Steve Pomper is an OpsLens contributor, a retired Seattle police officer, and the author of four non-fiction books, including De-Policing America: A Street Cop’s View of the Anti-Police State. You can read a review of this new book in Front Page Magazine and listen to an interview with Steve on the Joe Pags Show. Steve was a field-training officer, on the East Precinct Community Police Team, and served his entire career on the streets. He has a BA in English Language and Literature. He enjoys spending time with his kids and grand-kids. He loves to ride his Harley, hike, and cycle with his wife, Jody, a retired firefighter. You can find out more about Steve and send him comments and questions at www.stevepomper.com.
Of the 23 states that have either abolished the death penalty or have a governor-imposed moratorium, none of the revocations were decided by the people or their representatives. Either a …
Once again, guns and the people who dare to carry them are under attack from academia. Not surprisingly, this is happening in the formerly live-and-let-live, quirky city of Portland, Oregon. …
How refreshing for a President of the United States to side with instead of against America’s cops. We’ve transitioned from President Obama’s “The Cambridge police acted stupidly” to President Trump’s …
There are a host of adjectives I could use to describe Portland, Oregon’s smarmy, unctuous, virtue-signaling—oh, look, there I go…pompous Mayor Ted Wheeler. This man has arrogated to himself a …
Some have described the severe left and right political division in America today as a “cold” civil war. But it could also be described as America having been attacked by …
Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) is a program adopted by local governments to provide their police officers with a tool to aid drug-addicted “petty” criminals in getting treatment> and avoiding …
Whenever law enforcement authorities introduce new technologies, especially those with surveillance capabilities, people express concerns, which is reasonable. But, not all of those people are reasonable. Some folks go nuts …
My morning perusal of the day’s news briefs almost made me spit my coffee across the room when I read this news blurb from The Seattle Times Morning Brief : “Police …
Compartmentalizing, as we understood and defined it, was a tool my wife and I used as part of a coping strategy in our stressful jobs. Something we employed to prevent …
Some students at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon are calling for the school’s administration to disarm the university’s cops after a grand jury cleared two police officers in a …
