By Stephen Owsinski I’ve seen many police union figureheads getting the need-to-know messages out by taking to the podium weighted by media mics…but the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) executives have rolled out an even better way to ensure many more citizens are aware of the conduct of the Manhattan district attorney and Read more »
By Steve Pomper LAPD police union VP Sgt. Jerretta Sandoz The LAPD has lost 1,000 cops since 2019 (actual losses are often higher than reported by officials), according to LawOfficer.com. Let’s begin with that manmade disaster. Like other blue jurisdictions, run by radical leftists, Los Angeles treats its police officers like trash. This treatment is reflected not only Read more »
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 »