RIDING in the SQUAD with CHRIST

The thoughts and experiences of a law enforcement officer tackling the meanings of faith, the job, the tools and whatever catches his attention.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Baylor Bears Beats The Texas Long Horns at Austin!

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My Baylor Bears have actually beat Texas at Austin. Since the two teams have been playing football against each other (1901) Baylor has ma...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Good Police Work Nets Good Results

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Police Work really is about keeping your mind open, observations sharp and your work ethic up.  I think its like any job in that the tasks b...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Chemically Burned Hands-Fun!

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We were on the street in the very early morning hours when we needed to test the substances we seized.  It was discovered that we were all o...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Facebook-Data Mining One "I-Like" at a Time

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I was driving, somewhere work related, when I heard this report on NPR about the Facebook "I Like" button popping up on so many we...
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Blackhawk's game vs Nashville Predators

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My day started out incredibly stressfull in that I had to take the written portion of my departments Sargent promotional examination, one hu...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Petitions

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I know I took some time off on the blog but not a whole month...where does the time go?  Sorry.  But on the flip side I have ideas for four ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Got another one-the Mexican Cartels take another hit

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The war with the Mexican Cartels is much like the war against the Mafia from 1900-1990.  The war is winnable but it will be long, exhaustin...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

You know your a cop when...

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Yes I know this have been done to death but hey I can contribute just like the rest of the herd.  So here is a brief list of and in no parti...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Best Things in Life are...Dragonflies

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I tend to go through periods of high activity followed by low activity.  I have been letting a lot of things slide lately  such as: Bible st...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Back From Canada

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The family and I just got back from Canada in the area of Northlake, ON.  I went without shaving for about ten days, maybe eleven.  Looks li...
Monday, July 26, 2010

The Evolution of American Policing

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Law Enforcement is very sensitive to public opinion and even more so to civil lawsuits.  The restrictions placed on me in 2010 are triple wh...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

It's a Flood! Well in my basement at least.

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Had about 5 inches come into the basement last night.  Spent all day cleaning up.  Learned two things: 1) check the basement if its pouring ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Three Fallen Brothers

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Three of our fallen Chicago Pd brothers, by the hands of others in the last two months. End of tour.  Please be safe out there, each and eve...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Going out of business-The Police Business that is

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One of the reasons to go into law enforcement and not the private sector (and I promise you my roommates in college consistently called me ...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Discipline or rather the lack there of it

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Discipline...I am in vast need of a lot more lately.  Since law enforcement is a 24 hour, 7 days a week gig, you can quickly get out of your...
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Sore

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I have been in the field a bunch in the last two weeks in different surveillances. Its primarily spent hunkered down in my car, sitting stil...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

A work Stopper

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The work in the office ground to a halt the other day when one of our guys punched up the annoying orange video shorts.  I placed three here...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Some Brief Memorial Videos from DC

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Wow been gone longer than I thought away from the blog...won’t happen again. Here are some brief cell phone videos I took while at the polic...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Police Memorial-Washington DC

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Was at the candle light service at the police memorial a better post on it very soon.  But for now hug your husband/wife/brother/sister/son ...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

At&T U-Verse slowing me down

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Ok jumped into AT&T's U-verse pool last week and we have been having some problems.  With this system when it goes down, the TV, the...
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Patrolman, Detective, Juvenile officer, FTO, Bicycle Officer, Gang Officer, Traffic Crash Reconstructionist, ET, Crime Free Multi-Housing Coordinator, TFO, Patrol Sergeant with 28 years experience
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