By Steve Pomper Harvard Prof. Roland G. Fryer, (University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) It’s important that we recognize every individual who supports the police— even if inadvertently. People who are openly pro-police are great. But so are those whose intellectual honesty and actions validate what law enforcers do Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D From a Force Science Institute report: “In a move strongly supportive of law enforcement, a special investigative task force of the American College of Emergency Physicians has formally declared that the violent and sometimes lethal phenomenon known as “excited delirium” really does exist.” From the American College of Medical Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In 2019 I wrote a year-end review piece in another publication asking if antagonism toward the police would subside. That was five months before the death of George Floyd, and just weeks before COVID started hogging the headlines. So, 2020 was obviously not our year. To quote myself in Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski One of these days, Portland, Oregon police officers are not getting any hard-earned just desserts (and may follow in the footsteps of the exodus of cops who pledged police services elsewhere) due to Portland City Council bureaucrats bloating their city council membership from five to 12, funded to the tune of approximately Read more »
By Steve Pomper A U.S. House Judiciary Committee congressional road trip led by Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to discuss Chicago’s criminal mayhem, largely caused by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, had the Chicago Sun-Times reaffirming its membership as a partisan, leftist media source with an article titled: “Democrats blast House Republicans for planned forum Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In a report on organized crime during his tenure as U.S. Attorney General while his brother was President, Robert F. Kennedy famously said “Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.” Read more »
By Steve Pomper According to a story at FOX News, “[Mass. State Trooper Union President Patrick] McNamara said that Gov. [Charlie] Baker ‘refused to listen or work with our Association,’ saying that his administration ‘trampled’ on the fired trooper’s religious conviction.” He also “called Gov. Baker’s executive order an ‘attack on organized labor and the rights of our members.’” So, Read more »
By Steve Pomper Traffic stop, Las Vegas, Nevada “Do you know who I am?” Do you know how often police officers hear this challenge? People may say it in different ways, but it’s not necessarily the specific words but the nastiness behind them—I’m better than you. Its twin purpose is to demean someone (officer) and elevate Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski There have been many mind-boggling things emanating out of the Big Apple. One of the latest legislative ideas put forth by the New York City Council is a bill to diminish the decibel of all emergency vehicles, meaning the NYPD police cruiser sirens will have to be toned down, largely defeating the Read more »
By Steve Pomper I’ve said this before. Now, I must repeat it. Oh, and I’ll probably say it again in the future. Liberal mayors/city councils across the U.S. don’t appoint chiefs of police; they appoint chiefs of mayor. This assertion is abundantly clear with the recent resignation of the first female NYPD police commissioner, Keechant Sewell, after less than a Read more »