The Portland, Oregonian is reporting that the city has recorded 20 homicides so far this year, while demonstrators tried to set fire to the Federal Courthouse Thursday night. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, the newspaper said, will “seek $2 million in one-time funding to allow more proactive policing on city streets with greater civilian oversight to […]
Seattle Police Kill Murder Suspect So Rallies Planned to ‘Decry Police Shooting’
Seattle police officers fatally shot an armed man Tuesday night, ending parking lot shooting incident that left one woman dead and another seriously wounded, but in the aftermath, according to KCPQ News, the Seattle Fox affiliate, local activists are “planning to protest the officers’ use of force.” According to KIRO News, the CBS affiliate […]
Are NW Police Getting Bad Rap? Seattle Petition to Stop Defunding Effort
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 […]