Blue Lights on the Bayou

Chris Mann shares pulse-pounding stories that reveal the split-second decisions officers face daily. He recounts the night he came within a hair's breadth of shooting an innocent man during a miscommunicated call, describing how "I pulled that trigger all the way back to the second click" before the subject dropped his weapon. The weight of that near-tragedy didn't hit him until he was driving away, realizing how close he'd come to taking an innocent life. Send us Fan Mail