Jan 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 1

The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE 1

FOUNDED IN 1984
JANUARY 2022
FEATURES
26 New Year Resolutions for 2022
30 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to COVID
32 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to LOD Deaths
36 Feature Story: They Didn’t Make it
- Special Memorial Insert - Officers we Lost in 2021
ON THE COVER
Our Feature story this month,
“They Didn’t Make it” is an expose
on the Officers We Lost
in 2021.
SPECIAL INSERT
A Memorial to the Officers
we lost in 2021 and a salute
to all Texas Peace Officers
we lost in 2020 & 2021.
DEPARTMENTS
6 Publisher’s Thoughts
8 Editor’s Thoughts
10 Your Thoughts
12 News Around the US
50 War Stories
54 Aftermath
58 Open Road - NYPD Orders Mustang E’s
60 Healing Our Heroes
62 Daryl’s Deliberations
64 HPOU - From the President, Douglas Griffith
66 Light Bulb Award
68 Running 4 Heroes
70 Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle
72 Off Duty with Rusty Barron
76 Ads Back in the Day
80 Parting Shots
82 Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas
136 Back Page - Meet the Commish
50 54
BLUES MENTAL HEALTH
BY DR. TINA JAECKLE
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FOUNDED IN 1984
OUR TEAM
MICHAEL BARRON
founder & publisher
MICHAEL BARRON
editor-n-chief
REX EVANS
contributing editor
JESSICA JONES
creative editor
RUSTY BARRON
outdoor editor
DR. TINA JAECKLE
contributing editor
DARYL LOTT
contributing editor
SAM HORWITZ & JOHN SALERNO
contributing editors
DOUGLAS GRIFFITH
HPOU contributing editor
AMBER ROBERTS
BAILEY BARRON
sales team
OUR CONTRIBUTORS
T. EDISON
contributing writer / light bulb
OFFICER D. SULLIVAN
warstory/aftermath
JOHN MURRAY
contributing writer
JOE RUBINO
contributing writer
RICK SUBEY
contributing writer
KATIE MULVANEY
contributing writer
DAVID GRIFFITH
contributing writer
MARK PRICE
contributing writer
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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK
michael barron
Happy New Year
This issue marks the beginning
of our 38th year of serving
law enforcement in Texas and
beyond. Our digital format has
taken us farther than any of us
could have possibly imagined.
While we haven’t reached our
goal of 100,000 readers a month,
we came close at 92,400.
This past year, The BLUES
became the Largest “all-digital”
Police Magazine in the U.S. With
an average page count of 140
pages and 90,000+ readers, The
BLUES ranks highest in a group
of over 30 police related magazines.
Quite an accomplishment
if you consider this digital format
is only 2 years in the making.
In fact, we published more
pages of content in those 24
months, then seventeen years of
the printed issues of the Blues.
For individuals seeking a
career in law enforcement or
officers looking to make a lateral
move, the BLUES is THE place
to search for LE job opening. On
average, there are listings for
over 200 jobs and recruiting ads
from dozens of departments. In
fact, The BLUES is credited with
influencing hundreds if not thousands
of officers in their search
for a law enforcement job. If
you’re a recruiter for a Texas law
enforcement agency, the BLUES
should be number one on your
list to promote your department.
Another milestone for 2021 I
hope is never repeated is the
sheer number of deaths of law
enforcement officers, 479 for the
year. That’s 94 more than the year
before. And COVID accounted for
322 of those souls in 2021. That’s
THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO
of our brothers and sisters in
Blues that died in one year to a
pandemic that has claimed nearly
one million lives since it began
in 2020. But let’s not overlook the
fact we lost 157 officers outside
of COVID. The loss of one officer
is horrible, 157 is unbearable.
Inside this month’s memorial
issue, you’ll find a special insert
dedicated to these fine men and
women. We hope you will take
time to look at each and every
photo. Remember their faces, the
departments they served, and
say a prayer for the families they
left behind.
On the last page of the Memorial,
you’ll find links to various
fund raisers and non-profit organizations
that aid families. Please
support these organizations as
best you can. They provide valuable
resources as well as morale
support to the spouses and children
of fallen officers.
Finally, to answer the most
asked question we have at The
BLUES “how do I get a copy of
the BLUES each month?” There
are several ways. First off as
stated at the beginning of this
editorial, The BLUES is a ‘digital’
magazine. We do not print any
copies. The reason being is the
cost. To print 90,000 copies with
over 140 pages and distribute
MICHAEL BARRON
those 90,000 copies would cost
close to $85,000 a month. So obviously
we aren’t returning to a
printed edition anytime soon. But
the world is all digital and we
are following the future.
You can get a FREE copy of the
BLUES sent to your email each
month by simply going to our
website “bluespdmag.com” and
clicking on the subscribe tab at
the top. Again, the subscription is
FREE.
We also post a link to our
Facebook page “BluesPoliceMagazine”
as soon as the monthly
edition goes live. This link is
shared with over 100 other police
related websites on FaceBook as
well as our Instagram page
@thebluespolicemagazine.
Finally, I’d like to thank all our
readers for making The BLUES
the largest of its kind in the US
and celebrating the beginning of
our 38th year. We couldn’t have
arrived here without you. Cheers!
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FROM THE GUEST EDITOR’S DESK
rex evans
It’s All About Sacrifice
For some, a career in Law Enforcement
means Service, Protection,
Defending the Innocent
and bringing those who wrong
others, to Justice. To others, it’s
the fulfillment of a lifelong dream
or the continuation of a family
who, for generations wore a
badge.
Whatever the reason you decided
to wear a badge, the fact
remains, you did or still do so. A
lot of sacrifice went into that decision.
The Pre-Academy testing.
The “Academy Life” and of course,
the job itself. Sacrifice is something,
we all have in common. If
you’ve been a cop for five years
or more, worked the streets the
entire time, you definitively know
sacrifice.
You’ve got the blazing hot,
humid days and nights of summer
along the Gulf Coast. The
sub-freezing, blinding snowstorms
in Montana. Crazy, wild
big-city nights in New York, Los
Angeles and Miami. All of which,
in their own special way, demand
a high degree of sacrifice.
Then of course, there’s the
suburban and rural brothers and
sisters in Law Enforcement. Long
hours because well, you’re it.
There is no one else to call or
other Divisions and Districts from
which to pull from. A call comes
in, you go out. It really is simple
math.
That’s the “Professional” side of
sacrifices to those wear a badge
must make. Let alone, the “personnel”
side. You know, gone
from home all the time. Working
two and three extra-jobs so your
significant other and kids can
have everything you never had.
Maybe it’s so your family can live
in a great neighborhood and the
kids can go to a great school.
Whatever the reason, those sacrifices
all take a toll.
None of the above even begins
to touch on the sacrifice we
make from time to time, in that
we can’t say or speak our mind
to anyone. We just watch the
blatant stupidity, raw hatred and
senseless violence go about our
communities. We just smile and
say nothing.
Of course, there’s also the
supervisor part of this equation.
They’re the good ones. The bad
ones. The micro-managing ones.
The “I don’t know” ones and the
worst kind of supervisor of all,
the pure evil ones. Those who live
to make others under their “Command”
as miserable as possible.
Why? Because they think it’s
fun. To endure the roller coaster
supervision of Law Enforcement
requires an exorbitant degree of
patience, prayer and sacrifice.
There’s one kind of sacrifice
most don’t like talking about.
That’s the sacrifice we make
when one of us doesn’t come
home at the end of our shift. It’s
the kind of sacrifice which tends
to make all the other sacrifices
seem small. Almost, unimportant.
If anyone ever tells you “Police
Work” is just another government
job which only requires you to
breath, walk and talk at the same
time. Feel free to…well, no. Don’t
do that. But be mindful of all the
sacrifices you’ve made. Remember
the long nights, hard days
and moments of pure heartbreak
you’ve endured. Remember that
sacrifice comes with a high price
and something else…
Sacrifice comes with the nobility
making this old world just a
little bit better today than it was
yesterday. And, no one would’ve
been the wiser tomorrow, had it
not been for you. Your sacrifices
in this career, in this life are deep
and oftentimes, hurtful to those
around you. And yet, I would beseech
you to understand throughout
the history of mankind, cops
are the ones who’ve always made
the greatest of sacrifices for the
many.
You my friend, are one of the
few. And I am eternally grateful
for you. Thank you for all you do,
all that you’ve lost and for all you
may have to give. Let your heart
be still and may God’s Grace and
Mercy be with us all, always.
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Instead of being in a rush
during this time, let’s take a
moment to slow down and remember
the true meaning and
purpose of this particular holiday.
Let’s remember to be humble
and thankful for the many
blessings we have received this
year while seeking ways to share
those gifts with the precious
family members and friends in
our lives.
With grateful hearts, let’s make
this Christmas a time of true joy
and celebration with all those
we come in contact on a daily
basis. Jesus is the Reason for the
Season.
KAT D GARCIA
LAW ENFORCEMENT & RETIREMENT
I know that often we set specific
goals this time of year
concerning weight loss, finances,
and much more in our lives we
feel will better us and our families.
Someone recently asked
me what caused me to save for
retirement when I was a younger
officer. I’m guessing they were
looking for some type of advice
from a salty veteran that I may
have encountered when I entered
the career of law enforcement,
but that wasn’t the case. I
grew up poor and went to over
twenty different schools as a
youth, and my father switched
careers regularly as we switched
living arrangements. My father
was a great man in many aspects,
but finances weren’t his
strong point in life, most likely
because his father didn’t set the
example and guide him in the
value of a dollar. I realize this
even more now that I’ve grown
older and see what money can
do for me and my wife. I say this
tidbit of information because I’ve
seen the veteran officers in our
profession hoping to make it to
the thirty-year mark where the
golden carrot will solve all their
problems. Many times this same
individual had health issues
because of all the stress-related
illnesses that come with being in
law enforcement for an extended
period, not to mention the
stress caused on relationships
along the way.
I would be that officer in the
locker room that would do my
best to tell the younger officer
that starting a supplemental
retirement was necessary for
them to exit the profession when
the time came. I had a few that
listened to the advice, but most
seemed to have that enthusiastic
bright-eyed look where they
never saw themselves getting
older and leaving. I too was that
twenty-two-year-old officer
fresh from the police academy
that was ready to make my mark
on law enforcement, but I also
had the previous example mentioned
that caused me to think
about my future. My father was
also older at the time and often
spoken to me about lessons he
had learned and the value of
saving for the future.
There will be some of you
that may read this article and
are about to graduate the police
academy and are now making
more money than you’ve ever
made. You now have the urge
to show your accomplishments
with buying the newest sixty
thousand dollar truck while
you and the love of your life
search for your forever home,
not thinking about the financial
stress that will soon be realized.
I’m not perfect by any means
with finances and have made
some of the same mistakes I’m
talking about in this article. I
want you to consider your decisions
now so you’re not one of
those veteran officers with only
the department pension while
thinking about the golden carrot.
The solution to the financial
issue is most often not solved
by how long you work, but how
you plan and spend while you’re
still young. The decisions and
path you follow now will either
lead you to be that 30-year guy
hoping to make it out with some
years still left to enjoy retirement
or one that has planned
and can now leave at a younger
healthier age. I always say never
take financial advice from a cop,
but I wanted to provide you with
some examples when talking
about that new shiny truck.
The new 60k truck will cost
you about $999.00 a month with
a $1,000 down payment with a
good credit score for 72 months.
This payment now translates into
you paying $71,928 big ones to
prove to your family and friends
that you’re successful in life. You
could, however, take that same
amount for six years and place it
into an investment vehicle at an
average of a 7% return, putting
approximately $89,970.00 in your
pocket. I know some of you have
already made this leap and are
making this payment each month
for that new vehicle that has
now lost its value and appeal.
You can still make a life change
by selling that vehicle and buying
a vehicle where you can pay
cash, which now translates into
your money working for you by
building a financial future. You
can run these same type numbers
for purchasing that new
home, and you’ll soon realize the
importance of the 15-year mortgage
Vs. the 30-year mortgage.
You could take half the money
for that new truck and place it
into a retirement account based
on a 7% return for twenty years
that now becomes $255K. That
money could now yield you
approximately $1,500 a month
before taxes for about 40 years,
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
COMING SUMMER 2022
NEW YEARS EVE
20% of NYPD, Out With COVID
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More
than 20% of the New York Police
Department was out sick Thursday
December 30th due to coronavirus
(COVID-19), according to
the NY Post.
On Friday morning, New Year’s
Eve, NYPD received 7,270 sick
calls — the most for any day in
2021 and similar to the amounts
seen at the beginning of the pandemic
in April 2020, sources told
FOREWORD
the Post.
To those that wore it, no explanation is necessary. For life behind the badge is like no other. It is a line that once
Nearly 2,600 members of the
you cross, you can never go back. The line between right and wrong, happiness and sadness, and finally life and
NYPD have tested positive for
death.
It isn't for everyone, nor should it be. God created it, not for those who chose it, but for those that are chosen. It
coronavirus this month, sources
is these brave souls who trade their happiness, their security, their fears, their love, and even their life for you.
said.
When life itself is in question they must answer. When death is imminent, they must stand tall. In the face of
The Post reported that the
danger, they must endure. When all is said and done, there really isn't much that separates us from them, but a thin
NYPD is requiring officers who
blue line.
had regularly scheduled days off
•••
Being a cop meant everything to me. It was something I dreamed of as a kid. No, my parents weren’t cops but
to work over the holiday weekend.
The same scenario played out ment, healthcare and airlines.
I remember the day the notice came in the mail that said I'd been accepted into the Police Academy. It was
provide testing for COVID-19. ment but all branches of govern-
my grandfather was. He was my hero and someday I wanted to walk in his footsteps.
On Wednesday, Dec. 29th, the at police departments all across It’s like the summer of 2020 all
the happiest day of my life or so I thought. Now that I look back, I'm sure it was definitely the day my life changed
Daily News reported that 30% of the country. Agency after agency over again.
and changed in a way that would never be the same. Once that badge is pinned on, life itself is suddenly different.
the city’s EMS members and 17% reported dozens of officers calling
in with COVID.
It starts out as euphoric, on top of the world and invincible. Later it becomes one of disgust, then mistrust, finally
resentment. Your entire perspective changes and never again is life and death seen in the same light. You see how
of its firefighters were out sick.
precious life is and how fast it can be taken and by those who have little or no respect for it. Life behind the badge
FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro
said the reduced workforce Department as well as several of
probably heard that life as a cop, is hours and hours of boredom interrupted by seconds of sheer terror. It’s more
In Harris County, the Sheriff’s
is many things to many people. All are affected by it. Some good, some bad, some you just never know. You’ve
has “stressed” the department’s the area constables’ offices, had
like years of boredom, interrupted by hours of terror. At one time or another we all remember being scared. Really
ranks.
deputies working overtime to fill
scared, so scared you're literally in suspended animation awaiting what surely must be the end of life as you know
it. When it comes, it comes in slow motion almost surreal. What seems like hours happens in seconds and lasts for
This came as the FDNY shared in for the nearly 28% that were
years. They say fear is good, but true fear the kind that hangs in the air like the smell of ozone after a lightning strike
messages on Twitter asking out with COVID.
is anything but healthy.
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HEROIC LAKEWOOD CO. OFFICER
ENDS COLORADO SHOOTING SPREE
By Jon Murray and Joe Rubino
The Denver Post
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — When a
gunman opened fire inside a Broadway
tattoo parlor Monday night, the
shooting spree that would zigzag
through Denver and Lakewood was
just getting started.
Less than an hour later, the rampage
ended with his death on the
streets of Lakewood’s upscale Belmar
shopping district, as the final
gunfight with a police officer —
herself injured — shattered a pizza
restaurant’s two large windows,
sending shocked diners diving for
cover behind overturned tables.
Investigators recover evidence
from a window frame outside a
Xfinity store Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021,
in Lakewood, Colo., one of the
scenes of a shooting spree that left
several people dead—including the
suspected shooter Monday evening—and
left a few more people
wounded.
“One of my pizza cooks was
crawling on the ground, coming
around the corner,” said Tyler
Gunderson, the front-of-the-house
manager for The Rock Wood-Fired
Pizza on West Alaska Place, east of
Wadsworth Boulevard.
When it was all over, five of the
victims in Monday’s shooting spree
had died and another two had sustained
serious injuries, including the
officer, in one of the most unusual,
confounding multiple-victim shoot-
ings the metro area has seen.
Lyndon James McLeod, 47, was
identified by police as the gunman
Tuesday. He was reported by a
lobby security guard at one condo
building in Denver to be wearing
clothing that impersonated “a police
officer in tactical gear with a
police logo and badge and carrying
a rifle,” according to an email sent
Tuesday to residents of One Cheesman
Place.
While still investigating Tuesday,
authorities publicly withheld
any ideas they had about McLeod’s
motives. But where he aimed his
gun did not appear to be random:
Among the victims were four shots
inside tattoo parlors, both at the
one in Denver and at other locations
miles away in Lakewood.
“The victims were known to the
offender,” Denver Police Department
Commander Matt Clark said,
though in one case, he added, his
targeting was based on an apparent
grudge with a hotel in the Belmar
district. There he shot a woman who
happened to be working the front
desk, just minutes before his own
death. The clerk died Tuesday.
Denver police received the first 911
call about violence on Broadway near
First Avenue at 5:25 p.m., Clark said.
They arrived at Sol Tribe Custom
Tattoo and Body Piercing to find two
victims inside: owner Alicia Cardenas,
44, and Alyssa Gunn Maldonado,
who both died.
Alyssa’s husband, Jimmy Maldonado,
a piercer at Sol Tribe, was injured
and had escaped onto the street,
Clark said. He was in critical condition
Tuesday night. All three were
identified to The Post by family and
friends.
Within minutes, police received
a report of a new crime scene —
where the gunman had forced entry
into a home near West Sixth Avenue
and Bannock Street. A nearby van
also was set on fire, he said.
“He pursued the occupants
through the residence, which is also
a part of a business,” Clark said, but
they escaped unharmed.
The gunman set off again.
His next target was the 19-story
condo building overlooking Cheesman
Park, just south of East 13th
Avenue at North Williams Street.
The email sent to residents of
One Cheesman Place by building
management outlined what building
managers understood to have
happened. The gunman showed up
wearing the police gear and carrying
the rifle, the email says, and the
security guard in the lobby cooperated
with his demands by escorting
him to a floor of the building he
requested — where the gunman
“forced himself into the unit and
committed the shooting.”
One man was killed, police said,
but his identity hasn’t been released.
The security guard “escaped
to another unit and called 911,” the
email said.
Back down in the lobby, the gunman
fired his gun to exit through the
secured door. On Tuesday morning,
three bullet holes, labeled with
evidence markers, left a pattern of
web-like cracks running up one of
the glass doors.
Travis Leiker, the president and
executive director of Capitol Hill
United Neighborhoods, an advocacy
group for the area, said he was in
the group’s headquarters just across
Williams Street on Monday night,
leading an online meeting, when he
heard those gunshots.
By the time police arrived, the
gunman was long gone, heading
back west.
But just minutes later, at 5:49
p.m., other Denver police officers in
an unmarked car spotted the Ford
A True American Hero
Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris
Econoline van he was reported to
be driving on West 13th Avenue
near Interstate 25, Clark said.
After an exchange of gunfire at a
dead-end at West Eighth Avenue
and Zuni Street, he said, the gunman
escaped onto I-25 after firing
shots that “disabled” the police
vehicle.
His next stop: Lucky 13 Tattoo
and Piercing, a shop in a shopping
center at Kipling Street and West
Colfax Avenue in Lakewood. At
5:58 p.m., security video from the
adjacent In and Out Liquor store
recorded the gunman stopping his
van in the drive lane, walking into
the store holding what looks like a
gun. He exited just 10 seconds later,
driving off.
In that time, he shot and killed
tattoo artist Danny “Dano” Scofield,
38, according to Lakewood Police
Department spokesman John
Romero.
The gunman drove about four
miles southeast, to the Belmar
shopping district. Lakewood police
agents spotted his van at 6:04 p.m.
near a Wells Fargo Bank branch at
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West Alameda Avenue and South
Teller Street, Romero said, and attempted
to stop him.
Police and the gunman exchanged
fire, Romero said, and he eluded
capture once again. He abandoned
the van nearby and walked briefly
into a Ted’s Montana Grill, just
south of the bank, displaying his
gun but not firing it. Then he walked
deeper into Belmar, a newer development
of movie theaters, big-box
stores and urban buildings fronting
walkable streets that have large
parking lots and garages behind
them.
About three blocks away, near the
corner of South Vance Street and
West Alaska Drive, he entered the
Hyatt House hotel, Romero said.
The gunman “had a very brief
conversation with the front desk
worker,” Romero said. “He then
shot the front desk worker several
times.”
Sarah Steck, 28, was hospitalized
and died of her injuries on Tuesday,
he said.
Nearby diners and shoppers
sought cover as the gunshots rang
out. Within two minutes, McLeod
was confronted by Lakewood police
officer Ashley Ferris on the street
nearby.
After Ferris ordered him to drop
the gun, Romero said, he approached
her and opened fire, hitting her once,
in the abdomen, as other shots shattered
the pizza restaurant’s windows.
Ferris then shot him, killing him.
“I can’t overemphasize enough
the heroic actions of our Lakewood
