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...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 13, 2014 | Features
Sometimes the whole truth about a crime never reaches the police. At least, not in an official way. I was on my way to Headquarters minutes before the end of my shift when a shooting was reported on the police radio. I picked up the dash microphone and told the...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 6, 2014 | Features
New York cops are the best! Well, at least two of them I met in about 1975 are the best. Or were, back then. They came roaring into Milwaukee one day, subpoenaed to the south east Wisconsin Federal District Court for a major drug trial regarding a crime that began in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 29, 2014 | Features
Field training is your real beginning moment as a cop. I’d been a police aide for the Milwaukee Police Department for nineteen months, been around cops and precincts and commanding officers and even close up to some people who’d been arrested for...
