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Social Justice PD to the Rescue!
My response to current events and the state of our society. October 28th, 2046. A day I’ll never forget. It started just like any other day. I was at the station, watching President Ocortez on TV as she sentenced a criminal to death for denying that women experience erectile dysfunction, when the call came through. […]
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As I’ve written before, I have an autistic son. I’ve also been a cop for almost 23 years. So when I saw the video of North Miami PD shooting the caretaker of an autistic man last July, and heard the officer’s explanation that he was actually trying to shoot the autistic man, I was…perplexed. Just from a tactical […]
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Tags: autism, police work, veteran writers
I’ve been busy as hell working, spending time with family and writing for Breach Bang Clear lately, and haven’t been able to spend much time on my blog. Since I’ve been such a lazy slug here, I thought I’d share some essays I’ve recently written for BB&C, plus one media story I contributed to. This […]
Filed under: 2nd Amendment, Afghanistan, Cops, Gear reviews, Iraq, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: glock, PTSD, tanks, veteran authors
This was published today on Breach Bang Clear. _________________________________________________ Last week, former Air Force Security Policeman Andy Brown released his book Warnings Unheeded. Brown’s book is an account of his response to the 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base mass shooting, and the story of a B-52 crash at the same base just days later. If you’re a […]
Filed under: 2nd Amendment, Cops, What Police Work is Really Like | 4 Comments
Tags: Andy Brown, Fairchild active shooter, mass shootings, warnings unheeded
On September 12, the Washington Post published an article by Radley Balko titled West Virginia cop fired for not killing a man with an unloaded gun. Balko is author of a book titled Rise of the Warrior Cop; the Militarization of America’s Police Forces, and frequently writes about police misconduct. His WP article was about a police […]
Filed under: Cops | 6 Comments
Tags: police shootings, police work, radley balko