By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The National Institute of Justice just released a document entitled “A Landscape Report on Measuring Community Sentiment and Perceptions of Safety and Law Enforcement Performance”. By coincidence, just before I saw the announcement of this report in my email, I was doing an internet search for “police officer hug” Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D You can’t read very far in the news without hearing about police officers being sued. But justice is not blind to cops and they, too, have the right to file a lawsuit when unlawfully harmed. Columbus, Ohio police officer Traci Shaw was summarily charged by Richard Wozniak, Deputy Director Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Whether it was the break room at the battery factory, the hay truck parked under the shade of a tree beside the field, or the truck stop café with the diesel left running, there was always a place I could find to get a little thinking done or get Read more »
By Steve Pomper God willing, this should be the NPA’s final follow-up article on the persecution of decorated Blackwell (OK) Police Department Lieutenant John Mitchell. First, a brief recap: On May 20th, 2019, Lt. Mitchell ended a mobile active shooter incident after being forced, along with another officer, to shoot and kill the female driver to Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D If you’re like me, you might miss the day when you could read something in the newspaper and have to wait a few days to see if anyone wrote a letter to the editor about it. Now with immediate reactions affixed to online articles, it takes little effort and Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Around the country, we hear the cry for more police training. Unless you don’t want police training. In Atlanta, despite sometimes violent protests, the city council approved millions in funding for a new training center for law enforcement dubbed “Cop City”. The decision was not unanimous and after the Read more »
By Steve Pomper Antifa: “only an idea,” gathered in St. Paul, MN. Nov. 2020 The continuing rising crime in radical leftist jurisdictions across the U.S. is no accident. I thought about that recently when I heard Levi Strauss heir, U.S. House Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), also an Adam Schiff flunky, attack one of the few genuine reporter Read more »
By Steve Pomper DOD police officer’s wife pinning badge on DOD husband, son looks on, following graduation from Navy training course in 2010. Law enforcement family legacies are an enduring symbol of both an individual’s and family’s commitment to public service and public safety. However, in some places, they may not endure for long. First, I Read more »
By Steve Pomper CPD Officer Anthony Graffeo, wife, and children I recently wrote about what a shame it is that at some agencies’ law enforcement family legacies are vanishing. Then coincidence made us aware of the plight of one legacy Chicago officer, both of whose parents are retired CPD, who was shot in the line of Read more »
By Steve Pomper Many states like Illinois, Washington, and Oregon have recently passed radical leftist anti-police laws disguised as “police reform.” They have nothing to do with “reform.” They are about altering or abolishing legitimate, traditional law enforcement because the anti-cops don’t like it. People are also criticizing new police anti-pursuit laws. With weak support for cops from their Read more »