I'm posting this from an old, disused RP account not connected to my main email address because I'm... freaking out, a lot. If you'll indulge that tiny bit of paranoia, please try to get back to me as soon as anyone reads this ( Read more... )

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Say you've got a purse snatcher working in front of a restaurant.  The victims are tourists and don't want to press charges because they can't come back to testify or some other reason.  Can the restaurant press charges because he's driving away their business?

We've been discussing the Zimmerman case, and we're getting hung up on a definition.  One party is insisting that Zimmerman wasn't stalking Martin, because stalking is something that takes place over several days, not just once ( Read more... )

I'm currently writing a story in which my main character is enrolled in a police academy in a major city in New England. It's the first day of class and one of the new recruits shows up two minutes late. Someone else will be even later (let's say, ten minutes). I've arbitrarily decided that this first class of the day will be in Police Ethics (i.e ( Read more... )

The main character of the both I am writing lost her parents in Chicago in the mid-1990s. They were both police officers who fell in the line of duty. It is a plot point in the beginning of the book that her legal guardian has embezzled her savings ( Read more... )

I'm trying to determine how often a police officer in Chicago would be required to have firearms training. The documentation I've found says they need to be certified annually, but not how often they train ( Read more... )

For a story in editing with my publisher ( Read more... )

For Thanksgiving, TNT network ran a Castle marathon.  I know TV has little to do with reality, but one episode left me puzzled.  It opened with a young woman running away from a man and screaming.  When he catches her, he begins assaulting her (again) and a costumed superhero comes in and kills him with a sword before running away.  Castle and ( Read more... )

Wondering what the cops' angles are on human nature.

( Lindsay Lohan made me think )