Sometimes we don’t see what’s right in front of us. This time the writing was literally on the wall and I missed it. Calls for us to check on people are a dime a dozen. They happen a lot. Most turn out to be nothing or just end with a trip to the hospital to...
When I woke up, I was suddenly struck with the realization that I had no idea where my children were. My first order of business was to find them. Hurry Up And Wait I stood at attention, back straight, left arm by my side and slightly bent, with fingers curled and...
It was the first time I had ever attended the funeral of a police officer. I had never met him, but for me, there was a connection. It was more than the fact that we shared the same profession and worked not far from each other in the same state. His murderer and...
My Shift Supervisor had been a cop for as long as I had been alive. He laughed with a snarl and boasted a vintage 1970’s mustache that rivaled industrial size push-brooms. In a small department like mine his promotion to sergeant — and then lieutenant —...
I was already super nervous. The first time I sat in the driver’s seat of a cruiser I thought I had somehow accidentally gotten into the cockpit of a space shuttle. There was so much stuff in there I instantly suffered from sensory overload — the video camera...
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