Nice Pinch! What Goes on in the Cop Shops, Inside and Out, True Stories of a Family, Four Generations of Law Enforcement Officers

Edward B. Hayes III is a fourth-generation law enforcement officer. The Hayes LEO family legacy began with his great-grandfather in the 1800s and continued to the 1990s. Now retired, Hayes looks back at both his own career and those of his father and grandfather. The Hayes men have long been fearless protectors and defenders of the law. Through the analysis of over 140 incidents from his career and theirs, Hayes shows how he honored their legacy and contributed to its continuation.

Nice Pinch! begins with Hayes’s grandfather’s beat in 1926 with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department. Hayes’s father went on to begin his own law enforcement career in 1962 with the Sheriff’s Department where Hayes himself joined as a part-time officer. This led to a twenty-nine-year career with the Johnson County Kansas Sheriff’s Department as a deputy including undercover work, time as a federal agent with the DEA, and hundreds of incidents and arrests. In his memoir, Hayes recalls his most important cases and the many lessons he learned along the way.

Through discussions of these incidents, Hayes provides invaluable insight for anyone hoping to begin a law enforcement career, those new to the profession or those just interested in law enforcement crimes and criminals.IF you are bored with the first 6 chapters (law enforcement family history) as one reader was Ed's wife suggests you skip to chapter 7 where the book really picks up.

Edward B. Hayes III is the fourth generation of his family to pursue a career in law enforcement. He spent twenty-nine years with the Johnson County Sheriff's Department in Kansas and ended his service at the rank of captain.

Hayes wasn't content to spend his retirement years idly. He was a member of the Chaffee County, Colorado, Search and Rescue Team and the Chaffee County, Colorado, Jail Committee. He is also a life member of the National Rifle Association, the Oath Keepers, the National Association for Search and Rescue, and a SAL with the American Legion. Hayes is an avid outdoorsman, pilot, open water scuba diver, and enjoys cycling, motorcycles, ATVs, and Jeeps.

Hayes contributes to the Johnson's County Gazette newspaper, where he writes a column on law enforcement. He is happily married with three children, two grandchildren, and three little kids in puppy dog suits.