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.
Andy Ngo is a self-described conservative, pacifist, gay photojournalist. Oh, and he’s also a racial minority—Asian. Since the identity politics-loving left loves labels so much, I wondered why so very …
Early in my career, I was driving to work, when a female caller to a talk radio show made this declaration about law enforcement officers: “You have to be at …
Everything old is new again. This saying seems appropriate in certain left-coast cities such as Portland and Seattle. (Bad ideas seem to proliferate on the left. You know…being so well-fertilized.) …
Is freshman Democrat Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX) sending staff to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a city on the northern Mexico-U.S. border, to help migrants circumvent U.S. immigration law? That’s reportedly what …
Cops never quit marveling at the you-can’t-make-this-up nature of police work. Here’s an example of why. The King County (WA) Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) recently posted an incident on Facebook, one …
I don’t normally support when political parties bend/break rules or laws. And although the Democrats have become expert at it, they sure don’t like it when someone bends/breaks a rule …
I normally wouldn’t write about politics without it being law-enforcement related. But here at OpsLens, experience matters. So, some time around the late 1990s-early-2000s, the department assigned my squad to …
What does being anti-gun rights have to do with leftist politics? I mean really think about it objectively. When I was a kid growing up —in a very liberal area— …
Lou Gossett Jr.’s character in the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” has a memorable line. Speaking to his officer candidate recruit class upon starting their training, Gossett tells them, …
News outlets have been widely reporting that Facebook has issued the most severe ban yet against “hate speech” or free speech, depending on your view of the issue. The social …
