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In Defense of BS

Maybe I'm throwing in the towel, giving up the ghost, acknowledging defeat—but by God I'm hoping to help cultivate some good BSers here.

Salesmanship 101

Cops like to see themselves as straight shooters—literally and figuratively. Well, they just may have to start appealing to their more diplomatic side.

Tipping Our Hands

Between clueless coworkers, astute criminals, damnable fate, and our own inattention, we can turn a winning hand into a losing one.

Lessons Learned, Complaints Registered, and Tips Made

Just another run-down of things on the law enforcement radar that have been on my addled mind as of late, that while individually not warranting an entire column collectively could prove momentous for the world.

Choose Your Mentors Wisely

Walt had always enjoyed the reputation of being a man’s man, an individual of independent thought who was never shy to offer his opinion. It was one of the things that I respected about him.

Don't Try to Be Supercop

Maybe you like to see yourself as a one-man crime task force. The truth is you're probably not an expert in kicking down doors, lifting prints, AND running media interference. Leave such stuff for the pros.

Cops Don’t Have to Take the First Punch

You would think that the average cop would know that he doesn’t have to get punched prior to using force. But having seen my fair share of patrol cops who got coldcocked and were laid out on the asphalt when the warning signs were in bold-capped Helvetica-font neon, I wonder.

Medical Diagnosis: We Suck!

So NINETY-NINE+ percent of emergency room doctors polled think we use excessive force? Let's hear it for the less than one-percenters!

Random Thoughts and Observations

There are things that, while perhaps worthy of a mention, don’t warrant a whole column. And so I decided to make a column out of several of them.

The Ghosts Of Christmases Past

This is my first murder, the first of many I will roll on throughout my career. Back at home, only exhaustion lets me get some sleep before reporting back to work later that day.

Extra Sensory Policing

Call it a hunch, precognition, ESP, or intuition, most cops have experienced it: That feeling that something isn’t right. That sensation that something bad is going to happen. For some, the impression proves prophetic.

Calling the Chase

Whenever we hear a well-called pursuit, we are in awe of it. We know that it's a damn difficult thing to accomplish.

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