Skip to content

Intel Brief Issue: Spring 2025


Remembering the Fallen

November 2024 to May 2025 Police Officer Philip J. Schifini Detective Allan Reddins Police Officer Jacob Candanoza Police Officer II Colton Dale Pulsipher Sergeant Rick Finley Sergeant Elio Diaz Air Interdiction Agent Jeffrey Kanas Detention Officer Isaiah Patrick Bias Corporal Dennis Francis Kelly Trooper Clay M. Carns Police Officer Michael Horan Correction Officer Andrew Lansing …

Read More

Letter From LECF

Where does your allegiance lie? This question is answered by federal, state, and local government officials — including law-enforcement officers — when they take their oaths of office. Although the specific wording varies by jurisdiction, they all vow to “support the Constitution of the United States,” as well as their state constitution. Some jurisdictions’ oaths …

Read More

Police: National or Local?

by William F. Jasper One of the most chillingly memorable lines in 1984, George Orwell’s famous novel about an imagined future dystopia, is uttered by O’Brien, a soulless apparatchik of the totalitarian state. “If you want a vision of the future,” O’Brien dispassionately told his tortured victim, Winston Smith, “imagine a boot stamping on a …

Read More

Beyond the Call of Duty

by Kris Hauser Law-enforcement officers are sworn to protect and serve, but they often go above and beyond their official duties. They aren’t looking for recognition; it is part of who they are. Their selflessness is admirable, and we would like to showcase officers in different states who have done just that. The information in …

Read More

Communist Chinese Policing Around the World

by Christian Gomez On December 18, 2024, Chen Jinping, 60, a Manhattan resident and U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty “to conspiring to act as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in connection with opening and operating an undeclared overseas police station, located in lower Manhattan,” according to a press …

Read More

Nullifying Federal Law Enforcement: What States Can Do

by Peter Rykowski Over the last century, the U.S. federal government has grown dramatically. Constitutionally limited in scope — Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution expressly lists the areas the federal government can legislate on — it has long ignored and far exceeded those limitations. These usurpations have been accompanied by increasing infringements …

Read More