Posts by Patrick Colligan

President’s Message I had the opportunity to join Paterson Mayor André Sayegh, State Senator Joe Cryan, Assemblyman Benjie Wimberly and many others in a press conference in July to roll…

President’s Message  I’ll spare you all the bad COLA jokes this time. But I can no longer ignore the latest attempts to obtain COLA. I said it before. I’ll say…

President’s Message I was given an old copy of The Police News of N.J. a few months ago. Maybe not so old to all of you, it was an issue…

President’s Message For those of you who attended National Police Week, you can stop reading and turn the page. You know what I’m about to write. For those of you…

In his denial for a stay of the governor’s vaccine mandate executive order, Appellate Judge Clarkson S. Fisher Jr. wrote: “In the final analysis, there are times when individual self-interests…

This should not come as a shock to any of us in law enforcement: New Jersey newspaper editorial boards continue to promote a false narrative that this state has somehow…

Right now, the NJSPBA Facebook page enjoys an audience of approximately 35,000 followers. We like to publicize what’s best about law enforcement, deliver timely news and share the sorrows when…

America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. No question about that. So, let’s build the Twin Towers “bigger and better than ever.” No question about that, either. That’s the way…

As you see on the cover this issue, we are exploring the war on police. Whether you want to call it defunding, diverting or reimagining, the experiment has proven to…