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You need to be nice and show some respect if you expect to get any help here.

Also, you need to explain why, or at least concoct a story that makes a modicum of sense. You know, you are trying find a friend from summer camp in 1983, or some other heart tugger....

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It's fairly common to see in other parts of the world. I was in Thailand a few years ago and most of the Royal Thai Police carried guns, some did not. I asked why and was told the pay was so low, pawning guns was one way to get money until the end of the month.

Also common in the Land of...

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I was but a little mouse in the talons of a great horned owl...

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Perhaps I'm a little jaded about internships because I never benefitted from an internship and spent ten years after college wallowing in the ooze, trying to crawl my way out of low paying, go nowhere (often temporary) LE jobs before I got my break. Meanwhile, a handful of lucky kids I knew who won...

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1. Of course the university was no help. They want you to pay them $3,000 so you can volunteer for a federal agency for a semester.

2. Of course you can call the intern coordinator at whatev agency. Maybe you'll get a real person on the phone; maybe you'll get sent to a full voicemail box....

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This is going back a few years, but I had just moved to a new area for a job. Housing costs in the area were on the high side and I ended up in a shotgun shack I could afford, surrounded by other shotgun shacks. A block away were million dollar homes but when I looked out my windows, all I could see...

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I think I'm on the soon to be banned list....

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Today's update:

Interesting article from 2012 predicting U.S. political violence in 2020. Why? Simple math- spasms of political violence is cyclical and occurs every 50 years, and 1970 was the last year it was widespread:

https://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-scienc

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Information referenced gleaned from actual accounts of people involved in the militia movement. Some are well known, national figures, some are not. Some were involved in the Bundy Ranch incident and Malheur. Some I dealt with face to face during my career. One lives in my area. I am confident these...

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Today's update:

As the impeachment process trudged on this week, the rhetoric on FB became more heated among the three percenters, sov cits, militia leaders, and anti gov types. Actually, it's beginning to transition from rhetoric into blood lust. Some of these guys are foaming at the...

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In addition to Craigslist, Zillow, and whatever other online listings exist, the campus newspaper called the Express has short-term rentals in the classified ads. Some instructors even have side hustles renting properties.

During my last go around there, my class of laterals (meaning everyone...

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Staying off-campus is not officially sanctioned. Don't even ask.


That said, smart people find creative solutions to life's problems....

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1. CBP OFO has 22,000 officers. That's a lot of LEOs. Do you know the last time a CBPO was killed in the line of duty? Answer: 2010, from a heart attack during training (contrast this to CBP-BP, which has 2-3 agents a year KIA). My point is this: CBP OFO is probably the safest LE job in the country....

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It's sounds like from the medieval era, but it's true.

Even the bosses- if attractive- get more than their share of attention from subordinates wanting face time. I've seen grown a** men- middle age and married career professionals- act like teenage boys competing for the attention of...

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Used To Be: insert carbon-copy report form into typewriter. Peck away at letters until all boxes are filled and type out a brief narrative at end. Curse occasionally while misspelling words because of fat fingers. Put complete (but somewhat imperfect report) in supervisor's box before leaving. Go home...

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And no matter their titles.

This is global, btw. I've spent time in a handful of countries, working with or training with their LEOs. Conversations often cover mutual gripes, like how prosecutors won't take cases, or how a suck manager can destroy morale. Or how the blood and teeth never...

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Today's update:

Roger Stone convicted.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...ounts-n1082326

Relevancy- Stone is a militia supporter and conduit of access.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kmvm/proud...

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If you were an armed security guard and suddenly a bunch of people wearing jackets with big letters 'SIGTARP' or 'FDIC' or "DLA' came running into your office complex with guns out and kicked in a door, might that be perceived differently in the split second than if they had 'POLICE' in big letters...

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Today's update:

Anonymous insider says Potus is planting the seeds for a civil war:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ar/2575090001/

The Atlantic devotes entire December issue to preventing one:...

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Back in the early 1990s, I spent the first part of my career working in America's flyover zones, those backwater places where the permanently marginalized live in singlewides on the side of the road, with a pile of dirty dishes in the sink and a stack of bills on the table. People who believed in big...