tim's blog

How can I help? Every Blue Line newsletter ends with “Pray for your Police.” Why? Because I believe in prayer.  Adopt a Cop is an initiative of the Strong Blue Line Foundation created to bring hope, care, and encouragement to law enforcement officers and their families during challenging times. We believe prayer is the most […]

Freedom. Few words evoke so much emotion as the word freedom. It’s a great word, it’s a word people are willing, and have, given their lives for. It’s the one word that describes why people travel from the four corners of the world to come to America. It’s the one word that America was founded upon. […]

The use of force by law enforcement officers (LEOs) is constantly under scrutiny. Was it necessary to shoot the suspect? Did the officer have to use deadly force? Were there less-lethal options? The use-of-force actions our military takes (e.g., boats running drugs out of Venezuela) are also scrutinized. Some have accused the military of murder while others say […]

It’s Friday, and you show up for work like any other Friday, and your boss assigns you a task. You complete the task, just as you have been trained, then government officials show up, arrest you and charge you with a horrific crime. You are fired from your job and face a lifetime in prison. […]

On March 20, 2005, in the small rural town of Van Buren, Missouri, with a rifle and a shotgun close at hand, Lance Shockey lay in wait for Sergeant Carl Graham to return home from his patrol shift. Four months earlier, Shockey had fled the scene of a fatal crash and the investigation by the […]

Feelings are important, but feelings don’t necessarily line up with facts. Would you rather feel safe or be safe? I know most of us would say that we want both. But between the two, being safe beats feeling safe every time.  Twenty-three-year-old Iryna Zarutska had lived in war-torn Ukraine and fled to America for safety. She didn’t feel safe […]