By Steve Pomper Not again! How many times are we going to go through this? And by this, I mean the repeated disrespect some government officials show for cops’ lives. You may have noticed that I have a difficult time ignoring stories out of two states. One where I now live, Washington State, and the one Read more »
By Steve Pomper Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Troy Doyle said his police officers tried to handle an August 9th demonstration peacefully. The protest marked the tenth anniversary of when Michael Brown robbed a store and was then shot by a police officer after attacking him and attempting to take his gun. The officer was cleared of Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D A decade ago I was on the ground covering the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Other than the burned and boarded-up buildings the street had an almost carnival-like atmosphere. Families were meandering complete with baby carriages and school-aged children periodically raised their hands in the “hands up, don’t Read more »
By Steve Pomper I can’t ignore any story about the DOJ inflicting another bogus consent decree on undeserving American cops. I understand what that feels like, as I was serving in the Seattle Police Department (SPD) when, in 2010, the DOJ targeted us for a similar investigation and eventually a bogus consent decree. This influenced my Read more »
By Steve Pomper I remember when department trainers began teaching officers about “Excited Delirium” (ED). We’d all seen it, but this training put a name to it. Regardless, officers are not using this term as an excuse to kill black people. That’s delusional. We saw it as a psycho-medical term describing the extreme mental and physical Read more »
By Steve Pomper Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro (Photo: Sean Vivek Crasto, public domain, wiki commons) I heard a term today on a radio talk show: “Cry-bullies.” Does that describe some folks today, or what? In the name of victimology or an odd virtue-signaling anguish over non-existent complainers, Carlsbad, California cry-bully city manager Scott Chadwick Read more »
By Steve Pomper Everything, and I mean everything that involves public safety that the anti-cop radicals touch, they obliterate. You’d think some of the stuff they do would work—even by accident, but it doesn’t. And that will continue until pro-cop (law-and-order) officials replace the anti-cop radicals. Think about it. Petty, property, and violent crime crises and Read more »
By Steve Pomper I just finished reading former U.S. Army major and current FOX and Friends Weekend host Pete Hegseth’s new book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.” Betrayal. Hegseth writes about the DEI, CRT, and Marxist infection the radicals are intentionally inflicting on the military, which is Read more »
By Steve Pomper There’s a particular faction of anti-law-and-order (from here on out, let’s just call them what they are: anti-cop) “leaders” who can’t seem to stop gaslighting the American public. For those who keep hearing the term but are still not sure what it is, it refers to the 1944 movie, set in the late Read more »
By Steve Pomper Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty (Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication In March, the NPA published an article about another prosecutor wrongly charging a cop. I wrote, “The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA) and an accused trooper’s defense team are accusing Hennepin County Attorney (HCAO) Mary Moriarty of concealing exculpatory evidence Read more »