By Stephen Owsinski In the miasma generated by the anti-this or anti-that mouthpieces, America’s law enforcement community is smack dab in the middle of mayhem. The Officer Down Memorial Page is getting laden with official reports of casualties and the oft-violent catalysts involved in deaths of police officers. In all this, cops continue to step Read more »
By Steve Pomper You’ve heard that, for cops, there’s no such thing as a routine call. While that’s true, there are some calls obliterate routine. Take this both heartwarming and bone-chilling (literally) recent story out of northern New England. Two men in a 2019 Ford F350 pickup truck traveling on NB Interstate-89, had just crossed the Read more »
By Steve Pomper She probably wouldn’t tell you this, as most cops don’t like to call attention to themselves, so it’s left to those of us who learn of the heroism to document it for posterity. Cops are hesitant to accept accolades, even when they’ve just accomplished a singular act of bravery. In Colorado last week, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The year isn’t over yet as I write this, so the number of law enforcement deaths will increase before 2022 dawns. 2021’s list on the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP) is already bloated. In addition to the increase in ambushes, the usual murders of officers arresting violent offenders, and Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The Rittenhouse trial has generated a lot of debate where no debate is really necessary. The case, and the verdict, are symbolic of nothing other than the particular facts at hand, even though the national attention it garnered made it appear to be precedent-setting. The rules of self-defense do Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It’s not every day that law enforcement officers get to receive kudos for phenomenal police work, and that is certainly not why courageous people enter the perilous business of public safety. Given its decentralized infrastructure, the roughly 18, 500 law enforcement entities spanning the U.S. chronicle life-saving feats and dividends thereof on Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The latest spate of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty included a deputy with the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office in the northeast portion of Florida, where Atlantic Ocean seawater baths beachgoers and public safety officers ensure everyone’s sanctity despite grave risks to themselves. On September 24, 2021, Deputy Joshua Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It’s been two decades since two terrorist-hijacked planes slammed into two very tall world-renowned towers, both ultimately crumbling to the ground. Before, during and after the diabolical action, law enforcement officers were either already in the World Trade Center complex, rushing to it in attempts to salvage lives after the unspeakable happened, Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski This is a piece perfectly illustrating honor among service men and women—military and law enforcement. It also echoes the police-supporting citizens and community entities who easily recognize the value of America’s frontline warriors taking up the fight against evil. On August 07, 2021, Chicago Police Officer Ella French was slain when she Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski One of America’s best stopping powers going up against malevolence is the law enforcement institution and its roughly 850,000 cops trying to preempt and/or mitigate bad actors from inflicting harm upon innocents. As the mantra goes, cops can’t be everywhere at once is a static truth belying logistical utopia underscoring our massive Read more »