By Steve Pomper We know the formula by now, don’t we? The initial media reports come out saying something like, “White Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Man.” This headline is off winging its way around the world while the truth is struggling into its pants. Later, fully dressed, the truth finally arrives to tell us the suspect Read more »
By Steve Pomper Like most rookie cops, when I was first on the job, I did a lot more traffic enforcement than I did later in my career. Generally, the more years on the department, the fewer traffic stops a patrol officer will do. But, with all the talk of equity, these days, I recall some Read more »
National Police Association Spokeswoman Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith says police officers are leaving departments amid the ‘vilification of law enforcement’ from politicians and the media.
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Words and facts matter, unless they don’t. Take New York Times writer Charles M. Blow’s definition of “infraction”, which encompasses robbery and counterfeiting. In an editorial appearing in the Denver Post on April 18th, 2021, Blow related the often-told story of Michael Brown “A Black teenager accused of an Read more »
By Steve Pomper When government officials’ actions reduce police protection, and they refuse to let police enforce the law, and prosecutors won’t charge lawbreakers, people get scared. When people are scared, they need to protect themselves. When scared people need to protect themselves, they buy guns—and ammunition. Now, law enforcement agencies, especially smaller departments, are feeling Read more »
By Steve Pomper Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner, the George Soros (Bond villain)-funded piece of… work, is facing substantial, and creative, opposition in his upcoming primary for re-election. First, let’s review this vile creature that excretes a slime trail as he oozes his sleaze across the City of Brotherly Love. Breitbart reported Soros poured $1.7 million Read more »
By Steve Pomper How can police officers in certain American jurisdictions function when leaders continue to insult and degrade them? Recent examples have appeared on both coasts, one in the socialist Petrie dish known as Seattle and the other in the basket case state of New York, home to the worst governor and mayor (NYC) in Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D It didn’t take long for the citizens of Los Angeles to suffer the consequences of rash political decisions aimed at satisfying police critics. Hundreds more LA residents suffered murder and violent injury during 2020, a year of knee jerk decisions by politicians. In the most counterintuitive strategy since the Read more »
By Steve Pomper Baltimore’s lofty, looney, and lefty “leadership,” headed by State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, has decided to add more crimes to those it will not enforce. They effectively decriminalized leftist riots back in 2015, through non-enforcement. Remember when former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said, “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that Read more »