Pensacola Police

By Michael Earl Simmons This is Part two of a two-part story. If Part One was cold steel and northern highways that never warmed, this part is pure Gulf Coast: […]

Worcester to Springfield to Pomfret — where fame turns into murder By Michael Earl Simmons This is Part 1 of a two-part story… Pensacola didn’t meet Roland Lalone first. Connecticut

By Michael Earl Simmons In 1946, the Pensacola Police Detective Bureau didn’t look like television would later pretend it did. There were no radios crackling on shoulders, no labs humming

By Mike Simmons Joseph Purcell was a Irish cartographer, also known as a mapmaker. In the late 1700s, he was part of the British government and worked out of Pensacola,

The Pensacola Police Historic Society “Cassdy.”  That is what he is known as. Any member of the Pensacola Police Department who has worked on the street in the 1970s –

By Mike Simmons Here’s a revised one-page narrative with the red-light district woven into the story of downtown Pensacola at the turn of the century. Downtown Pensacola, 1900: A Rough-and-Tumble

By Mike Simmons A hero of mine died today. Pat Patterson was a gentle giant, not only in his size – he had been voted “Mr. Hawaiian Islands” – But

By Mike Simmons Pensacola, Florida, August 1, 1999, 9:04 PM        When the Pensacola Police Department was notified of a man in his backyard shooting a gun, which threatened his

By Mike Simmons On July 18, 1993, Pensacola News Journal Correspondent Cindy West wrote an article that told the tale of a man whose judgment came into question. Pensacola Police

By Mike Simmons Everyone who has been a local police officer is probably aware…July 4 is not a day off. There are exceptions, of course, but many officers and police