police officer Ashley Ferris,” Romero
said. “In the face of being shot, in
the face of danger, she was able to
not only save others from this terrible
tragedy but also neutralize the
threat.” c)2021 The Denver Post
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
Mass State Trooper Fired
Over COVID, Speaks Out
“This was my dream job to be a state trooper, and I’ve never brought any
shame to this organization. It’s definitely disappointing and heartbreaking.”
By Rick Sobey
Boston Herald
BOSTON — The first Mass State
Police trooper who was given
the ax over the state’s coronavirus
vaccine mandate is speaking
out about the “humiliating”
experience and termination
process.
Timothy Barry, 29, said he’s
still “in disbelief” after he was
yanked out of a State Police
training class in late October
and stripped of his police gear
in front of about 40 fellow
troopers. He had not gotten a
COVID-19 shot by the mid-October
deadline.
The Marine Corps veteran, who
was assigned to the State Police
Mounted Unit, then became the
first trooper to get recommended
for termination.
“I was singled out at the State
Police Academy, and now being
the only one recommended for
termination, I definitely feel singled
out,” Barry told the Herald
this week.
“I’ve been in disbelief,” he
added. “This was my dream job
to be a state trooper, and I’ve
never brought any shame to this
organization. It’s definitely disappointing
and heartbreaking.”
The Quincy resident recounted
his Oct. 28 experience at the
State Police Academy in New
Braintree.
Barry drove the two hours out
to the training class and was
then “blindsided” in front of the
class. He had submitted a religious
exemption for the vaccine
but was in limbo, he said.
“I was pulled out of a class of
30 to 40 people, and they didn’t
try to discreetly pull me out,”
Barry said. “I had to empty out
my cruiser as the entire class
was looking at me, like I did
something bad.
“I had to surrender all my
police tools,” he added. “It’s not
like I committed a domestic or a
violent crime. It was really over
the top... It was humiliating.”
He was relieved of his duties,
placed on unpaid leave, and was
then later recommended for termination
over the vax mandate.
Barry was a statie for three
years, first working on the roads
as a trooper and then assigned
to the Mounted Unit. He was
previously a police officer in
Bedford for five years and is a
third-generation law enforcement
officer.
“Between my military years in
the Marine Corps, as a local police
officer and as a state trooper,
I’ve never been disciplined,” Barry
said. “In an era where you want
police accountability, why is this
why you’re getting rid of quality
troopers?
“I’ve worked hard to get here,”
he added. “It’s something I’ve always
wanted, and for an agency
that wants to be the most elite in
the state and the nation, why are
you getting rid of good troopers
for this?”
Barry volunteered at the Bedford
VA for over half a decade and
volunteered for the Special Olympics,
with events like the torch
run as a local police officer.
He taught religious education
for five years and was a
Eucharistic minister. He was
unsuccessful at getting a religious
exemption for the vaccine.
To try to get the exemption, he
went in front of a “trial board”
court hearing, which was made
up of a State Police captain and
lawyer.
“They’re not priests,” Barry
said. “They’re not rabbis. They’re
just two random people. A lot
of these things just weren’t
thought out.”
He doesn’t know of any religious
exemption that has been
accepted.
“Personally, I think that mandating
the vaccine and going
against someone’s religious
beliefs is a violation of your
civil rights,” Barry said. “This
has violated my rights and many
others.”
He said he would have complied
with regular COVID testing.
“I definitely would have been
OK with that,” Barry said.
A spokesperson for the Executive
Office of Public Safety and
Security on Wednesday deferred
comment to Mass State Police.
A Mass State Police spokesperson
did not immediately respond
to questions — including how
many State Police troopers are
facing termination over the vax
mandate, and if the state plans
to pull other states out of training
classes and strip them of
their gear.
“It’s just not right,” Barry said,
later adding, “A real shame.”
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
R.I. Police Commission Adopts
Policy to Prevent “Gypsy” Cops
The policy inactivates an officer’s certification
the moment they leave a police department.
By Katie Mulvaney
The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Members
of the commission that oversees
police standards and training
in Rhode Island have watched
reports of rogue officers leaving
one department only to be
promptly hired at another play
out in recent years nationwide.
With that in mind and “out of
an abundance of caution,” the
Rhode Island Commission on
Police Officers Standards and
Training adopted a policy this
year intended to prevent socalled
“wandering officers” or
“gypsy cops” from landing in a
Rhode Island police department
without undergoing a review.
The five-member commission,
which sets policies and
standards for certification and
training for police in Rhode Island,
implemented a policy that
inactivates an officer’s certification
the moment he or she leaves
a police department. The officer
must then apply to be recertified
by the commission in order to
take on active status at another
department.
RIPOST REQUIREMENTS BE-
FORE JOINING A NEW AGENCY
The rules require the officer to
produce a letter of good standing
from the previous agency
and meet other criteria before
joining a new agency. The policy
is intended to stop troubled
officers from resigning from one
department to avoid being fired
and restart their careers with
clean hands a few towns over.
“At the end of the day, we are
trying to prevent police officers
from moving from place to place
without a check,” Jamestown
Police Chief Edward A. Mello,
chairman of the commission,
said in an interview with The
Journal last week.
The Rhode Island rule replaces
a long-standing policy that an
officer’s certification would remain
intact for three years after
that person left an agency, Mello
said. Rhode Island does not have
a list of officers who have left
their positions due to misconduct.
“We want to be sure there’s
a review process between that
break,” he said. “This is a stop
gap measure to ensure good
police.”
The new policy has taken effect
as the commission, known
as the RIPOST, is seeing a growing
number of officers seeking
a lateral transfer from one
agency to another in the Ocean
State — an attractive option as
recruitment has been difficult,
Mello said. Advantages include
that seasoned officers bring with
them professional experience
and training.
“It’s a challenging hiring time,”
said Mello, who’s last three
department hires included two
transfers.
POLICE DE-CERTIFICATION
INDEX
In addition to the letter of
good standing, officers seeking a
transfer must undergo a psychological,
drug and medical exams,
submit to a background check,
and verify that they aren’t in the
National De-certification Index, a
national registry of certificate or
license revocation actions relating
to officer misconduct.
The index, which police in
Rhode Island use to vet outof-state
applicants, currently
lists 31,000 disciplinary actions,
according to Michael Becar,
executive director of the International
Association of Directors
of Law Enforcement Standards
& Training, which oversees the
database.
Although Rhode Island’s new
policy inactivates an officer’s
certification, that individual’s
name cannot be added to the index
because it is not a de-certification
due to misconduct, Becar
said. Rhode Island does not have
a list of officers who have left
their positions due to misconduct,
according to Mello.
Rhode Island is one of four
states nationally whose standards
and training commission
doesn’t have the authority under
state law to decertify a police
officer, a process that essentially
strips that person of his or her
badge.
It joins New Jersey, Hawaii, and
California, though state lawmakers
there passed a measure
in September empowering that
state to suspend or revoke a
certificate on specified grounds.
Those include the use of excessive
force, sexual assault, making
a false arrest, or participating
in a law enforcement gang, as
well as demonstrating an abuse
of power or bias based on race,
national origin, religion, gender
identity or sexual orientation,
or disability. The California law
takes effect in January.
From Becar’s perspective, it
is important for the RIPOST to
have the authority to de-certify
problematic officers to prevent
misconduct and an unwitting
agency experiencing a black eye
and civil liability due to officer
misdeeds.
“They need the authority to
investigate officers who have
committed misconduct, to terminate
their license,” Becar said.
“If they don’t have the authority,
there’s nothing to stop that officer
from going from agency to
agency.”
The association recommends
as model de-certification policies
that incorporate an independent
investigation by the commission
and an appeal process,
as seen in Arizona and Oregon.
“It’s a very fair hearing into
whether misconduct occurred,”
Becar said.
But to Mello, de-certification
can only work if every state is
empowered to revoke an officer’s
badge and then ensure the misconduct
is entered into the national
database. The states must
require, too, that each department
check that database before
hiring an officer, he said.
“There’s no point in de-certification
unless every state is
de-certifying,” Mello said
‘A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION’
For now, Sid Wordell, executive
director of the Rhode Island Police
Chiefs’ Association, says the
new policy “is a step in the right
direction.”
“Ultimately, everybody believes
there should be a de-certification
process,” Wordell said.
Harrison Tuttle, executive director
of BLM RI PAC, agrees that
the policy represents a step in
the right direction.
“While we celebrate this victory
today, tomorrow we go back
to work,” Tuttle, who is running
for General Assembly, said in an
email.
The BLM RI PAC will stand
with the state’s Black and brown
communities and continue to
call for the repeal of the Law Enforcement
Officers’ Bill of Rights
in Rhode Island, he said. He welcomed
the chance to meet with
the Police Chiefs’ Association “to
do a full analysis on how this
policy change works in practice
... as we plan to hold them accountable.”
Legislation to amend the Law
Enforcement Officers Bill of
Rights failed to pass last session
after advocates, interest groups
and lawmakers were unable to
reach agreement on key details.
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
1 Illinois Officer Killed, 1 Critically
Wounded in Hotel Shooting
A manhunt is underway in
Kankakee County, IL, after one
police officer was killed and
another was critically wounded
in a shooting Wednesday night,
Dec. 29th at a hotel in the village
of Bradley.
Around 9:40 p.m. Wednesday,
Bradley Police responded to the
Comfort Inn hotel after a call
about dogs barking in an unattended
vehicle in the parking lot.
Police said the officers located
the vehicle and the possible
owner inside a hotel room. Both
officers were shot after trying to
talk with the people inside the
room, Bradley police confirmed.
Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene
Rittmanic, 49, died at the hospital
and Officer Tyler J. Bailey, 27,
was critically wounded.
Police said an arrest warrant
was issued for 25-year-old
Darius Sullivan in connection
with the shooting, NBC Chicago
reports. They are also looking for
another person of interest believed
to be involved in the case.
A $10,000.00 reward is being
offered for information leading to
an arrest.
On Thursday, Dec. 30, The Bradley
Police Department issued the
following Press Release:
On Wednesday, December
29thth, 2021, at approximately
21:41 hrs. the Bradley Police
Department responded to the
Comfort Inn 1500 north State
Route 50, for reported dogs
barking in an unattended vehicle
which was parked in the parking
lot. Upon arrival officers located
a vehicle and a room inside the
hotel where the possible owner
of the vehicle was staying.
Officers initiated conversation
with the subjects in the room
and while during conversation
the officers were attacked by the
subjects occupying the room,
whereas both officers were shot.
Both officers were transported
to nearby hospitals where one
officer has died, and the other
is in critical condition and is
currently undergoing surgery.
Identities of both officers are
held pending notification.
An arrest warrant has been
issued for a Darius D Sullivan M/B
06/21/1996. We are also looking
for another person of interest
that we believe was involved
with the case.
Bradley Officer Tyler J. Bailey
IS PROUD
TO SUPPORT
FOR HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL
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AROUND THE COUNTRY
FIRST LEO DEATH OF 2022
Wayne County IL. Deputy Killed in
Shooting; Suspect is in Custody.
A suspect in the fatal shooting
of a Wayne County, Illinois deputy,
has been taken into custody.
The Wayne County Sheriff’s
Office (WCSO) says the shooting
happened around 5:00 a.m.
on December 29th when Deputy
Sean Riley was dispatched to a
motorist assist on Interstate 64
near the Illinois-Indiana border.
WCSO says that when another
officer got to the scene, Deputy
Riley was found dead. Deputy Riley’s
squad car was missing from
the scene of the shooting and
found abandoned along I-64.
Around 1:40 p.m., authorities
said that one suspect, later identified
as 40-year-old Ray Tate of
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, had been
taken into custody in connection
to the shooting death of Deputy
Riley.
The Illinois State Police believes
Tate carjacked a semitruck
near the area where Deputy
Riley’s patrol vehicle was
found abandoned - forcing the
driver of the truck to take him to
a gas station in St. Peters, Missouri,
before a series of other
car jackings, robberies, and
shootings occurred.
ISP says that Tate is suspected
of then traveling back into
Illinois with a kidnapped victim
in another stolen vehicle,
which was found
at a home in rural
Carlyle.
Police believe
Tate then committed
a home invasion
in Carlysle, taking
the homeowner and
the other kidnapped
victim hostage.
Both of the hostages
were rescued
and uninjured, and
Tate was taken to
the Clinton County
Jail where he’s
being charged with
First Degree Murder.
After Deputy
Riley’s autopsy
was performed in
Evansville, dozens
of law enforcement
officers escorted
him back home to
Illinois.
Funeral arrangements
had not been
announced at the
time of publishing.
The BLUES and an
all our brothers and
sisters in Blue here
in Texas offer our
sincerest condolences
to the Riley
family.
NC Trooper crashes at traffic stop, killing
another trooper who was his brother.
By Mark Price
A state trooper and a civilian
motorist were killed in a car crash
that involved the trooper’s brother
— who is also a state trooper,
according to the N.C. Department of
Public Safety.
It happened just before 9 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 3, at a traffic stop in
Rutherford County, southeast of
Asheville.
Investigators identified the trooper
who died as John S. Horton, a 15-
year veteran assigned to Rutherford
County.
The identity of the civilian driver
has not been released as of Jan. 4.
Horton died when his brother,
Trooper James N. Horton, was
responding to assist him in a traffic
stop near the intersection of High
Shoals Church and Goodes Grove
Church roads, officials said.
Trooper John Horton, a fifteen-year
veteran assigned to Rutherford
County, was transported to a
Spartanburg hospital where he died
of his injuries.
“Trooper James Horton lost control
of his vehicle upon approaching
the traffic stop,” officials said.
“James Horton collided with the
stationary patrol vehicle and subsequently
struck Trooper John Horton
and the detained driver who were
standing along the roadside.”
The detained driver died at the
scene.
“Trooper James Horton was taken
to a local hospital for minor injuries
and has since been released. The
North Carolina Trooper John Horton
two involved troopers are brothers,”
state officials said.
Details on road conditions were
not released, but the crash happened
after a day of snow, sleet and
quick-dropping temperatures in the
mountains.
“Our hearts are broken with the
loss of our friend and our brother,
Trooper John Horton,” State Highway
Patrol Commander Col. Freddy
L. Johnson Jr. said in a news release.
“For all involved in this tragic
event the coming days will undoubtedly
be difficult, but we are
committed to stand alongside with
them with our thoughts, prayers
and unwavering support.”
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Now that 2022 is here, many
people are unsurprisingly talking
about their New Years’ resolutions.
Some choose to focus on
personal goals, some choose to
focus on professional, and others
choose to focus on a mixture
of both. Having resolutions to
go into the new year with are
always a great idea as they can
have lasting positive effects on
many aspects of your life. If
you’re a police officer, there are
plenty of great resolutions to
make that can do wonders for
your professional development.
Here are a few great New Year’s
resolutions for you to consider.
1. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR
COMMUNITY
Few academics or law enforcement
executives agree on
what community policing is or
looks like, or how it should be
managed.
I’ve heard it said (sometimes
out of my own mouth), that before
the 1990s when federal dollars
followed anything labeled
“community-oriented policing
and problem solving,” we just
called it “police work.”
However, it is articulated or put
into practice, it means connecting
with the people you serve
in a way that builds trust and
solves problems. Take a look at
the dozens of articles online that
feature community policing and
social media tips to see if you
find a new way you can connect.
I cannot say enough about
the importance of volunteering
in the community you police.
People who volunteer are active
in their communities and are the
type of people we need spreading
the truth about our profession.
Being a public servant
should not stop when you take
the uniform off – volunteering
keeps you connected to the community
you are policing.
2. GO TO A TRADE SHOW
Trade shows are another great
new year resolution police officers
can easily take advantage
of. The law enforcement field
constantly has new tech and
products emerging that can improve
your performance on the
job. Attending the various trade
shows is a great way of getting
to see all of the new developments
and many times, getting
to test them as well.
The big three shows are: the
SHOT Show, ILEETA and IACP.
SHOT - The Shooting, Hunting,
and Outdoor Trade show (from
whence the SHOT acronym is
derived) is purely a trade show
and restricted to users and purchasers
for law enforcement,
military and outdoor products.
It is the only show I haven’t been
to, although I’m hoping to rectify
that this coming January in Las
Vegas. The dates of this year’s
show are January 18-21 in Vegas.
New Year Resolutions for 2022
• KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
• GO TO TRADE SHOWS
• BOOST YOUR CAREER
• GET FIT & RESILIENT
• BE A BETTER CRIME FIGHTER
• BE SAFE & READ MORE IN 2022
• GO HOME SAFE TO YOUR FAMILY AFTER SHIFT
ILEETA (International Law Enforcement
Educators and Trainers
Association) - hosts an annual
training conference for its
members. The 2022 conference
is in St. Louis, March 14-19 and
features a product and equipment
show from major makers
and suppliers of law enforcement
equipment and technology.
If you want to hear the leading
police trainers on relevant topics
and see the latest in cop stuff,
ILEETA should be worked into
your personal or department
budget and calendar. Several
episodes of the Policing Matters
on Police1.com’s podcasts are
featured interviews with ILEETA
instructors.
One of the leading police
training classes at ILEETA in 2019
taught the Importance of being a
‘predator’ in a deadly confrontation.
A lot of different scenarios
police officers learn in response
to aggression used to be and still
is, unfortunately, to step back
and to create distance or reactionary
gaps. Although there may
be a time when this is appropriate,
normally we operate in very
close proximity to the subject.
And oftentimes it’s too late to go
backward. When you start going
backward, you begin to act like
prey. Unfortunately, when you
begin to act like prey, things go
in one direction: from bad to
worse.
IACP - The IACP (International
Association of Chiefs of
Police) 2022 conference is in
Dallas, October 15-18 and while
the conference is for members
only, the trade show is open
to law enforcement with credentials
after registration for a
pass, regardless of whether you
are an IACP member or attend
the conference sessions. You’ll
see everything from holsters to
helicopters, as well as informational
exhibits on services and
agencies you can network with
for your agency’s success. If you
are a trainer or have purchasing
authority, you don’t want to miss
this expansive trade show if you
have the opportunity.
2. BOOST MY CAREER
Check out the website Police1.
They offer hundreds of articles
on leadership and career success
as well as content from writers
who know the keys to getting
hired and promoted. These
seasoned officer’s aka writers,
provide valuable nuggets worth
their weight in gold for getting
you where you want to be. You’ll
find good counsel for solid, ethical
service that will give a boost
to anyone’s career and provide
guidance for your police retirement.
If you’re already in leadership,
you’ll find the voice of experience
of police leaders who have been
at the boss’ desk or in a supervisor’s
patrol car. With every
decision being scrutinized by a
reporter’s explosive headline or
a malcontent’s viral video, you’ll
want to hear from Police1’s writers
on topics in the news.
Top police training tip on” How
to improve your odds for promotion
in 2022”:
If I were a chief executive today,
I would evaluate promotional
candidates on their knowledge and
understanding of the issues that
create the greatest challenges
within the geopolitical arena. For
example, a clear understanding
of de-escalation and less-lethal
force options would be critical to
a police leadership role in the year
2022 and beyond.
3. GET MORE FIT AND RESILIENT
The BLUES is proud to have three
well known professionals on
its roster of columnists. Dr. Tina
Jaeckle, Samantha Horwitz and
John Salerno all provide valuable
insight into the mental health and
well-being of our readers. Each
month these seasoned professionals
dive into what it takes to keep
you safe both mentally as well as
physically.
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2022 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
Officer suicide, police fatigue,
stress-related maladies, healthy
relationships and care for injured
officers are all topics we need
to be familiar with. As a police
veteran, I can testify that open
discussions of these issues are
relatively new to the police profession.
Staying current on best
practices to keep yourself and
your brother and sister officers
healthy and serving well is a
survival skill, not just a warm
feeling.
Top police training tip on “How
to enjoy your life while avoiding
death by a thousand cuts”:
Some officers never learn to
accept positive critique. Instead,
they become defensive and internalize
anger toward anyone
who has the nerve to try to make
them better cops. If you can learn
to appreciate constructive criticism
from FTOs, assistant district
attorneys and supervisors
instead of letting it anger you, it
will eliminate a major irritant in
your life. It may also make you a
better cop.
4. BE A BETTER CRIME FIGHTER
One of my observations over
the years is that no knowledge
is lost in police work. I remember
a former meat cutter turned
deputy sheriff who was able to
solve a poaching case due to his
knowledge of how the game had
been field dressed, a cop who
was a coin collecting hobbyist
whose knowledge was key in
solving a burglary, and a farm
boy who spotted a stolen farm
implement that an urban officer
might never have recognized.
Top police training tip on” Writing
effective case summaries”:
One of the best ways to introduce
an investigation is by writing
an effective case summary,
which lays out your investigation
and findings succinctly and in an
orderly, logical and easy to read
format. This allows the prosecutor
to quickly gain a solid understanding
of the facts of the case,
as well as any potential defenses.
5. BE EVEN SAFER & KEEP
READING IN 2022
There are literally thousands of
