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Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm Tim discusses again who Atheist Chaplains are, but more specifically what the studies indicate on Atheist Chaplains and people who are non-believers. About 28% of adults in the US belong to a group known as the religious "nones," meaning they identify as atheists, agnostics or "nothing in particular," according to Pew Re...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm Do Atheist Chaplains really exist? Yes, they do. What hope do Atheist Chaplains provide to patients and their loved ones as they confront some of life's most challenging crises? An article from CNN, dated 11/07/24, investigates this very thing of Atheist Chaplains. Tim discusses the article and the confusion behind the h...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm An article from Law Enforcement Today (Editorial article) indicates a story about a squirrel getting euthanized would pass by without any notice. However, P'nut the Squirrel offers a shining example of government overreach and the priorities of the ruling class.

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm An article from Police1, dated August 26th, titled 'Washington PD officers no longer allowed to personalize equipment after OIS settlement.' How did this lawsuit come about? 4 officers responded to a report of a disturbance at a Starbucks. The man was known to be mentally ill and known to officers, who's name was Timothy...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm. An article from Law Enforcement Today, dated September 5th, 2024, indicates Oregon House Bill 4002 took effect on Sunday, September 1st, 2024, ending the legalization of hard drugs in small amounts brought about under the voter-approved initiative Measure 110. Tim discusses the article and talks about the lack of positi...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm PART 2 of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used by police department(s) to write their police reports.

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm. From the Associated Press (AP), an article titled; 'Literally Seconds': Oklahoma officers are using AI to write police reports faster. Right or wrong, what's your take on the use of AI in police work? Tim discusses the different angles with Artificial Intelligence in policing.

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm Dated August 13th of this year, an opinion piece from Law Enforcement Today, suggests that the Associated Press wants you to believe that Michael Brown, who was minding his own business, was shot and killed by a racist police officer who was hunting down black men while patrolling the city. Tim Rupp lays out the facts of...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm Tim discusses the laws and policies we already have in place to "control" guns from getting into the wrong hands, or the hands of criminals. What else do we need?

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm, or comment/question right here! This article from Law Enforcement Today lays out the case against this Louisiana woman who was charged after hurling anti-white racial slurs at police during her arrest. This woman was charged, and arrested, previously with misuse of the 911 system in 2016, so she is known to the local au...

Interact with Pastor Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm. An article from the Associated Press (AP), dated August 15th, reports that Matthew Perry's assistant among 5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in 'Friends' star's death. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada says the doctors supplied Perry with a large amount of ketamine and even wondered in a text mess...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm. This is an article from Law Enforcement Today, dated 08/15/24, which describes the Secret Service agents who were involved in a breach of privacy at a Massachusetts hair salon during a campaign event for Kamala Harris. The event took place at a venue located near the salon, so as-is customary, the agents conducted a bom...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm. Out of Brooklyn, NY, information released by the DOJ has revealed that a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran, was charged in a murder-for-hire case "as part of an alleged scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official on U.S. soil." In April of this year, he was allowed by the FBI to ent...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm In an article, dated 07-31-24 from Law Enforcement Today, more and more law enforcement agencies across the country are said to be losing trust in the FBI. The report lists several key findings, such as some law enforcement believing that the federal agency is full of bias and there is a lack of confidence in leadership...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm Police officers are taught Jeff Cooper's "Color Code", which breaks down situational awareness into four levels of increasing alertness. It's useful to remember and review these levels when practicing situational awareness; Condition White, Condition Yellow, Condition Orange, Condition Red.

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm 25-year-old Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez was apprehended in Eagle Pass by Customs and Border Protection in November of last year. However, he was released with a notice to appear in court in 2026. This is just one example of what is wrong with our system. Police respond to an apartment after a report of an assault from Gutierr...

Interact with Tim Rupp and The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm What happened that police officers, and departments, can be sued and/or disciplined for their actions deemed inappropriate? Tim takes you through a case in which an officer approached a supposed passed out drunk on private commercial property. The officer reached for what he thought was the man's identification from...

Interact with Tim Rupp / The Strong Blue Line by email to coptalk@therev.fm An article titled, "Armed man dressed in all-green riding a bicycle shoots at two officers before being fatally shot.", discusses a report that a man had a gun in a park, so when officers approached him he quickly rode off and wouldn't talk to the officers. They caught up to him in the park and told him to st...

Questions/comments for Tim Rupp? Interact by email to coptalk@therev.fm Tim continues the discussion from last week on the seven fundamental tenets of satanism. The after-school club leaders indicate the title is deceiving and that the club isn't what people/parents think it is. They're wanting to create a safe place for kids but the title of the club suggests there's a different agend...

Interact with Tim Rupp / The Strong Blue Line by email at coptalk@therev.fm From an Opinion piece of Law Enforcement Today, a Satanic Temple has an after school club, which the citizens of Lebanon, Connecticut are okay with. According to the article, the group who is hosting this after school club indicates the name of the "club" is deceiving, and that the club is safe for kids. Tim Rupp...

Interact with Tim Rupp and Cop Talk by email at coptalk@therev.fm It's been a couple years since an Incident Task Force found that 3 Pocatello Police Officers were justified in shooting that left a man paralyzed. Now a civil judge has ruled that the victim may sue the individual officers personally. Tim discusses some of the evidence in the case and how this civil case has little to no merit.

Interact with Tim Rupp and Cop Talk by email to coptalk@therev.fm. The Strong Blue Line Ministry! What exactly do they do, and what is their purpose? The purpose is to bring the Gospel, perhaps for the first time, to law enforcement officers throughout the country. Free to law enforcement departments, Tim and his wife Sherry travel throughout the year in bringing the Gospel and sharing his books w...

Interact with Tim Rupp by email to coptalk@therev.fm. Tim discusses an article from Police1 in which officers react to a survey about the satisfaction of being a police officer.

Share your stories and interact with Tim Rupp by email to coptalk@therev.fm Gary Austin and his wife, Keri, were in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago on a business trip. They witnessed a horrible verbal attack on officers in downtown Minneapolis. Gary and Tim discuss the apparent disrespect people have for any authority. Where, and why, did this start to happen? School teachers are belittled and ridi...

Interact with Tim Rupp and Cop talk by email to coptalk@therev.fm There have been multiple changes, some large and some small, to the Boy Scouts of America. The latest and largest change to the organization is the new name; Scouting of America. Jeremy Ward is a leader under Trail Life, and you can hear his passion behind this organization and how important it is for the development of young boys.