In my considered opinion, the local newspaper was valuable to line the litter box of my girlfriends’ cat, maybe to wrap fish n’ chips from the Edenborough Castle Pub, or to be mulched up to fertilize my transplanted Birch trees....

If you are lucky enough to actually live in your city while working as a police officer, there are “good-news, bad news” angles that a lot of people aren’t aware of. Good News: You will almost never get a traffic...

Sometimes technology helps you and is your friend. ... The other 94% of the time, it causes rising blood pressure, organizational frustration, and in this case, an expensive repair invoice. The Tarravel Police District in San Francesco is a nice...

Everyone got to arrest Michael at least once. I explain: Mission Station was a Field Training Officer base primarily because of our diversity and the eternal intensity of criminal activity. We had a little bit (A LOT!) of just about...

“The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers!”                   - William Shakespeare's,  Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 My late father was a hard charging real estate broker, and...

There’s an old Law Enforcement maxim about having to physically fight a suspect: “When you get down in the mud to fight a pig, you get dirty, and the hog enjoys it.” In this story, all the cops enjoyed it....

A lot of management policies stress the importance of keeping your workforce “engaged.” In law enforcement that means keeping the troops busy, even if you have to make up work for them. Otherwise, the grunts will start getting restless, invent...

The crown jewel of the City of San Francisco, at the intersections of elegant commerce, urban glory, and civic pride, is a place called Union Square. All four sides of this centerpiece park are bounded by internationally famous hotels such...

All things considered, I should have gotten involved in the usual Thur$day afternoon poker game in the back room at Zukas, and then left before the last hand was dealt. Every cop in the San Francisco Police Department had to...

I’m a huge fan of what movies and TV seem to think goes on in my profession, mostly so I can laugh or comment out loud how absolutely wrong most of what these people seem to think happens in our...