Monday, September 8, 2025

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

Motivation

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 Recently, we were mandated to go to the State of the City speech.  While overtime is always good, I was also looking forward to going to th...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Institutional Knowledge and Retention

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 When I first came on the job in 1997, the typical retirement occurred at 30 years of service, and it was a full retirement (Ie, no more wor...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Police Gear Innovation

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 I was assigned with helping get a lateral officer's reviews up to date because, well, we missed every one once he was off of FTO.  It w...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Long Week

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  July 1 12 hours volunteering at the camp's kitchen with my wife-we have an RV at the camp (That there         Clark is what they call...

Countdown

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 18 months to go!
Sunday, July 6, 2025

I cursed myself on the 4th of July

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 This Fourth of July, I came in early for the parade detail. The detail is double time, so it's worth sweating through your uniform. Thi...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Last Duty Gun

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 I am down to 19 months until retirement with 30 years on.  I thought that this would be a good excuse to purchase my "plaque gun"...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Missed Opportunities: Could have Improved Morale

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 Morale in a police department is a tricky thing.  Most of the time the budget is set a year and a half in advance and has little flexibilit...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Have a very merry Christmas

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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Merry Christmas

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 One of the overlooked aspects of law enforcement (And FD, RN, and PW) is working weekends and holidays, when almost everyone else is off.  ...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Change for the Better

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 Police officers are fixers.  To fix something, you must identify the individual elements, understand their integration, and devise a soluti...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Training

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 Sometimes the simplest things can do the most good.  Every police training that I have been subjected to in my 26 years (soon 27) in this p...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Now That I Finally Have Time

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 This year has been a bit of a milestone in my adult life.  First, on January 3 of this year I was promoted to Sergeant and by the luck of t...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Story 2 for the Safe-T Act

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  Now to be fair, they supposedly fixed this problem with a rider bill, but I think it illuminates a couple of key concepts of the people th...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Story One of the Safe-T Act

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  This fine young gentleman had a hammer in his backpack and walked down Golf Rd, breaking out the back windows of multiple cars.  He hit Sc...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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                                                              Back because of Safe-T Between trying to finish my Ph.D. program, being in a n...

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  This is dedicated to every person that has served in law enforcement with honor and sacrifice.   Your good deeds, dedication to justice, s...
Monday, June 1, 2020

Solution-less Problem of Perceived Racial Inequality in Law Enforcement

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It has to be said, there is no systemic racism in law enforcement.  Frankly, in my 23 years in law enforcement I do not even know one off...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Helping Others

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We in American are extremely blessed, overabundantly, exuberantly and impossibly blessed. I often catch myself worrying over some trivial ...
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I am still around

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I know that I have posted this type of post in the past, but I have not given up on this blog.  I just have so few hours left to me that wh...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

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Playing hooky...I am in a PhD program that is expiated so rather than 16 weeks long it is 8.  So when one class ends on Sunday at 1159am, t...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Doing it right-Law Enforcement Appreciation Day

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Very cool to see what Northwest Bible Baptist Church is doing.  With all the negative press our profession is getting its good to see peo...
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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Disavowed, Dishonored and Disgraced Lt Joseph Gliniewicz

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This blog has long been about promoting all the good that Christian Police Officers spread throughout their communities and to educate the ...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The media

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I am asked frequently what I think of the media and why, in general, does there appear to be animosity between the two. I like exemplary ...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

The L-Word

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I was telling a story at roll call and used the word "literally" about a dozen times.  The good Sargent then made note of that an...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

I'm Back

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I took a break from the blog for a number of reasons. First, at my department I was going through a tough time with the administration an...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Team work

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Police work is by its very nature quintessential team work.  The roles require a level of creativity yet maintain dedicated role boundaries...
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Monday, June 30, 2014

Finally Illinois get's something right...well sort of...

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The Illinois General Assembly passed Public Act 098-0650:  The no police quota act.  So on the plus side they can no longer have the list...
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Friday, June 27, 2014

How to Become a Police Officer dot com (We made top thirty)

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I was recently notified by the associate editor at  How to Become a Police Officer site  that this blog had made their top thirty. I to...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Kevlar-May she rest in piece

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Most of my twenty year working life, from security guard to police officer, I have been encapsulated by a Kevlar bullet proof vest.  It...
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