Author: scott prell

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.

Discipline for police misconduct on the rise in New Jersey, data shows • New Jersey Monitor

Nearly 550 officers in New Jersey were fired, demoted, or suspended for more than five days in 2024 for misconduct, up from 460 cops in 2023.
— Read on newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/07/discipline-for-police-misconduct-on-the-rise-in-new-jersey-data-shows/

See the NJ Attorney General’s website on police discipline

Recommended Readings | Situational Crime Prevention | ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing

Scroll down to the bottom for 6 very interesting articles. The articles are accessible by the link below. The magazine is members only.

The SCRAP Test: Identifying Common Fallacies About Effective Crime Prevention
— Read on popcenter.asu.edu/content/recommended-readings-situational-crime-prevention

Factors influencing the spatial distribution of police stops and their efficacy in crime prevention and control | in Nature

Abstract
Targeted police stops are frequently carried out by police in response to real-world needs. The effectiveness of various purpose-driven police stop tactics on crime prevention and control varies. However, existing research has neither identified the associated factors of police stops nor explored their impact on crime with different factors. Therefore, this study focuses on the main urban areas of megacities along the southeast coast of China. The space is partitioned using hierarchical clustering after applying the XGBoost and SHAP algorithms to determine the factors related to police stops. Lastly, this study explores the causal effects of police stops with different associated factors on crime, using causal forests within double machine learning. There are three conclusions. First, there is a strong correlation between police stops and four variables: alarm, visiting population, criminal, and government agencies. Second, by clustering based on different associated factors of police stops, existing police stops can be classified into five categories according to their purposes: (i) composite stops positively associated with “Alarm, Visiting Population, Criminals” (AVC-CPS); (ii) composite stops positively associated with “Alarm, Visiting Population, Bus Station” (AVB-CPS); (iii) random stops with no significant positive association (NA-RPS); (iv) single police stops positively associated with “Alarm” (A-SPS); and (v) single stops positively associated with “Visiting Population” (V-SPS).
— Read on www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05355-0