It seems with each passing day, another proposal emerges to cut costs by giving the duties and tasks traditionally assigned to cops to civilians. Hiring more civilian employees to get cops out from behind desks and back on the street is one thing. But a proposal to allow private process servers to serve protective orders in domestic violence cases is a good way to get someone killed, according to Delegate Kevin Kelly.

Anyone ever wonder why cops are such 'pricks'? Every shitty, rotten, horrible, scary situation that exists in life, cops deal with it. Repeatedly. Every friggen' day. Your 'worst day ever' is just another tour to a cop. Car accident, homicide, rape, robbery, baby mama drama, baby daddy drama, family dispute over who gets the last pork chop that winds up with a dinner guest sporting a steak knife in the chest, a kid that goes missing or runs away, a Dad who gets tanked up and uses Mom as a speed bag, a drug overdose, hostage situations...every despicable thing that one human being can do to another is what the police are immersed in every day.

According to a recent article posted on Jacksonville.com, an amazing police report was making the rounds inside the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. The report, dated Friday, Dec. 14, includes an unusually descriptive account by Officer R.J. Reeves of a 911 call to a home in Jacksonville Heights.

After the Sandy Hook Massacre, there have been a lot of calls to arm the nation’s schoolteachers. But according to a recent Associated Press report, that idea may be little more complicated than just handing out firearms and calling it a day. In Vermont, a Bennington high school teacher has been hospitalized following a mental health evaluation that came after he was spotted carrying the same kind of assault rifle used by Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut.

In Michigan, where cops and firefighters no longer have “the right to work,” there are 16 percent fewer police officers on the streets than a decade ago. And things are going to get worse. Law enforcement leaders across the state say 2013 will be another tough year. More budget cuts, layoffs and consolidations are on the way.

The problem with calls for tougher gun control laws in the wake of incidents like Ft. Hood, Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora, Colorado and the Gabby Giffords shooting is that proponents of these proposals somehow think we can legislate our way to safety. But would tougher gun laws or the ability of law enforcement agencies to share trace and ballistic data prevent more tragedies? Many law enforcement professionals think not.

There's a certain type of person who will believe that the world is going to hell in a hand basket no matter what the numbers say. The ranting and railing is usually accompanied by stories of how things were "back in my day." You hear a lot these days about declining moral values, the breakdown of the "traditional family," and other signs of social and moral decay frequently from older folks.

According to a recent story posted on Jacksonville.com, Michael David Dunn will be brought from Brevard County to Jacksonville after entering a not-guilty plea to charges of murder and attempted murder in the recent shooting death of a 17-year-old student at a Jacksonville gas station.

Most people remember the horrific shooting after a man walked into a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and opened fire. The gunman killed six people that day. But what most people don’t know is that the damage could have been much worse had it not been for the selfless heroism of two cops.

Generally when citizens complain about surveillance, be it a drone in sky or a security camera in housing project, authorities usually respond with something like, “If you’re not doing anything illegal, what are you worried about?”. On the issue of citizens taping police in the course of their official duties, provided they don’t interfere, the courts are asking a similar question.