By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D As LA Times writer Jill Leovy noted in an article nearly 20 years ago “The era of long-time chiefs has given way to an era of short-timers (who) rarely last longer than three years anymore.” The average tenure of police chiefs, although shorter for large agencies than smaller agencies, Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A recent, encouraging piece of legislation out of Minnesota has increased penalties for assaults on police officers. Included in the law are corrections officers (an often overlooked group), judges, and prosecutors. The bill, named after injured officer Arik Matson, amended state law to make penalties harsher for offenses of Read more »
Cathy Spann, and seven other Minneapolis residents sued their City Council and Mayor for letting the Minneapolis PD fall below minimum staffing requirements in violation of the City Charter. The National Police Association (NPA) filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief supporting their suit. The Minneapolis City Council and Mayor had sought to circumvent the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Of the many deployments law enforcement agencies have as public services for citizens, special certifications and ongoing training results in highly skilled public safety professionals doing a certain job where gills would really help but human adaptations are nonetheless employed. Law enforcement marine units and dutiful dive teams, albeit rarely mentioned in Read more »
The Biden crime plan fails to address the need for crime fighting, the need to end the vilification of police, and the refusal of progressive DAs to prosecute. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6260832428001#sp=show-clips
By Stephen Owsinski Praying it forward is an empirically applied endemic feature of America’s law enforcement institution and those who take up the nation’s battles. And there is no escaping the harsh fact that those battles often culminate in casualties, with annual statistics recently increasing in the number of gut-wrenching line-of-duty deaths of cops. Although Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Steve Pompers excellent article for NPA chronicles the efforts of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer De’Joure Mercern suing for defamation. The National Football League is the object of the suit after they published a wrongful implication of Mercern’s killing of a violent criminal listed among the innocent civil rights heroes Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Among myriad matters America’s cops tend to, one static certainty is their allegiance to flag and country and, extraordinarily, all citizens living under constitutional guaranty. The police mission is most certainly succeeded by allegiance to each other. Police presentations of allegiance come in many forms: from patriotic holidays to birthday wish drive-bys Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The bizarreness of the defund the police movement depriving law enforcement officers of necessary resources to ensure public safety may have emboldened some among America’s populace…but it certainly has not impacted the ongoing nature of cops paying it forward. Let’s look at a mere few of the many recent examples (un-mysteriously absent Read more »
