By Stephen Owsinski When it comes to the national number of sworn strength in law enforcement agencies, the shallow anti-police sentiment hampered the police profession’s ability to recruit and bolster the ranks. Nevertheless, some modest-sized classes of young police academy graduates are swearing the police officers’...
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...
By Stephen Owsinski I recently wrote about a cop I know who was fired for something he didn’t do, due to out-of-context reporting and by disregarding the officer’s intent, which brought two controversial issues to mind. The realities of police empathy and gallows humor. While some people...
By Stephen Owsinski Despite anti-police sorts railing against military surplus equipment acquired by law enforcement agencies, folks plucked from perilous natural disasters by cops operating high-water rescue vehicles are grateful for a chance to live another day. Florida’s hurricane season undeniably threatens life and tolls enormous property...
By Steve Pomper Seattle Police Department West Precinct Photo: (Adbar, CC 3.0 Wiki Media) You really must want to believe the worst in all police officers to do what the radical left cop-haters have done to now, former, Seattle Police Officer and Police Guild Vice President Dan Auderer....
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D No prosecution of a police officer for a use of force (UOF) event in the line of duty should be allowed without the testimony of an expert in the complexity of decision-making. That wouldn’t absolve every officer in every UOF,...
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9, 2024 – The National Police Association announced today it has awarded the Ringgold, GA Police Cadets Post 2400 a $1000.00 grant. The Ringgold, GA Police Department Cadet program is ideal for those interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement or a related...
By Steve Pomper Texas Rangers badge 1948, Photo (Public Domain Wiki Media To even my keel with all this anti-police messaging coming from certain quarters (including the insult of those feigning political amnesia and are now pretending to be pro-police), I thought I’d divert into a topic I...
By Stephen Owsinski First, it was the Taser. Then it was the body-worn camera. Now, the maker of those two pieces of police technological equipment, Axon (formerly Taser International), has engineered “Draft One,” an artificial intelligence-based tool to “Rewrite Report Writing” and enable law enforcement officers...
Tom Stack / Alamy Stock Photo Indianapolis – August 6, 2024. Police officers remain at greater risk of developing serious mental health issues like Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is estimated that U.S. officers are two to four times more likely to suffer from PTSD than...