As the SPO for the Pala Indian Reservation, I was often called out for incidents that occurred on the reservation when I was not working. On one such morning, I received a call-out and I responded to just such a call ( Read more... )

In 1996, I started a new position as a Special Purpose Deputy/Officer or SPO on the Pala Indian Reservation in the County of San Diego about 50 miles northeast of the City of San Diego. The Sheriff’s Department had entered into a new era with working with the local Tribal Governments in our county to better relations and improving Law Enforcement ( Read more... )

It’s been way to long since I’ve wrote something in my journal. I have been thinking about how I should spend some of my time. I want to write stories from my Law Enforcement experiences from the past twenty seven years of being a cop ( Read more... )

It wasn’t long ago that I received this from a friend who asked me how I do my job. What she was asking is how I get through, emotionally through all of the human conditions that I experience on my job. She sent me this below with this question in mind ( Read more... )

It’s now been twenty years that I joined the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, as a Deputy Sheriff, and I’ve been thinking about many of the events and calls that I have been involved in. I thought I might jot some of them down as I remember them. One of which was my first child death that I had to deal with ( Read more... )

Tuesday, January 02, 2007 ( Read more... )