Mansfield, TX Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association Awarded National Police Association Grant

Mansfield, TX Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association Awarded National Police Association Grant

(Indianapolis) November 21, 2021. The National Police Association (NPA) awarded a grant to the Mansfield Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association to be used for the benefit of the Explorers program. The Mansfield Police Department, in cooperation with Scouts BSA subsidiary Learning for Life, sponsors a Law Enforcement Explorer Post for youth ages 14 to 20 Read more »

Healthy Homes Allows Peace Officers’ Mental Health to Thrive

By Steve Pomper  For law enforcement officers, today, navigating a career while maintaining health, both physical and mental, is crucial. Whether the officer is single, married, married with children, single with children, or whatever domestic configuration, a cop’s challenges are unique, especially in the anti-cop environment shrouding too much of our nation. Each officer processes emotionally Read more »

The Cop’s Holiday Spirit

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D There are a lot of great things about being in law enforcement. There’s a sense of purpose, experiences of saving lives, bringing peace to chaos, the internal assurance that the world is an incrementally better place with you in it. Granted, there are days and seasons when it takes Read more »

Univ. of Cali Student: ‘There is No Reason at All to Decrease the Number of Officers’

By Stephen Owsinski Here we go again, with the spoon-feed of lies pushing cops-are-the-problem pablum as if we are undeveloped brains deficient in distinguishing for ourselves what/who the real troublemakers are in our society. The statement quoted in our title comes from a shoes-on-the-ground student, on the heels of the University of California—Davis administration announcing Read more »

Not Only Re-Funding Cops but Also Putting Police Back in Schools

By Steve Pomper  The public-school district I’ve lived in for three decades, and put three kids through, booted school resource officers out of schools last year, during the tidal wave of anti-police stupidity. They used fake accusations of fake racism and fake fear to do it. The district alleged “students of color” recoiled in fear of police officers Read more »

Sidelining Police Protection is Always a Bad Idea

By Stephen Owsinski Mad scientists and their scorched earth mentalities recklessly editing cops from society, thus forfeiting the safety of citizens, is a study of power-craving politicos guaranteeing vulnerability, placing holiday season revelers (any season, really) in the trajectory of very bad actors. Whether in council chambers or upper-floor fiefdom, elected officials governing jurisdictions who Read more »