My Life in the Blue Parade Author:Art Smith The time period is 1970–1986, beginning in the Wadsworth Police Department, Ohio, detailing unusual conflicts of a police officer with the public, other police officers, administrators, and family. The young police officer moves to Florida to obtain a divorce and joins the Lauderhill Police Department. After a couple years, because of internal p... more »roblems, he moves back to Ohio on a promise of a position by a sheriff’s office. The promise was broken and he worked temporarily at the Marietta Police Department as a dispatcher. The police chief wanted him but civil service argued over a previous list and kept him from being hired as a police officer. Cold weather, money, and an available position with the Sunrise Police Department forced a change to south Florida. Five years later, unprofessional and unethical treatment by his supervisors and another police officer made him lose all desire to remain in law enforcement any longer.« less