WHEN THE GREEN GETS THINNER, THE THIN BLUE LINE GETS THINNER, TOO…
Things are tough all over. Municipal, county, and state budgets are facing critical shortfalls that could cause severe limitation of ability to deliver emergency services in a timely fashion. A brother officer recently sent...
TYING UP A LOOSE END
I’ve been reminded that I left a loose thread hanging last month, when I wrote about the Rangemaster Tactical Conference hosted by Tom Givens and his extraordinary team in Little Rock. I had mentioned...
WHAT ALEC BALDWIN COULD HAVE LOOKED FOR
The controversy over the fatal shooting on the movie set involving Alec Baldwin continues, still rife with misinformation and a circular firing squad of pointed fingers.
As I’ve said here before, Baldwin strikes me as...
Dillinger Lessons
I’m writing this in Chicago, one of the locales where Johnny Depp and the rest are filming on location for their upcoming movie about John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Didn’t catch the filming,...
Part 5: The PERF-etrators
When I first saw the Police Executive Research Forum’s “30 Guiding Principles” in their “Use of Force: Taking Policing to a Higher Standard,” I showed it to my significant other. She’s not LE herself,...