Welcome to My Site
I’m a 65-year-old father who spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps before beginning a 25-year career in law enforcement, retiring from the Miami Beach Police Department. Along the way, I’ve been fortunate to travel to several countries outside the United States—picking up valuable life lessons from Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. To all my teachers along the way, a heartfelt thank you.
Here on my blog, I share practical thoughts on family safety, personal preparedness, and policing. Saying my approach to law enforcement is a bit "old school" is an understatement—wearing the badge runs three generations deep in my family.
In the navigation menu above, you’ll find links to trusted businesses, recommended books, and private handgun training for beginners and local gun owners in Broward County. If even one post here helps you or your family stay safer, it’s all been worth it.
Thank you for stopping by,
John Corley
City of Miami Beach, Florida
1984 - 2009
Oliver Corley In Los Angeles
I have family that graduated from the Broward County Police Academy. The young man’s family has expressed concern for his welfare in an occupation that lives on our television screen every night. I can’t go back to the streets to train their son so I wrote a few words down. There are no editors involved and I don’t claim to be an author. Some of the chapters are harsh and direct. I hope that something written in this book keeps our young police officers on their feet.
The book is not very long and can be read in a couple of hours. It’s not a storybook and it’s not meant to entertain. I call it a road map to the pension line, with the target audience being the men and women leaving the police academy.
Note:
There are no social media links here to Facebook, “X” or Instagram. I’m certainly not “LinkedIn” to any group. There is no subscription form for this site. I don’t collect email addresses. Here is where you will find me. My presence here is discovered by word of mouth mostly. Check back in from time to time for recent posts.
The blog name “See The Man” came from one of my favorite television shows as a child.
ADAM 12
TV Series 1968 to 1975
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
“The solidity of our soul is not formed in the vastness of the arena, it’s formed in a space that often has room for only one.”
This story depicts a time long ago when the men and women of the United States and Brazil worked together to defeat a common enemy. This story gives a brief look into the daily activities of Allied troops as they unwind on the airbase at Belem, Brazil, around August of 1945.