Stephen Owsinski

From all of us here at OpsLens, we wish you the cheeriest Christmas followed by an infinite string of peaceful days in the upcoming new year. We are grateful to …

Aidan Riley is a 16-year-old boy who is confined to a wheelchair stemming from cerebral palsy. Aidan’s dad is a NYPD cop. Like most cops’ children, Aidan longs to be …

Christmastime is a season emphasizing the giving spirit. We bestow upon loved ones, coworkers, neighbors, friends, and support networks that special something we think they deserve because of whatever joy …

In the ICE-denying sanctuary city whose cops are no longer permitted to ask suspects to sit, San Francisco’s mayor has appealed to outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown (D), asking him …

On Monday, a Metra train in Chicago killed two rookie Chicago policemen as they were pursuing a potential gun-toting suspect. At the time of the incident, Chicago police brass had …

“While we can never do enough for our defenders and their loved ones, we can always do a little more.” Those glorious and resonant words are written upon the Gary …

Recently, I wrote about how politics can bog down a police department and its personnel when elected officials having zero law enforcement experience deflate (defund) police pensions, resulting in retention …

Ballistic vests: that incredible shell lined with Kevlar to protect cops from gunfire is both a marvelous piece of equipment as well as a suffocating barrel which police officers live …

Puff, puff, pass the farm bill, some might be thinking. But it stems not from medicinal factors but many ill-considered reasons since hemp was banned oh-so-many years ago. Frankly, gobs …

Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman! Nah, none of those things…although “plane” is close. It’s just the NYPD branching out and deploying its newly-purchased …