Grabbing The Weapon Bearing Limb – In Fashion – Again

  The grab strategy is now deemed possible and “okay.” In the 1990s and early 2000s, I received a considerable amount of trash talk. forum[…]

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)[…]

AFTER THE TAKEDOWN, YOU…

In very generic terms, and with you as the “tosser-thrower-tripper,” in the old-school business of “taking people down,” it would be worthy of mentioning, worthy[…]

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[…]

Calm Down About Calming Down!

I wonder…has the de-escalation fad sort of died down? It seems like it was all the rage a while back. Everyone was preaching it in[…]

Remy Presas and Ernesto Presas – It’s a Macho Brother Thing

“It’s a Brother Thing?”  There was and is always a lot of talk about the various feuds between Remy and Ernesto through the years. How[…]

The Equal Opportunity Stabber, Saber or Reverse Grip?

The Equal Opportunity Stabber. Saber or Reverse Grip? I am an “equal opportunity stabber.” Sound weird? Hear me out. I’ve heard the knife whisper. Have[…]

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[…]

Knocked Out on the Ground From a Kick

“Welcome to the jungle…”We all hear about how grounded wrestlers shouldn’t wrestle in the proverbial “street fight,” and one reason name-dropped is the catch phrase[…]

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[…]