RJ’s Blog

This morning I got the new product recommendation email from Police Magazine. Usually this email is an advertising for any of the normal police product manufactures. Today I was taken back because it was for an e-cigarette device.

This seems to be the new version of the USA. Now all people who work in Law Enforcement are the enemy and every citizen journalist is waiting to get a viral video hit. Personally I think it is the way elected officials have reacted to various events that have created a quasi "war on the cops".

Over the past few months bashing of the police has become the acceptable practice dejuor. Those of us police work aware that most citizen support us, or at least tolerate us, but it seems the vocal minority of cop hate has the stage.

The past few months have been hard to work in Law Enforcement. It seems us Police officers now can't do anything right. Arrest a bad guy we are the villains for being aggressive. Fail to arrest a bad guy and we are lazy incompetent buffoons.

Check out this Video from CNN. Rioters are cutting the supply line feeding an engine on scene of a fire at a CVS pharmacy.

Many police officers have had it happen every day. Make a traffic stop and have the driver ask “Why are you wasting time on this BS… Why don’t you go arrest the real criminals.” I have co-workers with various glib comebacks. In most respects I hate the glib comebacks because due to the perception of cops in the current media. ...

Some interesting video has come out of Arizona’s Marana Police Department. A man armed with a rifle gets hit by a police squad car. The suspect was hurt but not killed. No police and no civilians were killed. Scrolling over various social media sites the reaction to this video is polarized. People with a generally pro-police mindset see this as ...

I recently saw this "Ted Talk" video. It has been around a few years already but for some reason it has never come to my attention till recently. It is great story about how everybody has the potential to jump into a leadership role in everyday activity.

Pranks are an age old tradition in the for anyone working Police, fire and EMS. The other day we asked on our Facebook page what some of the best pranks you ever pulled were. Here are the top 5 answers… #1. Gain access to a buddies squad car (or Ambulance) and spray peppery spray down all the vents. The turn ...

Two nights ago (March 24, 2015) we had two police officer shot and killed in the US. One was killed out in San Jose, CA. The other was less than 40 miles from where I sit now, down in Fond Du Lac, WI. The officer killed here in Wisconsin is actually a state trooper.