online resources available to law
enforcement today. Of course,
we want you to continue reading
The BLUES each month, but online
police sites like Police1.com
and Policemagazine.com keep
you informed on a daily basis of
what’s happening in the world
of law enforcement. Also spend
time reading and studying Police
Survival techniques.
Many of PoliceOne’s digital
pages are devoted to issues
related to tactics, training and
legal updates around the use of
force and officer safety. Their
writers give significant attention
to active shooter, ambush and
major incident response. Because
these events are statistically rare
but could happen to any agency
or even a single officer, a review
of this knowledge base is time
well spent.
Top police training tip for “Preventing
active shooter drills from
going sideways”:
It’s not uncommon for a drill to
be executed then simply ended
without a plan for a thorough,
all-encompassing debrief. Make
sure you have a debriefing plan
in place so you can identify what
went right, spotlight what can be
refined and learn from what may
have gone wrong.
7. GO HOME TO YOU FAMILY
SAFE & SOUND AFTER SHIFT
Your number one goal should
always be “do your job to the
best of your ability and always,
always go home safe and sound
at the end of your shift.”
You may work in a safe, quiet
town where not much happens
or just the opposite where
a shooting or SWAT call is an
hourly occurrence. You are not
Superman, and you are not bullet
proof. On average, there are
at least one or two officers shot
in the line of duty every day in
America. One of those will not
make it. As a collective group,
we need to reduce the number
of officers that don’t make it
home to their families. EVERY-
ONE needs to make it home. Be
safe, be consistent, be vigilant,
and use your training. Your family
needs you and we need you.
Welcome
to
2022
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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST
Officers Lost Due to COVID in December 2021
DEPUTY SHERIFF
CLAY LIVINGSTON
SENIOR POLICE OFFICER
ERIC LINDSEY
POLICE OFFICER
THEODORE JAMES OHLEMEIER
DETECTIVE
JOSEPH POLLACK
CORPORAL
JACK LEE GUTHRIE, JR.
POLICE OFFICER
JEREMY MARTIN WILKINS
OFFICER
CHAD P. CHRISTIANSEN
SERGEANT
KEVIN REDDING
DETECTIVE SERGEANT
GARY R. TACCONE
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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST
Lost in the Line of Duty
Police Officer Richard Houston, II
Mesquite Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Friday, December 3, 2021
Age 46 Tour 21 Years Badge # 821
Police Officer Richard Houston was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance
in the parking lot of a grocery store at 1500 S Beltline Road. During
the investigation, a man produced a gun and opened fire on Officer Houston at
about 1:40 pm. Both Officer Houston and the subject were critically wounded
in the exchange of gunfire. Officer Houston was transported to a local hospital,
where he succumbed to his injuries.
Officer Houston had served with the Mesquite Police Department for 21 years.
He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and one son. His father had served
with the Mesquite Police Department.
Police Officer Zachary Cottongim
Louisville Metro Police Department, Kentucky
End of Watch Saturday, December 18, 2021
Age 29 Tour 7 Years 2 Months Badge # 7239
Police Officer Zachary Cottongim was struck and killed by an automobile as he
attended to an abandoned vehicle on the side of I-64 near the Mellwood Avenue
exit. He was standing on the side of the highway when he was struck by a passing
vehicle. Officer Cottongim was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital
where he succumbed to his injuries.
Officer Cottongim had served with the Louisville Metro Police Department for
seven years. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Deputy Jailer Robert Daniel
Graves County Jail, Kentucky
End of Watch Friday, December 10, 2021
Age 47 Tour N/A Badge # N/A
Deputy Jailer Robert Daniel was killed when a large tornado struck a building he
was working in while supervising inmates on work release. Deputy Jailer Daniel
was supervising seven inmates who were participating in the work release program
at the Mayfield Consumer Products’ candle factory at 112 Industrial Drive.
A large tornado that had tracked over 200 miles across multiple states struck
the city of Mayfield. Deputy Daniel guided inmates and employees into the
shelter. Almost all 100 people were in the shelter ahead of him when the roof
collapsed and killed him and numerous employees. Without the risks that he
took to save others, more employees from the factory would have been killed.
All seven inmates were rescued from the rubble; however, one escaped after
being treated at a local hospital. Dozens of people in multiple states were killed
as a result of the tornado.
Officer Daniel is survived by his four daughters, three sons, seven grandchildren,
two brothers, and father.
Police Officer Mia Danielle Figueroa-Goodwin
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, NC
End of Watch Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Age 33 Tour 6 Years Badge # N/A
Police Officer Mia Figueroa-Goodwin was killed when a tractor-trailer struck
her patrol car on southbound I-85 near W.T. Harris Boulevard. She was blocking
traffic on the interstate at the scene of a previous crash when the tractor-trailer
struck her patrol car at about 3:30 am.
Officer Figueroa-Goodwin had served with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police
Department for over six years and was assigned to the University City Division.
She is survived by her husband and three children ages 3, 1, and 4 months.
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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST
Lost in the Line of Duty
Police Officer Keona Holley
Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland
End of Watch Thursday, December 23, 2021
Age 39 Tour 2 Years Badge # N/A
Police Officer Keona Holley succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained on December
16th, 2021, when she was ambushed in the 4400 block of Pennington
Avenue. She was sitting in her patrol car at about 1:30 am when two men
approached from behind and opened fire, shooting her multiple times. Both men
then went to another location approximately 10 miles away where they murdered
another man who owed one of them $100.Officer Holley was transported
to a local hospital where she remained in critical condition until succumbing to
her wounds on December 23rd, 2021.
Officer Holley had served with the Baltimore City Police Department for two
years. She is survived by her four children, parents, and sister.
Deputy Sheriff Sean Riley
Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, Illinois
End of Watch Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Age 23 Tour N/A Badge # N/A
Deputy Sheriff Sean Riley was shot and killed after responding to assist a
motorist near mile marker 115 on I-64 at about 5:00 am. Another officer responding
to back him up found him suffering from fatal gunshot wounds and
his patrol car was missing. The subject later abandoned the patrol car on I-64
before fleeing to St. Peters, Missouri, where he carjacked and shot a citizen. The
man then abandoned the vehicle before stealing another vehicle and returning
to Illinois. He was taken into custody in the early afternoon.
Deputy Riley is survived by his wife and three children.
Agent José Ferrer-Pabón
Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico
End of Watch Friday, December 24, 2021
Age 44 Tour N/A Badge # 35961
Agent José Ferrer-Pabón was killed in a vehicle crash on PR-110 near Rafael
Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, at about 12:30 am.
He was returning to the station at the end of his shift when an oncoming vehicle
traveling at a high rate of speed lost control and struck his patrol car head-on.
Agent Ferrer-Pabón and both occupants of the other vehicle were killed in the
collision.
Agent Ferrer-Pabón was assigned to the Stolen Vehicles Division.
Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic
Bradley Police Department, Illinois
End of Watch Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Age 49 Tour 14 Years Badge # N/A
Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic was shot and killed as she and another officer
investigated a noise complaint at the Comfort Inn at 1500 Illinois 50. The officers
had responded to the motel at approximately 9:30 to investigate reports
of barking dogs that were left unattended in a vehicle. They located the room
where the vehicle’s owner was staying and contacted the occupants. During
the encounter, the occupants attacked and shot both officers, killing Sergeant
Rittmanic. The other officer suffered a serious gunshot wound to the head.
The occupants fled the motel and remain at large.
Sergeant Rittmanic had served with the Bradley Police Department for 14 years.
She is survived by her wife.
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BY MICHAEL BARRON
THEY DIDN’T MAKE IT
On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Des Moines Police Officer’s
Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales were killed
when their patrol car was struck head-on by a wrong
way, drunk driver on I-80, at mile marker 117.
They were transporting a prisoner from Council Bluffs
back to Des Moines when the crash occurred. Both officers,
the prisoner, and the driver of the wrong way vehicle
were all killed.
Officer Farrell had served with the Des Moines Police
Department for only five months and had previously
served with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office for 11 years.
Now I’m sure you ask what these two officers have to
do with a 2021 Memorial for Fallen Officers. After all
this was almost six years ago and as tragic as this was,
nearly 1576 officers have died in the line since that bleak
Saturday. But what is noteworthy for this special Memorial
Edition of The BLUES is the eulogy that Des Moines
police Chief Dana Wingert gave at Officer Farrell’s funeral.
If you have not seen this eulogy, (CLICK HERE TO
WATCH) watch it at least once. It is hard viewing, but
you will learn more about the soul of what makes a
police officer and others who serve in public safety in
those 9 minutes, 41 seconds than you would in a thousand
hours of academy classes.
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“So why get in this business If this is how it ends?
You sign on because you know that you’re making a
difference and it would be chaos without you.”
On Saturday March 26, 2016, Chief Dana Wingert looked
out the window of his office in the Des Moines police
station, one of the worst days in the department’s history.
He stared at the police car parked across from the station.
A black shroud with a blue sash through the center
stretched across the cruiser’s windshield. Fellow officers
put the car there as a memorial to fellow officers Susan
Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales. A tribute to the two
officers who had died in a fiery head-on crash on Interstate
80 near Waukee shortly after 12:30 a.m.
Throughout the day, people came and laid flowers on
the hood of the car and planted signs and wreaths in the
ground in front of the vehicle’s wheels and bumper. A soft
rain fell. At one point, Wingert saw a man kneeling in
prayer by the car. The man, a stranger to Wingert, prayed
for 40 minutes in the rain.
“With the rain on my window, he couldn’t see the tears
when he walked away,” Wingert said. “A lot of people are
hurting. Not just us. “
There was no foggy glass to hide Wingert’s grief as he
delivered the first of two eulogies for his fallen officers
that following Wednesday at Lutheran Church of Hope in
West Des Moines. Sadness shook his body. He shifted anxiously
on his feet as he spoke for nearly 10 minutes at the
memorial service for Farrell. His voice quivered at times.
But in the midst of that pain, Wingert rose to the occasion.
Near the end of the talk, Wingert asked everyone in
attendance who serve in public safety to stand.
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“Bear with me,” he said. “I just need you for a second.”
Scores of police officers, sheriff’s deputies, dispatchers,
firefighters and medics rose.
“So why get in this business?” he asked. “If this is how
it ends, if this is what it’s all about, why sign on?
“Regardless, if you’re fighting fires, fighting crime or
providing medical care to save lives, you sign on because
you know there are people that depend on you,” he continued.
“You sign on because you know that you’re making
a difference and it would be chaos without you. You
sign on because you truly care about the welfare of others.
Don’t ever forget for a second why you signed on.”
Wingert then asked Farrell’s widower, Jesse Farrell, a
Pleasant Hill police officer, and his family to stand. He
asked them to look around at the scores of public safety
servants standing in the room.
“Don’t just look at the sheer numbers,” Wingert said.
“Look into their eyes. They signed on because there are
people like this in this room that will always be there for
you. It is who we are. It is what we do. There is nothing
quite like it. And Officer Susan Farrell will always be a
part of this family.”
Those in attendance applauded for nearly 10 seconds.
In the midst of honoring the fallen, Wingert found a way
to inspire those left to carry on. Wingert paused as the
Farrell family and the public safety officers sat down.
Weariness marked his face.
He looked like a man who could add up the minutes
of sleep he’d had over the last five days and never quite
reach a full hour. Yet the compassion and strength of the
Des Moines police chief shone through.
He drew a deep breath. And then he said goodbye.
“They didn’t make it...Those are the words that
we’ll never forget. But I stand here before you today
to argue that statement … because Officer Susan
Farrell and Officer Carlos Puente-Morales did make
it. And now they sit in God’s house, and they watch
over us, and they guide us, and they will for all of our
days.”
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God.”
2020 TEXAS OFFICERS
KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY
Wingert closed his eulogy with the simple sentence that
began it: “They didn’t make it.”
“Those are the words that we’ll never forget,” he said.
“But I stand here before you today to argue that statement
… because Officer Susan Farrell and Officer Carlos Puente-Morales
did make it. And now they sit in God’s house,
and they watch over us, and they guide us, and they will
for all of our days.”
He closed with a quote from Jesus Christ’s Sermon
on the Mount, one of the Beatitudes, from Matthew 5:9:
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God.”
Wingert gathered his crumpled, tightly rolled notes and
exited the podium before the torrent of emotion clearly
bubbling beneath the surface burst forth on the pulpit.
The chief sat down, emotionally and physically spent. Yet
a day later, somehow, he had to find the strength to stand
again to honor another fallen officer.
This scene, funerals for hundreds of officers from across
the country, played out week after week, year after year.
On average almost one a day for the past two years. And
police chiefs just like Chief Dana Wingert had to tell the
surviving families that their son or daughter, husband or
wife, mother or father, that “I’m sorry, they didn’t make it.”
Police Officer
Nicholas Lee Reyna
Deputy Sheriff
John Andrew Rhoden
Deputy Sheriff
Cornelius B. Anderson
Police Officer Alan
Daniel McCollum
Police Officer
Jason Michael Knox
Police Officer Sheena
Dae Yarbrough-Powell
Deputy Sheriff
Richard E. Whitten
Deputy Constable
Caleb Daniel Rule
Investigator
Lemuel Delray Bruce
Senior Deputy
Christopher Korzilius
Police Officer
Ismael Z. Chavez
Sergeant
Harold Lloyd Preston
Deputy Senior Deputy Sheriff
Christopher Richard E. Whitten Korzilius
Police Officer
Edelmiro Garza, Jr.
Sergeant
Sean Sebastian Rios
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These past two years have been especially difficult
with over 581 officers losing their lives to COVID alone.
This horrible pandemic has claimed more police officer’s
lives in the past two years then the previous three
years combined. And unfortunately, it continues to this
day with no end in sight.
The following chart is a tragic reminder of how many
brothers and sisters in Blues we’ve lost in 2020 & 2021.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God.”
2021 TEXAS OFFICERS
KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY
Police Officer
Mitchell Aaron Penton
Trooper
Chad Michael Walker
Sergeant
Stephen Jones
Deputy Sheriff
Samuel A. Leonard
Sergeant
Joshua Blake Bartlett
Police Officer
Andrew “Andy” Traylor
Senior Police Officer
William Jeffrey
Deputy Constable
Kareem Atkins
Senior Patrolman
Sherman Otto Benys, Jr.
Police Officer
Richard Houston, II
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Each month, The BLUES dedicates an entire section
to fallen officers from across the U.S. For those Texas
officers we attend the funerals and do our best to
create a lasting memory within our pages for the families
of the Fallen to hold on. And to show respect and
sadness for our brothers and sisters in Blue. But this
year, we wanted to do more. So, we created a special
section with the photos of every officer that lost their
life in 2021. Unfortunately, it’s quite lengthy. But please
take the time to look at each and every photo and say a
prayer for their families both blue and blood.
For the families, I offer my sincerest condolences and
want you to know that you have hundreds of thousands
of Blue family here to support you and care for
you. The BLUES has a special hot line for you to call
24/7 if you need anything, and I mean anything at all.
We will use every resource at our disposal to assist
you. We’d also like to thank the good folks at Officer
Down Memorial Page(ODMP.org) for providing all the
information and photos seen here.
I leave you with the following:
The police officer who puts their life on
the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray
vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly,
and above all no invulnerability to bullets,
reveals far greater virtue than Superman -
who is only a mere superhero.
ELIEZER YUDLOWSKI
2020 - 385 Line of Duty Deaths
254 - to COVID
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2021 - 487 Line of Duty Deaths
327 - to COVID
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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK
michael barron
In this special Memorial Tribute,
we pay homage to the 872
men and women of law enforcement
that made the ultimate
sacrifice in 2020 and 2021.
They lost their lives protecting
the lives of a public they didn’t
even know.
Eight Hundred Seventy-Two
brave officers, men and women
whose backgrounds and stories
are as diverse as our nation
itself, gave their lives to protect
our safety and to defend
our freedoms. They are forever
bound together by an unbreakable
bond of valor. They each
gave, as Lincoln said, the “last
full measure of devotion” to the
country we love so dearly.
To the husbands, wives, parents,
children, siblings, friends,
and fellow officers who have
been touched by the lives we
honor, you have been called
upon to bear a special burden.
And, though there is no speech
or ceremony that can ease your
pain, we present this special
Tribute to honor their courage
and to fill your hearts with our
gratitude.
The word vigil derives from
the Latin word for “wakefulness.”
It means, literally, “a
period of purposeful sleeplessness.”
That is, in a sense, what
we are here to do: to refuse to
sleep, to refuse to forget the
heroes we’ve lost or their work
that remains undone.
Though we may grieve, we
must emphatically reject despair.
Unlike most other careers,
the brave men and women
who embark upon a life in law
enforcement know fully that
they might one day be called
upon to lay down their lives in
the call of duty. Those we honor
today made that choice willingly.
Indeed, they embraced it.
And that is why their ultimate
sacrifice means so much. They
served and sacrificed for a
purpose far greater than themselves.
There is no truer definition
of a hero.
For all those officers who
read this today, who continue
to answer the call to keep our
country safe, you know that every
kiss from your spouse, every
hug from a child, every visit
with a parent, means a little
bit more. So please honor the
lives of your fallen colleagues
by giving as much of yourself to
your loved ones as you give every
day in service to the citizens
of your city, county or state.
We all know that without their
love and support, your service
would not be possible. Family is
everything.
It is up to all of us to bear
true witness to the bravery and
sacrifice made by the heroes
we honor today by remembering
that we all have a personal
role to play in keeping our
neighborhoods safe and our
nation secure. We must take
responsibility for the problems
we face in our communities and
take a stand against crimes both
large and small. We must help
each other in times of need, and
we must teach our children the
difference between right and
wrong.
The candles we lit last May
at Police Memorials around the
country, did not burn for long, but
they remind us that we must all
be the keepers of the flame once
borne by our fallen heroes. Let us
bring this light back to our cities,
our neighborhoods, our streets,
and our homes. Let us light the
darker corners of our country
where crime still thrives, where
children live in fear, and where
law enforcement is threatened.
I’ve attended many a vigil for
fallen officers these past two
years, but now is the time we
must be vigilant. It’s time we bind
ourselves together with a new
bond, a new goal of making our
country a safer place to live. Let
us continue to honor our fallen
heroes every day.
We read in the Scriptures,
“Greater love has no one than
this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.” Let us remember
these words today and always.
And, in deepest gratitude, let us
be secure in the knowledge that
our fellow officers rest in peace
and in a place of honor.
May God bless the men and
women who have given their
lives in service to our nation.
Thank you and God Bless you all.
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Honoring Our Fallen Officers
To the family and friends of all fallen officers,
we are sorry for your loss and are
forever grateful for the sacrifices you and
your family have made.
Our staff is here to assist you in any way
we can, so please call or come by and let
us know what we can do.
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FROM THE GUEST EDITOR’S DESK
rex evans
Since January of 2020
through December of
2021, a total of 872 Law
Enforcement Officers have
lost their lives in the Line
of Duty. These incredible
men and women gave
everything of themselves,
so that others might go on
living.
You’re seeing the right
number. 872. Just under
1,000 people, good
people who were just
like you and I. They left
their homes, families and
friends to serve and protect
their respective communities.
Each of them,
finding within themselves
the strength to face the
age-old dangers of police
work, coupled with the
new invisible and deadly
threat of COVID.
Some of these men and
women were beaten, shot,
stabbed, struck by a motor
vehicle or drowned.
Others, by some medical
condition which occurred
while they were in the
performance of their duty.
Then of course, there are
the hundreds of Law Enforcement
Officers who
fell from the effects of
COVID and the terrible
toll this virus takes upon
the body.
If you were to review the
“ROLL CALL” of names,
you’d see behind each
name was a face. A son or
daughter. A husband or
wife. A mothers or father.
You’d see the loss of these
amazing people who, just
like you and I, wore a
badge, was not only profound
in their respective
communities but throughout
the Nation.
Not since records have
been kept and monitored
with regards to Law Enforcement
Officer Deaths,
have there ever been such
extreme numbers. In a
very real sense, our profession
has skyrocketed, not
only being the most dangerous,
but the deadliest.
Therefore, I wish to convey
my deepest sympathy
to the families of these
fallen officers. I know
these past two years have
been extremely trying and
difficult for every who
carries a badge. But I ask
you to please never give in
or give up. What you do
matters. What all of us do,
matters.
For the only thing between
us and those that
would harm us is a Thin
Blue Line. It is that Thin
Blue Line that binds us
together and gives up
strength to carry on the
memory of those we’ve
lost.

