I always accepted free coffee. And I’m proud of it. There’s nothing wrong with that. The links I built over coffee helped me be a better patrolman. Accepting free coffee or a free meal should not be against the rules. But it is. People say it’s the start of corruption, but it’s not. I mention…
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If you want to keep a bad drug raid from hitting the papers, I guess you shouldn’t do it to prominent white folk (see picture). Doug Donovan in the Baltimore Sun reports: [The Mayor of Berwyn Hights, Prince George County, Maryland] Calvo’s home was raided by the county Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and narcotics officers…
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I got this in a email from a Baltimore Police Officer. I couldn’t say it better myself: At the end of the day, I hope more officers will see your book as a vehicle to inform the academic community and public about the many challenges of policing in a poor urban environment. I think the…
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Annie Linskey writes in the Sun. The full story is here. City settles, calls supervisor a ‘law-abiding officer’ Two and a half years after allegations surfaced that an elite Baltimore police unit had become a rogue operation, the city did an about-face, agreeing yesterday to pay the squad’s supervisor a six-figure settlement and issuing a…
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I was starting to think I was the only sane person in a crazy world. Then another email flew in over the transom: I read the “real” first edition of your book, before the publisher recalled it for typographical errors. I mention this not because it confers upon me any particular credibility, but to highlight…
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I received an email from a former commander of the Eastern District (he retired before I was there). He too refuses to read my book [everything below is edited and cut for length from the original emails]: Your apparent motivation for writing your book would indicate that it was successful, you have your new profession,…
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Or so says the BBC. It’s not a bullet-proof bra. It’s a bra designed not be dangerous when combined with the impact of a bullet on body armor. But I do love the fact it says “police” on the bottom. It is being dubbed the new “bullet-proof bra”, a new kind of Wonderbra which could…
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Very little is known (or has been written) about rural cops. Certainly I’m very guilty of an urban bias. This could be the man to inform us. He’s planning on writing. I’ll encourage him. More good stuff: For the past nine months I have been pushing a sled in one of the poorest and most…
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I received this email a while back from a Baltimore Cop who transferred elsewhere. I’m protected his identity (of course) by blocking out a few details with ****. (By the way, I think the “proper” spelling of “screet” is with a K, but that’s a minor issue.) This is good stuff. perhaps even better than…
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…Reading your blog about the book certainly reminded me of my own experiences. I’m sure you knew you’d get criticism from salty old veterans who think it takes 20 years of driving in circles for 8 hours a day to figure out the streets… but I agree with you, it doesn’t.