Tag: use of force

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The recent solar eclipse, with a few exceptions, was regarded as a natural phenomenon happily explained by astronomers. We were assured that the sun was ...

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D Why didn’t they de-escalate? That’s the question posed after police use of force events asked by citizens of goodwill and skeptics alike. It is a ...

For nearly two decades the term “police violence” has bothered me. The term just never sounded right and never made any sense. Like nails on a chalkboard or grown men ...

With the release of unseen footage from January 6th - a lot of renewed discussion has been occurring over the Officer-Involved-Shooting (OIS) of Ashli Babbitt. Just a question to start ...

By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D I’ll just say it upfront – I rooted for the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl because of my Missouri ties. I’ll also say I ...

A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden posed the following question during a speech about police officers, “Why should you always shoot with deadly force?” This isn’t a joke. This ...

In what has become a broken record by the media establishment and their activists allies, the Force Science Institute is once again under fire from an NPR wannabe called IdeaStream ...

SEATTLE - Seattle politicians and activists believe black or Native American criminals should get a pass from criminal activity. The sentiment comes after a new report by the federal monitor that ...

No one understands the difficulty in making split second decisions when it comes to deploying force better than cops. Yet without experience or training, people in news rooms and homes ...

Oklahoma City - Police are searching for a suspect they said shot at an officer during a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle Monday in northwest Oklahoma City. KOCO reports that an ...