Other police veterans said quotas did not play a part how they managed of officers.

The crime scene horrified Chief Kerlikowske, a 34-year police veteran.

Ten years ago, police veterans say, the city's gangs were loosely organized groups of teen-agers.

He is a twice-decorated, 10-year police veteran (and a Vietnam vet).

A police veteran with a desk job wants to become a street cop again, this means he will get assigned a rookie partner.

The inspector, who is a 15-year police veteran and worked in patrol until last May, called for backup.

Fine is a weary police veteran, ready to "do what they all do: sit looking at the ocean somewhere, wondering where my life went."

Detective Rango is a police veteran who has made hundreds of homicide arrests.

The 15-year police veteran left the building an hour later, a civilian with no pension benefits facing a criminal trial.

The 16-year police veteran, a father of five, retired from the department in 1980.