The desire to create the reality of police work in the entertainment industry has been ongoing. Dragnet taught us “just the facts”; Adam12 showed the work of patrol cops; Police Story attempted to inject reality into cops; Hill Street Blues showed the divergent personalities of cops; and Law and Order showed the process of crime […]

If one follows the news reports. Police officers do not have the rights and protections afforded to all people who are in the United States. Media outlets put people on air that want the police officer to be publicly flogged and then hanged in the public square. The officer, on the other hand, cannot try […]

Ever since the high-profile arrest of a professional golfer in Louisville, Kentucky, there has been a hue and cry from both sides of the story. Louisville Metropolitan Police announced disciplinary action against the officer who was allegedly dragged a short distance by the vehicle driving by golfer Scottie Scheffler for failing to activate his body […]

A new movie about to be released tells a completely different story than the original tale of George Floyd. It was made by a former news anchor in Minneapolis, who was fired from her job because she refused to follow the narrative that Floyd was killed by then police officer Derek Chauvin. Liz Collins was […]

As soon as an major incident comes to the attention of the media, they go into ‘wall to wall’ coverage. Anchors relay ‘factual’ information from studios hundreds to thousands of miles away and EXPERTS are put on air from studios or their home nowhere near the actual event. In fairness to these experts, their credentials […]

There are over one million police contacts each and every day, but the only ones which receive the attention of the national news media are those that appear to end badly. It is clear that, because police officers are given authority that is not available to others, they should be held to a higher standard […]

CNN was once a professional news organization created by Ted Turner. It is now a partisan provider of biased and inaccurate reporting designed to change the narrative of law enforcement. On Sunday, May 1, CNN aired a one hour piece titled, “United Shades of America.” It was narrated by an African-American male who exhibited a […]

George Floyd did not deserve to die in the manner that he did and his death was the result of a criminal act by a Minneapolis Police Officer. That said, his death was not worthy of all five major networks covering every minute of the services in his behalf. There has never been national coverage […]

WCPO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cincinnati, Ohio recently aired a “hatchet” piece about police use of force created by their I-TEAM. The piece focused on a vehicle pursuit in Newport, Kentucky, a small city directly across from Cincinnati. Using body camera video obtained from the Police Department, the story claimed that the force used on […]

The advantage to writing fiction is the opportunity to change or modify the beginning, middle or outcome of reality. The downside of turning reality into fiction is that the viewer or reader may actually believe the fiction to be reality. Writers, directors and producers from the left and the right coast have decided to inject […]

With the exception of Federal, State and County agencies, Law enforcement exists with the permission of the community they serve and they deserve to be assured that the agency and individual officers are held accountable for their actions. Any death in an interaction with police is definitely real news as long as long as the […]

Pepsico, the owner of Pepsi products produced a commercial which has created a firestorm on social media. The commercial is reminiscent of the renowned Coca Cola commercial featuring “I would like to teach the word to sing…” That commercial has been repeated for more than twenty years. The last fifteen seconds of the commercial has […]

It is said that the worst four words someone can hear is “Sixty Minutes is outside.” But in an unprecedented move, an officer awaiting trial made the questionable decision to appear on the show and tell her story. Officer Betty Shelby, a ten year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department, shot and killed Terrance Crutcher […]

People gain their understanding of law enforcement from news outlets and prime time network television. The job of local and national news is to inform while network television entertains. The writers of both the news and entertainment have the ability to distort the final product to reflect their own ideological viewpoints without challenge. The issue […]