Martin Preib is a Chicago writer and cop. His first book, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City, was published by the University of Chicago Press. His essays have been published in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review (winner of the 2005 Staige D. Blackford Award for Nonfiction), New City, and Tin House. In 2006, he Read more »
By Steve Pomper The first thing I thought about when I saw this viral video of a Seattle cop telling a BLM activist he’d quit was, why haven’t more Seattle, Portland, New York, Minneapolis, etc. officers done this? The first answer is cops are naturally camera shy. It used to be because of things like Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. “Mommy, I’m scared,” says a child’s voice as an ominous figure lurks in the doorway. The text on the screen looms with the words “POLICE HAVE FEWER RESOURCES IN JOE BIDEN’S AMERICA”. The video ad posted on Facebook by a group called America First Action now bears the infamous Read more »
By Steve Pomper There are two reasons I like the idea of a sheriff’s citizens posse: one, it is practical and will make additional, trained bodies available to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office for emergencies. And two, as Loiuse Beven wrote in The Epoch Times (ET), “residents are invited to learn more about how, and Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski I am the type of individual who is easily captivated by fortuitous discoveries, especially those that glow with authenticity, appeal, and humanitarian honor. Such was the case recently when I came across an image of what seems to be a squad of on-duty deputies with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The search for the elusive predictive profile of active killers continues. The U.S. Secret Service recently published “Mass Attacks in Public Spaces” outlining statistics from attacks in the U.S. in 2018. As the world’s foremost experts on public violence, the United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The oddities of life continue to abound and astonish. While Seattle City Council plows forth with the ridiculousness of downsizing their police force amid the reverberations from “defund the police” mouthpieces, a massive annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally 2020 has hundreds of thousands of motorbike enthusiasts enjoying America as a whole, in one Read more »
By Steve Pomper Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best did her best, but her best wasn’t good enough for the extremists on the Seattle City Council. Despite her efforts to back the men and women of the Seattle Police Department (SPD), the city council voted 7-1 to implement their plan to defund, and perhaps abolish, the SPD and Read more »
By Steve Pomper I recently read a former local TV news reporter’s post on Linkedin. I know her a little from when I was still an active cop, and I like and respect her. She brought up the topic of whether police officers should be viewed and trained as guardians of democracy or as warriors. I Read more »