Are police in the Pacific Northwest getting a bum rap? The Portland Oregonian ran a story headlined “New Polling shows most Oregonians support Black Lives Matter, many don’t approve of the job their local police are doing.” The story’s lead paragraph stresses the negative of a survey done by DHM Research, stating, “Forty-five percent of […]
‘Police Not the Enemy’ Says PBA Chief; Neither Are Honest Gun Owners
New York Police Benevolent Association President Mike O’Meara may have cracked a code Tuesday during impassioned remarks at a press event in which he defended rank-and-file police officers and declared that the fired Minneapolis cop now charged in the death of George Floyd “killed someone, we didn’t.” Yet, he observed, all police are now painted […]
Calls to ‘Defund Police’ Could Leave Nation Like Chicago
Angry protesters in Minneapolis and other cities where demonstrations have continued for more than a week are now demanding that municipal governments “defund the police,” but does anyone know what such a drastic move might create? Buried in the text of a Chicago Sun-Times article might be a hint. The newspaper looked at the number […]
2 Cops Among 4 Canada Victims; it’s the Criminal, not The Gun
The banded badge, shown here in an image from an NBC5 newscast, is worn in honor of fallen police. (Screen snip, YouTube, NBC5) Two Canadian police officers are among the four dead in a shooting rampage Friday morning in Fredericton, New Brunswick not far from the U.S.-Canada border in northern Maine, the latest fatalities in […]
New York’s de Blasio Disses School Safety, Removes Armed Police
Less than one month after a school shooting in Florida, anti-gun New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has removed police officers from public schools in the Big Apple, leaving the safety of children to unarmed “school safety agents.” The New York Post quoted teacher Arthur Goldstein, who stated, “My colleagues think it’s outrageous — and […]
When Guns Are Wrongly Destroyed, Should Cops Pay or Replace?
Buried in a Wednesday Fox News story about how police sometimes wrongly seize firearms from people was a reference to a California case in which the Torrance, California Police Department wrongly destroyed 21 firearms that were family heirlooms taken and then held despite two court orders. According to Fox, and the Daily Breeze, in the […]