Looking Back – Thoughts from the far side of the career
(Editor’s note – Editor Emeritus Roy Huntington sent this to me. He offered that the writer’s thoughts were worth my time. I’m sharing it as an OpEd piece with you all) In my younger days, I thought I had a destiny - to be an LEO. Oddly enough, I took the police job on a bet. It came with a $6000 pay cut but had good benefits. I left my good-paying job to be a [...]
A PENNY SAVED…
Sometimes at the range, the old saying “A penny saved is a penny earned” proves not to be true—at least when it comes to buying defensive products. I attend any training class that I can, [...]
Get Some Skin in the Game
Trap shooters describe people taking tactical carbine courses as “Tactical Timmys” or “Tacticool.” Those taking carbine courses say that standing in one spot to shoot a clay bird is a huge waste of time. Precision [...]
After Action Report: Nightmare On Sesame Street
Back in 2012 I received an email from a friend that said he had been asked to see if I would like to attend a three-day carbine class and would it be OK to forward [...]
We’re at a Turning Point
On May 25, 2020 Derek Chauvin a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis, Minnesota PD knelt on the neck of George Floyd for eight minutes. Chauvin’s actions may have contributed to Floyd’s death, but his autopsy [...]
It’s Party Time At The ATM Slot Machine!
First, the joy of victory. Then, yeah, the agony of defeat. But you gotta wonder who was the dumbest in this tragicomedy: a hyperopic bank official, or the customers who thought they could get away [...]
They Don’t Make Crooks Like They Used To
Jackie Patel was calmly stirring a little sugar into his coffee behind the counter of his convenience store in Waltham, Mass., when suddenly a wannabe ninja warrior clad in black from head to toe came [...]
Hey! You Can Stop Draining The Lake!
Nobody slips through this dragnet! Nobody! Except maybe the guy they’re trying to catch. For seven days, dozens of Canadian cops surrounded a home in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, pinning down a guy suspected of assaults, [...]
You Gotta Use What You Got
Thanks to their Nanny State efforts to disarm the Crown’s subjects, it’s no secret that Great Britain now has the highest rate of violent personal crimes in the industrialized nations. “Yobs” — their term for [...]