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I started my police career in 1993, when I was all of 25 years old. I gave the next 27 years of my younger life to the pursuit of
justice and crunching crime. I saw some things, did some things. Most of them are summarized in very general terms here. If
you’re thinking about getting into law enforcement and want more information, you can read this and think it over. And if at
the end you still think it’s your noble destiny, I’d recommend you go find a mental health professional to diagnose what’s wrong
with you. For all you others who just want a peek into what was my world and life, here ya go. With plenty of colorful and
exciting pictures for you visual learners.

Before I begin, I want to emphasize that my personal policing experiences were not exceptional, special, or above average in any
way, shape, or form, and I make no claims to have had any extraordinary events that would impress any other cops anywhere.
Indeed, any big city cop with a comparable number of years of experience would have me beat considerably in any and every
category. Although I’ve written this all in a first-person narrative, this is really a tribute to all of my brother and sister officers,
everywhere. Some see themselves as guardians, some are warriors; all are peacekeepers and public servants. If you know a cop,
or if you are a cop, these pages are as much about them (or you) as they are about me.

My career was typical for a small town cop in my day and age, and not super-duper exciting most of the time. But to shed a little
modesty, looking back on what I’ve written here I do have to admit that I definitely beat out a lot of other working folks in terms
of job excitement. Which is not to say that I think I was “better” in any way than say, a bus driver, or a store cashier, or an
assembly line worker, or a baker, but if we challenged one of them to compile their career experiences like I have here…well, it’s
a safe bet that my stories are probably more interesting. Although I certainly can’t compare to fire fighters or ER doctors or
nurses or career special forces guys. All of those folks have seen tons more craziness than me.