By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In the rush to label policing as a racist enterprise, dozens of school districts dropped school resource officers from their buildings. To the surprise of no intelligent human, their absence has been felt during attacks on schools. A recent shooting of two school employees in Denver occurred when a Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In San Jose, California police shot a man armed with a machete who had barricaded himself in a home with others including 2 children. In Oklahoma City police responded to a barricaded murder suspect but were able to take the person into custody after breaching the door. Once inside, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D It’s the call most law enforcement officers hate the most. It has killed three officers thus far in 2023. Police officers dealing with violence in the family are confronting volatile emotions, unknown psychodynamics, the presence of weapons, uncooperative victims, and various cultural norms that complicate the response to domestic Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski While the current White House administration continues to bumble and spew fairytales about a “secure border,” Customs and Border Patrol agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are continuously disproving the falsehoods paraded by politicians. According to the US Border Patrol’s weekly report, two federal agents were assaulted (more on that Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The dangers of police work are among the most palpable things on the planet, but it is not always bad actors who propagate that fact. Sometimes flukes and natural disasters become the Goliath to be dealt with, altering robust careers of police officers out there doing the job regardless of the type Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D When a physician is found to have abused a patient, or an attorney is prosecuted for stealing from a client’s trust fund, or a network morning news show host is fired for sexually harassing female subordinates, we don’t see everyone in those professions scrambling to say they are sorry Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D No doubt the Hoover Dam Police are tired of the old joke of the headline, but they exist and represent a critical function of law enforcement. Recent attacks on major power grids have resurrected concerns about protecting critical infrastructure that the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks highlighted over twenty Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Murders were rare in the city where I first began working. The agency whose uniform I wore had just one full-time detective. When a murder or other major criminal event occurred that required intense investigative effort, the solution was our regional Major Case Squad. Each agency in a multi-county Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D We all know the image of the trooper peering in the driver’s side window asking for license and registration. The stereotype is the officer leaning from the doorpost wearing mirrored sunglasses, no hint of joy in his heart, and a cop mustache. It may not be far from reality Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Most police officers had some understandable skepticism about body-worn cameras (BWC) recording all of their activity. Despite the critics, the reason was not that police officers were afraid that all of their nefarious, violent, racist, and corrupt activity would be discovered. The reasons were much more practical. The cumbersome Read more »