While the larger metropolitan areas receive the vast majority of media coverage, policing proves dangerous in the small municipalities across the nation. Recently the Beehive State reported an unusually high number of officer-involved-shootings. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, police shootings across Utah surpassed the total number for all of 2019.[1] There were four in early […]

Daily the national media cover the violent attacks on America’s law enforcement officers. Up until now, I’ve refrained from commenting on this in The Blue Line newsletter. Even now, I will refrain and allow God’s Word to speak. Hosea 4:2 can be a headline describing what is happening today in several major US cities, “There is swearing, […]

As we all know—perhaps now more than ever—policing is dangerous. Danger comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s when officers are trying to help others, other times it’s when officers are trying to make an arrest. In May, America lost two warriors in tragic traffic accidents. Both were hit by fellow officers who were responding to […]

“We’re not used to this so we’re asking the city, state, [and] country for your prayers,” said Officer John Lacy, public information officer for the Overland Park (KS) PD. Early Sunday evening, on May 3rd, 2020, Officer Michael Mosher was on his way to work when he witnessed a hit-and-run accident. Phillip Carney (38) fled […]

At 4:38 am, on March 8th, 2020, Knoxville, TN police received a call for the body of a female laying in the middle of a street on the city’s westside. Officers responded and found the dead woman suffered several gunshot wounds to the torso. An investigation led them to a residence six miles away where […]

Shots rang out across Springfield, MO late Sunday night, March 15th, 2020. For twenty minutes, police dispatchers were flooded by calls for gunshots being fired at various locations throughout the city. “In essence we had a roving active shooter moving from the southside of the city up,” Chief Paul Williams later reported. The last calls […]

Statistics are often nothing more than cold hard facts. Here’s the humanity behind the statistics: “She was a very happy person, always laughing with everyone here at the department,” is how Lt. Jason Samspell described Sergeant Kelly Jo Brubaker.[1] On Tuesday evening, November 19th, 2019, officers pulled Kelly Jo’s body out of the surf on Daytona […]

Late last year I contacted Honolulu (Hawaii) PD Chaplains Andy Kikuta and Keoki Awai about the possibility of taking a Winning a Gunfight seminar to the Islands in October of 2020. Both chaplains are friends and we have discussed the possibility of a seminar in Hawaii for a couple years. Andy wrote me in a […]

Attorney General William Barr recently wrote in an op-ed that there is “a deficit of respect” for America’s law enforcement officers. He went on to say, “There is no tougher job in the country than serving as a law-enforcement officer. Every morning, officers across the country get up, kiss their loved ones and put on their […]

It was just after midnight on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 when Denton (TX) Police Officer Urbano Rodriguez pulled over a white 2005 Chevy Malibu for expired license plates. Officer Randy Cole responded as back-up. Rodriguez contacted the driver, 44-year-old Michele Stacy, a person Denton officers were all too familiar with. Antwon Pinkston (33) sat in […]