By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D To speculate on the outcome of a criminal case, much less presume to know what facts the jury might see in a given case, is something an observer must approach with an open mind. Those with access to the television cameras seem to have no such hesitation. Grand Rapids, Read more »
By Steve Pomper Admittedly, there are still missing details about a death in police custody incident that occurred in Crestview, Florida, last year. However, as I’ve explained my litmus test in the past, in reviewing the incident, based on available information, I have not hit a “hold up” moment. It appears the officers acted in Read more »
By Steve Pomper There was a recent and very troubling incident in Seattle. A police officer responded to a report of a suspicious male, according to mynorthwest.com, “terrorizing” an elementary school campus. The story wasn’t only about the suspect’s behavior, but also highlighted the school staff’s reckless response. The officer reported the principal and some teachers at Read more »
By Steve Pomper While the anti-police forces infecting this nation haven’t been able totally to defund or abolish the police, some have been “successful” enough in depleting staffing and hobbling cops who remain on the job. For example, according to an AP story reprinted in The Seattle Times, “The Washington State Patrol [WSP] says drivers Read more »
By Steve Pomper Imagine you’re a cop, and you’ve spent over a decade serving under a city attorney who’d rather prosecute cops than criminals. Imagine every time you made an arrest, that “prosecutor” would decline it for some made-up reason. Imagine that city attorney, a walking, talking dereliction of duty, prosecuted (or not) certain crimes Read more »
By Steve Pomper We hear a lot about so-called “systemic” corruption from the left. Systemic racism, systemic homophobia, and… systemic systemicism (okay, I made up that last one, but you get the point). I have to admit, though, they may have a point about systemic corruption poisoning our criminal justice system. But I’m talking about Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Most District Attorneys and Prosecutors are dedicated, overworked, and decent public servants. I would not want to paint the profession with the same broad brush that anti-law enforcement forces do with police officers. Inept or corrupt DAs are accountable at the ballot box, but for some, the election cycle Read more »
By Steve Pomper There are a lot of us cops and former cops, writing about how deplorably the police officers’ political leaders are mistreating them. We have no illusions about the damage happening to our profession in leftist-run jurisdictions. For example, I recently got a tweet from an officer I know from the Seattle Police Read more »
By Steve Pomper St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is a treasure—for the anti-cop radical left. This George Soros-funded prosecutor (one of too many in the U.S.) has established a soft-on-crime/hard-on-victims and cops criminal justice system. Like all of these Soros-styled solicitors, here are a few markers that define their law enforcement philosophy. They don’t Read more »
By Steve Pomper Some politicians refuse to grasp the importance of traffic enforcement and that law enforcement officers should be the people to conduct traffic control and enforcement. Especially in a large crowd, urban traffic control situations like professional and college sporting events. Two recent situations highlight this legislative lack of responsibility for public safety. One Read more »