Andrew Mills

Upcoming No Kings rally in @PalmSpringsPD is safer because of our community and detectives. They learned of a threat, followed up on it and arrested a La Quinta man for terror threats seizing one gun. Edward Miranda SIC #exemplaryservice

People drive like @CityofPS is the Talladega raceway. This week PSPD will have a massive operation to stop and ticket as many speeders, light runners and stop sign rollers as possible. A maximum deployment including all commander staff. You’ve been warned. @PalmSpringsPD

Political perspective doesn’t matter, your right to address government w/ grievances does. @PalmSpringsPD we will ensure you can be heard. Safely. #America #exemplaryservice

Good police work never gets old. Great job by our SEU team tracking down and arresting taggers. The bonus, six guns off the street and out of the hands of those who cannot legally possess them. #exemplaryservice @PalmSpringsPD

The passage of Prop 36 has given us ‘some’ of our teeth back. We’re happy to educate our criminals, one by one. #LawAndOrderReturns #PlayTimeIsOver

@PalmSpringsPD Sgt Jason Lamb w mindset Saturday. Leading his team in a critical thinking exercise on controlling the controllables at sunrise on the roof of PSPD. Leadership matters. Good policing matters.

This is DEEP!

“The SURGE” has started! @palmspringspd has doubled the size of the IMPACT team. For two years we have begged ppl to take help. Hundreds have. Now, there are three options: take housing offered, a ride to your hometown of record, or jail.

@CityofPS PIO won the @CAPIO Calf Public Info Officers Award for best promotional @PalmSpringsFilm festival. @PalmSpringsPD salutes you.

THANK YOU to all those who made the 2nd Annual Community Appreciation Event possible! Huge thanks to the Do the Right Thing Team and Desert Car Wash who donated to the Garcia Family who recently lost their home to a fire. Congratulations to this years award winners 🏆

Good morning @PalmSpringsPD @Destination_PSP @SouthwestAir you are beautiful.

@PalmSpringsPD Shop with A Cop day. About 50 kids enjoyed a Christmas shopping spree. Money was raised by two # pickleball events and caring community members. @PalmSpringsPOA #exemplaryservice

America’s top universities should abandon their long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning. My take:

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel. For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids. The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas. Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better. As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves. Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

I’ve been asked about my stance on the terror attack against Jews in Israel. @PalmSpringsPD will do everything within our power to protect our community and protect religious liberty. I am also a Son of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Clyde.

@Jerry_Ratcliffe Urban Burning man

OSINT challenge. Where am I?

📺PSPD-TV Presents: "Behind the Badge," IMPACT Team Officer Jorge Diaz takes us beneath the Dinah Shore Bridge. Watch what you haven't seen under this frequent "Operation Relentless Sun" hot spot. youtu.be/lj4XREj1SDs @PalmSpringsPD @ChiefAndyMills @TamaraOnCamera7 @CityofPS

Did you know Senate bill, SB50, would prevent the police from making traffic stops for minor infractions? Did you know many gun seizures are from traffic stops? Let your voice be heard. @PalmSpringsPD @PalmSpringsPOA #StopGunViolence

Do yourself a favor and listen to this interview. Cop. Dad. Drug addicted daughter. Homeless.

@Julie_Makinen @MyDesert Congratulations

Aw, cool, I won an award for editorial writing! Thanks to the Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation for supporting @MyDesert opinion pages. There would be no editorials without all the community donations that fund the continued existence of opinion content at The Desert Sun! Thanks also to the Editorial Board!