Early New York City Police “Badges” & Emblems of Office – 1800-1845 October 11, 2020 Administrator 0 Introduction: Ask a police historian or collector when the earliest police badge was issued in the City of New York and he/she will likely tell […] Police Collectors News – Chronicl...
Grim and gritty pre-Code crime drama about a tough-as-nails police captain (Walter Huston) with a hard-on for wiping out crime. His brother (Wallace Ford) falls for a vampy bad girl (Jean Harlow). Through her, he gets involved with gangster Sam Belmonte (a miscast Jean Hersholt). Thi...
A San Diegan cop for close to 23 years and counting, Captain Ambito wanted to pursue something not anybody can do, and he always valued the idea of making his family proud. Thus, he chose the road less traveled on, wearing the police badge after leaving the military. He knew that not ...
“All I know is that it is a personal matter,” Sosa texted Coburn. The next day, Coburn arrived at the police station with his attorney, Jill Swearingen Pierce, a friend of the family who had known Coburn since he was in middle school. They were led to one of the station’s ...
PLOT: The movie tells three stories (with some common characters) set in the mythical Basin City: in one, a police detective risks his life to stop a child-killer. In a second, a brutal, mentally ill criminal hunts down the men he believes killed the only woman who ever showed kindness...
“Well, keep me informed. Peters, you have the duty. Carry on.” The duty meant being my police liaison and watcher while I conducted my investigation. I lost my badge in my fourteenth year. Excessive force. That was the story. It wasn’t true. By that time, I was the second in ...
Portrait of a Modern Monster a tale of Hub City If you commit a crime in Hub City, it’s said the wind will reveal your sin to him. Pray the police find you. Before he does. I was a policeman in another life. I can’t say I was the best, but I certainly wasn’t the worst...
London, of course, is a special case. But even in suburban Buckinghamshire you would never leave your front door open unless you could see it. And at night, additional bolts went across all external doors and windows were locked. The police encouraged you to do that sort of thing because ...
Particularly bizarre is the police officer from Spokane who is convinced that the FTRA is the biggest conspiracy since the Rosicrucians and Mafia decided to hook up with Fu Manchu. Having been to Spokane (and briefly to its even less pleasant neighbor, Boise), I can understand this. There ...
The police seemed casual as if they thought this was just another emergency drill. It was only the faces of the older Agency agents which revealed the true nature of the danger. Beyond the perimeter of Agency personnel, military staff with more conventional weapons stood as a third line of ...