By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The father of modern policing is Sir Robert Peel who famously developed the London Metropolitan Police. Known as “bobbies”, presumably after Peel, they were a model of the new, centralized uniformed police force after which America’s municipal police are still...
By Stephen Owsinski Law enforcement officers going deep undercover to infiltrate groups of bad actors, gain rapport, meticulously stitch solid cases, and deposit violent phantoms in jail cells…is a notoriously perilous assignment in police work. Undercover cops talk the talk, walk the walk, and dress the part,...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Kids say the darnedest things, but sometimes they do the darnedest things. A 9-year-old boy in Oroville, CA decided to drive himself to school in the family Volkswagon sedan. When a California Highway Patrol officer saw the car oddly stationary...
By Stephen Owsinski Lately, I’ve been hearing first-hand accounts from friends and family mentioning instances of people with dementia and Alzheimer’s…and how the police handle reports of missing person cases in the demographics. On March 21, 2024, officers with the Hemet Police Department encountered such a call,...
By Steve Pomper San Francisco, California (Photo: Frank Schulenburg, Wiki Creative Commons) In today’s politically corrupt version of the United States criminal justice system, the government can fabricate a make-believe offense, declare an American “guilty,” fine him nearly half a billion dollars, and then prevent him from appealing...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D In September of 2023 Colorado parole officer Christine Guerin Sandoval was joined by other law enforcement officers to serve an arrest warrant on Justin Kula for violating his parole after being released from prison just seven months earlier. Kula, claiming...
RSBPhoto / Alamy Stock Photo Indianapolis – March 27, 2024. The Public Safety Free Speech Act (H.R. 7398) protects the First Amendment rights of police officers and other first responders, including firefighters and emergency medical responders, while off-duty. This bipartisan bill, which was introduced in February...
Toni McBride Instagram Indianapolis – March 24, 2024. In June 2022 the National Police Association (“NPA”) filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case of Estate of Daniel Hernandez, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Nos. 21-55994 & 21-55995....
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D When New Mexico State Policeman Officer Justin Hare stopped to assist a motorist he was doing what public servants do, helping people when they can. After seeing the vehicle had a flat tire, Hare offered to give the motorist a...
By Stephen Owsinski The euphemism You can run but you can’t hide! came to life, once again, when a youngster operating a “crotch rocket” motorcycle bearing a counterfeit license plate “WILL RUN” illustrated reckless behavior and lived up to his brazen advertisement by…running from the police. Little...
