Enrique Delgado-Garcia’s death was tragic. No one should minimize that. His family deserves answers, and if training failures, safety failures, or accountability failures contributed to his death, they need to be addressed directly.
But tragedy should not become an excuse for bad policy.
What we are watching now is hypocrisy in real time.
The Massachusetts State Police Academy has had boxing and controlled-contact training for decades. Now, because of one horrific incident, the knee-jerk reaction is to ban boxing outright — not fix it, not improve it, not make it safer, not hold the right people accountable, but ban it.
Meanwhile, we are apparently fine with elite college students and cadets boxing in controlled environments. So let me get this straight: boxing is acceptable for them, but future troopers preparing for a job that can turn violent in seconds are somehow too fragile for controlled-contact training?
That makes no sense.
Boxing at the academy was never about turning recruits into boxers. It was about exposing future troopers to controlled fear, impact, pain, adrenaline, confusion, and stress before the first time they experience it alone on the side of a highway with a duty weapon on their hip.
Because the first punch a trooper takes to the head should not be during a roadside fight in the dark, with no backup, while someone is trying to overpower them.
Every physical fight involving law enforcement can become life or death. If an officer gets knocked unconscious, what stops the suspect from taking that officer’s gun and using it?
That is not theory. That happens.
This is the problem when people who have no clue what the job requires pressure decision-makers, and the decision-makers cave to the loudest voices in the room. The vocal minority screams. Politicians panic. Administrators fold. And the people who pay the price are the officers sent into the real world less prepared.
Fix the training. Improve the oversight. Require proper medical screening. Strengthen instructor accountability. Use better protective equipment. Ban unsafe head-strike practices if that is what the evidence supports. Tie every stress exercise to a clear, job-related learning objective.
But do not pretend that removing controlled exposure to violence makes troopers safer.
It does not.
It makes them less prepared.
Honor Enrique Delgado-Garcia by fixing what failed.
Do not dishonor the next trooper by sending them into a life-or-death roadside fight unprepared because decision-makers were more afraid of criticism than reality.
No boxing stance? Spare us.
The side of the road does not care about your press conference.
Fox News story: https://t.co/SfUDAu99mF
Are you freaking clueless or just dumb, read the room you idiot. Yeah, but your lot of folks use the knowledge you acquire and invest in the stock market, because virtually anyone in office for 6 or more years are multi millionaires. How do you become a millionaire living on 200K and having to maintain two residence, unless you are from the Potomac area? If money is your concern, you have a choice, please go to the private sector and see how much you make for 140 days a year, when everyone else is working over 200 days. No one is irreplaceable, you are a seriously arrogant asshat.
For the last few years, many people have associated my writing with one city, one investigation, and one corruption story.
That chapter is over.
The next book will not be about Methuen.
Like actors who spend their careers trying to avoid being trapped in a single role, I have no interest in becoming a one-story author or a one-trick pony. The issues that interest me — accountability, institutional trust, ethics, credibility, and the fragile relationship between public power and public confidence — are far bigger than any one city or investigation.
The next nonfiction project stays within the world of law enforcement and institutional accountability, but this story moves into very different territory. The deeper I got into it, the less it became about individuals and the more it became about systems, silence, loyalty, and the lines institutions are never supposed to cross.
At the same time, I’ve already made significant progress on my first fiction project, which has been one of the most creatively rewarding challenges I’ve ever taken on. Ironically, some of the things I learned writing nonfiction made the fiction stronger — and some of the lessons learned releasing Six Degrees of Corruption ~ The Fleecing of a City will make every project moving forward better.
First books teach hard lessons.
I learned a lot from 6DOC:
about writing,
publishing,
timing,
promotion,
structure,
and what works — and what doesn’t.
Those lessons are already shaping what comes next.
At this point, I’m honestly not sure which project reaches the finish line first.
But if all goes according to plan, keep an eye on the September 2027 timeframe for the next release from L.P. Smith Author.
Different stories.
Different genres.
Same core principles:
Your oath matters.
Integrity matters.
Accountability matters.
And public institutions only survive if the public still believes honesty exists inside them.
More to follow.
— L.P. Smith
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Another ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review.
The trial is coming… and so is the spin.
If you want the truth, get it now—not after it’s filtered.
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10 ethics complaints.
Different facts. Different allegations.
1 denial letter.
No findings. No breakdown. No explanation.
Just a blanket response and “no further action.”
Take a look at the letter and ask yourself—
is this what accountability looks like?
I’ll be releasing all 10 complaints on Tuesday, 4/14.
Read them. Judge for yourself.
Because at some point, “confidentiality” starts to look a lot like cover.
Stand by.
Packed house at Nevins Library. Standing room only.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, supported the message, and asked the hard questions. The applause was humbling.
This isn’t just a book—it’s documented truth.
There is strength in numbers.
Don’t let anyone silence your voice.
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Every book = more eyes.
Every reader = momentum.
That’s how change happens.
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My right to an attorney is constitutionally guaranteed. So, no Madam AG — it doesn’t disempower you if the courts grant me an attorney— what it does is prevent you from abusing your power by continuing to obstruct justice. #mapoli
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🚨 ONLY 6 SEATS LEFT 🚨
This Thursday in Methuen…
A story that many said “couldn’t be real”—
until the evidence proved otherwise.
Six Degrees of Corruption ~ The Fleecing of a City
We’re pulling back the curtain on:
✔ Systemic failures
✔ Political protection
✔ How an entire city became the victim
This isn’t theory.
This is documented.
📍 Nevins Library – Great Hall
🗓 Thursday | 6:30 PM
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Live author talk: Six Degrees of Corruption 📍 Nevins Library, Methuen 📅 April 9 | 6:30–8:00 PM
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The trial starts this September.
Dozens of illegal arrests.
Hundreds of civil rights violations.
And for years… nothing happened.
Read it before they rewrite the story.
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