Month: July 2025

Manchester Airport video raises questions over police toughness – UnHerd

With new footage emerging from the Manchester Airport fracas, where a female police officer’s nose was broken, violence against law enforcement has once again been thrust into the spotlight.

Brothers Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad are on trial for their part in the brawl with Great Manchester Police in the airport last July. Police officers had sought to arrest Amaaz after he was alleged to have headbutted another man, Abdulkareem Ismaeil, before a violent scuffle ensued. Jurors were shown footage of the incident’s aftermath, in which PC Lydia Ward was left with blood streaming from her nose. The officer — who is on record as describing herself as “petite” at 5’2” and eight stone — told the court that she was “absolutely terrified” during the experience.
— Read on unherd.com/newsroom/manchester-airport-video-raises-questions-over-police-toughness/

Trends in Gun Theft – Council on Criminal Justice

Hundreds of thousands of crimes involving firearms occur each year in the United States. In 2022, for example, guns were used in more than three quarters of murders, one third of robberies, and a quarter of aggravated assaults.1 But less is known about how people who use guns in violence acquire their weapons.

One source of guns used in crimes is theft.2 While research on the role of gun theft in gun crime is limited,3 a small but growing body of evidence suggests that stolen guns may play a significant role in violent crime. Stolen guns are more likely than other guns to be recovered in crimes,4 and gun crime appears to increase in neighborhoods from which guns have been recently stolen.5 Despite the potential importance of stolen guns as a source of guns used in crime, data on gun theft trends are limited
— Read on counciloncj.org/trends-in-gun-theft/

CPD Working to ‘Fix’ Problem That Led to 211K Undocumented Traffic Stops, Police Official Tells City Panel | Chicago News | WTTW

CPD reported to state officials that officers made 295,846 traffic stops in 2024. But police dispatchers recorded that officers made an additional 210,622 stops in 2024 that were not documented, raising questions about how many traffic stops took place last year.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/07/02/cpd-working-fix-problem-led-211k-undocumented-traffic-stops-police-official-tells-city

Exclusive | Dozens of troubled NYPD cops finally forced to resign after faulty hiring standards

Dozens of NYPD cops and recruits who failed to meet the department’s standards – including for mental health – are now being forced to resign, or else they will be fired from the force, law enforcement sources revealed Thursday.

At least 30 cops and cadets – hired between 2023 and 2024 under Inspector Terrell Anderson, who has since been transferred out of his role with the Police Academy – were notified of the NYPD purge Thursday, according to the sources
— Read on nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/dozens-of-troubled-nypd-recruits-finally-forced-to-resign-after-faulty-hiring-standards/

Critical Incident Preparedness Toolkit: Assessing Capacity to Respond to Active Assailant Events

This self-assessment tool is designed to assist public safety and emergency response professionals, school administrators and security professionals, elected officials, and communities in considering potential active shooter scenarios and options for dealing with them. The tool proposes questions to determine an agency’s preparedness status in seven categories, offers guidance to inform next steps, and recommends resources for improving policies and practices to reduce community potential for mass violence, swiftly respond to incidents, and enhance trauma and support services in their wake
— Read on portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/

California Wants New Education Requirements for Police Officers. Are They Watered Down?

Amid calls for police reform in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, California lawmakers set out to raise education standards for incoming law enforcement officers. Five years later — as California faces a widespread shortage of police officers — those reforms are being debated once again.
— Read on www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2025-07-08/california-wants-new-education-requirements-for-police-officers-are-they-watered-down

‘We helped each other. We taught each other the law.’ | The Lens

In 1983, to help fight the wrongful charge, Calvin Duncan began to teach himself the law, while being held within the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans. In his new book The Jailhouse Lawyer, co-written by Sophie Cull, he writes about that time in his life:
— Read on thelensnola.org/2025/07/08/we-helped-each-other-we-taught-each-other-the-law/

The Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement (VISIBLE) Act of 2025

U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Alex Padilla (D-CA) are at it again, sponsoring a bill (VISIBLE Act of 2025) to mandate how ICE investigates immigration law under the guise of transparency and Accountability. See more about VISIBLE HERE

One problem with this bill is Booker/Padilla and others are trying to eliminate one means of protection that ICE Agents have to protect themselves and their families from threats and violence. See a recent article by Jonathan Turley that discusses some of the encouragement of violence and resistance by Law Makers. Access the article HERE.

Why don’t Law Makers support actions to protect the public and law enforcement? Under the lies of peaceful protests some law makers call upon protestors to not give up and to increase their resistance to law enforcement. These law makers are complicit in the attacks on law enforcement.

Search social media for ICE protest videos and it is easy to see that these so called protests are far from non-violent. In various videos it is common to see attacks on law enforcement that are criminal. This video is a recent example. As ICE agents are making an arrest the protesters actions could easily led to an arrest for “Resisting Arrest, Obstructing law enforcement, Assault and/or Battery”. There are no “protest exemptions” that allow protesters to commit crimes. Barriers to law enforcement making arrests is that they don’t have enough resources to deal with the protest and make arrests, follow-up arrests are difficult because protestors wear masks and even without masks identification is difficult, Ice agents are federal officers and protestors are committing state crimes, politicians and news media promote an anti-police narrative, and local district attorneys (unlawfully) refuse to prosecute. Question: If a person would push, shove, block, or scream in the face of a politician, prosecutor, or judge how would this person be treated? Treated to an arrest.

Instead of trying to handcuff ICE operations, law makers should support stopping violent actions of protesters, provide resources for law makers to arrest on crimes committed by protester on sight or by follow-up, and make laws to protect law enforcement and their family in their personal lives (penalty enhancements for attacking law enforcement, especially off-duty). If law broken by protestors and these crimes fully and completely enforced, protestor violence would definitely decrease or even stop.

Policing is a job. When police leave the job and go home they have the right to be left alone and not threatened or stalked. Currently there seams little effort to protect law enforcement during protests or during their private lives. Law Makers should focus on stopping criminals, ICE agents trying to protect their identities to keep their families safe is not a crime.