By Steve Pomper It’s hard to believe the NPA has been reporting on the Lt. John Mitchell saga for over a year about an incident that occurred in May 2019 in Blackwell, Oklahoma. Mitchell is a lieutenant with the Blackwell Police Department who was indicted by DA Jason Hicks for stopping an active shooter who was Read more »
Assault on American Law Enforcement
Fictional Fire Station Fuels Flames of Cop Hate and Racism
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Station 19 is an ABC television nighttime soap opera set in a fictional fire station in Seattle. Along with the internal feuds and love affairs at the firehouse, the writers have taken up the pop culture themes of bad cops doing bad things, and systemic racism. As is often Read more »
L.A. County’s New Prosecutor’s First Official Action: What I Will Not Prosecute
By Steve Pomper One of the National Police Association’s (NPA) missions is to watchdog district attorney’s offices across the nation. This is critical especially for offices occupied by George Soros-funded candidates. In fact, in December 2018, the NPA filed a bar complaint against Soros-funded DA Rachael Rollins in Boston, Mass. Her negative actions affect not only Read more »
Reporting on Police Incidents: Fake News or Half-Baked News?
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. “Father tased trying to save 3 year old” was one variation of the national headlines that appeared in news reports across the country. This borrowed and often repeated headline didn’t tell the whole story, the real story, or the rest of the story. The real story is of two Read more »
Wrongly Fired, Former SFPD Police Officer Now Being Wrongly Prosecuted
By Steve Pomper In March 2018, I wrote an article that appeared at OpsLens about a rookie San Francisco P.D. officer, Christopher Samayoa. The city fired him after he was involved in an officer involved shooting in 2017. Getting terminated for doing his job was bad enough. However, three years after being wrongly fired, just a few Read more »