Monthly Archives: May 2008

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My Time With A Gun – Part 4

Or, Dogs and Pigs don’t Mix… This story comes from about 3 years into my tour with the campus police. I was working graves and patrolling south. The farthest south high school’s FFA club had a lot of animals on … Continue reading

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First Responders and SocNets

Or, how your agency can use Social Networking to inform the community you are in. This is a brief overview of how one first responder agency uses Twitter for updating the community on their actions and location and how you … Continue reading

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I wanted a way to ad a Creative Commons notice at the bottom of each post and I wanted the plugin to be able to pick what license was used based on the post authors preference. That lead me, over … Continue reading

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May Is Not A Good Month

This May has been a bad month. So far there have been four officers killed. Continue reading

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My Time With a Gun – Part 3

This is a brief introduction to the department followed by a couple of stories. This concerns my time with the campus police, where I would spend the longest at any job aside from my military reserve duties. And where I … Continue reading

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My Time With A Gun – Part 2

This is part 2 in the series – My Time With A Gun. In Part 1 I talked about my early, early career, from my first application, to being hired and then fired by that same agency. I continue here … Continue reading

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links for 2008-05-08

mike bennett podcast.com (tags: podcast)

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Portland at night.

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My Time With A Gun – Part 1

Some of you know, and all of you will now, that I was a cop for almost 15 years. I worked for city, special and county law enforcement. I am going to attempt to chronicle, as best I can, my … Continue reading

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