Stephen Owsinski is an OpsLens Content Manager and Contributor. Owsinski is a retired law enforcement officer whose career included assignments in the Uniformed Patrol Division and Field Training Officer (FTO) unit. He is currently a researcher and writer. Follow Stephen on Twitter @uniformblue.
Tragedy struck when a now-former Dallas police officer named Amber Guyger entered an apartment she reportedly mistook as hers and shot/killed its actual tenant, Botham Jean. The prosecutor charged Ms. …
Well, there is only one AOC whose ideations of how the planet ought to be are…interesting. By interesting I do not mean substantive in any plausible way or form. More …
Like most line-of-duty deaths of our nation’s cops, we learn about their personal lives, their military service, their parenting skills, their spirituality, basically who was wearing that badge and what …
In a “unanimous” vote of “No confidence” in their mayor, the NYPD’s rank and file spoke via their union boss, Police Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick Lynch, whose statement echoed …
Once in a while the same storyline crops up, but in a different jurisdiction: An HOA board admonishing a local law enforcement officer that his/her take-home police cruiser can not …
The United States Coast Guard sailed its newest “national security” cutter into its homeport of Honolulu, Hawaii. Although not necessarily short on physical stature, Cutter Midgett (WMSL-757) roped-off its 418-foot …
Despite the lore of police work being quite boring at times, cops in Jefferson County, Missouri are experiencing a rather bizarre fad which is hair-raising and botching traffic flows. Reports …
A bill proposed in Massachusetts grabbed me because of the heartstrings I harbor for animals in general and because of the experiences working among police canines in particular. I wear …
In March 2017, OpsLens published a piece regarding the framework pertaining to Alabama’s Briarwood Presbyterian Church and its organizational desire to form its own police force. It hired an attorney …
Whether it was in or out of international airspace, the military drone belonging to the taxpayers of the United States of America, the one shot down by Iran, is valued …