My evening shift in Detectives was coming to an end; I had less than an hour to go. But I wouldn’t be going home on time, not that night. The neighboring town called my department for mutual aid, and there was no time to waste. They had an adult autistic male...
I sat in the front passenger seat with my rifle slung around my neck and the muzzle down between my knees. I played with the safety selector, flipping it on and off to pass the time. That day was a long and uncomfortable exercise in being Semper paratus. Sustained by...
For starters, get your mind out of the gutter. Moving on… Capful Of Feathers The most important rule on the midnight shift (second only to studying SOPs after 3:00 a.m.) is to back each other up on every call and motor vehicle stop. There’s no need to wait for a...
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...
Hands kill — not mean words, bad attitudes, or angry eyes — the hands. This is why we care about where the hands are, what they are holding, and what they are doing. If we can’t see them there should be alarm bells going off in our head. It’s Officer...
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