Edward B Hayes III

Nice Pinch! Edward B Hayes III

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.