Tag: Police

• April 25, 2025

  #50: Oklahoma City: 30 Years Later

  “But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world.  A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.” -William Cowper The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and the temperature is rising.  Spring is in the air.  The annual excitement surrounding the end of winter goes back thousands…
• August 24, 2024

  #41: The 2024 Olympic Games

  In 1972, the “darkest day in Olympic history” occurred during the Summer Games in Munich.  Largely in part to the criticism of government forces having killed numerous revolutionaries protesting the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, it was decided that the German police guarding Munich four years later would be unarmed and nonconfrontational.  Taking advantage of this…
• April 14, 2024

  #35: Emerald City

  Those who frequently travel are aware of the way vacations and business trips tend to become social experiments rather than sightseeing expeditions.  Sure, we all want to visit the world’s largest ball of twine or try to make the King’s Guard smile, but the purest form of adventure is comprised of what occurs in transit…
• March 24, 2024

  #34: Pretzels and Beer

  Continued from Blog #33: Munich Security Conference Hallway reputation.  Personal brand.  Leadership shadow.  Regardless of the buzzwords we use to describe the way others think about us in the workplace, a bad reputation can be hard to shake.  The concept isn’t exclusive to humans, either.  Amsterdam banned the smoking of cannabis in public in an…
• September 11, 2023

  #24: Tunnel to Towers

  September 11th, 2001.  FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller’s shift on the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood had ended earlier that morning.  He was looking forward to a day off, so much so that he was already on the way to the links to play golf with his brothers.  That outing was interrupted by…