An introduction

Alright.... So some of you out there reading this with the four year degrees, 25 years of experience, and instructor credentials might find your self saying, “Who the hell is this guy and why is he writing for PoliceOne? I thought writing for Police1 was only for “Billy Bad Asses” who spend all day being extra tactical and calling for a shield to clear a high risk traffic stop.” Well, I’m going to tell you the truth. I don’t know everything there is to know about law enforcement and I don’t claim too. This Blog isn’t about that at all. What I am is a Reserve Police Officer in a town with less than 2000 people. I love my town and enjoy serving it. I work about 30 hours a week and I’m not your run of the mill “ride along” style Reserve. I have had quite a few funny, sad, scary, and down right off the c hain experiences since I began in law enforcement and I just plain enjoy writing about them.

This whole thing started when I signed up for a MySpace account late in 2005. My wife had an account on MySpace every since the whole thing started. I mostly thought it was stupid and meant only for those people with no lives who sit at home with their eight million cats hoping the phone will ring. That lasted until she started finding old friends that we hadn’t talked to in a really long time. So I decided to fire up my own account. It just spiraled out of control from there. Soon I was tricking out my page and adding additional features.

An old friend of mine suggested that I start a “Cop Story” blog. A few days after signing up on MySpace, I was out riding along with a friend from another small town just like mine. We had a really good time and ran into some interesting people. From there I decided to write the story of my ride along experience. I called it, “It’s a what?” I got so much feedback on the story that I just kept writting them. Once in while something would piss me off, and I’d write a little rant about it. Like the dick licking douche bags out here in Portland Oregon that formed “Rose City Cop Watch.” These pathetic puddles of butt seapage decided to take a cops picture and put it up on a bill board after he was involved in a shooting in which he smoked some crackhead for trying to run him over with her car. (Mental note, I will have to write about that one later.)

Anyway, In late June of 2006 a couple of the Police1 editors started their own MySpace profile and asked to be my friend. I had joined Police1 about six months prior to signing up for MySpace. One of my buddies had turned me on to it. Before Police1.com I was visiting sites like LineOfDuty.com and Officer.com. Police1 just seemed to offer a lot more to it’s members as well as protect them by verifying that you are indeed law enforcement personnel.

So I let the Police1 editors view my cop story blog. About a week later I was contacted by a Police1 editor. She told me that she really liked my writing and offered me a chance to write a blog for Police1. Excited and completely honored, I agreed to do it.

So here it is in all of its magnificent glory. If there is anything funny or weird happening to me out there, you will more than likely read about it here. Oh, and my Chief and fellow officers at North Plains PD have completely signed off on this and given me free rein to share my experiences with you (keeping in mind not to give out any personal information about persons involved). So enjoy it and send me your thoughts and feedback. Thanks so much for reading and stay safe out there!