Let the tears flow
If a victim starts crying during an interview, don’t immediately volunteer to stop the interview (“It’s OK. Let’s take a break and give you a minute to gather your thoughts…â€) That kind of response can make a victim feel inadequate, weak and further out of control of him/herself. It can also divert their attention from the main goal of the discussion – which is trying to get you the important details of the event you need – to the task of just trying to hold back tears so you don’t have to stop the interview. If they start crying, offer them a Kleenex, but don’t …Read more […..]
Off-duty Chicago cop praised for response to scissors attack in Utah
An off-duty Chicago police officer who had just finished eating breakfast Saturday morning at a pancake restaurant near Provo, Utah, may have saved the life of a man who was attacked in the parking lot by a mentally ill man wielding fabric scissors, police said.Police in Orem, about 5 miles north of Provo, said a man from Boise, Idaho, and his girlfriend, who is from Provo, were saying goodbye when Sergio W. Weffer, 33, of Salt Lake City approached them. Weffer then began stabbing the man, slashing him in the face, neck and arm, police said.The Chicago officer, who had been in Utah at a law enforcement conference, pulled his …Read more […..]
TV Comercial Filming Trip, You're Not Going Away, Emma's 1st Sleepover
A week after getting back from Disney World we went to Los Angeles. It was something we could not pass up–at least I couldn’t. Since my days as a child model for Spiegel, Sears, and others I have had an itch to do something like that again. Last year both Melissa and I were in a Sleep Number Bed commercial. A few weeks ago they contacted us and said that everyone remembers us and that they would like to fly us to California to shoot an infomercial. Well, we jumped at the chance…To be treated like a celebrity for a day was quite the experience. When we got to the airport there was a guy with a sign with our names waiting …Read more […..]
Hook, I Want to Be Safe, Let's Talk for Awhile, Maybe I'm Little & Maybe I'm Big, Zoo
Funny how Emma has changed regarding what she likes to watch on TV. Gone are the days when she would watch Wonderpets, The Wiggles, The Doodlebops, and Jay Jay the Jet Plane. In are the days of Monsters Inc., Cars, Shrek, Nemo, Ariel, and for the last week or so Peter Pan. Emma has had a fascination with Captain Hook(Hook) since she saw him at the Disney World live show last April. She was afraid to go by the statue that is at Navy Pier. She just started watching Peter Pan and I have to say that it brings back memories for me. I had forgotten what it was all about but watching it again brought back fond memories. Emma likes …Read more […..]
Is This Crazy or What?
Some were rejected from suburban police departments.Others sold cocaine and smoked pot.A few were thieves. Others are related to crooks. One was even a gang member.They’re among dozens of people restored to the Chicago Police Department’s hiring list after they were found unfit to become cops.The Chicago Sun-Times explored a little-known appeals process for police applicants blackballed because of problems in their backgrounds.Of 221 who appealed, 79 people were returned to the hiring list by the city’s Human Resources Board between 2005 and 2007, records show.One-hundred twenty-eight were kept off the hiring list and another …Read more […..]
Informant offers rare look inside Ill. gang
CHICAGO — Jesse Guajardo choked back tears on the witness stand in federal court as he abandoned his second family once and for all.He had grown up in the Latin Kings street gang, peddling drugs when he was only 8 and becoming a soldier when he was a young teenager. After an uncle recommended him for membership in 1988, he suffered a beating or “violation” by three Latin Kings to join the gang’s ranks. By 2006, at age 29, he was a chapter leader in the southwest suburbs, commanding two dozen soldiers and making his betrayal of the Latin Kings that much more stunning. He was facing life in prison in a drug case when he …Read more […..]
True FTO Story
An FTO story…When you are an FTO you come across some real characters when training rookie police officers. Many times you may find yourself asking, “How did this person get hired?” Whether it is because the person is a friend of a politician or is a suck up to the police chief it is a sad state of affairs when someone who clearly should be in another line of work gets hired as a police officer.With that in mind, I am reminded of someone who rode along with me. This guy, lets call him Wilbur to conceal his identity, thought that he was the sh*t. I mean he thought that all the ladies (and guys) loved him and that rules didn’t …Read more […..]