Naked Gator

Why, when I put on my police uniform, am I all of a sudden transformed into “InfoMan”?
I live about 15 miles from my patrol area and have a take-home police car.  Therefore, before and after my shift, I can be found at gas stations, grocery stores and a wide variety of restaurants in my uniform [...]

Far too often we here of gunman in a standoff with police.  As we sit, tuned in to our favorite TV news station, we slowly begin to learn the full details.  More than just a lone crazed gunman, the captor has fourteen hostages that are being held against their will.  Men, women and young children, [...]

Late last night the Oakland Police Department and several families and friends suffered a tragic loss.  While making a routine traffic stop, Officer John Hege and Sgt. Mark Dunakin where fatally wounded by a wanted fugitive, Lovelle Mixon.  Later, during the manhunt, Mixon shot and killed two more officers, Sgt. Ervin Romans and Sgt. Daniel [...]

As a police officer I respond to violent and disturbing scenes on a daily basis.  Tonight was no exception.
The call comes out, “respond to censored to check on a man walking around the bridge over censored. Motorists report subject may be intoxicated”. Then a response from the first officer on scene, “dispatch, he jumped, start [...]

A ten year veteran of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is charged with having sex with a prostitute at a school.  The police officer, James Ingalls, is accused of paying a 39 year old prostitute for sex. Ingalls allegedly took the prostitute to a school where he provided security services while off-duty.  The school was [...]

Parts of the following post have been copied, with permission, from www.biotrauma911.com/blog.
I’ve been a police officer for nine years.  Even though, as a police officer, I have not been actively involved with the crime scene cleanup or blood cleanup process, I understand it to be a very detailed and labor intensive process.  Crime scene cleanup, blood cleanup, [...]