Highlights There has been a 63% decrease in applicants applying to become a police officer per a national survey. Is the unceasing negative publicity about…
View More We Are Running Out Of Cops Per A National SurveyTag: law enforcement
It’s Time To Rethink Law Enforcement And Correctional Media Policies
Observations It’s time for law enforcement and corrections to understand that saying nothing to the media about an event and failing to put out false…
View More It’s Time To Rethink Law Enforcement And Correctional Media PoliciesReporters And Cops Blasted For Inappropriate Social Media
Observations Reporters are taking heat for inappropriate social media posts. This comes on the heels of harsh journalistic criticism of posts in police social media…
View More Reporters And Cops Blasted For Inappropriate Social MediaLaw Enforcement And Corrections Have Limits
Highlights Cops are not there to solve society’s problems. The pressure from citizens, communities, media, advocates and politicians are simply too much for most law…
View More Law Enforcement And Corrections Have LimitsAmazon’s New Neighborhood Watch Will Revolutionize Crime Control
Highlights Via Amazon and others, we are about to enter a new neighborhood watch effort that will have both positive and negative implications for crime…
View More Amazon’s New Neighborhood Watch Will Revolutionize Crime ControlIt Feels Like We’re Losing The Streets-The Impossible World Of Police Research
Highlights It’s time to admit that law enforcement doesn’t know what to do from an evidence-based perspective. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior…
View More It Feels Like We’re Losing The Streets-The Impossible World Of Police Research74% Of Fragile Community Residents Treated Fairly By Police
Highlights It’s interesting that after getting slammed in the media, all research reports give mostly positive marks to police officers. Per the Bureau of Justice…
View More 74% Of Fragile Community Residents Treated Fairly By PoliceBuzzFeed: Cops Post Racist or Inappropriate Comments on Facebook
Observations BuzzFeed documents cops saying inappropriate and “bigoted and racist things online.” I document journalists on Facebook offering comments indicating extreme political bias (clear violations…
View More BuzzFeed: Cops Post Racist or Inappropriate Comments on Facebook85,000 Cops Investigated For Misconduct Per USA Today
Observations Per USA Today, about 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated in the last decade. Is there more to the story…
View More 85,000 Cops Investigated For Misconduct Per USA TodayThe Pressure On Cops To Arrest
Highlights Arrests have fallen 25 percent over the last decade, yet some suggest that law enforcement makes too many arrests, or that some groups have…
View More The Pressure On Cops To ArrestCan Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?
Highlights Politicians, newspaper editors, cities and communities need to be held accountable for their own crime problems. Mandating aggressive enforcement in communities that don’t want…
View More Can Communities Decide Their Law Enforcement?Police, Race And Traffic Stops
Highlights If there are disparities as to race and police traffic stops, it must be based on cops acting illegally, right? Author Leonard Adam Sipes,…
View More Police, Race And Traffic StopsDo Cops Make Too Many Arrests?
Highlights Arrests have fallen 25 percent over the last decade, yet some suggest that law enforcement makes too many arrests, or that some groups have…
View More Do Cops Make Too Many Arrests?Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?
Highlights There is a variety of data suggesting that police officers are less willing to engage in proactive or self-initiated arrests. An estimated 150,000 cops show up…
View More Are Cops Afraid To Make Arrests?“Dirt Bags Taking Our Lives” Houston Police Shootings
Observations Firearm-related deaths of police officers are up thirteen percent. Over 60,000 police officers are assaulted. “We are sick and tired of dirt bags trying to take…
View More “Dirt Bags Taking Our Lives” Houston Police ShootingsCitizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent Crime
Baltimore Police Motorcycles Highlights We are in danger of losing cities to violent crime. There may be points of no return for decades. The future…
View More Citizens-Not Cops-Need To Do More To Control Violent CrimeCriminals And Guns-Why Cops Are Concerned
Highlights A very high percentage of violent offenders use or carry firearms per federal sources. What this means for police-involved shootings and public policy. Author…
View More Criminals And Guns-Why Cops Are ConcernedIf You Don’t Trust Cops, You Don’t Report Crimes?
Highlights Per new research, if you don’t trust cops, you’re less likely to report crimes. But people don’t report crimes for a wide variety of…
View More If You Don’t Trust Cops, You Don’t Report Crimes?Should Policing Be Like Military Service?
Highlights Should policing or corrections be like military service with a defined period of enlistment and benefits? More officers are dying by suicide than by…
View More Should Policing Be Like Military Service?Controlling Crime Through Media and Public Relations
Highlights Law enforcement and justice agencies get to tell their story through proactive media and public relations. We decide how our story is told. We…
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