Keys
The Kid, just out of the academy, was walking a foot beat with his training officer, Linc, in an inner-city, midtown precinct. Linc, a 20-plus-year veteran, taught rookies the way […] Read More
Bobby Egbert
When policing becomes personal
I think every cop has had the experience while working an incident of coming to the realization that something is personal. Mine was on an early December morning about 15 […] Read More
Little red Corvette
I spent the majority of my first 10 years working foot patrol in the Port Authority Police Department’s Port Authority Bus Terminal Command, known as the BT, in New York […] Read More
My 9/11 — well, what I remember of it
The young police officer sat in front of me on a police bus as it made its way to the World Trade Center. I did not know her, never met […] Read More
A final ride for the fallen
Christopher Bracks put his life on the line as a United States Marine in Kosovo and Iraq. He continued his service on the streets of Los Angeles County as a […] Read More
