So what's it all about anyway and who the Hell are you?

After hitting "publish" on that first entry, I decided that I need to flesh out a little more about this place and about myself.  We'll start with me, since that's a subject I know pretty well.

So who the Hell are you?

I'm a twenty+ year veteran of an urban police department, of which there are very few in Kentucky.  I've spent the last 13 years of my career as a detective, so I have some intimate knowledge of the inner workings of a case investigation and the overall court process.  I have a lot of opinions on those subjects that I'll be sharing as we go along. 

I'm very active in my local FOP, so I've got an insiders perspective when it comes to union issues and collective bargaining.  That's something else that I'll have some opinions on as we go along.

What else? Family man, Christian, son of a preacher man.  I like cars a lot, as well as guns and video gaming.  I'm an Alabama football fan. I know enough about jazz music to be dangerous.  Specifically, I know that there are multiple genres of jazz, which means I know more about jazz music than 95% of the population.  Don't worry, this isn't going to be a jazz blog.  I figure there's not much point in talking about something that just sounds like a cat walking on a piano to most people.

I've done some writing and been published on some other sites under my real name.  Frankly, I don't expect this alias thing to last very long.  Ultimately, I would like for the second act of my adult life to be professional writing.  Finally starting this blog is a step towards realizing that dream.

So what do you want this blog to be? 

That's a good question.  I would like for it to eventually be the Central KY version of secondcitycop. I also admire and hope to emulate the work that "Jack Dunphy" has been doing for years, first at National Review and now at PJ Media.  Ultimately the crime and policing part of this blog will hopefully show the influence of those two examples.

As for the rest, as I have said earlier, I want to explore other topics as well and opine on a great variety of things.  As hinted earlier, it's going to take awhile to get there, but I thought I'd start with my next post which will be about the University of Alabama football program.