By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Welcome to another lesson in Criminal Justice 101. Today’s topic is the difference between motive and intent. The words are so often used interchangeably that the average layman assumes they mean the same. They do not and it is important to understand why. First, a little Latin. A criminal Read more »
Crime
Police: “Homelessness” + Associated Crime = Unsolvable?
By Steve Pomper From the results of the “War on Homelessness” or whatever euphemism the HIC (Homeless Industrial Complex) is using these days, you’d swear their actual goal is not to eliminate “homelessness,” but to increase it. And that creates a terrible drain on public safety resources as police and fire personnel routinely respond to the Read more »
‘The Fentanyl Project’: First Responders, Overdose Fatalities, and Grieving Families
By Stephen Owsinski The scourge of fentanyl permeates America and increasingly steals lives as open borders invite fatal narcotics into all corners of our nation, resulting in fatalities that leave families grieving and first responders racing against time to save lives, with significant risk to themselves. Recently published, “The Fentanyl Project” is a brief Read more »
When the Border Became a Crisis
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D It might be interesting to note that the first use of the phrase “border crisis” that I can find was in 2014 during the Obama administration. What’s even more interesting is that law enforcement, especially the border states as well as federal agencies were making big noises about criminal Read more »
Cops and Campus Unrest
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Labor strikes, war protests, civil rights marches, anti-police demonstrations, and now pro-Palestinian campus takeovers have been the subject of nightly news broadcasts since there were nightly news broadcasts. Tear gas, nightsticks, rubber bullets, and even gunfire characterized civil disturbances in recent decades, but the recent campus protests were met Read more »
Police Officers Doing a Spectacular Job Quelling Current Campus Ugliness
By Steve Pomper UCLA faculty and staff condoning anti-Israel occupations on campus (Photo: Creative Commons) As I noted recently in these pages, about the 2020 Saint George Floyd/BLM/Antifa riots, that if the police are not allowed to prevent a takeover and destruction of public or private property and the violence that comes with it, the cops Read more »
Failing to Enforce Laws Encourages Breaking Them
By Steve Pomper Tire marks on pavement as after street takeovers (Photo: Sergio Valle Duarte, Creative Commons) In 2020, during the inception of the politically engineered Saint George Floyd controversy, Minneapolis’ anti-police Mayor “Barely There” Jacob Frey refused to allow the cops to suppress a BLM/Antifa rebellion that went on to destroy a police precinct. This Read more »
NPA spokesperson joined FOX Baltimore to discuss the mayor’s plan to pay gang criminals instead of arresting them
Cybercrime Makes Techno Cops a Commodity
By Stephen Owsinski Recently, telecommunications giant AT&T announced that their database had been hacked, resulting in roughly 73 million current and previous customers’ personal information winding up in the hands of cyber criminals deftly skilled in electronic breaches, leveraging consumers’ stolen account information over the heads of corporate bigwigs, the aggregate data parked on the Read more »
Kids Gone Wild
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Kids say the darnedest things, but sometimes they do the darnedest things. A 9-year-old boy in Oroville, CA decided to drive himself to school in the family Volkswagon sedan. When a California Highway Patrol officer saw the car oddly stationary in an intersection, the officer instructed the driver to Read more »