Code Four – Stories from Patrol

Not the smartest…

Posted by on April 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm

Criminal minds cover the entire range of intelligence; there are smart crooks and there are not-so-smart crooks. Even the least seasoned bad guy should know it’s not a good idea to drive around town while he and his buddy are fully masked up and looking like a couple of robbers. ************ And they actually asked what [...]

Two Left Feet

Posted by on February 27, 2011 at 5:46 pm

Some crooks take all the fun out of real life cops & robbers. Take the fellow from the other night.  He and his two friends were in the process of robbing a man and when I arrived at the scene, they ran (as expected).  I gave chase but the three suspects darted out of sight [...]

Bait Car…Almost

Posted by on January 17, 2011 at 10:38 pm

The other night I covered patrol units at a fight and I ended up several meters away from my truck.  The entire incident turned into a non-event, with the exception of what happened when I walked back to my truck. There were five guys (all known to police and none of them very nice) standing [...]

Roxanne

Posted by on January 10, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA (ecstasy) – in the right amounts, all of them are lethal. No surprise there. Many of the addicts I’ve spoken to started their road to full blown addiction by smoking the occasional joint, thinking casual marijuana use would not hurt them.  How wrong they were. Of course, the majority of the [...]

We Have a Winner!

Posted by on December 9, 2010 at 11:23 pm

There were 24 commenters on the Give-Away post, and the random number generator selected this number: 9. So that means our winner is Helen Abear!  Congratulations! Helen, send me an email at sandra@behindtheblueline with your contact information so I know where to send the book. As for the Darwin Awards, I nearly inducted myself into [...]