By Steve Pomper Three quasi-adult delinquents threw a fit and demanded a Massachusetts police officer dig out a car they’d just plowed into a pile of snow. The three, Nathaniel Chickering, 18, Bianca Torres, 19, and 21-year-old Michael Rodriquez were driving through a snowstorm on February 2, 2021, at about 12:30 a.m. The driver, Torres, lost Read more »
By Steve Pomper In an email update from Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), and author of More Guns, Less Crime, Dr. Lott illuminates yet another disturbing anti-police trend. Something lefties might call intersectionality. Gun control radicals are saying police violence equals so-called gun violence—because cops carry guns. I’m sure we can count Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As we enter 2021 with the anti-police rancor still wafting and a new commander-in-chief supplanting the former law-and-order president, it is astonishing that through it all…our nation’s law enforcement officers who took tons of heat, ridicule, criticism, and hatred unwaveringly report for duty and help mete-out societal woes—as best they’re permitted (Google Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Violent crime has skyrocketed in recent months and criminologists are asking why. The increase in the murder rate means that more than 2000 Americans, the majority of whom were black, died in 2020 than in the previous year. Researchers and commentators are quick to go to the usual suspects Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Financial support from businesses for causes ranging from local little league baseball to diversity have been a mainstay of good corporate citizenship in the American landscape. Things have taken a turn from non-controversial support to potentially risky advocacy and now to advocating negative actions against law enforcement. Ice cream Read more »
By Steve Pomper The so-called riot police are misunderstood by so many in so many ways, in function, limitations, deployment, etc. First, the way the media often report on the “riot police” can make people get the sense it’s a specialty unit like SWAT, the bike patrol, or the traffic unit. It’s not. When departments have to deploy Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Gotta love research gurus and the time invested to unearth intriguing things, some of which are eye-opening and appalling. Such findings often redirect our course of action, encourage consideration of other options, and reallocate our hard-earned economy by patronizing entities which align with our personal values and beliefs. Most often that manifests Read more »
By Steve Pomper If you ever wonder if some politicians actually respond to the clarion call to not let a crisis go to waste, you can stop wondering. I recently wrote about a city councilmember of a large American city who, while campaigning for her election, called for hiring 200 additional police officers. She was unequivocal Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Among the many pro/con movements regarding policing in a transparent society opining contrarily, some Americans are now claiming that law enforcement officer hiring practices ought to exclude military veterans from consideration, citing fears of a “militaristic” police force. For law enforcement officers, this is yet another hit for those policing the United Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Since the mid-1980s, a lot of attention has been given to the Broken Windows Theory of crime proposed by James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. The timing of the publishing of their theory coincided with an increase in violent crime and fear of crime. Violent crime became a national Read more »