Let Us Pray for Our Police Officers
A Police Officer’s Prayer: Author Unknown
Oh Almighty God,
Whose Great Power and Eternal Wisdom
Embraces the Universe,
Watch Over All Policemen and
Law Enforcement Officers.
Protect Them from Harm in the Performance of
Their Duty to Stop Crime, Robberies,
Riots, and Violence.
We Pray,
Help Them Keep Our Streets and
Homes Safe Day and Night.
We Recommend Them to Your Loving Care
Because Their Duty is Dangerous.
Grant Them Your Unending Strength and
Courage in Their Daily Assignments.
Dear God,
Protect These Brave Men and Women,
Grant Them Your Almighty Protection,
Unite Them Safely with Their Families
After Duty Has Ended.
Amen.
Psalm 23 - The Lord is my Shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside still waters;
He restores my soul.
He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I fear no evil;
For you are with me;
Your rod and your staff - they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence
of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life,
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my
whole life long.

Sergeant Gordon William Best
North Myrtle Beach DPS
End of Watch Friday, January 1, 2021
Sergeant Daniel Marcus Mobley
DeKalb County Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, January 2, 2021
Constable Cecil Nunley
Sequatchie County Constable’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, January 2, 2021
Lieutenant Jeff Bain
DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, January 3, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Nicholas Howell
Henry County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, January 3, 2021
Sergeant Randall Sims
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Sunday, January 3, 2021
Special Deputy Marshal Havonia Denise Holley
United States Marshals Service
End of Watch Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Jonathan David Price
Marion County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Police Officer Jay Hughes
Kalispel Tribal Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, January 6, 2021

HONORS, RESPECTS AND REMEMBERS
OUR FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS
Police Officer Brian David Sicknick
United States Capitol Police
End of Watch Thursday, January 7, 2021
Sergeant David G. Crumpler
Henry County Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, January 7, 2021
First Sergeant Timothy Lee Howell
North Carolina Highway Patrol
End of Watch Thursday, January 7, 2021
Lieutenant William Lyle Gardner
Denver City Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, January 7, 2021
Conservation Officer Steven Reighard
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
End of Watch Friday, January 8, 2021
Police Officer Arturo Villegas
Alamo Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, January 10, 2021
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Sergeant Brian Roy LaVigne
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, January 11, 2021
Agent Luis A. Marrero-Díaz
Puerto Rico Police Department
End of Watch Monday, January 11, 2021

Agent Luis X. Salamán-Conde
Carolina Municipal Police Department
End of Watch Monday, January 11, 2021
Agent Eliezer Hernández-Cartagena
Carolina Municipal Police Department
End of Watch Monday, January 11, 2021
Police Officer Melton “Fox” Gore
Horry County Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Sergeant Frederick H. “Butch” Cameron
Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Detective Sergeant Stephen R. Desfosses
Norton Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Police Officer Hector Moya
Newark Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Chief of Police Tony M. Jordan
Middleburg Borough Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Investigator Richard Anthony Sepolio, Sr.
Harris County District Attorney’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Police Officer Joseph Henry Montgomery
Arizona State University Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, January 14, 2021

Corporal Christine Peters
Greenbelt Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, January 14, 2021
Constable Sherry Kay Langford
Henderson County Constable - Precinct 1
End of Watch Thursday, January 14, 2021
Lieutenant Treva Preston
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Friday, January 15, 20211
Corrections Officer IV Alfred Jimenez
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Friday, January 15, 2021
Police Officer Jerry Steven Hemphill
Lanier Technical College Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, January 16, 2021
Sergeant Edward John Marcurella, Jr.
Colleton County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, January 16, 2021
Lieutenant John Reynolds
Garden Grove Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, January 17, 2021
Corrections Officer Joseph A. Martini
Ulster County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, January 17, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Adam Gibson
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Monday, January 18, 2021

Corrections Deputy II Ralph Edward Serrano
San Diego County Probation Department
End of Watch Monday, January 18, 2021
Court Bailiff Gerald “Bear” Smith
Pahrump Justice Court
End of Watch Monday, January 18, 2021
Police Officer Brandon M. Stalker
Toledo Police Department
End of Watch Monday, January 18, 2021
Warrants Officer Toby Keiser
Knox County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, January 18, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Jacinto R. Navarro, Jr.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Officer Byron Don Shields
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Lieutenant Robert Van Zeyl
Suffolk County Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Lieutenant Frank Arnold
Office of Protective Services
End of Watch Friday, January 22, 2021
Special Agent Wayne Douglas Snyder
Georgia Department of Corrections
End of Watch Saturday, January 23, 2021

Lieutenant Juan Rafael Rivera-Padua
Puerto Rico Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, January 23, 2021
Special Deputy Marshal Craig Alan Kriner
United States Marshals Service,
End of Watch Saturday, January 23, 2021
Captain Michael D’Angelo Garigan
Gordon County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, January 24, 2021
Sergeant Charles F. Dotson
Baton Rouge Police Department
End of Watch Monday, January 25, 2021
Deputy Sheriff II Frank Gonzalez Holguin, III
Tulare County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Auxiliary Sergeant Louis M. Livatino
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Correctional Officer John Michael Bowe
Missouri Department of Corrections
End of Watch Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Director of Field Operations Beverly Good
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Thursday, January 28, 2021
Sergeant Tommy W. Cudd
Union County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, January 28, 2021

Sergeant Jeffery Robert Smith
Berry College Police Department,
End of Watch Friday, January 29, 2021
Special Agent Robert Allan Mayer, Jr.
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Saturday, January 30, 2021
Sergeant William Brautigam
New York City Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, January 31, 202
This Memorial Tribute is dedicated to
Natividad “Nat” Gutierrez
Co-Founder of the BLUES
May 18, 1953 - August 17,2021
Special Agent Jimmie John Daniels
Federal Bureau of Investigation
End of Watch Monday, February 1, 2021
Correctional Officer Juan Llanes
Miami-Dade County Department of Corrections
End of Watch Monday, February 1, 2021
Sergeant Grace A. Bellamy
Georgia Department of Corrections
End of Watch Monday, February 1, 2021
Lieutenant Michael Boutte
Hancock County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, February 1, 2021
Special Agent Laura Ann Schwartzenberger
Federal Bureau of Investigation
End of Watch Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Special Agent Daniel Alfin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
End of Watch Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Detention Officer Robert Perez
Harris County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Jack Edward Gwynes
Nassau County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Agent Juan Rosado-López
Puerto Rico Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Vicky James
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Investigator Eddie B. Hutchison, III
Walker County Criminal District Attorney’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Special Deputy Marshal Hugh Boyd Bennett
United States Marshals Service
End of Watch Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Patrolman Darian Jarrott
New Mexico State Police
End of Watch Thursday, February 4, 2021
Correctional Lieutenant III Anthony Lynn Hardie
North Carolina DPS
End of Watch Saturday, February 6, 2021
Detective Pedro Junior “Pete” Mejia
Pasadena Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, February 6, 2021
Chief of Police Timothy John Sheehan
California Borough Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, February 11, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Donald Raymond Gilreath, III
Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, February 12, 2021
Police Officer Mitchell Aaron Penton
Dallas Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, February 13, 2021
Officer Cesar Dangaran Sibonga
y - Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Sunday, February 7, 2021
Special Deputy Marshal Vincent A. Gala, Jr.
United States Marshals Service
End of Watch Monday, February 8, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Ross Dixon
Cambria County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Officer Genaro Guerrero
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Monday, February 15, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Tawiwo Obele
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Major Esteban “Stevie” Ramirez, III
Bell County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Deputy Constable Manuel Phillipe De La Rosa
Hays County Constable’s Office, Precinct 2
End of Watch Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Sergeant Richard Paul Brown
Fresno Police Department,
End of Watch Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Michael Magli
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Reserve Deputy Constable Martinus Mitchum
Second City Court of New Orleans Constable
End of Watch Friday, February 26, 2021
Police Officer Dominic Jared Winum
Stanley Police Department,
End of Watch Friday, February 26, 2021
Captain Justin Williams Bedwell
Decatur County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, March 1, 2021
Police Officer Horacio Dominguez
Miccosukee Tribal Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, February 21, 2021
Lieutenant Eugene Lasco
Indiana Department of Correction
End of Watch Sunday, February 21, 2021
Natural Resources Officer Jason Lagore
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
End of Watch Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Police Officer II Jose Luis Anzora
Los Angeles Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Corrections Officer III Tracey Adams
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Saturday, March 6, 2021
Officer Crispin San Juan San Jose
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Parole Officer Troy K. Morin
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Officer Carlos Mendoza
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Albanese
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Thursday, February 25, 2021
Officer Jesse Peter Madsen
Tampa Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Sergeant Barry Edwin Henderson
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Stanley “Allen” Burdic
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, March 11, 2021

