By Stephen Owsinski A 10-year-old boy launched a written threat to shoot up a Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, Florida. Deputies charged the fifth-grader with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting. The School Threat Enforcement Team (STET), an arm of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office working under the agency’s Youth Services Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Gotham has a new mayor whose recent attestations about remedying the various woes of the city’s massive subway system are ambitious. Whereas former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio hazed and dazed the NYPD ranks, Mayor Eric Adams is channeling tunnel vision, specifically having to do with unspeakable crime and public health conditions Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Who is getting expanded emergency medical care benefits, ballistics vests from fund-raising efforts, legislative protection, and love and respect from nearly everyone? No, not the DARE officer, but the furry cops in the K-9 corps. With 23 K9 line of duty deaths over the last twelve months, 50,000 police Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Lessons, lessons, lessons. Our planet is spinning at such a rapid clip. So much is going on. Some things are rounding the corners. Others are stagnant or obsolete. Many matters are unfortunate due to circumstances related to the pandemic and the dubious state of governance. In all of this, cops continue to Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although cops are not physicians, close equivalents in policing categorized as “SWAT Medics” is one among many manifestations among law enforcement agencies striving to overcome the twists and turns which may evolve in the public safety mission. By being ultra-prepared to mitigate medical emergencies evolving from high-risk and fluidly volatile situations, police Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The headlines would lead the average citizens to believe that the population of our country has collectively developed an adversarial relationship with its police. Television ratings show just the opposite. Americans are fascinated by the police. Perhaps the reality is that Americans are fascinated by crime. Maybe it’s the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As one may suspect, police work during major holidays means being away from loved ones in order to safeguard the community and ensure citizens’ merrymaking with appetizing banquets and poignant familial experiences while seasonal lights wink away. For the beat cop ensuring these highlights are conceivable, the shift is nonetheless normalized with Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Anyone looking at anti-police media entities intentionally denying the absolute truth about how instrumental cops are in American society is being grossly deprived of myriad major feats, surreal saves, and massive differences made for us all. Police presence among a hugely diverse Constitution-embracing population is ideal. But not everyone gets to enjoy Read more »
The grant was awarded to assist with the purchase of 100 PAL T-shirts for youth to wear during field trips and sporting events. The T-shirts will help to bring recognition to the youth who participate as well as to this beneficial program. For many years, the Framingham, MA PD has implemented the Police Athletic League Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop” is a comment I read in a press release announcing trial convictions of two animal abusers. Just before reading that credo, I reviewed the inverse: cops engaged in training scenarios whereby a consortium of law enforcement agencies role-played an active shooter response at a large high Read more »