By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Amid the cries for more transparency and accountability in law enforcement, the reality of the microscope under which our police officers go about their daily work simply isn’t known to most of the public. Comparing the accountability of our police officers to any other career path yields no other Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Citing “crime” and victimized employees, corporate America is making moves out of anti-police locales and conducting commerce in pro-police territories. I guess the cocky liberal leaders tacitly or openly touting anti-police sentiments never thought that corporate America, major money makers employing tens of thousands and contributing billions in tax dollars to government Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D With 11, 669 police officers as of March of 2022, Chicago PD is one of America’s largest police forces. If this number sounds big, consider that it is down by 300 officers since the start of the year, down over 1300 since 2019 from 2021 levels. During the same Read more »
By Steve Pomper The Washington Post recently covered a story about a Washington D.C. police commander praised by his officers as a decisive, hands-on leader who is also despised by the radical leftist, Marxist, and anarchist militants frequently destroying property and assaulting cops. Of course, the Post attempts to paint the violent radicals as some quaint neighborhood community Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Many agencies have removed vascular neck restraints from police officers’ toolboxes. Officer Christopher Smelser of the Las Cruces, New Mexico, used the restraint on Antonio Valenzuela who died about an hour later. First, let’s talk about the vascular neck restraint, also known as a carotid restraint, that has become Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski If a candidate campaigned on anything other than public safety, would you vote for them? If a victorious candidate’s coffers spend inordinate amounts of money on private security forces to protect them while you are left to fend for yourself, would you harbor regret and resentment? “Despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s claims that Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I know we aren’t supposed to call names or label, but sometimes the shoe just fits too well to ignore. The protests of the use of lethal force against 25-year-old Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio have tipped from reasonable concern developed after the event for lack of facts to Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski No matter the spoils of society, it seems there will always be a contingent of finger-pointers scapegoating America’s law enforcement institution, the men and women who glaringly address all manner of woes, clearly underscoring the need for cops to do the perilous job many refrain from. We keep placing the onus on Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The updates show up daily in my newsfeed. Officer-involved shooting. Police officer killed responding to domestic violence call. Officers ambushed. The reports will relate that an officer was killed, or was hospitalized in serious condition, or suffered “non-life-threatening injuries”. Of those, we may say a quick prayer for the Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Annual numbers of officers killed in the line of duty vary widely from year to year. One identifiable trend is death by ambush. Police officers were murdered in 2021 at a rate 59% higher than the previous year. Among the officers murdered in 2021, 25 were killed in what Read more »