Police Officer Gary Hibbs
Chicago Heights Police Department
End of Watch Friday, March 12, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Alejandro Flores-Bañuelos
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Monday, March 15, 2021
Captain Justin Williams Bedwell
Decatur County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, March 1, 2021
Senior Master Trooper Todd Anthony Hanneken
Illinois State Police
End of Watch Thursday, March 25, 2021
Corporal Kyle Jeffrey Davis
Washington County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, March 25, 2021
Trooper Joseph Gallagher
New York State Police
End of Watch Friday, March 26, 2021
Police Officer Kevin Valencia
Orlando Police Department
End of Watch Monday, March 15, 2021
Sergeant LaShonda Owens
Northampton County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, March 18, 2021
Police Officer Matt North
Bernice Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, March 20, 2021
Sergeant Shane Owens
Broward County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, March 27, 2021
Trooper Chad Michael Walker
Texas Department of Public Safety
End of Watch Sunday, March 28, 2021
Reserve Deputy Sheriff James Driver
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, March 29, 2021
Police Officer Eric Huston Talley
Boulder Police Department
End of Watch Monday, March 22, 2021
Chief of Police Fred Alan Posavetz
Clinton Township Police Department,
End of Watch Monday, March 22, 2021
Correctional Officer Robert McFarland
Iowa Department of Corrections
End of Watch Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Corrections Officer Luis Arturo Hernandez, Sr.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Police Officer William Francis Evans
United States Capitol Police
End of Watch Friday, April 2, 2021
Lieutenant James Kouski
Hometown Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, April 3, 2021

Police Officer Brent Nelson Hall
Newton Grove Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, April 3, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Brandon Gore
Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, April 3, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Christopher Wilson Knight
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Corrections Officer Jimmy Garcia
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Thursday, April 15, 2021
Police Officer David Parde
Lexington Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, April 18, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Terry Dyer
Madison County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Sergeant James K. Smith
Iowa State Patrol
End of Watch Friday, April 9, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Patrick Barnes
Jefferson Davis County Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Saturday, April 10, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Carlos Antonio Hernandez
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, April 11, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Alexander Gwosdz
Harris County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Thursday, April 22, 2021
Lieutenant Adam Dale Whisenant
Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco
End of Watch Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Police Officer Anastasio Tsakos
New York City Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Christopher Shane Simpkins
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Monday, April 12, 2021
Detective Harry O. D’Onofrio
New York City Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Detention Deputy Mark Edward Anderson
Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, April 15, 2021
Corporal Keith Heacook
Delmar Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Sergeant Chris Ward
Watauga County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Logan Fox
Watauga County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Police Officer Christopher Farrar
Chandler Police Department
End of Watch Friday, April 30, 2021
Detention Services Officer Michael Wall
Los Angeles County Probation Department
End of Watch Friday, April 30, 2021
Patrol Officer David Alan Marshall
Texas Christian University Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, May 1, 2021
Deputy Sheriff James Herrera
Denver Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Sunday, May 16, 2021
Lieutenant Adam Gustafson
West Fargo Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Superintendent Scott D. “Slip” Mahoney
Delaware County Park Police and Fire Safety
End of Watch Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Sergeant John Burright
Oregon State Police
End of Watch Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Freddie Vasquez
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Saturday, May 8, 2021
Detective Luca Benedetti
San Luis Obispo Police Department
End of Watch Monday, May 10, 2021
Police Officer Chris Oberheim
Champaign Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Police Officer Jeremy Brinton
Nogales Police Department
End of Watch Friday, May 21, 2021
Corporal Thomas Wade Frazier
Artesia Police Department
End of Watch Friday, May 21, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Samuel Alexander Leonard
Concho County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, May 10, 2021
Sergeant Stephen Jones
Concho County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, May 10, 2021
Police Officer Jimmy Inn
Stockton Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Police Officer Christopher Scott “Scotty” Triplett
Memphis Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, May 22, 2021
Detective Stephen Christopher Arnold
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, May 23, 2021
Conservation Officer Sarah Ann Backer-Grell
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
End of Watch Monday, May 24, 2021

Deputy Sheriff Daniel “Duke” Trujillo
Denver Sheriff’s DepartmentEnd of Watch
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Trooper John Harris
Mississippi Department of Public Safety
End of Watch Friday, May 28, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Juan Manuel Urrutia
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Friday, May 28, 2021
Deputy Sheriff William H. Smith
Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, June 6, 2021
Police Officer Steven L. Rodriguez
New York City Police Department,End of Watch
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Sergeant Erasmo García-Torres
Puerto Rico Police Department,
End of Watch Thursday, June 10, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Dustin Kyle Speckels
Hays County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, May 30, 2021
Police Officer Ginarro Allen New
Phoenix Police Department
End of Watch Monday, May 31, 2021
Sergeant Dominic Vaca
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Monday, May 31, 2021
Police Officer Alexandra Brenneman Harris
Seattle Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, June 13, 2021
Sergeant Paul Keith Mooney
Texas Department of Public Safety
End of Watch Monday, June 14, 2021
Police Officer Joseph William Burson
Holly Springs Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, June 17, 2021
Detective Ryan Park
San Diego Police Department
End of Watch Friday, June 4, 2021
Detective Jamie Huntley-Park
San Diego Police Department
End of Watch Friday, June 4, 2021
Police Officer Enmanuel Familia
Worcester Police Department
End of Watch Friday, June 4, 2021
Sergeant Thomas E. Sawyer
Hammond Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, June 17, 2021
Correctional Officer Gabriel Forrest
Washington State Department of Corrections
End of Watch Thursday, June 17, 2021
Sergeant Rick Entmeier
Fort Smith Police Department
End of Watch Friday, June 18, 2021

Texas Peace Officers
Police Officer Lewis Franklin Cantey
Grand River Dam Authority Police Department
End of Watch Friday, June 18, 2021
Lieutenant Clinton Joseph Ventrca
Corinth Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, June 20, 2021
Police Officer Gordon Beesley
Arvada Police Department
End of Watch Monday, June 21, 2021
Police Officer Jason Timothy Swanger
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, June 24, 2021
Police Officer Kevin Apple
Pea Ridge Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, June 26, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Anthony Redondo
Imperial County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, June 26, 2021
The BLUES Police Magazine was founded
in Humble, Texas in 1984. For 38 years
The BLUES has called Texas home and
covered every aspect of law enforcement
during that time. We’d like to honor all the Officers
from Texas that lost their lives in 2020 & 2021
with these special memorial pages.
Lieutenant Leslie Lentz
Missouri Department of Corrections
End of Watch Thursday, July 1, 2021
Detective Jon Alexander Cooke
Hollywood Police Department
End of Watch Friday, July 2, 2021
Police Officer Clinton Adolphis Martin
Alpharetta Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, July 3, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Detective Greg Ferency
Terre Haute Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Captain Clay Morsell Germany
Wichita Police Department
End of Watch Friday, July 9, 2021
Police Officer William Earl Collins, Jr.
Doyline Police Department
End of Watch Friday, July 9, 2021
Police Officer
Nicholas Lee Reyna
Lubbock Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, January 11, 2020
Sergeant Joshua Blake Bartlett
Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, July 15, 2021
Detective Juan Alfonso “John” Delgado
Bay City Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, July 15, 2021
Officer Ruben Facio
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Saturday, July 17, 2021
Reserve Deputy Sheriff Tom Larry Hoobler
Childress County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, July 17, 2021
Sergeant Sonny Lee Orbin
Missouri Department of Corrections
End of Watch Sunday, July 18, 2021
Police Officer Ricky Neal Roberts
McLennan Community College Police
End of Watch Monday, July 19, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Deputy Sheriff Ray W. McCrary, Jr.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Officer Michael Andrew Sillman
Marion County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Correctional Officer Robert Lewis Welch, III
Missouri Department of Corrections
End of Watch Thursday, July 22, 2021
Police Officer
Alan Daniel McCollum
Corpus Christi Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Friday, January 31, 2020
Police Officer J. Adam Ashworth
St. George Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, July 22, 2021
Sergeant Jeremy Brown
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, July 23, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Phillip Jesse Campas
Kern County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, July 25, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Daniel Giorgi
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Sunday, July 25, 2021
Police Officer Marquis Dewon Moorer
Selma Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Police Officer Ryan Andrew Bialke
Red Lake Nation Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Lieutenant Matthew D. Razukas
New Jersey State Police
End of Watch Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Justin Smith
Burt County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Lieutenant Gilbert Clayton McClure
Texarkana Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Deputy Sheriff
Richard Edward Whitten
Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Monday, February 3, 2020
Trooper Micah David May
Nevada Highway Patrol
End of Watch Thursday, July 29, 2021
Police Officer Jonathan M. Gumm
United States Department of Defense
End of Watch Thursday, July 29, 2021
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Daniel P. Cox
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Saturday, July 31, 2021
Police Officer Lewis Andrew “Andy” Traylor
Austin Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, July 31, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Edgardo Acosta-Feliciano
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Saturday, July 31, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Shaun Christopher Waters
Harris County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, August 1, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Corrections Officer Maurice “Reese” Jackson
Robertsdale Police Departmen
End of Watch Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Sheriff Lee D. Vance
Hinds County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Police Officer Scott Russell Dawley
Nelsonville Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Senior Deputy
Christopher Scott Korzilius
Travis County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Police Officer George Gonzalez
United States Department of Defense
End of Watch Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Police Officer Brian Russell Pierce, Jr.
Brooklyn Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Deputy Sheriff James Morgan
Baxter County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 5, 2021
Police Officer Bryan Christopher Hawkins
Lake City Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 5, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Brandon A. Shirley
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 5, 2021
Police Officer Ella Grace French
Chicago Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, August 7, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Lieutenant Lonny Hempstead
Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Lieutenant Dale Sylvester, Jr.
Port Wentworth Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Reserve Sergeant John Richard Bullard, Jr.
Independence Police Department,
End of Watch Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Sheriff
Kirk A. Coker
Hutchinson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, March 29, 2020
Correctional Deputy Michael Andrew Nowak
Leon County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 12, 2021
Captain Ramsey O’Dell Mannon
Effingham County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 12, 2021
Correctional Officer Dennis Bennett
Missouri Department of Corrections
End of Watch Thursday, August 12, 2021
Narcotics Agent Robert Daye Daffin, Jr.
George County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 12, 2021
Special Agent Gregory Cleveland Holland
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
End of Watch Friday, August 13, 2021
Police Officer Juan Manuel Gomez-Lopez
Pelham Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, August 14, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Officer Jennifer B. Sepot
Fort Lauderdale Police Department,
End of Watch Saturday, August 14, 2021
Trooper Lazaro R. Febles
Florida Highway Patrol
End of Watch Saturday, August 14, 2021
Sergeant Ryan J. Proxmire
Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, August 15, 2021
Police Officer
Justin Read Putnam
San Marcos Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, April 18, 2020
Officer Robert Craig Cloninger
Mount Gilead Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 15, 2021
Sergeant Steven Mazzotta
Lee County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, August 16, 2021
Detective Raymond Orion Williamson
Pasco County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, August 16, 2021
Police Officer Robert Alan Williams
West Palm Beach Police Department,
End of Watch Monday, August 16, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Dennis W. Dixon
Catawba County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, August 16, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Ricardo Zarate
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Monday, August 16, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Officer Jason Raynor
Daytona Beach Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Officer Yokemia L. Conyers
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Sergeant Joe Olivares
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Deputy Sheriff
John Andrew Rhoden
Bell County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, April 26, 2020
Police Officer Edward Perez
Miami Beach Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 19, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Eric Otis Ritter
Moore County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 19, 2021
Sergeant John Harris
Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 19, 2021
Sergeant Kuo-sheng “Johnny” Wang
South Houston Police Department,
End of Watch Thursday, August 19, 2021
Officer Monica J. Riola
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Friday, August 20, 2021
Sergeant Frank Tobar
Palm Bay Police Department
End of Watch Friday, August 20, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Sergeant Patrick Wayne Madison
Coral Springs Police Department
End of Watch Friday, August 20, 2021
Detective Rodney L. Davis, Sr.
Waycross Police Department
End of Watch Friday, August 20, 2021
Correctional Officer Darryl “Scout” Goodrich, Jr.
Washington State Department of Corrections
End of Watch Friday, August 20, 2021
Police Officer
Jason Michael Knox
Houston Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, May 2, 2020
Deputy Sheriff Harry “Buddy” Hutchinson
Blount County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, August 21, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Jody Hull, Jr.
St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, August 21, 2021
Corrections Deputy Kevin Kokinis
Branch County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021
Trooper James J. Monda
New York State Police
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021
Detective Manuel Christopher Widner
Paris Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021
Patrolman Matthew Adam Jimenez
Beeville Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Reserve Police Officer David Ruiz
Dallas Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021
Sergeant Tomas Infante, Sr.
Harris County Constable’s Office - Precinct 6
End of Watch Sunday, August 22, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Christopher Broadhead
Polk County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, August 23, 2021
Sergeant
Lionel Q. Martinez, Jr.
Alamo Colleges Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Officer Erik James Skelton
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Roger A. Mitchell
Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Chief of Police Kenneth Kirkland
Colquitt Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Captain Joseph Manning
Wayne County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Christopher Jay Bachelor
Hall County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Sergeant John Lee Trout, Sr
Bernice Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Corrections Deputy Lakiesha Tucker
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Senior Police Officer Randolph Boyd, Jr.
Austin Police Department,
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Sergeant Clay Garrison
Port of Galveston Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Deputy Constable
Caleb Daniel Rule
Fort Bend County Constable’s Office - Precinct 4, Texas
End of Watch Friday, May 29, 2020
Police Officer Brandon Ard
Orange Beach Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Police Officer Harminder Grewal
Galt Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Correctional Officer Trainee Whitney Cloud
Florida Department of Corrections
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Deputy First Class Paul Luciano
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Senior Sergeant Steve Urias
Austin Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Sergeant Christopher Ray Wilson
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Detective Anthony Standley
Oyster Creek Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, August 26, 2021
Police Officer Michael Weiskopf
St. Petersburg Police Department
End of Watch Friday, August 27, 2021
Corrections Officer James N. Henry
Hays County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, August 27, 2021
Police Officer
Ismael Z. Chavez
McAllen Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, July 11, 2020
Trooper Sean C. Hryc
Florida Highway Patrol
End of Watch Saturday, August 28, 2021
Sergeant Jason Donaldson
Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, August 28, 2021
Patrolman Shane Green
Sheridan Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 29, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Chad E. McBroom
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Sunday, August 29, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Clint Robin Seagle
Clay County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, August 29, 2021
Patrol Officer Edgar “Buddy” Pales, Jr
Owasso Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, August 29, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Captain Michael J. Stokes
Houston County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, August 30, 2021
Public Safety Officer Dustin Michael Beasley
North Augusta Department of Public Safety
End of Watch Monday, August 30, 2021
Deputy First Class William Diaz
Lee County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Police Officer
Edelmiro Garza, Jr.
McAllen Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, July 11, 2020
Police Officer Freddie Joe Castro
Overland Park Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Police Officer Trey Copeland
Cotton Valley Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Carlos David Ortiz
Colorado County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Lieutenant Robert Travelstead
Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Sergeant Daniel Eugene Watts
Jacksonville Beach Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Police Officer Gregory R. Young
Vernon College Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Sergeant Brian Mohl
Connecticut State Police
End of Watch Thursday, September 2, 2021
Senior Officer David Bryant Saavedra
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Thursday, September 2, 2021
Sergeant William Jeffery Yancey
Lake City Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, September 2, 2021
Deputy Sheriff
Cornelius Bernard Anderson
Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, July 12, 2020
Investigator Richard Wendell Humphrey
Baldwin County District Attorney’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Jody Smith
Carroll County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021
Detective Sergeant Derek E. Sidwell
Overton County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Ronald Rudy Butler
Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021
City Marshal Michael Allen Keathley
West Police Department
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Honorato Antones
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Friday, September 3, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Detective Tom Breedlove
Hernando County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, September 4, 2021
Detention Officer Tara Leanne Cook
Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Saturday, September 4, 2021
Police Officer Edgar Morris
Collierville Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, September 4, 2021
Police Officer
Sheena Dae Yarbrough-Powell
Beaumont Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, August 9, 2020
Sergeant Matthew Chandler Moore
Arkansas Highway Police,
End of Watch Sunday, September 5, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Michael Neau
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Sunday, September 5, 2021
Police Officer Robert Troy Joiner
Ector County Independent School District Police
End of Watch Sunday, September 5, 2021
Parole Officer II Huey P. Prymus, III
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Sunday, September 5, 2021
Parole Officer Broderick Richard Daye
Department of Correctional Services
End of Watch Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Corrections Officer V Glenn Skeens
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Corrections Deputy II Rodrigo Delgado
San Diego County Probation Department
End of Watch Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Investigator Dusty Wainscott
Grayson County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Police Officer Bonnie Nicole Jones
Danville Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, September 9, 2021
Investigator
Lemuel Delray Bruce
Houston Fire Marshal’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Friday, October 16, 2020
Police Officer David A. Horton
Darien Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, September 11, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Darrell Lamar Henderson
Shiawassee County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, September 11, 2021
Sergeant Gino Caputo
Barrington Police Department ,
End of Watch Saturday, September 11, 2021
Detective Charles C. Vroom
Nassau County Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, September 12, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Robert Craig Mills
Butler County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, September 12, 2021
Police Officer Stephen Jones
Barnwell Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, September 12, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Special Agent Dustin Slovacek
Texas Department of Public Safety
End of Watch Sunday, September 12, 2021
Corrections Officer III Echo Rodriguez
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Sunday, September 12, 2021
Lieutenant James Guynes
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Monday, September 13, 2021
Sergeant
Harold Lloyd Preston
Houston Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Police Officer Noah Ryan LeBlanc, Sr.
Laguna Vista Police Department
End of Watch Monday, September 13, 2021
Sergeant Shad Hammond
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Monday, September 13, 2021
Corrections Officer V Jose A. Hernandez
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Monday, September 13, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Willie Earl Hall
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Officer Blaize Madrid-Evans
Independence Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Corrections Officer V Chris Watson
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Sergeant Steven Lee Marshall
Chatsworth Police DepartmentEnd of Watch
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Police Officer Michelle Gattey
Georgetown Police Department,
End of Watch Thursday, September 16, 2021
PLieutenant Earnest Oldham
Plano Police Department
End of Watch Thursday, September 16, 2021
Sergeant
Sean Sebastian Rios
Houston Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Monday, November 9, 2020
Captain David Edwin MacAlpine
New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 17, 2021
Police Officer Carl Proper
Kings Mountain Police Department
End of Watch Friday, September 17, 2021
Lieutenant John Stewart
Lake City Police Department
End of Watch Friday, September 17, 2021
Sergeant Richard John Frankie
Fort Bend Independent School District Police
End of Watch Friday, September 17, 2021
Trooper Brian Pingry
Florida Highway Patrol
End of Watch Saturday, September 18, 2021
Corporal Gregory Campbell
Richmond County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Saturday, September 18, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Lieutenant Brandi Stock
Brooklet Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, September 19, 2021
Police Officer Jimmie Alexander Shindler
Memphis Police Department
End of Watch Monday, September 20, 2021
Senior Police Officer William Jeffrey
Houston Police Department
End of Watch Monday, September 20, 2021
Police Officer
Mitchell Aaron Penton
Dallas Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, February 13, 2021
Sergeant Sherman Peebles
Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Sergeant David Miller
Clarksville Police Department
End of Watch Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Police Officer Joseph J. Kurer
Fond du Lac Police Department,
End of Watch Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Luis H. Dominguez
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Thursday, September 23, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Luke Ryan Gross
Hancock County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Thursday, September 23, 2021
Senior Corporal Arnulfo Pargas
Dallas Police Department,
End of Watch Thursday, September 23, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Corporal Charles Wayne Catron
Carroll County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Thursday, September 23, 2021
ISenior Deputy Phillip David Barron, Jr.
Victoria County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Friday, September 24, 2021
Police Officer Anthony Christopher Testa
West Palm Beach Police Department
End of Watch Saturday, September 25, 2021
Trooper
Chad Michael Walker
Texas Highway Patrol, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, March 28, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Matthew Locke
Hardin County Sheriff’s Department
End of Watch Saturday, September 25, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Charles Hughes
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Saturday, September 25, 2021
Border Patrol Agent David B. Ramirez
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Joshua Moyers
Nassau County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Corporal Robert Wayne Nicholson
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Police Chief Donald Hall
Magnolia Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Undersheriff Jeffrey Montoya
Colfax County Sheriff’s Office
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Police Officer Brian L. Rowland
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Police Officer Gregory Lynn Triplett
Waverly Police Department
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Sergeant
Stephen Jones
Concho County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Monday, May 10, 2021
Trooper Eric T. Gunderson
Washington State Patrol,
End of Watch Sunday, September 26, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Alfredo M. Ibarra
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Monday, September 27, 2021
Patrol Officer Howard K. Smith, III
Owasso Police Department
End of Watch Monday, September 27, 2021
Sergeant Joshua Wayne Stewart
Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office,
End of Watch Monday, September 27, 2021
Police Chief Derek Scott Asdot
Green Cove Springs Police Department
End of Watch Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Sergeant Michael Todd Thomas
Griffin Police Department,
End of Watch Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Sergeant Logan Davis
Iron County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri
End of Watch Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Sergeant Donald William Ramey
Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office, NC
End of Watch Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Corrections Lieutenant David W. Reynolds
Butler County Sheriff’s Office, Ohio
End of Watch Thursday, September 30, 2021
Deputy Sheriff
Samuel Alexander Leonard
Concho County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Monday, May 10, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Teresa H. Fuller
Wilson County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee
End of Watch Thursday, September 30, 2021
Senior Inspector Jared Keyworth
United States Marshals Service,
End of Watch Friday, October 1, 2021
Captain James Anthony Sisk
Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia
End of Watch Friday, October 1, 2021
Sergeant Nick Risner
Sheffield Police Department, Alabama
End of Watch Saturday, October 2, 2021
Police Officer Darrell Dewayne Adams
Memphis Police Department, Tennessee
End of Watch Saturday, October 2, 2021
Corrections Officer V Melissa Maldonado
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Sunday, October 3, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Group Supervisor Michael G. Garbo
Drug Enforcement Administration
End of Watch Monday, October 4, 2021
Police Officer Julio Cesar Herrera, Jr.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, NC
End of Watch Monday, October 4, 2021
Corrections Officer Vassar Richmond
Bartlett Police Department , Tennessee
End of Watch Monday, October 4, 2021
Sergeant
Joshua Blake Bartlett
Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Thursday, July 15, 20211
Corrections Officer V Thomas Scott Collora
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas
End of Watch Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Corrections Officer IV Garland Chaney
Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas
End of Watch Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Sergeant John R. Lowry
Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, New York
End of Watch Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Dale L. Wyman
Hardeman County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee
End of Watch Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Officer Victor Donate
- Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Thursday, October 7, 2021
Corporal Timothy Michael Tanksley
Alto Police Department, Georgia
End of Watch Friday, October 8, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Corporal Dylan McCauley Harrison
Alamo Police Department, Georgia
End of Watch Saturday, October 9, 2021
Master Trooper Adam Gaubert
Louisiana State Police, LouisianaEnd of Watch
Saturday, October 9, 2021
Master Deputy William Edward Marsh
Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina
End of Watch Sunday, October 10, 2021
Reserve Deputy Sheriff
Tom Larry Hoobler
Childress County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, July 17, 2021
Sergeant Michael D. Rudd
La Paz County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona
End of Watch Monday, October 11, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Juan Miguel Ruiz
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona
End of Watch Monday, October 11, 2021
Detention Officer Anthony Nicoletti
Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona
End of Watch Monday, October 11, 2021
Lieutenant William Oscar McMurtray, III
Burke County Sheriff’s Office, North Carolina
End of Watch Monday, October 11, 2021
Correctional Officer IV Toamalama Scanlan
Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, California
End of Watch Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Deportation Officer Bradley K. Kam
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
End of Watch Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Officer Ty Alan Powell
Windsor Police Department, Colorado
End of Watch Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Command Sergeant Richard Arnold McMahan
Columbus Police Department, Georgia
End of Watch Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Oliver Little
Floyd County Sheriff’s Office, Kentucky
End of Watch Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Police Officer
Lewis Andrew “Andy” Traylor
Austin Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, July 31, 2021
Police Officer James Edward Simonetti
Carnegie Mellon University Police, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Sergeant Raquel Virginia Saunders
Amarillo Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Sergeant William Warren Gay
Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia
End of Watch Thursday, October 14, 2021
Deputy Constable Kareem Atkins
Harris County Constable’s - Precinct 4, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, October 16, 2021
Detective Rodney L. Mooneyham
Denton Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, October 16, 2021
Police Officer Yandy Chirino
Hollywood Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Sunday, October 17, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Officer Ryan Andrew Hayworth
Knightdale Police Department, North Carolina
End of Watch Sunday, October 17, 2021
Police Officer Andrew Robert MacDonald
Grand Prairie Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Monday, October 18, 2021
Investigator Tracy Joe Dotson
Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Investigator
Dusty Wainscott
Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, Texas
End of Watch Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Trooper Ted L. Benda
Iowa State Patrol, Iowa
End of Watch Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Donald Albert Poffenroth
Pershing County Sheriff’s Office, Nevada
End of Watch Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Sergeant Miguel Rodriguez
Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement, Florida
End of Watch Thursday, October 21, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Joshua J. Welge
Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, Florida
End of Watch Thursday, October 21, 2021
Sergeant Richard Charles Howe
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Thursday, October 21, 2021
Trooper Dung X. Martinez
Pennsylvania State Police, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Thursday, October 21, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Sergeant Michael David Dunn
Amarillo Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Friday, October 22, 2021
Police Officer Jason Michael Belton
Erie Police Department, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Sunday, October 24, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Rafael G. Sanchez
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Sunday, October 24, 2021
Senior Police Officer
William Jeffrey
Houston Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Monday, September 20, 2021
Police Officer Stephen Evans
Burns Police Department, Kansas
End of Watch Monday, October 25, 2021
Police Officer Tyler Timmins
Pontoon Beach Police Department, Illinois
End of Watch Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Police Officer Thomas Kristopher Hutchison
Haltom City Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Senior Officer Mathew L. Lyons
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Thursday, October 28, 2021
Staff Sergeant Jesse Sherrill
New Hampshire State Police, New Hampshire
End of Watch Thursday, October 28, 2021
Lieutenant David Formeza
Perth Amboy Police Department, New Jersey
End of Watch Thursday, October 28, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Chief Buddy Crabtree
Ider Police Department, Alabama
End of Watch Saturday, October 30, 2021
Sergeant Timothy Werner
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Detective Sergeant Gary R. Taccone
Erie Police Department, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Deputy Constable
Kareem Atkins
Harris County Constable’s Office - Precinct 4, Texas
End of Watch Saturday, October 16, 2021
Deputy Sheriff John Edward Moon
Waller County Sheriff’s Office, TX
EOW: Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Senior Patrolman Sherman Otto Benys, Jr.
Kingsville Police Department, TX
EOW: Thursday, November 4, 2021
Border Patrol Agent Anibal A. Perez
Customs and Border Protection
End of Watch Friday, November 5, 2021
Correctional Officer Juan Cruz, Jr.
Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, California
End of Watch Friday, November 5, 2021
Sergeant Scott M. Patton
Robinson Township Police Dept., Pennsylvania
End of Watch Saturday, November 6, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Lena Nicole Marshall
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia
End of Watch Monday, November 8, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Police Officer Paramhans Dineshchandra Desai
Henry County Police Department, Georgia
End of Watch Monday, November 8, 2021
Sergeant Dominic Guida
Bunnell Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Lieutenant Chad Owen Brackman
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Arizona
End of Watch Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Senior Patrolman
Sherman Otto Benys, Jr.
Kingsville Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Thursday, November 4, 2021
Detective Michael J. Dion
Chicopee Police Department, Massachusetts
End of Watch Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Corrections Officer V Kevin Dupree
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
End of Watch Thursday, November 11, 2021
Police Officer Michael D. Chandler
Big Stone Gap Police Department, Virginia
End of Watch Saturday, November 13, 2021
Master Trooper Daniel A. Stainbrook
Wisconsin State Patrol, Wisconsin
End of Watch Monday, November 15, 2021
Corrections Officer Rhonda Jean Russell
Blair County Prison, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Frank Ramirez, Jr.
Independence County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas
End of Watch Thursday, November 18, 2021

