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Crime in NYC continues to surge. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going in the right direction for the new mayor and his police commissioner. The best cop I ever met was Mother Nature and she was no help this week either. Snow and freezing temperatures didn’t keep the criminals away. February is not off to a good start. This post covers the week beginning January 31, 2022 and ending February 6, 2022...

Yes, it's only one month into the new year, but a cold and snowy January didn't deter the criminals. This post covers the week beginning January 24, 2022 and ending January 30, 2022. Mother's Day is often the signal for the warm weather and a common joke amongst cops that it also signals the 'Opening Day' for crime. The warm weather is still a few months away and residents of New York City should be concerned....

The 2021 Officer-Involved shooting database compiled by the Washington Post has been updated and I don’t understand why people aren’t talking about it. Why aren’t politicians and activists taking a victory lap? According to the database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 888 people in 2021. That is a 13% decrease from 2020’s total of 1,021. It is also the lowest number of shootings recorded by the Post since in began in 2015...

It’s been ten years since Shannan Gilbert’s body was discovered in the marshes behind the Oak Beach Community. Shannan was last seen on May 1, 2010, running and screaming for her life. It was more than a year later before Suffolk Police finally found her remains....

Social media is a police chief's nightmare. Amongst the other hundred things that could go wrong for them, social media has reared its ugly head in a terrible way. The Facebook post of Cherokee County Captain Jay Baker, the Public Information Officer, has caused a stir. As a result, the reaction was to delete the posts and then his entire account. That's the equivalent of dumping bleach at a crime scene. "You are what you post" has become a real problem for police departments