From a distance we could see the deliberate, choreographed moves and the glint of the silent blade cutting through the night air. What that guy was up to, we didn’t know, but we were about to find out. It wasn’t very often that we got to ride around in a two-man car....
Sometimes when you try to do the right thing it blows up in your face. I was excited to be back on a SWAT team. After leaving my first department to go work for a larger agency, I had to wait until my probation period was over before I could try out. With the...
Moms are tactical. They didn’t have to try out, get selected, go to a training class, wear extra-medium t-shirts, tactical pants with a hundred pockets, carry a backpack covered in morale patches, or grow a tactical beard. Nope. After they birthed a small human...
St. Patrick’s Day. A day when spirits are high and BACs are higher. For police officers, it’s a day when everyone is having fun — except you — because you have to work. This traditionally religious Irish holiday, now mainly celebrated with malted beverages...
Nothing says intoxicated like staggering down the middle of a main road at 4:00 a.m. Our cruisers had been carefully docked alongside one another like doctoral students in a library comparing notes. I was up to my closed eyelids in department SOPs when the call came...
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