NPA Mobile Billboard in Dallas, TX first week of September 2023. Indianapolis, September 7, 2023 – The National Police Association (NPA) announced today it has added to its ‘Thank a Cop’ static billboards with ‘Heroes’ static and mobile billboards. The NPA’s ‘Heroes’ mobile billboards will take...
By Stephen Owsinski Hurricane Idalia moved swiftly along the Gulf Coast of Florida before creeping inland at the Sunshine State’s “armpit” (otherwise known as the Big Bend, where the coast curves) before flattening the city of Perry and others in the region. Even before that...
By Steve Pomper How could I not write about these cops? They brought those of us parched-for-law-and-order folks, “water” in a rule-of-law desert—figuratively and literally. Figuratively because it wasn’t actually H2O, but it literally happened in the desert. Add to that the incident apparently set radical lefties...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D American policing is unique in the world primarily because of our national historic interest in liberty and self-determination. 1) We are not a branch of the military. Even though law enforcement is often described as paramilitary, American policing is decidedly...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Why didn’t they de-escalate? That’s the question posed after police use of force events asked by citizens of goodwill and skeptics alike. It is a valid question and one that deserves an answer. The answer is that the officer...
By Stephen Owsinski Nowadays, the word “progressive” has a negative connotation due to a political party plunging their hair-brained policies and schemes down our throats, tyrannically telling us how to live. Positively, a county sheriff’s command staff is progressively hitting the street beat, illustrating Why...
By Steve Pomper I thought we were over this moronic nonsense, but I guess not. However, that this incident happened in San Francisco makes a strange sort of sense in a nonsensical way. What do I mean? A business still refusing to serve cops would be in...
By Doug Wyllie The settlement / judgement in a class-action lawsuit—ODonnell et al. v. Harris County et al.—includes the ODonnell Consent Decree, which in turn includes the so-called “Rule 9” which in turn stipulates that “all misdemeanor arrestees will have unsecured bail amounts set initially...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D You never know what you’re going to get. One of the things cops like about the job is the variety. It may seem that the days are filled with traffic stops, theft reports, and resolving disputes, but an ordinary call...
By Steve Pomper Some time ago, I wrote about the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) establishing police departments abroad, including in the United States. The communists apparently use these agencies to intimidate and gain leverage against Chinese dissidents in America, sometimes threatening their relatives back in China. Who...
