By Steve Pomper If you normally only watch the mainstream media’s so-called news reporting, and you somehow stumbled onto this article, it may shock you to learn just how far civil society has fallen in places like Portland and Seattle. However, in this brave new world, a police chief telling the people of a city Read more »
By Steve Pomper Is there another profession, other than law enforcement, where more people believe they know how to do the job better than those trained to do it? If there is, I can’t think of it. That’s why I was so pleased to hear about what Chief Wendell Franklin, Chief of Police of the Read more »
By Steve Pomper We all know that in many of America’s major cities radicals have transported law enforcement to Bizarro World—that fictional DC Comics alternate universe where everything is backward. Sadly, the cops aren’t working in a fictional world. It’s all too real. Still, our world is operating backwards. District attorneys now prosecute cops for Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As daily media propagation papers the nation with negative story after negative story about the law enforcement community, I have been a steadfast witness to the exponential stories to the contrary of mouthpieces denouncing the police profession and those who do the job. By no stretch is this a pity-party pitch to Read more »
By Steve Pomper When watching an officer involved shooting (OIS) video, many people wince and race to say the officer’s actions were wrong or what they would have done “better.” Those trained to do the job, cops, say, “that’s exactly what I would have done.” Now, an LAPD officer is being sued for doing the right Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The drum beat regarding the social experiment of replacing cops with social workers has begun, and it is seriously flawed and lacking a main ingredient: constitutionality. To begin our analysis, it is necessary to implore the existence of social workers and the fabulous work they do for many citizens around the country. Read more »
By Steve Pomper There are two stories here. There is the straight news story about what happened, and there is the story from the perspective of one driver it happened to. I’m thinking this is one guy would never vote to defund the police. Recently, in Silverdale, Washington, on the Kitsap Peninsula, 17 miles west of Read more »
By Steve Pomper I was glancing at my Facebook page a few mornings ago. A leftist family member had posted an article that reported the Seattle City Council now has a veto-proof majority, and they have plans to vote to defund the police department by 50 percent (not a typo, 50%). This will essentially abolish Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The day started off decent enough…until I came across a sad story of a cop with brain cancer whose sustenance is under assault by cancel culture folks who took offense by a modified thin blue line t-shirt used to fund-raise for Escondido police Officer Brett Byler, a 31-year-old husband and father of Read more »
Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith, being interviewed about the NPA’s petition asking Palo Alto to remove its mural of a cop killer across from City Hall. Betsy is the creator of the only course of its kind for women in law enforcement, “The Winning Mind for Women” and is the owner of The Winning Mind LLC. Read more »