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J.R. LONSWAY

AUTHOR | RETIRED DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE

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    American Heroes: James L. Day
    J.R. Lonsway
    • 4 days ago
    • 4 min

    American Heroes: James L. Day

    He was a United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and a career Marine. His service spanned WWII, Korea and Vietnam. He...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Jun 21
    • 4 min

    Editorials & Opinions

    Readers of this blog will never be insulted with the dodge that what you are reading is the opinion of the editorial staff at...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Jun 6
    • 8 min

    The Law Enforcement Response To School Shootings: A Personal Experience

    Years before LCPD had SWAT or K9, and long before the term "active shooter" was coined and law enforcement agencies were faced with the...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Jun 1
    • 2 min

    Why There Won't Be A Ban On Military-Style Rifles

    (This blog was originally published yesterday, however I realized I had made a factual error and have corrected it in this version. My...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 30
    • 1 min

    Memorial Day 2022

    We remember them today, those young men and women who answered the call to duty and died in places most Americans had not heard of until...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 29
    • 5 min

    Chris Smelser; Kim Stewart; Uvalde

    Chris Smelser Glossing over facts must be a specialty at the Sun-News. Again, an article is printed regarding former LCPD Officer Chris...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 27
    • 4 min

    Las Cruces Homeless Problem

    You get what you vote for. In 2016, an amendment to the New Mexico Constitution was proposed by the legislature and put to the voters....
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    American Heroes: WASPs
    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 20
    • 2 min

    American Heroes: WASPs

    The Women's Airforce Service Pilots were young, beautiful, intelligent, gutsy and flew every type of aircraft used by the Army Air Forces...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 13
    • 4 min

    LCPD Footage Of Amelia Baca Shooting

    As I wrote in my last post, I support LCPD 100%. I worked that job 22 years and like a lot of you reading this, when you dedicate your...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • May 6
    • 6 min

    LCPD Leadership Woes

    I've just finished reading the article on the LCPD Police Officer's Association complaints about a lack of leadership in the department...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Apr 24
    • 4 min

    New Video On The Shooting Of Amelia Baca

    If you've read my blog over the years you know that I am 100% pro-police, especially LCPD, and have always supported and stood behind...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Apr 21
    • 5 min

    The Shooting Of Amelia Baca

    A lot of people in Las Cruces have questions about the officer-involved shooting death of Amelia Baca, a 75-year old grandmother with...
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    American Heroes: James Maitland Stewart
    J.R. Lonsway
    • Apr 1
    • 4 min

    American Heroes: James Maitland Stewart

    Imagine that you are a Hollywood star and have been awarded an Oscar for best actor in a motion picture. The year before the Oscar award...
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    American Heroes - Eugene Jacques Bullard
    J.R. Lonsway
    • Mar 24
    • 2 min

    American Heroes - Eugene Jacques Bullard

    This is the first in a series of tributes to Americans who have served in war. I have archived many of my previous posts because they...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Mar 20
    • 4 min

    From Defund To Refund

    Two years ago, when the nonsense of defunding police departments nationwide became an aphrodisiac for the liberal progressive, I wrote...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Mar 15
    • 7 min

    Sheriff Kim Stewart

    The following opinion is nothing personal against Sheriff Kim Stewart, but a professional observation based on 22 years as a cop and time...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Mar 12
    • 2 min

    Has Anything Good Ever Come From Communism?

    When Russia invaded Ukraine my thoughts were of the men and women with whom I served from those two countries in United Nations missions...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Mar 5
    • 9 min

    Remembering Jim Wells

    Jim Wells retired from LCPD as a Captain a little over 30 years ago. His career spanned 25 years and he was one of the few I knew in the...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Feb 18
    • 3 min

    New Mexico Mask Mandate Ends

    The indoor mask mandate ended yesterday afternoon, February 17, 2022. Governor Lujan-Grisham reported that the number of infections from...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Red Light

    I've often been asked what it was like serving overseas as a police advisor for the U.S. Department of State. Most of the countries in...
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    J.R. Lonsway
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    Policing For Dummies

    (Note: I posted this last year and archived it several months later, along with many other blog postings. I am reposting it for those who...
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    J.R. LONSWAY

    AUTHOR | RETIRED DEPUTY CHIEF OF POLICE

    J.R. Lonsway served 22 years with the Las Cruces, New Mexico, police department and retired as a Deputy Chief of Police. After retirement he served with the U.S. Department of State as a police advisor in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Liberia, Haiti, Lebanon, and South Sudan. He is a former U.S. Marine.

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