Writing op-eds is not a crime.
Someone should tell police in Lenexa, Kansas, and suggest they read the First Amendment.
Officers there criminally investigated a local man, including tracking his car, after he wrote an op-ed critical of the department.

Lenexa police investigated author of column criticizing the department. He's 'pissed off'
A KCUR investigation discovered the department used the city’s license plate readers to track the writer’s movements and it issued a “be on the lookout” for him.