Texas Peace Officer
Code Enforcement Officer Adam Ray Arbogast
Parsons Police Department, West Virginia
End of Watch Thursday, November 25, 2021
Police Officer Henry Laxson
Clayton County Police Department, Georgia
End of Watch Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Constable Madison “Skip” Nicholson
Wilcox County Constable’s Office, Alabama
End of Watch Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Sergeant
Richard Houston
Mesquite Police Dept., Texas
End of Watch Friday, December 3, 2021
tective Antonio Antoine Valentine
St. Louis County Police Department, Missouri
End of Watch Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Clay Livingston
Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado
End of Watch Friday, December 3, 2021
Police Officer Richard Houston, II
Mesquite Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Friday, December 3, 2021
Detective Joseph Pollack
Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado
End of Watch Thursday, December 9, 2021
Corrections Officer Robert Daniel
Graves County Jail, Kentucky
End of Watch Friday, December 10, 2021
Senior Police Officer Eric Lindsey
Austin Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, December 5, 2021

Police Officer Theodore James Ohlemeier
Colwich Police Department , Kansas
End of Watch Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Corporal Jack Lee Guthrie, Jr.
Dallas College Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Thursday, December 9, 2021
Police Officer Jeremy Martin Wilkins
Chandler Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Friday, December 17, 2021
Police Officer Zachary Cottongim
Louisville Metro Police Department, Kentucky
End of Watch Saturday, December 18, 2021
Officer Chad P. Christiansen
Volk Field Security Forces, Wisconsin
End of Watch Saturday, December 18, 2021
Sergeant Kevin Redding
Haverford Township Police Department, PA
End of Watch Monday, December 20, 2021
Police Officer Mia Goodwin
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, NC
End of Watch Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Police Officer Keona Holley
Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland
End of Watch Thursday, December 23, 2021
Agent José Ferrer-Pabón
Puerto Rico Police Department, Puerto Rico
End of Watch Friday, December 24, 2021
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Martin Barrios
United States Border Patrol, U.S. Government
End of Watch Monday, November 29, 2021
Lieutenant Matthew A. Vogel
Hudson County Sheriff’s Office, New Jersey
End of Watch Monday, December 27, 2021
Sergeant Christopher Mortensen
Wilkes-Barre Police Department, Pennsylvania
End of Watch Monday, December 27, 2021
“When a police officer is killed, it’s
not an agency that loses an officer,
it’s an entire nation.”
Chris Cosgriff, ODMP Founder
Corporal Mike Sanchez
Amarillo Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Monday, December 27, 2021
Deputy Sheriff Sean Riley
Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, Illinois
End of Watch Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic
Bradley Police Department, Illinois
End of Watch Thursday, December 30, 2021

