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 »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In the West Coast’s constant string of efforts to keep the police officers of a community away from their community, California had decided to try to revoke consent searches. To try to understand the reasons for this effort, one must enter into the mind of the Utopian politician or Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Recent political winds of change billboarded sentiments about public safety by ousting elected figures who touted fallacies that America’s policing institution is problematic, must be stripped of funding, and ultimately abolished from our free society. Every vowel and consonant spewed by anti-police mouths is a lovely language to criminal ears—surprise, surprise. With Read more »
Should the public be allowed to encroach on police and distract them while they are working? Or should police be able to carry out their responsibilities without agitators free to get in their face and verbally assault them? Indiana State Representative Wendy McNamara, for example, wants police to have space to operate, and she has Read more »
By Steve Pomper Cities with anti-police governments, such as Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, etc., have so many—let’s call them “unintended”—consequences from their hate-the-police policies that they should probably qualify as intended. These agencies are some of the most politically oppressed police departments in the nation. And, as we’re seeing in Seattle, it’s not limited to the rank Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In Birmingham, Alabama, sixty years ago, Eugene Connor, known by his nickname “Bull”, was in charge of the city’s police and fire department. These were intense days throughout the south as acts of civil disobedience were being organized and carried out. Bull Connor, an avowed segregationist who closed the Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I’ll just say it upfront – I rooted for the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl because of my Missouri ties. I’ll also say I care very little for football. Frankly, I’ve never understood the game but apparently, one group wants to go someplace the other group doesn’t want Read more »
By Steve Pomper Shamefully, police chiefs in some of America’s biggest cities have been banning law enforcement’s Thin Blue Line flag. Cops hold the Thin Blue Line (TBL), which the flag emphasizes, sacred. It is also often displayed to pay respects to fallen officers, similar to when cops wear the TBL bands that too often shroud officers’ Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The increase has largely been attributed to ambush attacks against police officers. We can’t say that the deaths were a direct result of anything that the President did, but his proclaimed support of law enforcement rings hollow because of the basic misunderstanding of violence in policing shared by much Read more »