The Graveyard Shift
Many of us had our first real look at a sheriff s office back in 1960 when Sheriff Andy Taylor and his fearless deputy, Barney Fife, patrolled the roads around Mayberry, [ ] The post Sheriffs: Cops, or Not? Understanding Sheriff s Offices in America appeared first on Lee Lofland .
The call a child in need of services. What I found was a child in need of love. His tired old house squatted at the end of a hard-packed red clay [ ] The post Christmas For Jimmy Lee Bailey: A Child in Need of Love appeared first on Lee Lofland .
The Twelve Nights Of Graveyard Shift On the first night of graveyard my sergeant gave to me, a car-tri-idge and a cuff key. On the second night of graveyard my sergeant [ ] The post The Twelve Nights Of Christmas Graveyard Shifts appeared first on Lee Lofland .
Morning parade. Smiling faces. Children playing. Marching bands. Turkey. Pumpkin pie. Eggnog. Football. Pistol. Badge. Vest. Kiss the kids, please. And save a drumstick for me. I m almost [ ] The post A Cop s Thanksgiving: Save a Drumstick for Me appeared first on Lee Lofland .
If I ve heard it once, I ve heard it a thousand times Never start a story with the weather. Even Elmore Leonard kicked off his Don t-do-it list with a rule about using [ ] The post Dead Women Sometimes Cry in the Rain, And Baby Socks appeared first on Lee Lofland .
It was a new novel, the third in her latest series, and, as always, in the early stages of the process the seasoned author required a new notepad for jotting [ ] The post Writers, Name Your Poison appeared first on Lee Lofland .
Working the first 240 minutes of the graveyard shift, when the crazies and criminals come out to play, and when many normal and sane folks allow alcohol and drugs to [ ] The post In the Midnight Hour: A Cup of Joe, Maggots, Memories, and Run-On Sentences appeared first on Lee Lofland .
This is what it looks like to peer down-range from behind a Thompson fully-automatic submachine gun. You can actually see a spent cartridge ejecting at the lower right-hand side of [ ] The post Thompson Sub-Machine Gun appeared first on Lee Lofland .