Why waste it?

After thirty years in law enforcement, in small town and big city, from rural sheriff’s deputy to metro street sergeant, in five states and seven agencies, filling every role from dispatcher to chief of police, I have seen a lot and learned a lot.  Why waste it now that I am retired.  Granted most of what I have learned can be prefaced with, “I won’t do that again,” but hey, I still say, why waste it.

There have been so many questions over the years.  It’s true that the list gets much smaller when I eliminate the questions that began with, “Officer can you tell me how to get to…” but still.  Sometimes I had to go looking for answers and often had to dig deep to find them.  Why not share some of the things I found and possibly save someone else that trouble.  Besides now that I’m older, I talk to myself a lot and if I can pretend to be talking to someone on the internet maybe my wife will hold off putting me in that rest home one more day.

So what can you expect from this site?  If you have been a recipient of my newsletter over the years you will know to expect more nonsense than sense but if you hang out long enough you might collect a useful nugget now and again.  You’ve heard the expression about a stopped clock being right twice a day, well I grew up in Kansas and I prefer the saying, “Even a blind hog roots out a tater now and again.”  So I guess if taters are what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place.  Even if all you get is a laugh or two that’s okay too.  I would even say it’s good (like a medicine to be scriptural about it).

Which brings  me to another aspect of this site – besides the usual cop stories of thefts and robberies, pursuits and foot chases, and the like, you will also get in on the greatest investigation of my life and the eternal truths that I came across during that caper.

But that’s enough of the preamble.  Keep this site staked out.  You never know what we might get into.