By Steve Pomper The anti-cop lefts’ lack of understanding of proper and necessary law enforcement procedures is dumbfounding. But I think it’s more a belligerent ignorance than a legitimate ignorance (simply not knowing enough to understand). The anti-cop left doesn’t want to understand or worse, they understand and mischaracterize it intentionally. I read an opinion article recently, written from an Read more »
By Steve Pomper Cops know there are always unintended negative consequences when politicians, spurred on by community activists, attempt knee-jerk “fixes” for what they erroneously see as law enforcement “problems.” One of these consequences is the increase in violent crime in many places across the U.S., which corresponds to a reduction in the number of officers Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Rising rates of violent crime have been blamed on all of the politically acceptable reasons except the truth: law enforcement has not been allowed to do its job. The question of what causes crime has never been fully answered. The easy, but often inaccurate conclusion, is that when Event Read more »
By Steve Pomper All traditional or conservative Americans need to understand something very important in this battle against anti-police activists. Many continue to respond to them as political opponents rather than the sociocultural enemy they’ve become. A recent incident in Washington State illustrates this enemy’s anti-cop pounce. The media and Black Lives Matter are attacking Pierce Read more »
Sunday March 21st at 10am ET with Steve Pomper, NPA writer, retired Seattle police officer, and author of The Obama Gang, online at https://Pluto.TV/live-tv/The-First or on the https://www.thefirsttv.com app or on https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalPoliceAssociation
By Steve Pomper Logic applies to even the ridiculous defund/abolish the police movement, right? After defunding or abolishing the police, setting aside its massive foolishness, cities must replace it with something else. Most police abolitionists advocate for replacements to be social workers and other unarmed “first responders.” But, some truly unthinking radicals believe the cop void Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested for killing 8 persons and wounding others at 3 massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia area that began Tuesday, March 15th, 2021. Long was arrested in Crisp County, GA as law enforcement staged along routes of escape after an alert about the murders. Read more »
By Steve Pomper It’s easy, if you’re not paying attention, to be fooled into believing the efforts to defund, abolish, or otherwise disappear traditional American law enforcement is a spontaneous and organic grassroots uprising. Something terrible happened, and people got pissed. But this is too simple and wrong. The complicity of the legacy media with their Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D. The short answer is yes. No advocate of quality policing objects to accountability of police officers or police agencies. The honest question is how to achieve that without gutting the essentials of policing. So far, many of the voices calling for police reform range from the abolition of policing Read more »
By Steve Pomper Portland, Oregon government officials conjure a pathetic excuse for the massive surge in violent crime after months of incessant city-sanctioned leftist violence and efforts to defund and weaken the police. Last July 25th, during one of the nightly exhibitions of anti-government violence, two men were shot, one wounded and one killed. The 27-year-old Read more »