When steel is so light. I only intended a short five mile boardwalk bike ride. It was Easter Sunday morning, a glorious sunny morning. The boardwalk was alive with early joggers, bikers […]
Through Love Colored Glasses
This Didn’t Need to Happen
I introduced myself to the deceased. We were both cops. He lay in his casket, suit-and-tied up. A NYC Transit Police Dept patch was near him. I’d never met him but we’d […]
Rubber Fangs, Velvet Claws
I went to a young Police Officer’s funeral today. And as I stood there in the spring sunshine with thousands of others, a question burned in my heart. What are you carrying […]
Defusing Social Bombs
Brave men were buried under the soil of America. This week New York City buried the second of two of it’s valiant Officers: Det Wenjian Liu and Det. Rafael Ramos. Their families’ […]
Broken Windows, Broken Hearts
You are being torn apart. The bullets tore through the broken window then through your flesh as bullets will do on their mission. Bit’s of bone and sprays of scarlet filled the […]
The Puddle Beneath his Head was Red…
You’re a NYC Transit Cop. You and your Brother and Sister officers are the Marines of NYC policing as you patrol the 660 miles of track and 468 stations of the city […]
So Mothers Don’t Cry…
So mothers don’t cry… The thing about guns is that they don’t always impress people. I was in the NYPD Felony Warrant Squad, going to literally thousands of doors in those high-crime […]
Blood of Steel
Is there ever a silver lining to murder? How about a steel lining? Job, such a tiny, compact, three-wheeled word to carry so much freight. But it does. It often carries […]
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