Tag: Anti-Police Sentiment: Page 2

Patrol

Tracking Device Found on NYPD Patrol Car

The coin-sized tracking device, which connects to Apple’s “Find My” network, was discovered on the police car Sunday. The AirTag had been placed in a small plastic baggie.

January 24, 2023

Patrol

Reconciling the Duality of Defunding the Police and Demanding Higher Standards

The public, the press, and the political elites make all sorts of noise about wanting the very best of the best from the police. This legitimate desire—demand, even—is at least in part delegitimized when it comes from the same people who have vilified and eviscerated the police for the past half-decade.

January 6, 2023

Patrol

2022 in Review: Police Trainers Speak Out on the Year's Toughest Challenges

Responding to an informal—and totally unscientific—poll, law enforcement educators and trainers from around the country pointed to shrinking budgets and increasing anti-police sentiment, but paramount in the list of challenges facing them in the past 12 months was officer recruiting and retention.

December 26, 2022

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2022 in Review: 3 Police Leaders' Thoughts on the Recruiting & Retention Crisis

Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Executive Director Chuck Wexler, National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes, and International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA) Deputy Executive Director Brian Willis offer ideas on what many people believe was the most difficult challenge police leaders and trainers faced in 2022.

December 26, 2022

Patrol

2022 in Review: 3 General Trends Dominating the Headlines on Police Training

Over the past year, the news has largely tended to fall into three main categories: budgets/inflation, de-escalation training, and recruiting/retention—the ongoing focus on these three topics is entirely unsurprising.

December 23, 2022

Patrol

Dave Smith: Deny the Lies

The untruths that have been spread about law enforcement share some of the characteristics of totalitarian propaganda.

December 2, 2022

Training

Anti-Police Vandals Damage Atlanta SWAT Facility

The office is part of the DeKalb County site where the Atlanta Police Department is planning to construct an expanded public safety training complex. Opponents have dubbed it "Cop City."

November 24, 2022

Patrol

What the 2022 National Elections May Mean for Policing (All Hope is Local)

With no "red wave" of victories among largely pro-police Republican candidates for public office in this year's midterm elections, hopes that the "defund-the-police" movement had finally met its end have been all but washed away.

November 11, 2022

Patrol

Portland Residents Facing Crime Wave Ask “Where are the Cops?”

A survey of Portland residents released earlier this year found 51% of respondents doubted a 911 call would be answered quickly.

November 4, 2022

Patrol

Officers Leaving Boston PD to Become Firefighters

Two dozen officers in Boston have transferred to the fire department in 2022. That's an increase from four, zero, six and one over the past four years.

October 10, 2022

Patrol

Masked Suspects Vandalize Portland Coffee Shop for Hosting Coffee with a Cop

“All my windows in the front and my door was busted out,” said owner Loretta Guzman . “I got dressed and came down here. Police were already here. I was just looking. You could still hear all the glass cracking, dropping, and breaking."

October 6, 2022

Patrol

Man Brandishing Pistol Shot Inside Chicago Police Station

Three officers opened fire and the man was struck in the arm, and transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, where he was listed in stable condition.

October 6, 2022