By Stephen Owsinski Several members of the Boston Police Department were met with a visit from their mayor, Michelle Wu, who stopped in to extend her gratitude and what sounded like a pep-talk, as if everything is peachy with the climate outdoors (the anti-police bluster experienced by cops, not the temps from Mother Nature). Once Read more »
By Steve Pomper Interim Tacoma Police Chief Mike Ake recently announced he’d exonerated two Tacoma police officers of any department policy violations. The findings are a result of internal investigations related to the in-custody death of Manuel Ellis in March 2020. According to KING 5 News, Chief Ake announced the findings on Dec. 21, during a Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The practice of stopping suspicious persons to ask some questions and check them for weapons has never been illegal. It has been practiced in ways that has caused the courts to refine the practice, but not outlaw it. New York’s incoming Mayor Eric Adams is a retired NYPD captain, Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s getting real. When even hot iron branded members of the hard woke left risk breaking from the leftist orthodoxy herd, even if it’s for selfish political purposes, it’s something positive—for traditional America. Even in Minnesota, where George Floyd’s in-police-custody death sparked national wanton destruction, increased hatred toward cops, and the reinforcement of Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Police in the United States do not technically charge anybody with anything. We hear about “pressing charges” and we hear officers on television dramatically say “I’m charging you with murder” but in reality, the police can only send a set of facts to somebody who can decide about charges, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Accountability of our armed government agents is an essential part of our democracy. The Founding Fathers wrote a whole thing about it. That the idea of lots of armed government agents was somewhat foreign to those Revolutionary minds was evident in their hesitancy to even have a standing army. Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski (Featured image: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hands a Jacksonville cop a $1000 bonus check. Photo courtesy of Office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.) When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced additional economic investments to pillar all first responders yesterday, my initial response was Wow! Not because it was uncharacteristic of him and the Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As disturbances around the country explode after officer-involved suspect deaths, law enforcement is standing by to provide a measure to mitigate violence and property damage. Dramatic video of armored vehicles and riot-gear clad police often incite cries that the police are provoking violence, as though donning protective gear lights Read more »
By Steve Pomper The NPA covers many issues that threaten the safety and effectiveness of law enforcement agencies and officers. The NPA has reported on and assisted officers wrongly accused of policy violations and even of breaking the law when evidence shows they were doing their jobs. The NPA also challenges legislatures that pass anti-cop laws Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I’ll defer to the jury outcome with the Kyle Rittenhouse case and even if there is a verdict by the time this goes to print, appeals are always a possibility, and the lessons learned will be cited for years to come. But in the current era where prosecution is Read more »