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…
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85,000 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 TodayDoes Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?
Observations Does policing change the personalities of officers? Most would suggest that it does. “Being a cop in a isn’t for sane people. Being a…
View More Does Policing Change The Personalities Of Officers?The 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?Police-Initiated Contacts Fall By 8 million
Highlights There are significant drops in police-initiated public contacts. Every form of police-initiated traffic and criminal stops (including arrests) fell considerably. Regardless of demographics, the…
View More Police-Initiated Contacts Fall By 8 millionAmerican Confidence in Law Enforcement Very High
Highlights Per Gallup, 85 percent of Americans either have a great deal or some confidence in law enforcement. The media and Congress are at the…
View More American Confidence in Law Enforcement Very HighThe Overwhelming Number of Police Shootings Involve Armed Suspects
Observations The vast majority of police officers have never fired their guns. The overwhelming number of police shootings involve armed suspects. Author Leonard Adam…
View More The Overwhelming Number of Police Shootings Involve Armed SuspectsRate of Police Officers Decreases By 11 Percent
Introduction The increase in full-time law enforcement officers does not keep pace with the growth in population (8 percent versus 21 percent). The rate of…
View More Rate of Police Officers Decreases By 11 PercentWe Demand That Cops Be Warriors
Observations If the public demands quick resolutions to school and mass shootings or acts of terrorism, they are also insisting on military training and equipment.…
View More We Demand That Cops Be WarriorsThe Media Is Not Our Enemy
Observations Regardless as to your feelings about media relations and the justice system, reporters will let you influence them if you are seen as knowledgeable…
View More The Media Is Not Our EnemyCops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync Challenge
Observations We’re not just talking about a couple thousand views, police lip sync videos are getting tens of thousands and in the case of Norfolk,…
View More Cops Take Back Their Image With The Lip Sync Challenge