STREET SMARTS: Foot Pursuits
On 2 March 2018, the 24th U.S. police officer to die this year in the line of duty…
Don’t Keep Your Hands to Yourself
Is there anything quite as memorable as finding out that you’re going to be a parent, or that…
What a Pane!
While staring out an airplane window last week, I marveled at the multiple thicknesses of acrylic that protected…
Street Smarts: Caching Fever
While the occasional reader has accused this writer of being a second-rate version of the sainted Louis Awerbuck,…
Street Smarts: Guns and Kids
Now that I’ve officially earned my field commission as a Grandfather First Class, the subject of children and…
STREET SMARTS: This Is a Stick-Up!
Lots of things suck about jobs. Lazy co-workers, stupid or bossy bosses, that vending machine in the break…
Street Smarts: Cop-Community Relations
It’s pretty obvious we have a problem in this country regarding police-community relations. Police feel they simply cannot…
Street Smarts: Security Checkpoints
If you’ve ever wanted to watch a gun writer get angry, you should have been with me two…
Street Smarts: Suicide Isn’t Painless
Are you going to kill yourself? That abrupt query is not our usual attention-grabber meant to draw the…
Help From Above: Satellite Emergency Beacons
There are still vast areas, even along interstate highways and in population centers, where cell signal is absent. If you have an emergency in those places, there is no longer a pay phone on the corner, and you’ll find yourself back at the turn of the 20th century in terms of calling for help.