Ed. Note: Ray Cowin is a lieutenant with the Chicago Police Dept. He also is a criminal justice adjunct instructor at Triton College, National Louis University in Chicago, and the University of Phoenix in Schaumburg, Illinois. Ray has been in law enforcement for over 36 years and has served on three Chicago-area departments, holding the positions […]
An Open Letter to the Residents of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland As the presidents of the three largest police unions in the Bay Area of California, our overriding responsibility is to ensure that each and every police officer we represent makes it home to his or her family after every shift. Police officers […]
It’s the kind of thing you hear from cops all the time: “You keep making it impossible to do our jobs, and our only option is to just stop working.” But usually that threat is not accompanied by the kind of numbers we’re seeing in New York City in the wake of the murders of […]
The relationship between the city and the San Antonio Police Officers Association had already gotten heated over attempts by the city to get the union to negotiate a new contract with less generous health benefits. Now, the San Antonio Police Officers Association is fighting back by releasing audio from what they say was an unethical […]
Ron Pinkston—the president of Dallas’ largest police officers union, the Dallas Police Association—announced he is not going to resign. Pinkston’s comments were in response to the Dallas Communities Organizing for Change, which called for Pinkston to quit after he blamed protesters for the shooting deaths of two New York City police officers. “The people marching […]
From the time she was a rookie and hit the streets in the 25th Precinct in Harlem, Stefanie Hirschhorn Mount racked up an impressive number of arrests. If someone was breaking the law, she brought them in. She was shot at twice, kicked across the street by a man resisting arrest, and suffered a serious […]
A new poll shows 86 percent of Americans support requiring patrol officers in their areas to wear small video cameras while on duty—a finding in line with other polling on this subject. What’s a little more surprising, though, is the consensus on another issue related to the Ferguson and Eric Garner cases: independent prosecutors. The […]
Whether or not there’s really a “war on cops” is up for debate. But one thing that isn’t up for debate is that many of the men and women who serve and protect their communities feel like they are under attack from all quarters. Whether it’s young New Yorkers or older and less colorful libertarians, […]
“The accumulated gains by Republicans in state legislatures will certainly increase pressure on and within the GOP caucuses to expand right-to-work laws,” Louis Jacobson, state politics columnist for Governing magazine, told FoxNews.com. Republicans in statehouses across the country are plotting a tough new campaign to check the power of labor unions and chip away at […]
Ed. Note: NYPD Police Commissioner William J. Bratton delivered the eulogy at NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos’ funeral, held yesterday in New York City. Below is a transcript of his speech. “Every time I attend a cop’s funeral, I pray that it will be the last. But I know it won’t. As I watch the casket […]
The funeral for Rafael Ramos, one of two officers assassinated in their patrol car in New York City nine days ago, was held yesterday. This in-depth account of the funeral and burial service by reporters from the New York Times is the most comprehensive we found. A link to entire article is posted below. Over 20,000 uniformed […]
“I had been pretty naive about being a police officer. I had this cock attitude, ‘Hey, look at me. I’m a cop.’ I’d even told my friends I couldn’t believe I was getting paid money to go out and have so much fun. But, after seeing that wounded officer carried away in an ambulance, I […]
Eugene O’Donnell, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former NYPD officer, commenting to a local reporter, said that while the PBA is being demonized, the “real issue” is lack of accountability among politicians, who make the laws that the police enforce. “‘I’m an Assemblyman, I’m a Senator, I’m an architect of […]
Important article to read to get a better understanding of Pat Lynch, who runs the nation’s largest police union – 24,000 members. Click on “Read more” link below for the whole story. Here are some excerpts from the story by Bloomberg News reporter Martin Z. Braun: Under Lynch’s leadership, the PBA won the right to […]
In 2010, Cynthia Brown, the publisher of American Police Beat, published Brave Hearts: Extraordinary Stories of Pride, Pain and Courage, which features in-depth profiles of 15 NYPD officers. While these officers work in New York City, their stories reveal what all cops everywhere go through to serve and protect. To date, the book has sold […]
Ed. Note: The aftershocks of the senseless and tragic killings of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos are being felt far beyond New York City. We wanted to share this essay we received from Tom Dominguez, president of the Orange County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. They were husbands. One was a father of two boys; […]
Ed. Note: The following editorial was submitted by Chris Burgos, president of the State Troopers Fraternal Association of New Jersey. President Obama’s announcement this week regarding the normalization of relations between The United States and Cuba after 50+ years, as well as the fact that secret negotiations have been going on for months, caused us to […]
Editor’s Note: John Rivera is the president of the Dade County Police Benevolent Association, which represents more than 6,500 law enforcement officers and is the largest certified bargaining agent in Miami-Dade County, representing the Miami-Dade Police Department (Sheriff’s Office), Corrections and Rehabilitation, and most local municipal law enforcement agencies. John wrote this opinion piece for The […]
According to a recent article in The New York Times, the war on labor, although wildly successful already, is apparently just ramping up. Not too many people know about the new rules that favor banks over pensioners that were agreed to in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a major international trade pact. And sadly even fewer […]
Yesterday the President signed an executive order formally establishing a task force to review police practices after recent controversies over the killing of unarmed black men by law enforcement officers. First announced last month, the panel will be required to deliver a set of concrete recommendations to Obama’s desk by March 2, according to the […]
After the recent elections, Republicans will be in control of 23 state governments. That is likely to bode poorly for labor unions, especially those operating in the public sector, which have become a target of conservative state lawmakers in the past few years. Alex Hertel-Fernandez, a Ph.D. student at Harvard University in government and social […]
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Whoever said, “A few bad apples can bring the whole place down” knew what they were talking about. Here’s one story that certainly reinforces the that notion. According to The Boston Globe, 20 Massachuetts State Troopers are being investigated for theft of overtime pay. Reporters Mark Arsenault, Travis Andersen, and Shelley Murphy write: “In another black […]
When is Police “Use of Force” Justified?
It seems like every law enforcement agency is grappling with changes in use-of-force policies, which are too often implemented by people that are not familiar at all with the complicated, risky, and high-pressure world of law enforcement, especially when it comes to the use of deadly force. The press conference you are about to watch […]
FBI Will Not Investigate Detective’s Homicide
The FBI won’t be taking over an investigation into the homicide of a Baltimore city detective who was slain amid a corruption investigation. Detective Sean Suiter was shot in the head with his own weapon on Nov. 15, a day before he was to testify before a federal grand jury investigating wrongdoing by fellow officers […]
The Madison Police Department in Wisconsin is making some changes to its policies on the use of deadly force. According to an article in the Wisconsin State Journal, the changes come after several law suits against the city were successful with payouts in the millions. “When it comes to the rules our police officers are trained […]
Via the Chicago Tribune: On his first full day as president of Chicago’s largest police union, Officer Kevin Graham appeared at a news conference to address reporters seeking details of his plan for leading the embattled rank-and-file of the police force. With cameras and reporters ready at the Fraternal Order of Police lodge in the […]
No matter how you feel about Donald Trump, this bit from “Jimmy Kimmel Live” will leave you laughing.
Deputy Martha Lohnes of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina has responded to some weird 911 calls, but this one takes the cake. Aaliyah Ryan is just two years old. But she knew enough to call 911 when she was having a problem. The dispatcher told Deputy Lohnes that it sounded like a […]
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