The Nest — #Sheriff

The Independence Day holiday can increase exponentially the number of intoxicated knuckleheads you’re likely to encounter on your shift The months of June, July, August, and September tend to bring out a wee bit more of ‘the crazy’ than is typically encountered in the ‘dead of winter’ or the mild months of autumn and spring. Triple digit temps and extended daylight hours just seem to bring out the mouth-breathing nut jobs with greater regularity. The summertime heat begets bar patrons on sidewalks for miscellaneous mayhem far more frequently than you’d find in February, and we’ve all seen more than one...

by Lisa Wilson I have had the experience of being married before to a “regular” hubby and we went about our daily business as two individuals who did their own thing, loved each other and co-habited. Until we didn’t. I am grateful every day that we didn’t make it because I adore being married to my boy in blue. Being married to a police officer is totally different than being married to a regular Joe. It is a responsibility, a burden and an honor/blessing for those of you who are religious. It is often thankless. It throws up challenges and has...

  Two young boys in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, spent their Sunday afternoon doing something special to show their appreciation for local law enforcement and firefighters. Aiden Best and Nathan Perry set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the police department. “I feel like you haven’t really seen anybody thanking any of them right now so this is for them,” Aiden told reporters. “We felt like the police have done so much for us and they have nothing in return,” Nathan added. “They just did it because it’s their job.” The boys used the $50 they raised to buy...

For this cop, making sure a boy felt comforted was all part of wearing the badge.  “It was just human instinct.” A photo that recently went viral on Facebook features Officer James Hurst of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department in Georgia, holding a child at a hospital.  The boy had been found without adult supervision and taken to the facility, where the child became upset during a medical examination. So the officer made sure the boy would feel safe.  “I just knew this child needed somebody to be there for him,” Hurst said of his compassionate act, according to a release from the Department. “It...

Do you know this week is National Police Week? According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund:"In 1962, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Peace Officers Memorial Day and the calendar week in which May 15th falls, as National Police Week. Established by a joint resolution of Congress in 1962, National Police Week pays special recognition to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty for the safety and protection of others."  The men and women of our police force often receive little or no recognition for their daily efforts, yet each...