My partner, Rags Valdez, and I roll through the barrio in plain clothes, driving a beat up, unmarked Toyota. We’re looking for robbery suspects. Trying to catch them red handed. Easier to do looking like two average Joes.
Tonight’s a cold night. Not a lot of pedestrian activity. Not a lot [...]
I quit.
Cigarettes, that is. Smoked my last one at the end of my shift tonight.
I’m tired of not being able to wake up without nicotine. Staying wired with the help of coffee and energy drinks. Then not being able to sleep without melatonin. And then starting the whole thing over [...]
It’s a broken home on a broken street in a shitty neighborhood. Inside, a man and a woman slur threats at each other. Children scream. “Call the motherfuckin’ poh-leece bitch!” shouts the man. “I ain’t done shit!”
She already did. That’s why we’re here. My partner, Rags Valdez, and I stand [...]
It’s dark. A shadow drifts down the sidewalk. I shine my spotlight to get a better look. It’s just a regular guy. I kill the light and keep driving. The regular guy puts up his hand and scowls. “That guy just flipped you off, bro,” says my partner, Rags Valdez.
“Really? [...]
I’m back. I turn on my Verizon cell phone. Check my messages. Nothing unusual. I reach for my pre-paid mobile. My snitch line. The only number I give out while I’m on duty. The only number Sara has.
My snitch line’s voicemail is full of Sara. Messages of concern. Despair. [...]
Four cops start their shifts in a coffee shop, using their laptops. A lone gunman walks in and opens fire on the police, killing all of them. The suspect then flees.
Sound like a gangster’s wet dream? Sure does. But this was the worst-case ambush scenario come true for four [...]
Front Porch Society’s initial guess was right on the money. Happy belated Thanksgiving from China! I don’t speak a lick of Chinese, but it’s good times here in Shanghai.
StaceyFace was partially correct. I had a layover in Japan, but never left the airport. Oh, well. Maybe [...]
I’ve skipped town. I’m not even in the country right now–I’m on the other side of the world. My vacation was way past due, and I’m taking advantage of every vacation hour earned.
Sorry for the late heads up. I was going to post something before heading to the airport, but [...]
It was time for the take down. Three undercover cops made purchases at the neighborhood crack house, and were now in pocket. The radio crackled. It was the observation post: “Standby guys, we have a surprise guest.”
The surprise guest was a gangster who resupplied the spot, moniker of Spider–a violent [...]
Spider-Man: no match for the LAPD. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
According to the Los Angeles Times, Spider-Man was nabbed by LA cops on Wednesday, and is being held on a bunch of misdemeanor warrants in lieu of $5,500 bail:
The incident began when Los Angeles Police [...]
There’s a gangster on the corner. Shaved head covered with tattoos–the name of his set in bold, “Fuck the Police” in italics. He’s leaning on a fence, drinking a Bud Light. He sees us and walks away.
My partner, Rags Valdez, and I form the opinion that Mr. Fuck the Police [...]
Sara and I don’t talk much. We meet. Have obligatory conversations about the weather. And then we fuck.
She’s wild. Primal. Beyond kinky.
One night, we get drunk. She tells me to choke her out (using the carotid neck restraint). She wants to wake up to me fucking her. It’s a [...]
A Seattle police officer is dead, and his trainee injured in what appears to have been a spontaneous ambush. According to the Seattle Police Department, Officer Timothy Brenton, 39, and his rookie, Officer Britt Sweeney, 33, were parked in their patrol car, debriefing a traffic stop. It was a [...]
Three drunk gangsters approach a guy and his puppy. A verbal altercation ensues. The biggest and fattest of the gangsters shoves the guy and snatches the leash from him. Then he swings the puppy around and slams it into a wall. The puppy yelps and hits the pavement. “I got [...]
So these two guys go to a panaderia. One of them walks right into the glass door, face first, and chips a tooth. Embarrassing, don’t you think?
He doesn’t think so. The guy calls the police. Wants a report. “What kind of report?” I ask.
He explains to me that he called [...]
A pack of black gangsters ventured away from their ’hood, and into the barrio. They mobbed down the street, beating and robbing anyone in their path. Multiple radio calls described the same suspects, same modus operandi.
“A bunch of fucking mayates,” said one victim. Ten of them, to be exact. Blood [...]
This knucklehead is a jobless gangster with no redeeming qualities. He was booked for robbery. “Please sir, I’m innocent,” he said after the victim positively identified him. “I don’t bang no more. My daughter was just born yesterday. I’m a changed man.”
“I’ve arrested my share of prostitutes,” [...]
So you’re standing around. Maybe at a strip mall. Perhaps at a gas station. It doesn’t matter. You’re outside, in a public place. All of a sudden, the police pull someone over. Next thing you know, six cops step out of their cars, guns pointed at the driver.
One cop is [...]
Officer Paige Thompson was end of watch, and on her way home. A mile away from the station, she noticed a red Honda with three onion heads right behind her. She was being tailed.
After three hard rights and a sharp u-turn, the Honda was still behind her. Paige stuck her [...]
Roman Raymond Polanski is a celebrated film director, producer, writer and actor. In March 1977, at the age of 43, he raped a 13-year-old girl, Samantha Gailey. Before the judge could pass sentence, Polanski skipped town. He’s been in France, mostly, since then.
On September 26, 2009, he traveled to Switzerland. [...]
