By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The October mass shooting in Maine happened in a state with one of the lowest violent crime rates in the nation and a state with permitless carry. Everytown for Gun Safety cites Main as “a permitless carry state, though it...
By Doug Wyllie Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash In January 2002, members of the Roman Catholic Church were shaken to their core at reports of unthinkable—even unforgivable—sins committed by one of their own. Father John Joseph “Jack” Geoghan—a clergyman within the Archdiocese of Boston—was accused...
By Stephen Owsinski One of these days, Portland, Oregon police officers are not getting any hard-earned just desserts (and may follow in the footsteps of the exodus of cops who pledged police services elsewhere) due to Portland City Council bureaucrats bloating their city council membership...
By Steve Pomper Are we doing this again? Yet another cop, in a fight for his life, and still people question his reasonable actions when he’s forced to shoot and kill a violent suspect. Why? Because jurisdictions fail to do what cop advocacy groups like the NPA...
Indianapolis/ November 1, 2023 –As Washington D.C. suffers from its police department being hundreds of officers short, and residents continue to be threatened by a prosecutor and city council who refuse to hold criminals accountable, the National Police Association’s “Cops are Heroes” mobile billboard shows...
By Stephen Owsinski While first responders are trained to be ever mindful of the dangers of performing duties and to be hypervigilant while providing public safety, lawless cities have become abysmal for our police and fire/rescue professionals, with callous and reckless people blatantly causing harm...
By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Each October the FBI releases its annual crime report, known as the UCR. It may not tell us as much as we think. The main benefit of the Uniform Crime Report is the year to year comparison since 1930. While...
INDIANAPOLIS, October 29, 2023 –In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Maryland Supreme Court, the National Police Association argued that qualified immunity, applied properly, should be granted to a Maryland police officer who used deadly force against an armed suspect during a standoff that ensued...
By Stephen Owsinski I started seeing more posts from police organizations heralding their officers for staying the course, for dutifully braving the frontlines in the incendiary face of anarchy and malevolence beefed up by antithetical government policies and putrid anti-police messaging. This material is not only...
By Doug Wyllie Why did Judge Hilton grant Azavian Royal the freedom to [allegedly] murder Iarvera “Rocky” Hale? Image courtesy of Missouri Courts. The Honorable Bruce Hilton presently serves as Assistant Presiding Circuit Judge for Division 13 of the 21st Circuit Civil and Criminal Court in...
