As I have previously discussed, law enforcement actually practicing recruiting is a new phenomenon. Until recent years, there were always more qualified candidates than openings and while agencies typically “recruited,” the efforts had more to do with marketing their agency...

Courageous Police Alliance Associate Jeff Daukas recently wrote one of the most important and powerful articles on the scam of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that I have ever seen. It should be mandatory reading for every American for...

One of the largest issues with law enforcement today is leadership and much of the problems the profession is facing stems from leaders not understanding what their mission is. The mission of law enforcement is not complicated but with just...

In my article titled, “Lies Leaders Tell,” one of the issues I spoke about is the stance that cowardly leaders have taken on “no knock” warrants. Frankly, I had no desire to keep hammering at this nonsense but the current...

I have spoken and written numerous times about the stupidity of law enforcement leaders and organizations that moved the vascular neck restraint (VNR) to deadly force or ban it in the wake of the death of George Floyd. After all,...

Travis Yates, the CEO of the Courageous Police Leadership Alliance, recently appeared one the Joe Page Show and called out woke politics that are hurting the safety of Americans. He explains how we can take back America’s streets from violent...

Today marks my 30th year in law enforcement. For anyone that has been here, they would likely agree that it is both a surreal and improbable feeling. While it feels like yesterday I was a 21 year old recruit, the...

Last month I discussed the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Consent Decree and the scam that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been implementing on law enforcement agencies for the last 28 years. I won’t repeat those talking points but it...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a disturbing discovery that eleven national police organizations agreed to modify the national consensus policy on use of force to restrict vascular neck restraints to deadly force after George Floyd did not die...

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on SubStack: Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates   This week, the Department of Justice announced that they are imposing a consent decree on the Louisville (KY) Police Department after they determined that the agency...