by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 17, 2014 | Features
Brainpower and stability are not synonymous. You could make that comparison between brainpower and many things: Wisdom; knowledge; behavior (look at all the crime syndicate leaders we’ve had; think they didn’t have Mensa minds?); and so on. Unfortunately,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 10, 2014 | Features
There was a master defense attorney in Milwaukee named James Shellow. He was nationally renowned, and had received a lot of press during the 1960’s civil rights protest era. He was also contacted quite frequently by defendants regarding controlled substance...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 4, 2014 | Features
If it weren’t for dealing with unexpected, crazy and very often dangerous events, police work would simply be another “pencil pusher’s” cozy affair with the working public. That is quite obvious, but it is virtually never considered when people evaluate a...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 27, 2014 | Features
I was twenty three years old and had already had a more diverse career than many police officers have during their entire time on the job. That was because I’d worked undercover for a year-and-a-half; mostly investigating narcotics dealers, but also some with...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 20, 2014 | Features
Parts of Milwaukee’s most derelict inner city areas have homes that were built in the early to middle 20th Century. They were, and remained as of the 1980s, beautiful buildings – at least by outward appearances. Their property values had fallen to a shockingly...