I finished writing up a warning as I listened to a call coming in over the air. There was a guy who had made suicidal statements and the family asked us to go check on him. I was a minute or two down the road on a traffic stop, so I decided to clear the stop and head...
For most of us in police work, the idea of striking a true work-life balance is as real and elusive as Bigfoot. Is it out there? Maybe. But the odds of finding it are certainly not in our favor and others may think us crazy as we search for it. In Todd Duncan’s book...
I know cops who never touch a gun when they’re off duty and others who go to bed wearing BDUs and a plate carrier with a pillow under their rifle. Whichever way you lean, remember a wise man once said that it is better to have it and not need it than to need it and...
In 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for Antarctica on the ship Endurance with a plan in place to be the first to transverse the hostile continent. Almost two years later, after shipwreck, hunger, frostbite, darkness, and loneliness, Shackleton and...
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