True Crime
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We come in peace
At one point in my career I was posted in a small farming community in Saskatchewan, and my second winter there saw the arrival of "Jay" (not his real name), a new recruit, fresh from Depot. Although I wasn't to be Jay's trainer, I was filling in for her on the first few days of
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Binny spitch
This doesn't really fall under the category of True Crime, but I was reminded of this story earlier today and thought it worth sharing. And seeing as it does involve mounties, True Crime it is…. I don't know how many of you have been to an RCMP Regimental Ball but they are fancy affairs. The
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Upperclass Twit of the Year
Those of you who are familiar with the Monty Python sketch, will recall that during the competition of Upperclass Twit of the Year, one of the tasks was run over a dummy but one of the twits manages to run over himself. And although it seems an impossible task, except in the fertile minds of
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Passion
Its Valentine's Day, so there should be talk of love bandied about here. In conjunction with the day I was reading a bit about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. Now the story is about their love, but it also included descriptions of them as drinking heavily or alcoholics, insanely jealous and given to do
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The Ten Songs of Christmas meme
Although this post by the incomparable Townie Bastard isn't a meme in the strictest sense, I'm treating it as such. Townie has shared with us his ten favourite Christmas songs, and I'm challenging you to do the same. Here are mine, which you may or may not agree with (but at least Snoopy's Christmas or
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Flesh for fantasy (Part two)
Link to Part one. I've always consider curiosity as one of the hallmarks of a good police officer. And strangely enough, I was very curious to learn more about Stephen after finding out he'd dug up a body and kept the skull in his bedroom. I spent a little time on the computer, and then
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Sure is neat in here… (Part 2)
Link to Part 1 When we got to the apartments there was a small crowd gathered near one end of the complex. As I got out a young man named Darren ran up to me, holding his hand. "Kines, this guy stabbed me" were the first words out of his mouth as he thrust his
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Sure is neat in here…
La Ronge was an extremely busy place to be an RCMP member. For at least one of the years I was there it was the busiest police jurisdiction in Canada in terms of Criminal Code charges per member. Even at that there were days that just rose above it all. Early one Saturday morning, after
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With complete disregard (Part five)
Link to Part 1 J had a long history of dealing with the police, many of the incidents involved weapons. Shortly before I arrived in Arctic Bay, he showed up at the house of the Constable in the early morning hours, drunk, armed with a knife and a replica handgun. It was, in all probability,
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With complete disregard (Part four)
Link to Part one As it happens, the relief member Pierre, hadn't left when my partner Eric arrived back in town. It was an extremely rare occasion that we had an extra member in town, both were staying at Eric's when I took this next call at home. The caller let me know that a