Tag: Magazine Feature

Growing up, I was the kid who couldn t hit a baseball or shoot a basketball. I was the last one picked for teams on the playground, because it was ...

I was working an "L" car (i.e., a single-officer unit) in our northeast area and entered my patrol district driving southbound on Figueroa St. As I approached Ave. 44, I ...

The murderous acts of twisted gunmen continue. In my state at Northern Illinois University (NIU), students came under deadly attack. A brother officer told me his daughter was in the ...

I'm sure you've heard to one degree or another the phrase "follow through" used as part of the principles of firearms marksmanship. It means keeping the sights on target and ...

Time is one of man's universal equalizers. You can't save it. You can't borrow it. And, although on occasion it seems to slow or speed up, the atomic clock is ...

Gladys Johnson celebrated her 20th birthday by kneeling down behind a dumpster in a back alley between two bars and shooting heroin into the vein of her left arm. She ...

It doesn't matter much whether you have to prepare the work schedule for three people or 300, it s still a pain in the butt. First, someone will probably find ...

As history demonstrates, conflict often breeds remarkable innovation. The development of hemostatic clotting agents is among these breakthrough technologies. Pick up any police or military-supply catalog lying around your agency ...

We've all heard the expression He can't walk and chew gum. Take the uncoordinated kid on the playground who regularly got picked last in PE class. The reason: poor gross-motor ...

For most of us, the mention of night vision evokes green-hued images from the Gulf War or spy movies, with heavily armed troops stealthily moving in on an enemy, robotic-looking ...