Detective John Calpin

Detective John Calpin, a distinguished member of the Baltimore Police Department, served with unwavering dedication in the Central District’s Patrol and Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU). His steadfast commitment to upholding law and order was highly esteemed within the community. From the start of his 30-year career in 1986 until his retirement in 2016, Detective Calpin consistently received praise from both his coworkers and the community he so tirelessly served. His significant contributions to the department and to the city of Baltimore have left a lasting legacy that continues to be greatly valued to this day.n1337134350 30260336 102

John Calpin, and Ken
Here, John was a patrolman badge number 606
with his partner, Ken Driscoll, badge number 3232

"Together, they made a mean pair of two."

The Good The Ugly The Bad

Here they are again: The GoodThe Bad, and The Ugly
According to George Trainor, George was The Good, John was The Bad, and Kenny Driscoll was The Ugly
All three were fine with their titles, as they made a great team of police that did the job and did the job well.

John Calpin Ken DriscollJohn Calpin - Kenny Driscoll 
Shortly After a Departmental Shooting 600 E. North Ave.

Good Bad Ugly

This has George Trainer, John Calpin and Kenny
George called them The Good The Bad and The Ugly

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Kenny, Karin Sullivan Lipski, and John Calpin

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These three never worked together, but Ken was partnered up with both of them. 
Left to Right, this is John Calpin, Ed Chaney and Ken

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This is Kenny looking under the car to make sure no-one or nothing is under the car before it is towed.
Ken was told it looked like he was falling out of the car, So they took the picture for the joke. BTW It is
John Calpin is toward the front of the car; he is acting as if he is directing Ken into the parking place.John Calpin Ken Driscoll Scott Bradshaw

John Calpin, Ken and Officer Scott Bradshaw

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This picture was taken the day Ken and John seized a safe containing 2 keys of cocaine. They tripped over it while chasing a suspect who bailed out of a stolen car and ran into an apartment. Since he was running from the police, when they knocked on the door, a lady answered, telling the officers she was alone and no one should be in the apartment with her. They went in and found him hiding in a closet in a near-empty room. The lady obviously living there said she wanted the suspect removed, and she told them to take the safe out too. Long story short, her boyfriend rented the apartment but only furnished one room for her. The other rooms were for his stash house. So, the suspect that was running in and out ended up getting a ten-year sentence for the drugs.

Dris Calp72Ken Driscoll is in the wheelchair, with John kneeling beside him.
These two were partners on a midnight shift for four or five years
back in the early 1990s and made some great cases. 
They took a
lot of guns and drugs off the street, and made a lot of arrests doing it.
Ken misremembered a line from an old movie, 
Next of Kin. The
line was, "Yeah, we made a mean pair too." The brothers were
talking about the fights they had been in, and one said, "We had
some doozies," 
to which the other brother replied, "Yeah, we
made a mean pair too." However, Ken always thought he said, 
"Together, we made a mean pair of two," and Calpin and Ken did.
The names Calpin and Driscoll were legendary from those days. 

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Push-ups or Handcuffs
John Calpin and his partner, Kenny Driscoll, used to get out and walk their posts. They had a program they called push-ups or handcuffs, where, on a complaint for loiterers, the loiterer had a choice: they could do push-ups and leave or go to jail for loitering. It started as a joke, but before long, people would offer to show off their abilities; clapping between push-ups and bare-knuckle push-ups were among the top methods displayed. As you can see here, these guys are all laughing and having a good time. Other things these two used to do would be to call people over to them and give an autograph, or if someone was stopped and came back clean, they were given a prize. Normally, a 20-day calendar has a picture of these two on it. Police of the 90's get a bad rap, but most police got out and talked to those on their posts and responded to the complaints of the community. But they always talked and laughed together, even with many of those they had arrested. 
 

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