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On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was caught off guard and stabbed to death during a Senate session at the Theatre of Pompey. History records that some sixty senators were involved in the murder plot. One leader of the conspiracy was Marcus Junius Brutus, a person Julius believed was a friend. “You too, Brutus?” […]

Ken Korkow hated. He was a Marine who served in Vietnam and survived the 77-day Khe Sanh siege, in which 6,000 Marines were surrounded by 40,000 North Vietnamize soldiers.[1] Many of Ken’s friends and fellow Marines were killed in the cruel battle that was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war. Ken himself […]

Last September, Justin Banta’s girlfriend informed him that she was pregnant. He wasn’t happy and offered to pay for an online abortion pill. The woman declined and said she wanted to keep the baby. On October 17th, 2024, in about the sixth week of the pregnancy, she had a sonogram and found the “baby had […]

What’s your knee-jerk reaction when you believe you have been wronged? Do you want payback? Do you demand to be vindicated? Do you scream for justice? These reactions are natural. Why? Because instilled in each human being is a sense of right and wrong. We believe justice should be served and the innocent vindicated. But […]

A guest contributor’s article to Law Enforcement Today’s online magazine caught my attention. It was entitled, “The broken badge, the broken mind: Law enforcement’s silent crisis”[1] by Derek Stephens. Mr. Stephens described his shortened career as a law enforcement officer (LEO) and noted, “We equip officers to survive the battles on the streets but leave them […]

Urgency is defined as “the quality or condition of being urgent; pressing importance. A pressing necessity.”[1] Officers need hope…and it’s a pressing necessity. Two news stories immediately following our seminar at the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office (STPSO) in Louisiana reminded me of the urgency to bring hope to our law enforcement officers (LEOs). The first […]