Musings of Wired Pig

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 property and they were getting ready to show some prized pigs. As a result some of their [...]

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 can get your agency using Twitter or Brightkite or any other SocNet for more than just [...]

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 the last few days, to create the Creative Commons Post plugin.

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

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 would learn the most about what police work was and what being a cop really [...]

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 in talking about the interim. The period of months between my first agency and getting the [...]

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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 career. If you are looking for something out of a “Cops” episode or “Law And [...]