Cop Humor

Mission Police Station was a dump. Unlike its predecessor over in the industrial part of the District that had its visual  and police cultural foundations in the Gothic Pillar examples...

Being on the first San Francisco BART subway train on any given morning can sometimes be interesting. Most regular commuters are half awake, drinking hot coffee out of carefully concealed...

NOTE:  In the Law Enforcement profession, as in many other endeavors , sometimes fiction is more interesting than the truth, and big salacious rumors are sometimes more fun to relate...

Specifically, during my long career in Law enforcement, as in my life in general, if something appears to be easy, fun, and occasionally profitable, it turns out to be anything...

Like any of the three-dimensional characters in a classic Bogart movie, or from a persona in a stage play once fleshed out in a darkened theatre, some of the people...

“Stress relief.” … That’s what they called it in the SFPD Academy during the too short academic introduction to urban police work. It was a required topic during your in-service...

The set-up Every cop has a place in their sector or on their beat that is the most memorable. It should be a good place to grab a cup of...

If you are doing traffic enforcement, sooner or later you are going to get a "runner." If you are going to pursue these minor-league violators, you have to keep in...

Sergeant Mike was a godsend to us illiterate peasants in uniform patrol when it came to traffic collisions and other arcane and confusing issues of law and disorder. When he...

I had checked off for my lunch break as Watch Commander at Taraval Police Station in San Francisco at about 1500 hrs and was recreationally shopping at the nearby Macy’s....