By Stephen Owsinski Despite the growing resentment toward social media outlets and their seeming penchant for censorship, control, politicization, and grand manipulation, online data often provides the benefits of intelligence, insights, and clues for law enforcement agencies to preempt bad actors whose e-messaging telegraphs events in the realm of catastrophe and deviancy. One recent example Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Whether you watched Super Bowl 55 or not, one can imagine the crowd minimized inside the stadium meant a larger throng of humans outside. And those on the outside were no less inclined to go guzzle and get feisty, especially when their hosting home team Bucs seized the game and inherited the Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski As for billionaire Warren Buffett, folks follow his every move when it comes to wisdom, experience, and carefully considered investments amounting to unfathomable wealth. Similarly, people lean in when it comes to billionaire Elon Reeve Musk and what he is up to. Musk is known for industrial innovations and redefining boundaries when Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. According to the ICE website, in fiscal year 2020, the 287(g) program encountered approximately 920 aliens convicted for assault, 1,261 convicted for dangerous drugs, 104 convicted for sex offenses/assaults, 377 convicted for obstructing police, 190 convicted for weapon offenses, and 37 convicted for homicide. Despite being largely responsible for Read more »
By Steve Pomper I’m no poet, but I occasionally attempt to compose a bit of verse and it was typically, mercifully, was only self-inflicted. Poems work better when an experience strikes me in a way prose or exposition is not quite up to the job of conveying my sentiments accurately or efficiently. An experience I had earlier in Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Like many others, I admire and respect canines. In my law enforcement career, I was always mesmerized at every police dog’s highly attuned sensory capabilities which lends quite well to policing and apprehending the bad actors fleeing/hiding in an array of possibilities easily detectible by sworn and certified police K9s. But akin Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Soldiers wear helmets. Does that mean that police officers should not? So do carpenters and motorcycle riders. The purpose is the protect the head from injury. In case no one noticed, police officers on the front lines of this season of protest have been the target of bricks, bottles Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski Among the myriad moving parts and quick-changing tides of people filled with angst at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, one unequivocal constant is etched deep: Our U.S. Capitol police force gave it their all, indelibly evidenced by one of their own succumbed to wounds sustained while repelling an enraged crowd. U.S. Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. There is one force that marches without regard to laws, juries, prosecutors, or politicians: time. LeBron James uses his athletic fame as a huge platform to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. He immediately tweeted outrage against the refusal of the district attorney to criminally charge officers involved in Read more »