The New Man

As we drove to the jail we did as we often did, talked interview strategy. The approach which would provide the strongest opportunity to obtain a truthful statement. It was a no brainer. It mattered not what strategy we deployed, the man, one of 6 suspects involved in...
Anxiety – A Weight Too Heavy

Anxiety – A Weight Too Heavy

When I began my law enforcement career in 1992, I had no understanding of anxiety or its perils. Naivety ruled over its reality, and I did nothing to combat it until a teary-eyed drive on a lonely dark road. Years of unaddressed trauma, of not tending to my mental,...
Field Training Officers

Field Training Officers

I spotted the Jeep Wrangler parked in the Transit Mall lot not far from where the theft took place. Near it on a cell phone was a skinny man in his late twenties. I asked for his name, and he shot back, “Why?” Adding, “Cops make me anxious.” I...