Written by: Greg Ellifritz Back when I was a cop, I got a call about a stolen bicycle. A college-aged female rode her bike to a local drug store and went inside. She didn’t lock up the bike. When she came out a couple minutes later, the bike was gone. Fortunately, several witnesses […]
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Weekend Knowledge Dump- May 14, 2021
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Evidence of Glock Carbine: Patents and Proofs This is a good sign, but I won’t be holding my breath. I took my first Glock armorer school in 1997. The instructor told us that Glock […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- September 20, 2019
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Phone Store Employee Smokes Armed Robber There are a lot of very valuable lessons to be learned from this shooting. I probably wouldn’t have kept shooting as long as our victim here. With that […]
Lock Your Damn Doors- 2019 Edition
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Five years ago, I wrote an article titled Lock Your Damn Doors. In that article I looked at a month’s worth of burglary and theft reports from the city where I worked and tracked how many theft victims had left their houses or cars unlocked before the thefts occurred. […]
Putting Content Thieves On Blast
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I write a lot. I’ve published more than four articles per week for almost seven years. Several times a year, I catch another blogger who has plagiarized my work. I usually write a comment on their site and send them an email. That hasn’t solved the problem. The content thieves […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 20, 2018
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Body Armor 101: What You Need to Know A really good article about the basics of body armor. I would argue that if you own five different AR-15 rifles and no armor, your combat […]
Lock Your Damn Doors- 2018 Edition
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Four years ago, I wrote an article titled Lock Your Damn Doors. In that article I looked at a month’s worth of burglary and theft reports from the city where I worked and tracked how many theft victims had left their houses or cars unlocked before the thefts occurred. […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump- February 2, 2018
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Why the Diagnostic Pistol Target is a Waste of Time “Well, I know it’s not the answer a lot of people want to hear, but the absolute best way to improve is to get […]
Weekend Knowledge Dump-January 12, 2018
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Seriously, You—OK, We—Need To Stop Watching The News This Year One of the best resolutions you can make…stop watching television news. I got rid of my television more than six years ago and have […]
Identifying Criminals from the Contents of their Shopping Carts
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week at work, I filed warrant paperwork for a shoplifter who had stolen items from a grocery store. I realized that we have been seeing the same things stolen from grocery stores for the last couple years and wrote up a quick post on Facebook alerting folks to the trend. […]
Refund Fraud- Bringing Criminals into the Stores Where You Shop
Written by Greg Ellifritz I work as a police officer in a very wealthy suburban community. It’s a nice place to be a cop because there are relatively few violent crimes. What we see most often is theft. Thieves like to steal from people who have money and who feel secure enough to leave […]