Biography & Memoirs > Law & Order

Stories of teaching in a medium security state prison.

This book is a compilation of short stories of life, as seen through the eyes of a rural police officer. There are incidents from his younger life, which carry into how he became what he is, what he believed, and things he worked through. The majority of his career was served in a large county. He often patrolled alone and had to get himself out of whatever he got himself into. No day was the same, and no person responded the same. There were times of fear, anger, disappointment, and sickening tragedies. He believes law enforcement is a calling, and as a field training officer tried to inspire interns to become good public servants, because they are certainly needed. He wrote about ...

I was born with a gift and with talents, I am a writer and see’s life with the passion of my philosophy, seeking the truth. God created me to use Understanding with Encouragement. So, with that I shall, and will focused on why this man's cry touched me, and hopefully these harsh and races slavery laws that is carry in States will change on their lost or destroyed evidence that takes away a person freedom for life of those that is innocent are have committed none life sentence, yet is given!

This book is based on the actual arrest of author Marlys J. Waters on September 24, 2016 at age 71 during a verbal altercation with county law enforcement in the small town of Nemaha,Sac County, Iowa where she grew up. The circumstances are so ridiculous that Marlys had trouble controlling laughter mixed with rage while trying to explain what had happened and what the solution should be. Because there was no accident and the hazardous conditions that led to her near head-on collision were deemed legal, a Sac County Deputy Sheriff tried to close the case. Marlys disagreed to ignoring a situation that put Nemaha resident's lives in danger due to an unnecessary obstacle placed on a ...