The irony is staggering. Many of the same politicians pushing this ban have tolerated or even encouraged protesters who engage in doxxing.

He was a decorated member of the NYPD's elite Emergency Service Unit who was shot and killed responding to a domestic disturbance in the Bronx. His family has honored him greatly by their good works.

Most people think the Beltway Sniper case ended with a dramatic takedown.

It didn’t.

It ended with a quiet rest stop, two officers, and a decision that sounds backwards: don’t rush in.

Two Cincinnati police officers were brutally gunned down while attempting to arrest a domestic violence suspect. Nearly 30 years later, they have not been forgotten.

For 34 years, Jack Maguire was beloved, protecting the streets and neighborhoods where he grew up. It made no sense that he was killed by a man who had been sentenced to three life terms in prison.

In a frank discussion, Steven Sund raises questions about the recent pipe bomber arrest, reacts to the pardons for rioters, regrets his resignation, and reveals why his request for National Guard help was denied.

In 1933, one of the deadliest attacks on law enforcement in American history occurred. Four lawmen were killed in what soon became known as the "Kansas City Massacre."

In this episode of Heroes Behind the Badge, former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund takes listeners inside the command center as the attack on the Capitol unfolded—minute by minute, decision by decision.

This episode is not about soundbites or politics - it’s about how institutions fail, how responsibility gets blurred, and what law enforcement leaders face when clarity, authority, and trust collapse at the same time.

A fallen law enforcement hero with a "heart of gold" is remembered best for his love of family and the way he treated people--even the prisoners he guarded. And now his son follows in his footsteps.

David Berez's op-ed reminds us that no matter who occupies political office our law enforcement officers "will run courageously toward danger while critics shout cowardly from the sidelines."

"Three years. That's all it took for my shooter to get away with it." In Part 1, Tom Weitzel told us how he survived a gang ambush during a traffic stop in 1987. Part 2 is about what happened when the justice system failed him.

Detroit Police Officer Stanley Jerlecki was shot and killed responding to a jewelry store robbery in 1951. His story reminds us how far we've come in honoring the fallen and caring for their families.

In August 1987, Riverside, Illinois Police Officer Tom Weitzel stepped out of his squad car to check a suspicious vehicle parked on the wrong side of the street—no plates, dark tinted windows, door cracked open. Seconds later, a gang member rolled out of the back seat, racked a pump shotgun, and shot Tom at point-blank range.

A domestic violence call is one of the most dangerous a law enforcement officer will get. In 2002, it cost two veteran South Carolina officers their lives.

In a recently published letter to the editor, Citizens Behind the Badge Founder Craig W. Floyd calls out the Washington Post for omitting fallen Deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounded Deputy Aldranon English from its full-page obituary of their killer.

In this powerful episode of Heroes Behind the Badge, Executive Director of the National Black Sheriffs Association, Anthony Amerson, shares the extraordinary story of his father - Lucius Amerson - the first Black sheriff elected in the South since Reconstruction.

Officer Jerry Haaf was sitting in a restaurant having a cup of coffee near the end of his shift when he was brutally assassinated by two gang members who simply wanted to kill a cop.

On November 1, 1950, White House Police Private Leslie Coffelt sacrificed his life while preventing an attack on President Harry Truman by two Puerto Rican nationalists.

Sixty years after the JFK assassination, the questions and consequences still echo through Dallas.