BY LT. BOB EVANS
In Case You Missed it Last Month
“The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t”
The following story is true.
No names were changed
because no innocent people
were involved.
My story takes place on
Christmas Eve many years ago.
I had been a cop for more than
30 years and was a Lieutenant
assigned to nights. With all
the time I had in I could have
been on days with weekends
off and pushing paper all day,
but I’d spent my entire life on
the street.
It was where I felt more
comfortable. It was my
home, I guess. My kids were
all grown, and I had 4 failed
marriages behind me. Yeah,
I could retire but I had absolutely
nothing to retire to. The
streets were my home, and I
couldn’t see myself anywhere
else…. working or otherwise.
Hell, if I weren’t a cop, I’d
probably be homeless living
on the streets.
But despite my acceptance
of being here forever,
the weeks leading up to the
night of this story were what
seemed like the beginning of
the end for me. Sounds confusing,
I know, but let me start
from the beginning.
It was early December in
the late 80’s. Like I said I was
the lieutenant assigned to
nights and in our department
the nightshift lieutenant was
pretty much the night sheriff.
I was in charge of everybody
and everything. But I had been
doing it so long that it really
didn’t seem like that big of a
deal anymore.
But more of all the ole heads
were retiring and every day
I had increased youngsters
showing up at roll call. The
sheriff decided that in order to
fill vacancies he would accept
lateral transfers from other
departments. Since we paid
more than the surrounding
departments these kids (actually
young men and women
in their late 20’s) came over
in droves. Everyday there was
someone new and of course
they all came to nights.
The latest transfer was this
young man from a PD up
north. A real go getter. Reminded
me of me at that age.
His name was Randy Jones.
Jones was married and had
just had a brand-new baby
girl. Wasn’t even 3 weeks old.
The boy posted pictures of
that girl all over the station.
He was the proud papa for
sure.
But he was from a PD, and
this was the sheriff’s department.
We did things differently
and Jones had his own idea
about how it ‘should’ be done.
I had to sit that boy down
several times during those
first few weeks and just say
look, ‘If you want to stay here
and be successful you have to
follow the book. Otherwise,
I’m going to have to talk to the
sheriff and send you back to
the PD.” Broke my heart because
he was really a good
kid just stubborn. Reminded
me when I started. The dayshift
sergeant moved him to
days for a week, just to teach
him OUR ways.
Now here it was Christmas
Eve and Jones was back at
working the nightshift with
me again.
Anyway, it was about 3am
when a silent alarm dropped
in a warehouse on the
northside of the district. I was
only a couple blocks away and
Jones must have been sitting
in the parking lot because he
advised he was about to go
out on it. I advised dispatch I
was backing him up and was
a couple minutes out.
Jones arrived and advised
he had an open rear door, as
I was pulling up to the rear.
We agreed we would clear
the building starting towards
the right and work our way
to the front. This was one of
those flex space warehouses
with storage on the back and
offices in the front and they
weren’t really that large. As
soon as we stepped inside,
we heard movement near the
front. Other than our flashlights,
it was pitch black in the
damn place. Suddenly a bright
piercing light following by a
deafening boom appeared in
front of us…. we were taking
fire from multiple locations.
I was literally firing into the
dark. I just kept firing in the
direction of the muzzle blast
until there weren’t anymore. I
stood there in the dark, shining
my flashlight to see what
or who was there and 20 feet
away I saw two bodies on the
ground, blood now running
across the bare concrete.
Unit 204 I have shots fired
and two suspects down. I
need EMS and backup.
Where is Jones? “Jones?”
“Unit 204 to Jones, where are
you?
“Jones where the fuck are
you? I began running all over
the warehouse to see where
he was and as soon as I
turned a corner, there he was.
Laying in a pool of blood.
“Officer down, officer down,
Unit 204 I have an officer
down.”
Jones? As soon as I knelt
down, I could see that a round
had hit him in the neck and
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struck an artery. He had bled
out in seconds. The first round
those assholes fired went right
through the thin portion wall
and hit him. He was down
within seconds of us entering
that room. He never said a
word. He didn’t get a chance
to fire a single shot.
Somehow by the grace of
God, I hit both the suspects in
the dark and they both went
down as well. I was the lone
survivor. That’s a term I would
hear over and over again.
Within seconds, I had deputies
arriving from all over.
Sirens. I could hear sirens everywhere.
Ringing in my ears
and sirens. The scene was just
so surreal. Dust. Red and blue
lights bouncing off the walls.
Blood running across the bare
concrete floors. Bodies motionless
on the floor. And this
young deputy at my side. I just
sat there and waited for the
EMTs.
“Lieutenant…Lieutenant…
Lieutenant….?”
“What??”
“Sir you need to get up and
let them work on Jones.”
I stood up and watched the
EMTs from the firehouse squad
that was just blocks from
here begin working on him,
but they stopped really before
they started. There was
nothing they could do. He was
gone.
I notified dispatch to send
me detectives, crime scene
and notify the sheriff.
But I WAS the night sheriff,
and I knew what I had to do. It
was my job to notify the next
of kin, spouses or parents of
a deputy killed in the line of
duty. In my 30+ years, I had
only had to do it once. But
this was different. This young
man was dead on my watch.
Standing 10 feet from me. It
was my responsibility to keep
him safe and I failed. I failed
him, his wife, and his baby
girl.
The truth is, I shouldn’t have
left the scene. I had just shot
and killed two suspects. I had
a dead deputy on the ground
20 feet from the dead crooks.
The DA shoot team would
be enroute and so would
the sheriff. Maybe the sheriff
should go to Jones’ and make
the notification?
Nope. It was my job and my
job alone, I had to do what I
had to do. Without realizing it,
I had pulled off the highway
and pulled up under an old
railroad crossing underpass.
I was trembling and crying
uncontrollably. It was at that
moment that I felt like my life
had ended. A young man was
dead because of me. I was his
supervisor; his backup and he
was dead. I was old and at the
end of my career and he was
just getting started. It should
be me on that floor. God got
this wrong. I should be dead. I
should be dead.
I found myself under that
bridge, with my gun in my
hand. I was praying that God
would forgive me for everything
that happened that night
and what I was about to do.
It was at that instant I heard a
voice say, “Mister are you ok?”
I turned around and standing
there before me was this
young couple holding a baby.
“What? Where did you two
come from? What are you doing
down here?”
“We have no other place
to be. We lost our home in a
fire and we’ve been camping
under this bridge for a while
now. What are you doing here
officer? Are we in trouble? Are
you hurt? You’re bleeding!”
“No, you’re not in trouble. I
just needed a minute to think.
I guess I ended up here. And
it’s not my blood.”
“Officer, maybe you should
sit down a minute. Let us get
you something hot to drink,
it’s freezing out here.”
As I sat down with them
under that bridge, I saw this
young couple that had to be
about the same age as Jones
and his wife. Here they were
on Christmas Eve living in
a tent under a bridge comforting
ME. Making ME take a
minute. I listened to their story
and how they ended up there
and when the young man
finished his story, he looked at
me and said, now tell us how
you ended up here …. with us.
For the next few minutes, I
shared what had transpired
that evening. That I was on
my way to tell a young mother
and wife, her husband
wasn’t coming home. And I
guess I stopped to gather my
thoughts and ended up here.
I didn’t tell them I was seconds
away from ending my
own life. I thanked them for
their kindness and asked them
if I could take them to a shelter
and they declined. They
said they were happy to be
together, be safe under that
bridge, and knew God would
keep them safe until they
could find a new home.
I left them there and drove
to Jones’ house. As I pulled
up the sheriff was just pulling
up as well. I walked up to
him, and he hugged me said,
“You know you shouldn’t be
here. You have about a dozen
detectives and DA shoot team
looking for your ass.”
“Yes sir, I know. But this is
my job too, and he died on my
watch. Under my command.”
“Bob. I know. Let’s do this
together.”
The next few days were a
blur. The following week we
buried Deputy Jones. After the
funeral, I drove to that underpass
to make sure my young
new friends were ok, but the
tent was gone and so were
they. I guess God found them
that new home. As I was turning
around under the bridge, I
saw something where the tent
had been. I got out of my car
and picked up a cross that had
been formed from branches
and twigs. It had a red ribbon
tied around it and a small
piece of dirty paper tied to the
top with the words:
On this spot God saved us
from ourselves and gave us a
new beginning.
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WORDS BY UNNAMED OFFICER
A Cop, a Flight Nurse and Two Endings
I read your feature story last
month, “the Christmas that
almost wasn’t” (reprinted in
this month’s War Story) and
it brought me back almost 20
years when I had nearly the same
experience.
I too had lost a partner who
was standing less than five feet
from me when a sniper’s bullet
ripped through his vest and
killed him instantly. It was the
single worst moment of my life.
The emotions from that day still
haunt me but thankfully I’ve been
able to move past it and have a
somewhat normal life.
It wasn’t Christmas Eve but
rather New Year’s Eve 1999. Yes,
the new millennium was upon
us, and we expected it to be a
busy night. I had been on the
force at the time for nearly 20
years and worked the night
shift by choice. My kids were all
grown, and I was at the end of
a third failed marriage. Working
nights for me was my way of
coping with the emptiness I had
in my life at the time.
On this night and for the previous
30 days, I had a rookie riding
with me after his FTO was injured
in an off-duty car accident.
And truthfully, I didn’t mind. After
20 years of riding by myself I
kind of enjoyed the company and
I also liked the idea of imparting
my knowledge into this young
officer’s mind.
But the FTO program of 1999
isn’t like what you probably have
today. It wasn’t that regimented,
it was more like, ‘ride with
me kid and I’ll show you how it’s
done’ kind of thing. But this kid, I
say kid he was 24, was actually
doing a great job. He had spent
almost 4 months on the evening
shift with his FTO and was about
to be cut loose. So, thirty days
with me and he was ready to go
solo. I’ll dispense with his last
name in case his family might
read this magazine and just use
his first name Randy.
On the night of the shooting,
Randy and I were answering
one disturbance after another.
As you can imagine on this New
Years, everyone was drunk and
getting rowdy. One by one we
were clearing calls. I guess after
the 10th one or so, we became
complacent and weren’t paying
as much attention as we should
have been.
We were dispatched to a call
on our city’s far east side that
was on the extreme east side of
our assigned district. But all the
district cars on that side were
tied up and we took the call to
help them out. Same call as all
the rest. Neighbor called in to
report loud noises, fireworks and
unknown persons possibly firing
guns into the air. More people
are killed on New Years from
falling bullets than any other day
of the year.
We arrived at the complainant’s
house and didn’t see
activity outside nor did we hear
any fireworks or guns being
discharged. As we walked to the
front door, a man in his fifties
opened the door and began
telling us about the neighbors
across the street and how they
had been outside earlier and
were firing guns into the air and
raising all kinds of hell.
It was at that moment that
a single gunshot rang out and
Randy fell forward onto the
man’s porch. I grabbed him by
his vest and drug him behind
a car that was parked in the
driveway less than twenty feet
away. I yelled at the man to go
back inside and go to the back
of the house.
“Unit 10E50 shots fired, officer
down, officer down, I need
backup and EMS NOW…. NO
send me Care Flight he’s not
breathing”
“All units assist the officer,
officer down, I repeat officer
down at 103 East Third, all
units Code 3 Officer Down.”
“Unit 10E50 Care Flight has
been dispatched”
In the seconds, maybe minutes
following that first shot,
the suspect fired several more
rounds towards us hitting the
car we were behind as well
as the sides of the complainant’s
house. It was surreal in that you
could hear the rounds hitting
near us and seconds later you
heard the rifle shot. I fired several
shots towards the suspect, but
he was over 50 yards away and
it was pointless to keep firing. I
focused my attention on trying
to stop Randy’s bleeding and
trying CPR.
But the rounds kept ricocheting
off the concrete and unless
I moved into a better position, I
was going to take a round myself.
I heard the sirens in the distance
and knew help would be
here soon. But we had to survive
NOW.
I fired two more rounds towards
the house and dragged
Randy farther up the driveway
to another vehicle parked beside
the house. Seconds later units
started arriving and the suspect
fired several rounds at their cars.
Then he ran in the house and that
was the last I saw of him and the
end of the shooting. He barricaded
himself in the house and after
a 4-hour standoff with SWAT,
shot himself in the head with a
9mm.
Care Flight arrived and they
worked on Randy all the way
to hospital, but I knew he was
gone. I had rode in the helicopter
with him and was there when
his wife arrived. She and I had
met a few days prior at a Christmas
luncheon, and she ran up to
me in the ER. I didn’t realize it,
but I was covered in blood, and
said I’m so sorry but they did everything
they could. I’m sooooo
sorry. She fell to the floor, and I
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sat on the floor holding her. My
life, her life, would never be the
same.
It was late afternoon before I
finally got a ride home. My house
was as empty as my heart. My
kids had all gone back to their
respective homes in other states.
I was alone with my thoughts
and sense of failure. Here was
this rookie counting on me and
he was dead. Because I didn’t do
my job of protecting him. I was
ready to give up. It wasn’t the
first time I had thought about
ending my life but today was
different. The thought of attending
another funeral, having
everyone look at me with glaring
eyes thinking ‘he’s responsible
for Randy’s death’ was more than
I could bare.
I had my gun in my hand. No
notes. No final goodbyes. Just
ready to end it. Then the doorbell
rang. At first, I sat in the dark and
hoped whoever it was would go
away. But they kept ringing and
knocking and calling my name.
I didn’t recognize the voice, but
it was obviously a female. So, I
put the gun down and opened
the door. It was the Flight Nurse
from Care Flight.
“What are you doing here
Amy?”
“I knew you would need someone
to be with. I have been
where you are dozens of times
in the past year. Officers gunned
down, involved in accidents or
whatever and I couldn’t save
them no matter how hard I tried.
So, I know what you’re going
through, and I knew I had to
come see you. Can I come in?”
We sat and talked for hours.
She held me and I held her. She
cried and I cried, and we cried
together. Not only did we spend
that New Year’s Day together, but
we’ve also spent 20 more after
that. Amy and I have been married
for 20 years. She saved my
life. Now we are both retired and
travel the country. If this story
changes just one life, saves just
one officer from taking his or her
life, then recounting my story
was worth it.
I’ve left my name off the email.
Who I am isn’t important, my
story is. I hope you’ll run it in
your magazine to make a difference
in someone else’s life.
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THE OPEN ROAD
by Michael Barron
New York City just spent $11.5M
on 184 Mustang Mach-E GT SUVs
New York City is buying 184
Mustang Mach-E SUVs for law
enforcement and emergency
response as part of the largest
purchase of all-electric vehicles
to date, city officials announced
Wednesday.
The vehicles, which will arrive
in the Big Apple by June 30, will
replace gas-powered vehicles
currently used by the New
York Police Department, the
New York City Sheriff’s Office,
the Department of Correction,
the Department of Parks and
Recreation, the Department of
Environmental Protection, NYC
Emergency Management, and
the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner.
The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E
GT achieves 270-mile EPA-estimated
range, the company
announced June 23, 2021.
The city will spend $11.5 million
on initial orders, said a news
release from the New York City
Department of Citywide Administrative
Services.
That price tag averages to approximately
$62,500 per vehicle.
Law enforcement vehicle costs
include significant retrofitting for
safety and equipment.
“Smart investments in fleet
electrification will help New
York City break its dependence
on fossil fuels,” Dawn Pinnock,
acting commissioner of the NYC
DCAS, said in the news release.
This latest purchase is an
attempt by New York City to
achieve an all-electric fleet by
2035 in its push to reduce carbon
emissions that contribute to
respiratory illnesses and greenhouse
gases that lead to climate
change, New York City officials
said in the news release.
Keith Kerman, NYC chief fleet
officer, said the news release,
“This order of all electric Mach-
Es will enable our law enforcement
agencies to put electric
models to the full test and work
out maintenance, lights and sirens,
charging, and other operational
issues.”
The New York City news release
initially refers to the
Mach-E but the pricing portion
of the news release refers to
the Mach-E GT, which is a high
performance vehicle. The Free
Press has reached out to the city
agency for clarification. A Ford
spokesman confirmed the fleet
order is for the Mustang Mach-E
GT.
In September, the 2021 Mustang
Mach-E became the first
all-electric vehicle to pass
Michigan State Police testing that
included acceleration, top speed,
braking and high-speed pursuit
and emergency response handling,
Ford announced.
The Mustang Mach-E GT has
been clocked going 0-60 mph in
3.8 seconds.
Tests by the Michigan State
Police and Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department establish
standards that law enforcement
agencies all over the country use
to evaluate vehicles.
The Mustang Mach-E GT models
purchased will have a range
of 270 miles. The city has installed
29 fast chargers for the
NYPD and 103 chargers citywide
with plans to add 275 more chargers
in 2022.
Dr. Jason Graham, acting chief
medical examiner, said working
both in public health and criminal
justice requires safe and efficient
transportation during the
city’s “most challenging times.”
New York City has more than
1,070 chargers, including fast,
solar and mobile chargers, the
news release said. Installation of
chargers, including those made
available for public use, continue
to be installed.
Ford CEO Jim Farley tweeted
immediately after New York City
released the news Wednesday,
“As America’s leading maker of
police vehicles, @Ford is proud
the City of New York is adding
the Mustang Mach-E GT to the
NYPD fleet.”
He also retweeted a NYC
government tweet that said,
“NYC DCAS is making the largest
electric vehicle purchase for law
enforcement and emergency
response use to date, taking another
step towards achieving an
all-electric municipal fleet and
helping the City divest from fossil
fuels and reduce emissions!”
The Dearborn automaker has
long established itself in the
law enforcement community
as a trusted supplier of police
cars and SUVs, which generate
significant revenue for the automaker.
The Police Interceptor,
a highly modified Ford Explorer,
is perhaps the most high-profile
current vehicle.
Ford provides about two-thirds
of police vehicles in the U.S., according
to sales data.
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A BADGE OF HONOR
healing our heroes
Be Your Own Advocate.
EDITOR: The following column
originally appeared in the BLUES
October 2021 Issue.
Recently, John Salerno and I
had the pleasure of interviewing
a subject matter expert in the
area of post-traumatic stress.
The organization she is with
does a lot of research and connects
grassroots organizations
together to fill the gaps where
treatment for stress, post-traumatic
stress and mental health
might not be available for first
responders. During our discussions
we talked about the gaps
that still exist for law enforcement
officers; The size of the
agency, the willingness of the
command staff to provide support
to its officers, and budget.
We all agreed on one major
point. It is still up to us to ask
for the help when we realize we
need it or if another officer or
supervisor approaches us. We
must rid our vocabulary of the
word “FINE” and bust through the
stigma. There is a huge advantage
here that sometimes gets
overlooked. The reality is that
you are not trapped by your
command staff or organization.
You can go outside your agency
for assistance.
Over the years, the “control”
that our agencies exercised in
the area of mental health and
wellness or the outright “suck
it up” mentality influenced and
bolstered the stigma associated
with asking for help for stuff
going on in our heads. No one
wanted to risk being assigned to
“the rubber gun squad,” or have
other officers question our fitness
for duty. The solution - say
nothing, ever. As the suicide rate
increased, the need to provide
assistance of some kind was addressed
by some agencies. Those
agencies who took on the battle
to help officers with their mental
health sort of figured it out.
I say sort of because the stigma
continued to lurk in the shadows.
Officers were not going to ask
to “go to the department shrink”
or the in-house employee assistance
program. Why? Confidentiality.
Their “stuff” would be
known throughout the department.
Officers were left with a
no-win, no-way-out solution.
Again, say nothing, ever.
Over the years as some departments
saw command staff retirements,
it seemed to usher in
a new, younger, and more open
personnel. The discussion of a
budget for mental health and
the creation of a Mental Health
Liaison officer began. However,
most officers that we have spoken
to and departments we have
visited have that liaison officer in
an office right next to the Chief
or Assistant Chief. So, while the
open-door policy to get help
for mental health was there, we
were told that officers were not
going to go to that office simply
because of the proximity to the
command staff where a conversation
