Are police accountable when misconduct occurs? Police have difficult jobs, there is no question about it. They deal with dangerous criminals and have to make weighty decisions in the blink of an eye. Monday-morning quarterbacking their decisions has become a national pastime for some, and they know they can expect…
In the latest of the terrifying bills that have come out of our current Congress, Republicans in the House and Senate recently introduced two companion bills they are calling the Back the Blue Act of 2017, to keep up with the Trump Administration’s rhetoric of “law and order.” S.1134 was…
As a reaction to the “Black Lives Matter” movement, the state of Louisiana has just enacted a controversial “Blue Lives Matter” law (HB 953), which would make police officers and other ‘public safety’ workers a special protected class under hate-crime law. In other words, it is now a ‘hate crime’…