By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In public debate, whether in social media posts, legacy media, or legislative bodies, lines get artificially drawn to conveniently avoid the necessary intelligence of ambiguity. In the aftermath of Ferguson, Portland, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, Kenosha, and recently our neighbors to the north the lines divide protestors v. police. We Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Although cops backing up their brothers and sisters is a constant in law enforcement, sometimes it is literal…in the familial sense. Following in someone’s footsteps has definitive roots in policing, with family-tree bloodlines —brothers, sisters, moms, dads, grandparents, great-grandparents, and cousins— comprising genetic transference reflected on uniform nameplates, sometimes within the same Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D One of the terms thrown out by police critics is “paramilitary”, implying that law enforcement is an occupying force and, therefore, a bad way to operate. By definition, the term means “organized similarly to a military force” according to the dictionary. That is not inherently evil. As we examine Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D We’ve seen it in dozens, if not hundreds, of news reports and bystander videos. People rushing, faces full of fear, dragging children and loved ones along with them, running for safety as flames rise or the sound of gunshots or explosions echo. Mostly they are doing the sane thing Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski It is certainly difficult to determine where we are going to wind up in American society and the elbowing by anti-police organisms against our nation’s public safety pros feverishly trying to safeguard those who cherish life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Way too much needless erosion of our public safety pact Read more »
By Steve Pomper It seems clear, many cops who submitted to the mRNA injection did so under vehement protest. And I know that many cops, and non-cops, who received the injection even voluntarily still have an enormous problem with the “let’s see your papers” mentality of this government overreach. Former NYPD police officer and U.S. Secret Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A subtle subset of the defund the police movement is efforts to defang the police by reducing the types of weapons available to them. During a recent decommissioning of a park police program in Chicago Heights, a suburb of Chicago, Mayor David Gonzalez shocked to find rifles in law Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski An intriguing statistic generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that during the span of March 2020 thru March 2021, roughly 11,000 law enforcement officers departed the police profession. As a litany of reports have shown, such a heavy cleave of cops is implicitly associated with the boisterous and unrelenting anti-police Read more »
By Steve Pomper The assaults, robberies, rapes, and even murders that occurred in CHOP/CHAZ weren’t enough to make Seattle’s radical mayor, city (non) prosecutor, and the, even more, radical city council divest themselves of stupid and end their moratorium on equal justice and law and order. Even all the additional violent crime that occurred apart from Read more »
In 2019, the Indianapolis Star and its syndicator, the Associated Press (Defendants) published a total of three articles containing false and defamatory claims about the National Police Association. Because the original article was syndicated by the Associated Press to multiple publishers it exists online at many sites with many headlines. The articles relied on claims Read more »