http://hockeycop.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:44:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The timing of this entry is somewhat ironic. I wrote The Fall not long after Saginaw voters approved the first 5-year public safety millage back in 2006. I've always felt that police work is a job that revolves around extreme highs and extreme lows. In fact, I think this emotional ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=179 One of the things I struggled with when writing Beyond Hope? was the overwhelming sense of despair within the book itself. Obviously, writing about being a cop in a city the FBI recently named as the most violent (per capita) in the United States, the content is going to be ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=176 During the course of writing my previous book, Burden of the Badge - A Year in the Life of a Street Cop, I found the diary format I had chosen for that book lended itself toward being somewhat monotonous. I was okay with that because that particular book was written ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=172 Many things in my work life have changed since I became a cop in 1994. One of the more prominent of these is that I no longer enjoy car chases the way I used to. They're just too damn risky, and not just for the cop and the bad guy, ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=167 I included "Crime Takes No Holidays" in this book because it is a perfect example of the type of "one of those days" that cops experience so often. This chapter could have been written about a hundred other crime scenes over the years that were worked by me or any ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=161 I received this correspondance earlier in the week and thought I would post it for all to read: Thank you for your efforts to do good police work. Thank you for all the kindness you have extended to people throughout your career. Thank you for writing your books, and sharing your ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=157 Chapter 3 of Beyond Hope? was actually stolen from my first book, Burden of the Badge. The event which is the subject of this chapter was simply too important in the timeline of my cop career to be left out. Plus, since Burden of the Badge was written more in ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=153 One of the things I often hear about cops is that they're impersonal and hard to get to know. I've also often heard: "I hate cops; they're a bunch of assholes!" Certainly, the above average rates of divorce, suicide and alcoholism within the police fraternity bears out that most cops ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=133 When I came up with the idea of writing Beyond Hope? I just started writing chapters in no particular order. "Just write. Worry about organization later," is what a writer friend once told me. Oddly, "Knock, knock . . . " was the second chapter in the original draft of ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=130 I've been saying for a couple months now that want to write a chapter-by-chapter dissection of Beyond Hope? on this blog space. Since today is New Year's Eve, it is a good jumping off point. I'll try to post a few times each month and get through the book by ... http://hockeycop.com/wordpress/?p=127