Author: scott prell

Federation responds to Leadership Commission report

The Police Leadership Commission, chaired by former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett and former Policing Minister Lord Herbert, has published its final report, Professionalism and Performance: Police Leadership for the Future, following one of the most extensive examinations of policing leadership in a generation.

Drawing on evidence from thousands of officers, staff and stakeholders, the Commission concludes that leadership development across policing is too inconsistent and has suffered from decades of underinvestment. It warns frontline supervisors are often inadequately prepared for leadership responsibilities and that opportunities for development vary significantly across forces.

The findings echo concerns long raised by the Police Federation.
— Read on polfed.org/news/latest-news/2026/federation-responds-to-leadership-commission-report/

NJ college athlete shot dead by cops after mistakenly trying to enter stranger’s home during night of drinking: family

Unarmed NJ college student Glen Pysher, 22, was shot and killed by police after mistakenly trying to enter a stranger’s Pennsylvania home.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/nj-college-athlete-shot-dead-by-cops-after-mistakenly-trying-to-enter-strangers-home-during-night-of-drinking-family/

Summarizing a Historic 2025 Crime Report with Charts & Tables

The FBI released its 2025 Crime in the United States report on a Friday afternoon which wasn’t there fault but also was super great for getting a ton of attention on the fact that murder fell at the fastest pace ever recorded to the lowest rate recorded since the FBI started its modern estimates.
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/summarizing-a-historic-2025-crime

Broken Windows Works: Don’t Be Fooled By Latest Efforts To Discredit It.

Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory, originating with George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, argued that tolerating too much local disorder created a climate in which criminal behavior, including serious crimes, would become more likely, since criminals would sense that […]
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/broken-windows-works

Embedded: “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times : NPR

In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
— Read on www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g-s1-120825/seattle-chop-zone-antonio-mays