By Stephen Owsinski At this point, the anti-police harangues are stale and undeniably baseless. Yet they persist and unrelentingly try to hinder courageous cops who continue to show up to do a job most refuse to do… Policing today is more arduous than ever before, emphasizing the necessity to rely on one another to survive Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski I write this a day before the police funeral for Tampa Master Police Officer Jesse Madsen who was killed when he intentionally veered his patrol car head-on into a wrong-way drunk driver traveling at 100 mph on an interstate, saving countless lives in his final action as a law enforcement officer. In Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Despite the divisive strategies and shallow rhetoric employed by politicos in tax-payer-funded fiefdoms, youngsters with ground-level presence and organic heartstrings know best when there’s a boots-on-the-ground hero in their midst. And thank goodness for that. A neighbor of mine, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Chris Mosesman was on duty in his assigned patrol Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Ongoing examples of interactions between cops and citizens symbolizing togetherness and “unity” without the implications of politics involved never cease to amaze. It was the picture above which conjured the aforementioned statement and analogy portrayed in the remainder of this article, centered on and parlayed from a program called #CopsCare. What you Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Whether you subscribe to the groundhog theory or not, one thing is certain: Mother Nature sure did her thing recently, leaving many cities in several states wracked by inexplicable volumes of the white stuff, mortifying temps, and ice. Even in usually sunny Texas, wintry conditions effectively relegated humankind to hunker and hope Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Up front: this piece is relegated to the significant efforts planned and performed by tons of law enforcement agencies whose collective spirit is based in public safety and delivery of a fun-filled time for spectators of an annually ritualized athletic event that happens to involve an entity —the NFL— which is not Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As mentioned in previous pieces, cops and community members can achieve remarkable objectives when they work together. Recently, a grassroots model transpired in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York. Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCOs) with the NYPD’s 73rd Precinct stationed in Brownsville were participants in a five-day pilot program whereby cops ebbed Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd is not only embraced in his jurisdictional locale but widely popular across the nation. Sheriff Judd is an outspoken constitutionalist who unequivocally abhors coddling the criminal element and heralds law enforcement officers who perform dangerous duty daily and serve the public. There is good reason Sheriff Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As we step foot into 2021 and give 2020 the proverbial boot, changes may be afoot while some other things remain business-as-usual. One guaranteed constant though: law enforcement officers will continue to show up…much like the two Woodstock cops here, with definite demonstration that cops are always going to be there for Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. There were high hopes when the Clinton presidency oversaw the development of the Office of Community Policing within the U.S. Department of Justice in 1994 with an initial $8.8 billion expenditure over six years. One of the initiatives from the COPS office was the Police Corps, a program which, Read more »