Service With a Sneer: The Unrepentant Recollections of An Old-School Cop

Are you ready for a stroll down memory alley?

Can you recall a time when cops arrested rioters who were setting fire to buildings and vandalizing historical monuments? Remember when shoplifters actually went to jail? Imagine an era when violent lunatics weren't allowed to wander freely through neighborhoods and menace residents.

Don't you wish you lived in a time when the police were allowed to do their jobs?

Retired Southern California homicide detective John J. Lamb remembers those days beca...