By Steve Pomper Austin, Texas State Capitol There doesn’t seem to be a lot of actual police misconduct in Austin, the Texas state capitol. So, it seems Travis County District Attorney José Garza has to pretend there is apparently by making some up. José Garza, Travis County (TX) DA According to FOX News, Terry Keel pulls no Read more »
By Steve Pomper There are too many police incidents where loud, cop-haters dislike the force police have used, including lethal. They condemn the officers involved for not doing “something else.” However, they rarely offer what something else should have been. But they are very emphatic about the cop being wrong, so I guess that’s supposed to be Read more »
By Steve Pomper Does Law Enforcement Need to Be Reformed Just Because Radicals Don’t Like It? No! It’s leftist “police reform” that needs reforming. But it’s tough when even good guys like Senator Tim Scott concede the language to the radicals by adopting the term “police reform.” We should not surrender any terminology to the radical left. Read more »
By Steve Pomper This is getting scary—really scary. Some people think the police staffing crises across our nation will somehow resolve itself, and things will go back to normal. That will not happen because it cannot happen. The damage has been going on for too long and is too severe. Major city police departments are Read more »
By Steve Pomper It wasn’t only that agencies are firing law enforcement officers based on (I’ll be kind) dubious “science.” It’s that the officers’ experience, qualifications, conscience, and concerns didn’t matter at all. Rather than the health of employees, it seems to have become about “comply or else.” Damn the future consequences intended and unintended. Read more »
By Steve Pomper There are so many side issues that arise when law enforcement agencies cannot retain or recruit good officers: New York, Philly, Baltimore; Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis; San Francisco, Portland, Seattle—and Boston all suffer from staffing shortages. One side issue, for example, is there’s word the Seattle Police Department (SPD) will end their nationally Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s a sign of Joe Biden’s moral (or immoral) center that the one time he keeps a promise, rather than tells a lie, is to punish law enforcement officers. Several mounted Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents were falsely accused of “whipping” immigrants who were attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Even The Read more »
By Steve Pomper American courts, these days, can be so frustrating, especially for people interested in equal justice. Take the Washington State Supreme Court that, as reported by the NPA, recently ruled the state’s cops must consider a driver’s race/ethnicity before a traffic stop can be considered to be a “legal” detention. Their ruling is a prima Read more »
By Steve Pomper Podcast host Todd Herman, The Emerald City Exile, often referred to the Washington State Supreme Court (WSSC) as the “Seattle Supreme Court.” Not only because of from where the justices hail but also from where their ideological purity comes. Seattle’s toxic fountainhead of Critical Race Theory ideology and activism. We see proof of this Read more »
By Steve Pomper When I heard the story resurface about some mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents supposedly “whipping” Hattian illegal immigrants, I wondered why. Hadn’t that been resolved? Nope. The Biden administration cannot be wrong—especially about rank and file law enforcement at any level. Those “stormtroopers,” as Nancy Pelosi referred to federal agents, must be Read more »