Author: Bert Eyler

Is America’s criminal justice system broken? You decide. It seems like hardly a day goes by without seeing footage of a brazen daylight robbery of a drug store, grocery store, eyeglass shop, or big-box retailer by criminals who have little fear of being caught much less prosecuted. In response, many retailers have taken drastic steps to reduce the rampant theft by putting once accessible items in locked display cases. Others have simply shut down stores because they are losing so much money from shoplifting. Of course, the drastic increase in retail thefts isn’t the only crime going up. Assaults and…

President Joe Biden’s visit to New York City last week to pitch his support for community policing and pursue so-called “ghost guns” is nothing but a sanctimonious and deliberate political ruse to distract a weary public alarmed by a massive spike in crime across the country. His hollow words ignore the facts about the rise in crime while simultaneously seeking to blame the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners for the crime plaguing our cities. Of course, Biden’s attack on law-abiding Americans’ right to keep and bear arms is nothing new. He’s spent his career blaming the Second Amendment, the…

Final Vice President Newsletter for 2021 I cannot believe that 2021 is over. It was a devastating year for police and very sad to say that too many Law Enforcement Officers were lost this year to gunfire, car accidents, COVID and numerous other incidents. We also lost officers to suicide, another issue plaguing the law enforcement community. Listed below are some of the monumental statistics for 2021; I hope and pray that these numbers diminish in 2022. The following statistics are reported by the National FOP: 346 Officers shot in 202163 Officers killed by gunfire in 2021130 Officers were shot…