Due to a Database error I was unable to repair, I have moved the entire contents of the main blog to here.
I will continue to update the main blog and use this as a repository for all posts made before 04/30/2008
.May 24, 2008
My Time With A Gun – Part 4
Or, Dogs and Pigs don’t Mix… This story comes from about 3 years into my tour with the campus police. I was working graves and patrolling south. The farthest south high school’s FFA club had a lot of animals on property and they were getting ready to show some prized pigs. As a result some [...]
May 17, 2008
May 14, 2008
Creative Commons Post Plugin
I wanted a way to ad a Creative Commons notice at the bottom of each post and I wanted the plugin to be able to pick what license was used based on the post authors preference. That lead me, over the last few days, to create the Creative Commons Post plugin.
May 11, 2008
May Is Not A Good Month
This May has been a bad month. So far there have been four officers killed.
My Time With a Gun – Part 3
This is a brief introduction to the department followed by a couple of stories. This concerns my time with the campus police, where I would spend the longest at any job aside from my military reserve duties. And where I would learn the most about what police work was and what being a cop really [...]
May 8, 2008
My Time With A Gun – Part 2
This is part 2 in the series – My Time With A Gun. In Part 1 I talked about my early, early career, from my first application, to being hired and then fired by that same agency. I continue here in talking about the interim. The period of months between my first agency and getting [...]
May 6, 2008
My Time With A Gun – Part 1
Some of you know, and all of you will now, that I was a cop for almost 15 years. I worked for city, special and county law enforcement. I am going to attempt to chronicle, as best I can, my career. If you are looking for something out of a “Cops” episode or “Law And [...]