Dean

Mercurial, moody and mean about sums it up. Other days, I'm almost tolerable.Politically to the right of Attila the Hun and socially to the left of H.G. Wells, I'm decidely different from most cops as I'm not shy about wearing my heart on my sleeve. Other fascinating facts...Indentured servitude: Detective Bureau supervisor ostensibly in charge of sex crimes and miscellaneous other offenses (but more apt to be jousting with my insubordinate subordinates). Strictly a day-to-day as my loyalty to the Department is tantamount to that of a consenting slave. As of January, 2007, I've been appointed Associate Editor with POLICE magazine. I continue to write "Shots Fired", which profiles officer-involved shootings as experienced by the officers involved, and freelance on the side.Recognitions (deserved, and not): Runner-up, Class Clown, William Workman High School 1979, Government Service Award, California State University at Los Angeles; Commendation (Community Service) --- California State Assembly (Ed Chavez) Commendation (Community Service) --- House of Representatives (Rep. Grace Napolitano) Commendation (Community Service) --- Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (Supervisor Gloria Molina) Commendation (Community Service) --- California State Senate (Senator Joseph Montoya) Commendation (Community Service) --- California State Senate (Senator Grace Romero) Medal of Valor --- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Proud purveyor of a Best of Mensa web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~comicdet/Play: Horror and monster movie buff, collector of comic books, winded hiker, treadmill terror, and the guy flipping you off in the rear view mirror when you cut him off.Mysteries still to be solved:Why have younger women routinely use pejoratives such as "bitch" when describing themselves and one another (is this practice borne out of the same kind of belief system that Richard Pryor used in justifying his use of the n-word, i.e., that routinely using such words somehow diminishes their impact? Addled minds want to know...)Where can I find a writer whose talents complement my own so that we can make lotsa bucks and live the kind of life our literary protagonists could only dream of?Why wasn't this friggin' MySpace around when I was 20? (Or, why aren't there more old farts like me exploiting it?)Do people really read blogs? DO PEOPLE READ?????Oh, and what abot you? What are you? A goddamned voyeur? How about a little quid pro quo, huh? Lemme know you were here! This goes double if you're some leftwing nutter! Peace out (as if)