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WHO DO WE FIGHT? by Hock Hochheim

(In my upcoming book, as a result of the popularity of my Who, What, Where, When, How and Why lectures, this book will be published[…]

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HOME INVADERS AT MY HOME!

I believe my house was once under attack from home invaders, thwarted by me and my gun. Here’s what happened, plus a few things you[…]

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)[…]

Knife Fight and The Jailhouse Superbowl Ring

Funny thing, I was watching the DVDs of the first season of FX’s TV show, Justified and in one episode there was a side character[…]

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[…]

Jailbreak! And the Psycho Martin Crebbs

It was afternoon in August in the early ’80s. Egg-frying, Texas hot. That is to say that if you plopped a raw egg down on[…]

Seizing Guns. We Did. We do.

(Note: This was written in 2018. Has anything improved or changed?) Seizing guns. We use to do it. Do police seize guns? Yes. How long[…]

The Car as a Coffin

     Back in the 1970s, the 80s and even the 90s, this phrase “the car as a coffin” was a warning, a cop-training-phrase, a[…]

Fear and Loathing of the Killer, Henry Lee Lucas

     It was a head.      I mean a skull.       Just a skull. Laying there on the ground.       And[…]

Jailbreak! And the Pyscho Martin Crebbs

     Jailbreak! And the Psycho Martin Crebbs      It was afternoon in August in the early 1980s.      Egg-frying, Texas hot. That[…]