The Car As A Coffin
Artificial intelligence cannot offer exact stats on how many officers are killed while they sit in their patol cars. They estmate each year some 3–8[…]
“PUT TOGTHER A POSSE!” Says The Marshal. “POSEE COMITATTUS!”
It bothers me to hear and read in the news that Chicago is a crime hell-hole. Chicago is actually a big, parts-beautiful-and-safe place. Only parts[…]
BLACKJACKS and SAPS, ETC.
With advancing age and advanced age, one’s reliance on “kuraty” wanes. Someday I know I will be limping around with only my snub-nose, hammerless revolver[…]
BACK IN POLICE UNIFORM…
My last two years in the late 90s I wound up back in patrol (I was a real “Adam 12” dinosaur patrolman from the 70s)[…]
Protecting the Belt: Impact Weapon Retention
It has always mystified me that Filipino stick people virtually never consider from whence their stick comes from. I don’t mean the rattan farm. I[…]
The Dead Baby
Through the years, I worked several cases involving dead babies. Dead babies in murders and car wrecks. Frozen in cars. A rape. Beatings. But one[…]
Harvey, Give Me the Shotgun, Or Else!
“Harvey … give me the shotgun, or ELSE!” (and other Harvey tales.) That was the time when cops usually got killed, I reminded myself, looking[…]