NAPO Post From Executive Director William J. Johnson

From NAPO:

Here is text of our first posts this morning on FB. We have already handled calls from ABC and FOX and print media. I’m on way now to studio in DC to do FOX News live this morning. I’ve also reached out to Ron Pinkston and Todd Harrision to offer any assistance. We are also compiling a timeline of every time we’ve sought the restoration of protective gear to police departments and been refused by this administration which we’ll get out as well. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, etc. Bill

NAPO has been urging the president and his department of justice to restore local police officers’ ability to have defensive gear such as helmets, shields and bullet resistant vehicles for months but they’ve refused!! We’ve urged the department of justice COPS Office and its director Ron Davis to fund two-man patrols for safety but they’ve refused. We’ve called upon the civil rights division to prosecute cop killers, but they’ve refused. We met face to face with Attorney General Loretta Lynch months ago to show how the law can be used to federally prosecute those who shoot police, but she’s refused. We called upon this administration to condemn violence BEFORE it happens, and they refuse! We’ve publicly warned that this administration forcing police departments to adopt policies on “implicit bias” and “procedural justice” instead of focusing on law enforcement was putting officers’ safety at risk.

Now that we have multiple officers killed they’ll be scrambling to condemn it but they still refuse to restore the DEFENSIVE equipment that the president and his administration unilaterally took away.

MR. PRESIDENT, MRS. LYNCH, MR. DAVIS, MAKE NO MISTAKE, YOUR REFUSAL TO ACT HAS HELPED BRING THIS ABOUT. YOUR DISARMING OF POLICE HAS HELPED BRING THIS ABOUT. YOUR CONTINUED DEMONIZATION OF POLICE AS THE PROBLEM HAS HELPED BRING THIS ABOUT. YOUR CONTINUED MISCHARACTERIZATION OF THE BLM MOVEMENT AS “PEACEFUL” WHEN THEY SHOUT “WHAT DO WE WANT? DEAD COPS!’ HAS HELPED BRING THIS ABOUT.

William J. Johnson, Esq., CAE

Executive Director

National Association of Police Organizations

317 S. Patrick Street

Alexandria, Virginia 22314