attack on the federal court house in Portland. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. To err is human says the poet, but nothing less than perfection is allowed for today’s police officers. It seems that the notions of probable cause and reasonable suspicion have been replaced by standards of certainty previously expected only of juries. With the spread of the elimination of qualified Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Before COVID the public outcry for school safety developed closer working relationships with law enforcement agencies. Among those responses was expanding police presence in schools to act as a deterrent, first response, and behavioral intervention to reduce the occurrences of school violence. Now headlines continue to report the canceling Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. President Biden advocates a federal domestic terrorism law. Given that the Constitution guarantees not only free speech but free association, even the ACLU is skeptical that the government can keep from repeating past mistakes in criminalizing political and religious activity. Although concerns about radicalization through social media and hate Read more »