Graphic Content Warning:Old and new, big and small, good and bad – contrasts have a way of bringing clarity. And within contrasts we can still see similarities.My policing experience was full of contrasts – and similarities. My first few years wearing a badge and toting a gun were spent in ..
While browsing the other day among various blogs, I came across a post at The Johnny Law Chronicles. On the sidebar, “Johnny Law” describes himself as, “Cop and military vet. I've been doing this for awhile but I'm still loving every day of it (more or less).” Evidently Johnny Law is a ..
Give any person significant power and authority and it is possible to abuse it. Neither status, nor gender, nor race, nor so-called sexual orientation matters. The one common factor is the human one. Yet that is still no excuse for police abusing their authority and all the more reason for ..
Back on June 2, 2009, Perry Township Ohio Chief of Police, Timothy Escola, and his recently hired part time officer Janine England - one of the 29 officers in the department - had to travel to the Cincinnati area to bring a burglary suspect back to Stark County. It was a long drive - almost ..
No doubt about it, occasionally police officers face deadly force circumstances. On Tuesday July 28, 2009, in Colorado Springs, 29-year-old Delvikio Falkner and 31-year-old Orlando Guevara were reported to have entered a Lingerie store brandishing at least one firearm. Employees activated an ..