By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. While at lunch with a former police chief of mine and the county sheriff, the sheriff remarked that he needed to start campaigning for the next election. The chief chuckled. “You’re lucky that you only have to worry about your job every four years. I have to work to Read more »
By Steve Pomper It seems like hyperbole to say there are political leaders who endorse lawlessness, as long as the crimes allowed conform to those leaders’ political beliefs. But these days, it’s not an exaggeration; it’s accurate. There was more evidence of this coming out of Portsmouth, VA., where city leaders just fired their police Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski No matter where one lives, the chances of Mother Nature throwing a curveball or two here and there are inescapable. With her hands on the joysticks, inclement weather consisting of icy snow or unstoppable hurricanes or intense heat causing consternation for Smokey the Bear…Mother Nature’s elemental pedigree and planetary diversity poses often Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Joe Biden still says he is a proponent of community policing, even when surrounded by voices advocating defunding of the police. If his proposal to increase funding for community policing comes to fruition, what will that look like? What community policing looks like is still an open question. A Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Recent reports explored the stand up and step forward bravado of future cops training at the police academy and active-duty law enforcement officers continuing to do the job despite the insidious harangue of anti-cop vocal chords blasting hate via bullhorns. Despite the din-makers’ heaping hatred for all-things-police, new cops are hitting the Read more »
By Steve Pomper In many American cities, the leadership—mayors, city councils, and prosecutors—are so aligned with the rioting radicals, there is no way they will ever appoint a police chief in whom rank-and-file officers can have confidence. This has been the case for a while, but it’s gotten worse. When I was hired back in Read more »
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By Stephen Owsinski One of the most difficult challenges in my life was enduring the police academy and its rigorous demands toward graduation. And I would do it all over again, without reservation. Others harbor the same notion and conviction to serve their respective communities. Academy classes commence, badges are pinned at graduations, and newly-certified Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Oregon has reduced the penalty for most drug possession cases from being a felony offense to being no offense at all. The $100 that a defendant would pay will be a ticket to rehabilitation. Such a radical departure from a criminal justice response to a health care response just Read more »