By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D If a headline read “Ambulance Services Cut to Fund Cardiac Health”, readers would shake their heads in disbelief. Would hospitals really stop responding to ambulance calls for heart attack victims to help pay for education, brochures, checkups, and low-fat diet plans? Do nations at war cut spending on troops Read more »
By Steve Pomper Washington D.C. ‘Defund the Police’ mural They say (yes, those they) people will get the law enforcement they deserve. This analysis refers to voters who keep electing candidates who work against their public safety interests but find themselves mystified that crime is getting worse. Curiously, with crime increasing at alarming rates, voters in many Read more »
By Steve Pomper I just wrote an NPA article about a police officer from Norfolk, Virginia, Edmund “Ryan” Hoyt, who was wrongly tried (twice) for voluntary manslaughter (first was a mistrial) and then finally, rightly, acquitted—because there was never any evidence the officer committed a crime. One more time: just because you don’t like the outcome, Read more »
By Steve Pomper After I retired, I kept finding myself telling my fellow officers, “I didn’t think it could get any worse.” But the number of cops leaving their agencies keeps getting worse. But that’s the disaster of radical incrementalism that leftist jurisdictions apply by policy through propaganda and indoctrination, which forces good officers to retire or Read more »
By Steve Pomper With the onslaught of violence against police officers over the past couple of weeks, I thought it might be a good time to revisit a few issues affecting policing in America today and how the cop-critic media and anti-police politicians are providing aid and comfort to the enemies of law enforcement. Though the Read more »
By Steve Pomper South Texas, Border Patrol Agents, McAllen Horse Patrol Unit, 2013 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a petty man working for another petty man, Joe Biden, who happens to be occupying the Oval Office. This contention is not hard to support when you ask yourself what kind of petty, pathetic Read more »
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Portland, Oregon police continue to seek to connect with their community even after all they have been through. They planned a Coffee With a Cop event at Bison Coffee House, a neighborhood coffee shop. Coffee With a Cop has been a series of events offered by local police agencies Read more »
By Steve Pomper Three tragic headlines have splashed across North American media outlets over the past week, noting serious problems with criminal justice systems in the U.S. and Canada—actually, in the West. Yesterday, I read about a Christian school teacher in Ireland who violated a new “pronoun law,” and a high court judge tossed him Read more »
By Stephen Owsinski The image above depicts three U.S. Capitol Police officers, smiling during a shared conversation outside the world-renowned Capitol Building in D.C., where lawmakers represent the people’s interests by scripting statutes enforced by cops across the country. Gobs of communication transpire on The Hill, as it should wherever humans convene for imperative, principled Read more »
By Steve Pomper Laura Ingraham, FOX News Channel The Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) shattered 3rd Precinct stands uninhabited as a disgraceful monument to the radical leftist’s 2020 national anti-police insurrectionist violence and destruction. That sacked building alone could tell the story Laura Ingraham conveyed on a recent episode of her FOX News Channel show, The Read more »