A Word From My Daughter
One night after dinner at the end of last school year I asked my kids if they would be willing to write about their experience growing up with a police...
Bring Out Your Dead And Check Your Assumptions
On a warm summer night we were dispatched to a third floor apartment for a report of a shooting, with little to no information. (This is known as par for...
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
The house was creepy. The old woman standing outside was in her nightgown, barefoot, with a medication bottle clutched in her hand. And then she invited me in. Before I...
Going The Extra Mile
It was Christmas morning, and he was dead. I had some questions. In middle school and high school making fun of the handicap kid was the easy thing to do....
What Rules To Break, When To Break Them, And Why
SWAT training, circa 2006. A coworker and I were away at SWAT training in another state. We made the hour-plus drive every morning for two weeks to become certified smooth...
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