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Guns & Weapons » April 2012
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
HOSTAGE SITUATION AVERTED
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Guns & Weapons » February 2012
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It Happened to Me
ONE LUCKY SON OF A GUN
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Guns & Weapons » January 2012
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
What are the lessons learned?
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Guns & Weapons » November 2011
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
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ARMED AND UNMEDICATED
My department’s SWAT team is based in a small southern town with lots of locals that live out in the woods and a few that we know that are a little “off.” On this particular day, my team got activated to respond to a domestic situation with a barricaded suspect who [...]
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Guns & Weapons » October 2011
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“I Wasn’t Going To Die There”
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Isola Allen, 32, was preparing to drive her son Dextin to school one morning when three men pulled into the driveway, blocking her path. All three then forced her out of her vehicle and into the family’s home in Pine Hills, Florida.
Stranded with his 2-year-old twin sisters in the van, Dextin, 8, reached [...]
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Guns & Weapons » September 2011
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COLD-BLOODED KILLER
I was working in a violent offenders task force in May of 1999 when two armed men walked into a bank in the southeast part of town wearing full body armor and black ski masks. They confronted two armored car drivers making a cash drop off. After robbing them, one of the suspects arbitrarily shot [...]
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Guns & Weapons » July 2011
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
SHOCKING END
It was late afternoon when I was dispatched to a “suicidal subject” radio call. The caller had allegedly taken an intentional overdose of prescription medication in an attempt to harm himself. Despite the fact that he called police, the subject told dispatch that he did not want officers to respond. He added that he [...]
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Guns & Weapons » May 2011
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
DRUNK COWBOY
We were responding to a man with a gun call. I radioed my shift sergeant and suggested he go in the back way and I would take the front. The location was an old apartment building that had a front and back entrance, with stairs leading up to a common landing. We were both [...]
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Guns & Weapons » April 2011
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
THOUSAND-MILE STARE
In 2006, I was an officer in a medium-sized department in the southeast with three years on. I was working the evening shift and was dispatched to a domestic disturbance where a woman’s husband had hit her, pulled her by the hair down a flight of stairs and grabbed a steak knife to apparently kill her. The [...]
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Guns & Weapons » February 2011
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“IT HAPPENED TO ME!”
What are the lessons learned?
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