On National Law Enforcement Day, Lets Reward

Monday, February 9, was National Law Enforcement Day, and many of us are grateful for the law enforcement officers and other vital personnel who serve and defend our communities as effectively as our nation. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as effectively as U.S. Border Patrol, are at present in the news cycle for the assaults, hatred, and vitriol lodged against them. But for a quantity of years, from the local sheriff to the district attorney’s workplace, many sectors of law enforcement have been undermined in their means to do what they do best: uphold the law and keep us secure. It has turn into notably pronounced in blue cities and counties, as legal justice has turn into less about stopping crime and punishing criminals and more about injecting politics and insurance policies that erode justice and reward illegality. 

This is enjoying out in horrific methods. The mindless homicide last August in North Carolina of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, allegedly by a perpetrator who was arrested and launched 14 instances, is but one of too many examples. This is no manner to preserve the construction of a neighborhood or give people the soundness and security that we count on and deserve.

Today, we have fun National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day!

Thank you to the daily contributions of our law enforcement officers who strengthen public security, construct public trust and advance the mission of the Department! pic.twitter.com/RPvzE9kReE

— Secretary Doug Burgum (@SecretaryBurgum) January 9, 2026

This is the locus of the issue of fashionable law enforcement: it stands for vibes, optics, and some false objective of equity and compassion, yet does little to nothing in those areas, while failing to really implement the law or defend residents. If something, it creates higher hurt. One of the tragic classes we’re gleaning from the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping saga is that when the chips are down, you need law enforcement who are succesful of getting the job completed, not just going through the motions and trying and sounding good while doing it.

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Law enforcement upholds the rule of law, protects lives and property, and maintains public order. Without it, communities face instability, elevated crime, and loss of trust,making security, justice, and accountability unimaginable to maintain. We ought to be saying THANK YOU! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

— ChiefGenX (@ChiefGenX) February 6, 2026

Sadly, the employees of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office doesn’t even look good at doing whatever it’s they do. This was manifestly highlighted in a December recruitment video. 

It could be laughable if it weren’t so horrible.

WATCH:

Aside from the shortage of bodily fitness among the employees of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office, the other telling optic is the fact that there are no males in this video. Granted, the Sheriff’s workplace will not be the first police enforcement of the town of Philadelphia: that could be the Philadelphia Police Department, which is staffed with males and ladies who are at least bodily outfitted for their particular activity. 

But does the Sheriff’s Department consider that only ladies are match for the roles of court bailiff, prisoner transport, or issuing summons and subpoenas? These facets of law enforcement still have an inherent potential for the surprising and real hazard, so it will benefit the ladies and the boys who are doing the job to not only be bodily match, but also correctly educated in situational awareness and fast response – not training in social justice chants and clowning for the digital camera. Instances in current years of bailiffs saving the lives of a jury foreman in San Diego and a choose in St. Louis had every thing to do with the educated, competent, and direct responses of these officers of the court. So, it issues.

However, the first factor you see when you log onto the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Department web site is footage of Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal and the messages: “We can build a better, more just Philadelphia,” and “Equal Justice, Compassion and Opportunity.” What the heck does that have to do with service to the people of Philadelphia, let alone safety or enforcement? It actually would not instill any type of confidence, no matter what their position in the justice system could also be.

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This could also clarify why this division and its leaders are virulently anti-ICE. However you are feeling about the subject of immigration enforcement, what we witness behind the enforcement completed by ICE and Border Patrol is focus, function, talent, and training. 

Most Americans respect competence, particularly when it comes to security and security. Bombastic and inflammatory language like that coming from the Philadelphia Sheriff and district attorney and “Yazzz Queen” shout-outs engender none of this. I do not need to see any law enforcement officer doing dancing videos any more than I need to see docs and nurses doing them. The depth of unseriousness in such shows makes one query whether or not these people are outfitted or competent at their job, or whether or not dancing for the digital camera is their manner to cowl up the fact that they aren’t.

Yet it goes past Philadelphia. We have people at the very best ranges of law enforcement management who have no idea of the chain of command, or perhaps they just do not care. In a current spherical of questioning, Democrat Garry L. McFadden, the Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, NC, couldn’t accurately reply what the three branches of authorities had been and which department his division fell under. 

WATCH:

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!

The Democrat Sheriff of Charlotte NC, Gary McFadden, was just utterly unable to reply:

a) What the three branches of authorities are.
b) Which department he serves under.

This is genuinely painful to watch… utterly surprising. pic.twitter.com/PRIAkvFxCw

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 9, 2026

From the chief of police to the sheriff, to deputies and docket clerks, Americans desperately need and need people who are targeted on combating crime, defending residents, and presenting a competent and skilled show of drive. What’s occurring in Philadelphia and Charlotte, North Carolina, ain’t it.

There are many in law enforcement management and rank and file who continue to be a tribute and an asset to their cities and departments. But some are being harassed out of their jobs or discover a transfer to greener pastures a better prospect. 

In Grand Rapids, MI, former Police Chief Eric Winstrom took a lateral place in the town of Pensacola, FL, and will helm the police division there. Upon Winstrom’s departure from Michigan, he spoke fact to energy on what made his job tough and how any metropolis that needs to thrive wants to have a thriving police drive. Winstrom said, in half:

So, when you politicize policing, that’s a recipe for failure. […] Show me a metropolis across the nation wherever, that is high-performing, profitable metropolis, and I’ll show you a high-performing, profitable police division. Those two go hand-in-hand, and clever politicians perceive that.

WATCH:

WOW: The departing Police Chief just confirmed he was FRUSTRATED by the anti-cop sentiment right here in Grand Rapids.

He particularly calls out metropolis management for refusing to see police in a constructive gentle.

“Have I seen that here? One hundred percent,” he said. pic.twitter.com/z3jdAr5TO7

— Grand Rapids Businessman (@GR_businessman) February 6, 2026

We are witnessing these same political video games being performed out in Congress, as they use DHS funding as a political soccer reasonably than a severe matter of safety and enforcement for the American people. This wants to stop.

As the Blue Lives Matter group affirms, most law enforcement officers, whether or not administrative, judicial, correctional, or police, only need to be a half of making their communities a better place. Enforcement and adherence to the law, equipping officers to be competent and on activity, and rewarding sound and strong management are vital to transferring our law enforcement back to making the security of the neighborhood a precedence, and not just a social justice experiment.    

The majority of law enforcement just desires to serve their neighborhood. This is the skinny blue line we help. pic.twitter.com/ePwB6Z2zpj

— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) January 30, 2026

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, unlawful immigration into our great nation has nearly stopped. Despite the novel left’s lies, new laws wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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