I joined the Metropolitan Police of Washington DC in 1973. I spent 21 years there mostly as a detective and the last five in Homicide. I retired in late 1993 and went to work for the Maryland Natural Resources Police where I was eventually promoted...
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Brad Howard is with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Santa Ana Resident Agency, in Santa Ana, California. In the fall of 1996, after working as an attorney for 9 years in private practice in Orange County, California, I switched careers and became a Special Agent with...
Randy Farris is an officer with the Bakersfield Police Department in Bakersfield, CA. In early 2007, I started experiencing difficulties while eating. Often times my chest would tighten up, causing problems with my ability to breathe and swallow the food I was trying to eat. This...
Greg Giltner is a police officer with the Oklahoma City Police Department in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I am a 21 year veteran with the Okla. City Police Dept. I spent 12 years in Patrol, 8 1/2 as a FTO, 3 years in Traffic and my current...
Dave Harrington is a member of the Orange County Sheriff's Department and has been for the last 24 years. He has worked the jail, patrol, investigations, sergeant in the jail, sergeant in patrol and currently the administrative sergeant for the City of Laguna Hills. In the...
Jackie Bezart has been a police officer for the Long Beach Police Department for the past eight years. Her assignments have included patrol officer, recruiting officer, background investigator, youth services and Police Athletic League. Her current assignment is Police Cadet Coordinator and department spokeswoman assigned...
Tim Brown is with the Bakersfield Police Department in Bakersfield California. On January 18th, 2007, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer during a routine physical examination. My cancer was later determined to be stage three because it had spread to my lymph system. Within days of...
Curtis J. Cope is a retired law enforcement official. My survivor story is two fold. I was diagnosed with CML in March of 2004. I was blessed with the fact that the medication Gleevac had been approved by the FDA in late 2001. That is the...
Maria Lopez is an officer with the Long Beach Police Department in Long Beach, California. Tuesday, April 15, 2008 was a beautiful and typical Southern California day. Driving north on the 710 Freeway with my partner, talking and laughing about the job, I suddenly was jolted...