The City Council of Louisville, Kentucky just passed an ordinance prohibiting “NO KNOCK” warrants within the City of Louisville. The death of Breonna Taylor is a tragedy. Louisville narcotics officers served a NO KNOCK warrant on a drug dealer, but served it at the wrong house. Taylor’s boyfriend opened fire when the officers made entry […]

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 […]

At the close of the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN, where I was signing my police novels, a woman walked up and told me that police officers need to be screened better. I asked her what she meant and she responded that the psychological screening was woefully lacking. I informed her that the […]

This is a young man with college scholarships and the offer of a professional baseball contract straight out of high school.  Instead, he becomes a police cadet for the city of Cincinnati, then a police officer, and rises to the rank of police chief.  

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 […]

A jury in Mesa, Arizona found former police officer Phillip Brailsford Not Guilty of Second Degree Murder in the shooting death of Daniel Shaver in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn. The incident was captured on body cam, but was not released by the Judge in the case until after the verdict was rendered. […]

Law enforcement has always been known as a brotherhood, but a recent example shows the truth of that statement. A Chattanooga, TN. police officer was struck and killed one month after his graduation from the Police Academy. Nicholas Galinger was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and needed to be transported there for his funeral and burial. […]

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 […]

A Texas jury has convicted a police officer of a Murder charge in the death of a fifteen year old. The officer invoked “Defense of another” as his justification for the use of lethal force, but the jury heard from the officer who he claimed to be defending testified that he was never in fear […]

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A jury in Mesa, Arizona found former police officer Phillip Brailsford Not Guilty of Second Degree Murder in the shooting death of Daniel Shaver in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn. The incident was captured on body cam, but was not released by the Judge in the case until after the verdict was rendered. […]

Sainthood is limited to less than a handful of individuals per generation because the standards are so high. Everyone else has the frailties of human beings. Growing up means learning from the mistakes that people make in their youth. Yet, the public expects young men and women who choose law enforcement as a career to […]

Our deep gratitude should go out to the members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for their professionalism and valor in handling the incident on October 1. There is no training to prepare for an incident of this magnitude. From a command standpoint, a tabletop exercise can prepare them for the aftermath of an […]

CHAPTER THREE THE FEMALE RECRUTI It was just another Tuesday when Lissa arrived for her shift.  From three until seven, both her and Bill remained busy checking people out for the day.  Bill took the first building round while Lissa manned the lobby console.  At nine p.m., it was Lissa’s turn to make her rounds.  […]

CHAPTER ONE – THE NEW RECRUIT It was another beautiful Los Angeles morning as Matt walked the campus of UCLA. He marveled at the silence as the students were preparing for their final exams. Matt was saddened to think about the fact that his college life was coming to a close and now he would […]

A judge in St. Louis, Mo. has acquitted a former St. Louis police officer of a first degree murder charge in an on-duty police use of deadly force. Former officer Jason Stockley shot and killed Anthony Smith after a high speed chase. This was a bench trial. In what appears to be another example of […]

As a result of the show of force in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama issued an Executive Order stopping local and state law enforcement agencies from receiving surplus military equipment. President Trump has rescinded that order and law enforcement agencies will again have access to military equipment for their use. The show of force that was […]

The group needs to change the “NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE” which was created following Ferguson, Mo. because it is vengeance you seek, not justice. If black lives really matters, this group would be out on the streets of Chicago and Baltimore nightly where black men are being killed on a nightly basis. Last weekend SIXTY-THREE […]