by Derek Snow
When a young man or woman graduates the police academy, completes their probationary year and begin to ride by themselves on patrol, every single one of them believe that they are going to save the world. By the time they...read more
The streets of north Greenville were unusually quiet and serene that spring evening. I was making my rounds, watching for signs of burglaries and checking the alleys behind the businesses along Lee Street, the old main tho...read more
by Kat Stovall
Bless the men and women who carry those badges and protect us. Everyone has an off day even a police man. Several Christmas' ago my husband and I were driving through town with our two children when low and behold we saw ...read more
by G.Roy White
Funny stories about local police This more of a funny story about myself, I have been in law enforcement for seventeen years. I need to back up to a month or so before and the night before the story takes place hopefully t...read more
by James L
Working for local government, whenever our law enforcement officers or firefighter personnel come in to transact business, and they are on duty, we try to get them in and out as soon as possible without seeming to be biase...read more
I worked in a town with one traffic light, 44 streets, and about 5 miles of north and southbound interstate. During the course of the night we were required to do light pole checks, and the usual patrolling of the neighbo...read more
by Randal Purdy
We only had one police officer in the small town where I was raised in the 60's. He was an older man and was calm,cool,and collected,most of the time.He would lead the Christmas parade every year. Behind him would be th...read more
I live in a small town in southern Indiana and the police here are all about the wallet you can be the riches person here and they will ignore you and your crimes... Why isn't there any justice here in the United States an...read more
by Nouri Arif
Charlotte, North Carolina, 2001: Career detective outsmarted by a fifteen year old burglar. It happened. It's a true story. Names are being with held to protect the truly stupid. One summer afternoon while t...read more
by Regina W
This story took place in a very small town in Georgia. When I say small, I mean less than 500 people in the entire town. This town was well known for being a speed trap. There was a Police Officer that patrolled the town a...read more
A group of teenagers were shooting each other with plastic guns that shot out little plastic balls,mind you these guns were clear plastic. Evidently a local woman driving by perceived this as "a teenager pointing a live g...read more
Revised Article What does one wear to Jail One of the oddest things to see is just what people are wearing when they get to jail. I have seen people in everything from a Wedding dress or Tux to nothing, and every im...read more
by Erin Keeney
In a little town in Hurricane, West Virginia, things are not what i would call normal when it comes to the police. I had no idea how akward things where until i started working at a little redneck bar called "the highway"...read more
by Randa Morris
This is a story I really shouldn't tell, since it involves embarrassing myself in a terrible way. I'm an original city girl. When my family and I decided to move north, to the wood country in Michigan, I though I would be...read more
by Neil Dixon
01.30 Am. That was the time being displayed on my alarm clock as I was woken by the siren whistling loudly from next doors house alarm. I wearily got out of bed and went downstairs to investigate further. Out of my back d...read more
by Dave Tan
A old lady half body was out of the kitchen's window at nine floor unit. The officers arrived at scene and rushed up to the unit and knocked on the door. A male subject answered to the door and informed "No one is hanging ...read more
Well, I'm sure you've heard enough over the broad news, and different versions or whatnot (FOX, CNN, BBC, what have you.) I live in a parish directly between the easternmost parishes (Orleans area, which Katrina decimated,...read more
Once upon a time when I was a little girl in the fifth grade, we participated in a program run by the local police department. Every week an officer would visit our class and teach us all about drugs, alcohol, how to a...read more
by Aurianna
About a month ago, some boys in my neighborhood broke out the back window of my car. I've been meaning to get it fixed, but it's the holiday season and money seems to disappear. In the mean time, I've removed all the broke...read more
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