Big Jim

 

Marquette Park, Chicago, 1983 or 1984. The governor of Illinois participates in the parade welcoming President Reagan to Marquette Park, the Lithuanian neighborhood.

Police use drone to track robbery suspect.

 In the Madison, Wisconsin area.

ADDED: Madison, where an agave plant went missing, too.

"Blue Polizia"

A Lamborghini joins the Italian police force.

"By another account, a UW-Madison police officer recently noticed a fox crossing University Avenue, a chicken in its mouth."

Watch your coops! The campus foxes are adorable, but they're also hunters.

"Foxes among Badgers." Awww:

A fox meets a real badger: 

A New Recruit

University of Wisconsin—Madison, October 2013. This is "Maya." She is a new officer, and she joins "K-9 Odin" on the University of Wisconsin Police Department.

Odin Reunion

University of Wisconsin—Madison, October 2013. This is "K-9 Odin" of the University of Wisconsin Police Department. We saw him again recently. I first met Odin near the entrance to Camp Randall. He later visited my class.

Mountie

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 1978. Dad and I encounter the Mountie during our visit with the family of Dad's twin sister, Jonė.

Related by Marriage: Meet the New Officer

Southwestern Lithuania, about 1914. We don't know much about Adam J., except that he married Emily, one of the non-emigrating sisters of Mr. Irene's maternal Grandmother, Anna. Adam J. and Emily lived out their lives in Lithuania.

Special Visitors

Today I taught the penultimate class of my fall semester course, "Criminal Justice in America." Two special guest lecturers visited the students this morning: Sergeant Brent Plisch and "K-9 Odin" from the UW—Madison Police Department's K-9 Unit.

You may remember seeing me admire this pair here and here.

My day was enriched by the presence of such an inspiring speaker and his magnificent partner.

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2011. "K-9 Odin" awaits the beginning of class.

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Madison, Wisconsin, December 2011. "K-9 Odin" started out the lecture by jumping on the side table so that the 200 students in the hall could see him. 
 

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Madison, Wisconsin, December 2011. "K-9 Odin" intently listens to his master.
 

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Madison, Wisconsin, December 2011. "K-9 Odin" circulated around the room so that students could pet him. It's nice to pet a dog right around finals week, no?
 

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Madison, Wisconsin, December 2011. "K-9 Odin" visited the back of the room so that the students there would get a chance to meet him, too.

I never met a dog I didn't like (Autumn 2011).

Madison, Wisconsin, October 2011. I meet Odin, a member of the UW—Madison Police Department K-9 Unit, as he works the UW Homecoming Football Game.