Highlights The data below is based on what citizens interacting with police tell researchers about their experience from 2015-2018. Contrary to critics, there was no…
View More National Police Slowdowns And Other Myths Debunked Per The USDOJCategory: Police Use Of Force
Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think
Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…
View More Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You ThinkDefunding The Police-What Cops Support
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. The problem with defunding law enforcement is that…
View More Defunding The Police-What Cops SupportCops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?
Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd. If America now believes that all cops are the problem, why would they stay?…
View More Cops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?Forcing Cops To Be Coronavirus Enforcers-Is This Wise?
Highlights Cops are enforcing Coronavirus pandemic requirements per the demands of politicians, citizens, health experts, and the media. There are comparisons to stop and frisk…
View More Forcing Cops To Be Coronavirus Enforcers-Is This Wise?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 StopsMedia Critical of Law Enforcement Per New Study
Highlights The media is shifting to a more critical view of law enforcement, Police Quarterly. If we are so good, then why is much of the…
View More Media Critical of Law Enforcement Per New StudyPolice And The Media-Time For Change
Observations Agencies need the ability to kill bad stories and to accomplish operational goals. Reluctance to engage the media shows fear and a lack of…
View More Police And The Media-Time For ChangeCitizens-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…
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Esquire: Just As Every Cop Is A Criminal
“Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinner’s saints,” The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of speaking…
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Police Strategies Reduce Crime-New Study
Observations A podcast of this article is available on YouTube. This may be considered “the” definitive study of policing tactics as I update this article…
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Negative Publicity Affects Policing Per FBI and Pew
Subtitle Are Cops Backing Down? The FBI and Pew Say Yes. Introduction We have reports regarding the perceptions of police officers from two reputable organizations.…
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Angry-Frustrated Cops-New Data From Pew
Observations About half of the officers surveyed (51%) say their work nearly always (10%) or often (41%) makes them feel frustrated. Author Leonard A.…
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