might be overheard or
where questions might linger
when the officer walked out of
the liaison’s office. The solution,
say nothing ever.
While these changes were
occurring, the grassroots programs
started. The realization
that while the departments were
trying, it was easier for an officer
to go outside his/ her agency
for assistance. The grassroots
program provided confidentiality,
which meant that the officer
could get the help without the
fear of reprisals or questions. In
fact, many of the officers I met
while I traveled to speak at conferences
confided in me that they
went outside their agency and
were on the path to healing, all
the while successfully maintaining
their jobs and family life.
As some departments continued
their awareness journey to
aid their officers, the grassroots
programs continued to grow.
Some of them with the ability
to offset department budgets
which meant the departments
could rely on them to help their
officers. The departments were
on a “need to know” information
stream. Only if an officer stated
they were going to hurt themselves
or someone else was the
department informed. Confidentiality,
anonymity, and a comfort
level were provided to the
officer. As a result, we started to
see dents in the stigma.
When departments created
Peer Support programs, those
that were successful saw a
decrease in suicides and an
increase in positive outcomes
for the officers. Supported from
the top, with an emphasis on
ZERO reprisals by the department,
officers could get the help
they asked for. The result. The
dents in the stigma grew larger.
As the command staff’s awareness
grew about the positive
outcomes for their officers, the
indicators showed that the department
functioned better. And
a good functioning department
means a healthy department.
Are these “successful” departments
the outliers? Maybe.
The hope is that the grassroots
programs and the departments
work together to continue to put
dents in the stigma, ultimately
smashing it completely one day.
What we still do know for sure
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is you are your best advocate. As
hard as it may be, you must be
the one to reach out and ask for
help. The grassroots programs
like A Badge of Honor are here
to assist at every level. We allow
you to be in control of your
mental health journey, leaving
behind the one thing that still
hampers some requests from
within the department…STIGMA.
So, find the courage to be your
own advocate. And remember,
your journey may help to save
another brother, sister, and/or
BLUE family. You are not alone.
Samantha Horwitz is a regular
contributor to The Blues Police
Magazine. She is a 9/11 first
responder, former United States
Secret Service Agent, speaker,
and author. She and her business
partner, ret. NYPD detective John
Salerno created A Badge of Honor,
a 501(c)(3), post-traumatic stress
and suicide prevention program
for first responders. John and
Sam host MAD (Making a Difference)
Radio each Wednesday 7pm
central live on FB @Makingadifferencetx.
For more about Sam and
the wellness and resiliency workshops
for first responders, visit
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DARYL LOTT
daryl’s deliberations
Merry Christmas? Happy New Year?
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year? Hmm... I don’t know about
that. A Winsome Christmas and
Better New Year? Maybe. I’ve been
thinking of what an appropriate
sentiment would be in a time of
anxiety. No year is guaranteed to
be better than its predecessor, but
we always wish it to be so. We
celebrate the holidays in worldwide
style: from Bethlehem’s silent
night to a Times Square carnival a
week later. As Americans, we take
comfort in our reliable schedule of
celebrations. Indeed, all the citizens
of the world have similar traditions
that provide comfort in various
cultures.
The Christian calendar has been
secularized so as not to offend
other belief systems. January 1st is
celebrated worldwide. I know there
are other new year’s days in other
countries, but January 1st is recognized
as the official first day of
the new year. The globalization of
the world’s transportation, communications,
and commerce systems
demand a common clock and
calendar. Likewise, the globalization
of communicable disease creates
a common thread of anxiety for
everyone. All of God’s children are
hurting. I wondered if the Ghost of
Christmas Past could enlighten me
about previous generations’ struggles
with unsettling times.
The Ghost of Christmas Past
revealed one Christmas and New
Year’s Day that was different than
all the others. The Christmas of 1941
was the one that wins the dubious
prize for sheer uncertainty and
frightfulness. America had been
mauled by Japan in a diabolical
surprise attack at Pear Harbor on
December 7th—just 18 days before
Christmas. The Philippines were under
siege and it was all but certain
that American forces were going to
be captured by the notoriously cruel
Japanese army. The Pacific Fleet
was in disarray and the sunken and
still smoking battleships sitting on
the Hawaiian harbor sea bottom
could not provide a quick response.
The Atlantic fleet was being hammered
by German U-boats in ocean
battles that left merchant ships
blazing within sight of coastal
cities like New York and Boston. The
indispensable life line of supplies
between America and England was
very much endangered. Many lives
were being lost in the rough cold
seas of the North Atlantic.
In a bold move, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill made the perilous
sea journey from London to
Washington in order to visit President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The men
had talks regarding a common war
strategy to defeat Germany and
Japan. There was a feeling that the
Christmas and New Year holidays
should be cancelled. This was not
as extreme as it might sound to
our modern ears. The United States
had to gear up wartime production
in what was to be a fight with
very powerful adversaries who
wanted to destroy freedom around
the world. We all know that the
Christmas and New Year holidays
may only be two days on the calendar,
but those are normally “dead
weeks” for most business and government
operations. Many private
and public sector executives did not
want to lose those valuable weeks
of initial productivity. England had
already been at war for over two
years and their production capacity
was at 100%, but the British people
were at the end of their rope.
Anything that would delay the much
needed supplies and support would
cost British lives. American productivity
had to be quickly geared up
into overdrive. Lives depended on it.
As Roosevelt pondered the unthinkable—cancelling
Christmas,
an executive spoke up. “The holiday
isn’t for us. It’s to honor the Christ
Child. It’s His holiday—not ours.”
Exactly. Roosevelt ordered that
federal holidays not be cancelled. In
the longer term, the people would
be energized by honoring God.
On Christmas Eve, Roosevelt and
Churchill addressed the freedom
loving peoples of the world from
the balcony of the White House.
We would join the fight against evil
until our last energy was spent. The
men then ceremonially lit the White
House Christmas tree. The brotherhood
of free peoples would engage
a ruthless and determined enemy.
Roosevelt and Churchill saw a
much needed opportunity to get
our allied efforts off on the right
foot. The notion that our countries
needed each other was no
longer simply a theory. In addition
to the losses America suffered in
the Pacific, the British were being
handed some cruel defeats as well.
“Fortress Singapore” was considered
impregnable by sea invasion
as it was on the southern tip
of the Malay Peninsula. However,
the Japanese figured if they could
land much farther north, then their
troops could, believe it or not, ride
bicycles south and defeat the British
army at Singapore. Japanese troop
ships were dispatched to invade the
Malay Peninsula and the soldiers
inside would race their bicycles to
the British back door. The British
countered the move by sending a
battleship, “HMS Prince of Wales”,
and a cruiser, “HMS Repulse”, to
destroy the Japanese troop ships at
sea. These most powerful of British
warships became the first capital
ships in history sunk in the open
ocean by aircraft alone. The British
Empire was dealt a staggering blow
that weighed heavily on the minds
of Roosevelt and Churchill (both
were Navy men at heart). What to
do!
The devastating losses that both
nations suffered in December highlighted
the reality that the war was
going to be long and hard. There
was no dream of a quick victory
before the next winter. Roosevelt
and Churchill knew that the death
toll would far exceed the 15 million
of the Great War. They knew that
“Happy New Year” was not going to
be appropriate for the foreseeable
future. They knew that the possibility
of America and the British Empire
losing the war was conceivable.
Allied victory was not inevitable.
What could they do to start this
joint endeavor?
Roosevelt and Churchill happened
to be members of the same Protestant
Church—the Church of England
(as it is called in England) and the
Episcopal Church (as it is called in
America). The men reasoned, like
George Washington before them,
that anything they did without God’s
Providential leadership would be
fruitless. All of our citizens, young
and old, black and white, healthy
and infirm, Jew and Gentile, had to
be engaged in the initial response.
New Year’s Day 1942 would be,
by Presidential Decree, a National
Day of Prayer. The idea was simple,
but genius. If the war was going to
be an existential conflict between
good and evil, then good people
were going to have to pray. The
prayer wasn’t the usual plea for
forgiveness and remorse for failings.
The prayer, according to the
president and prime minister, was a
prayer to make our nations worthy
of being called good. Our nations
had to ask God for his blessing of
making us worthy to be on His side.
The two leaders prepared themselves
and went to George Washington’s
own Anglican/Episcopal
church on the Day of Prayer. They
sat down in the general’s own pew
and got right with God. They asked
their Heavenly Father to take their
nations’ heartfelt responses to a
monstrous evil and make them
worthy to be called good. American
and British citizens echoed the
prayers of their respective leaders.
Our parents and grandparents
wanted to be counted as worthy to
fight evil in the name of Goodness.
They did not ask the Father to take
the bitter cup of war from their
lips; they only wanted to be worthy
of the struggle. Perhaps that’s why
they have been called the “Greatest
Generation.” The Americans and
the British would never forget the
Christmas of 1941– it was fraught
with anxiety.
Perhaps we should ask ourselves
if we are praying the right prayers.
As we pray for COVID victims and
their families, we are hopeful that
vaccines and therapies can stop the
pandemic. We hope that the world’s
people, including the most poverty
stricken and isolated, can soon
receive immunity from this disease.
Perhaps in this time of anxious
uncertainty, we should pray that we
are worthy to help our neighbors
in need. Maybe, just maybe, we
should pray that we are worthy to
give our neighbor a cup of water in
His name. I believe that is what my
grandparents did—and yours did,
too.
An appropriate greeting during
this time may be to wish everyone a
Happier New Year. In doing so, may
we recall Tiny Tim’s timeless words
that conclude the Dickens classic,
“God bless us, every one!”
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HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION
from the president
Happy New Year – a year HPD
begins with short staffs on the streets
Going into the new year, we always
get excited and look forward
to starting out fresh and getting
things “in order”. This year was
no different as we rang in the new
year trying to stay positive. It can
often be hard to look forward to a
new year when we have so many
big issues that we are facing as an
organization.
First and foremost are the staffing
issues that we are seeing at every
station across the city. I worked
New Year’s eve at Southeast and roll
call consisted of about six people
for early side and another six for
late side for two districts. We were
non-stop the entire night!
Our manpower issues are being
exacerbated by the current Covid
is spike. We had over 420 officers
out as of New Year’s Day which is
leading to dangerous situations on
the streets. We must do everything
we can to protect ourselves, but
the realities are that most of us will
contract it at some point and most
will be just fine.
But this does not help our current
numbers on the streets. The closing
of the red book, as much as we hate
it, is a necessity right now and have
urged the chief
to open it back
up as soon as
he possibly
can. We need
bodies just to
make sure that
everyone on
the streets will
have back-up
when needed.
The sooner
our healthy officers
get back to
work, the faster
the red book
will open back
up.
I have reached
out to the chief
and asked that
we look at
an overtime
program just
to assist patrol.
No targeting
DOUGLAS GRIFFITH
offenders, just to run calls.
We know that at any one time in
this city, there are calls stacked up
for hours and our officers are doing
an incredible job just trying to keep
up. We will continue to push for
more officers on patrol, as that is
where it is most dangerous.
This could even be harder to deal
with over the next few months with
retirements. There is a possibility
that we could be under 5,000 officers
by summertime.
With rising crime, low staffing,
low morale and a closed red book it
can be hard to look at the positive.
Unlike other departments, HPD is
a true family. We will continue to
support each other and have our
brothers and sisters’ backs. We
will get past this and move forward
as we have done so many times
before.
I am proud of our members and
the work you all continue to do.
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NOT SO BRIGHT AWARD
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Let’s Go Brandon - 2022
By Michael Barron,
BLUES Publisher
Looking back on 2021, it was a
shit-show in Washington. Whether
you’re a democrat or a republican,
voted for Joe or not, there’s
no denying this man is totally incompetent
and should not running
our country.
When they coined the phrase
“the most powerful man in the
world” they almost certainly did
not ever imagine Joe Biden would
be ‘that man.’
Rather than go on and on detailing
all Joe’s blundering acts in
2021, I’ll just offer my insight and
opinion on one aspect of his 12
months in office – COVID.
This whole pandemic has been
a giant cluster in my opinion. It’s
certainly divided us AGAIN. The
Vaxers vs the non-Vaxers. The believers
and non-believers. Maskers’
vs non-Maskers.
I firmly believe everyone is entitled
to his or her choice when
it comes to COVID. If you want
to take a chance on not getting
vaccinated, then that should be
your right. No government agency,
be it National, State or Local
should have the right or the power
to force you to decide on what
medical procedure or preventative
medicine to take. That decision
should be yours and yours alone.
But Uncle Joe, the left-wing
nut jobs in Congress and a moron
named Fauci, think they have the
right to force you to ‘follow the
science’ and do it their way. For
the last two years, America has
gone along with ‘their way’ and as
a result we’ve lost 577 officers due
to COVID. It’s obvious that ‘their
way’ isn’t working.
I’m no expert and I do not have
all the answers. But having been in
law enforcement all these years,
I’m smart enough to gather the
facts and determine what is real
and what isn’t. This is what I believe
to be the truth:
1. This pandemic and the COVID
virus are real. How it became
about is certainly important and
of course we as a nation need to
get to the bottom of it and punish
those involved in the event it was
Yes Joe, we’re still here.
intentional.
2. Both parties of our government
have handled the pandemic
as if it were a political football
rather than the crisis it is. Many
good things were in fact done in
2020 by then President Trump.
He cut through all the BS and red
tape and ordered Pharma to come
up with a vaccine by the end of
2020 and they did. The reason they
did was money. The government
paid trillions of dollars to the big
Pharma companies to create a
drug in months that would have
taken years if it weren’t for the
money.
3. Some believe that the vaccines
“What in the hell am I doing here? I need to go back to the basement!”
are dangerous and it’s a world
order to cleanse the world of its
growing population. This growing
group believes that in two years
everyone who has been vaccinated
(2/3s of the earths population)
will die. Mass genocide. That’s
why they won’t get vaccinated.
4. These same individuals also
believe that hundreds of thousands
that have taken the vaccine
have died as a result. In other
words, the vaccine killed them
not COVID. In our cover story this
month, 577 officers died of COVID
in 2020 and 2021. I’ve had people
tell me they all died because they
were vaccinated. NO! They died
because they weren’t vaccinated
and most had some underlying
medical condition. NONE died as a
result of being vaccinated.
5. What I do believe is that there
are members of congress including
Uncle Joe, that are using this
pandemic to further their own
agenda. As long as they can continue
to scare Americans, they can
control them and manipulate their
daily lives.
6. I believe this pandemic may
in fact last years. The Bird Flu of
1918 lasted 2 years and killed 50
million people worldwide before
it finally dwindled to a few hundred
cases a year. We can not let
any pandemic control our lives or
cause us to live in fear of simply
going outside. Or going to the grocery
store or church. You should
be free to decide what your own
destiny is. If you believe in getting
vaccinated, then do it. If not, then
that’s your decision. But if you get
COVID or whatever the next damn
disease will be, you owe it to your
fellow human beings to stay away
from them and protect them from
you. That is YOUR responsibility.
You don’t need any government
agency ordering you to quarantine.
You should have enough common
sense and common decency to do
that on your own.
7. Finally, Uncle Joe needs to
use the money he conned out
of Congress to send a test kit to
every man, woman and child in
America. In fact, send them 2 or 3
or as many as they require to test
themselves as often as necessary
to prevent them from unknowingly
spreading COVID. Make all drugs
FREE and readily available to anyone
who tests positive. If preventive
drugs become available, then
they should be free as well.
All of this is my opinion which
I have a right to express. Each of
you has a right to disagree and
provide your own insight into
what should or should not be
done. That’s what is great about
America. The right of free speech
and expression. We also should
have the right as Americans to
choose our own fate and decide
what’s best for us and our family.
But that freedom doesn’t give you
the right to infect other Americans.
Be responsible & Be Safe.
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unning 4 heroes
Total Miles Run in 2021: (as of 12/30/21): 325
Total Miles Run in 2020: 401
Total Miles Run in 2019: 376
Overall Miles Run: 1,102
2021 Run Stats:
Total Miles Run for 2021 fallen LEO’s (Non COVID-19): 159
Total Miles Run for 2021 fallen Firefighters (Non COVID-19): 73
Total Miles Run for 2021 fallen COVID-19 Heroes: 30
Total Miles Run for 2021 fallen Canada LEO’s: 2
Total Miles Run for 2021 Non Line of Duty Deaths: 13
Total Miles Run for 2020 Fallen LEO’s: 24
Total Miles Run for 2020 Fallen Firefighters: 6
Total Tribute Runs by State for 2021: 18
States/Cities Zechariah has run in:
Zechariah
Cartledge:
a True American Hero
Florida - Winter Springs, Lake Mary, Clearwater, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Orlando, Temple Terrace, Blountstown,
Cocoa, Lakeland, Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach, Starke
New York - New York City, Weedsport
Georgia - Cumming, Augusta, Savannah
South Carolina - North Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Sumter
Pennsylvania - Monaca
Illinois - Springfield, Naperville, Glen Ellyn
Texas - Houston (2), Fort Worth, Midland, New Braunfels, Freeport, Madisonville, Irving, Sadler, San Antonio
Kentucky - Nicholasville
Arkansas - Bryant, Hot Springs, Springdale, Prairie Grove
Nevada - Henderson
California - Mt. Vernon, La Jolla
Arizona - Mesa
North Carolina - Concord, Raleigh
Virginia - Norton, Richmond
Tennessee - Bristol
Delaware - Milford
Minnesota - Arden Hills
Indiana - Sullivan, Spencer
Mississippi - Grenada, Olive Branch
Missouri - Springfield
Iowa - Independence, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids
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DR. TINA JAECKLE
blue mental health
Law Enforcement Suicide and the Need
for Transparency as a Catalyst for Change.
While access to effective
mental health services for law
enforcement officers has significantly
improved over the last
two decades, we continue to
struggle with compiling accurate
statistics on the true number(s)
of those in the field who
die by suicide. Although open
dialogue on officer suicide has
also become more accepted over
time, there is still a great need
for law enforcement agencies
to approach an actual suicide in
a transparent manner. Countless
agencies remain culturally
ingrained in the need to hide an
officer suicide by omitting the
details of the cause of death. We
must practice this transparency
in order to confront the shame
and secrecy of suicide. Our
ability to help and heal officers
who are struggling can only be
effectively built on a foundation
of truthfulness and promotion
of acceptance of the actual
humanness behind the badge.
Fortunately, the tide appears to
be turning as demonstrated by
the press releases of the events
surrounding three recent tragic
suicides in Florida. I applaud the
leadership of these agencies in
approaching these devastating
losses in a compassionate, yet
direct manner and highly urge
other agencies to do the same. It
is an essential way to spread the
message that it is “Ok not to be
Ok”.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s
Office (HCSO) (FL) Deputy Christopher
Former died by suicide
on Wednesday night, December
29, 2021, according to his department.
One of the 49-yearold
deputy’s family members
contacted the HCSO 911 Center
shortly after 7 p.m. and told the
operator that Deputy Former had
threatened suicide in a phone
call, the sheriff’s office said in a
press release on Thursday. HCSO
deputies responded to Deputy
Former’s Mira Lago home and
spoke with him briefly before
the veteran deputy barricaded
himself inside the residence. Attempts
to convince Deputy Former
to exit the home peacefully
were unsuccessful. At approximately
11 p.m., SWAT officers
entered the residence and found
Deputy Former dead from an
“apparent self-inflicted gunshot
wound,” the HCSO said in their
press release.
“My deepest condolences go
out to Deputy Former’s family
and those that knew and loved
him,” Hillsborough County Sheriff
Chad Chronister said. “While
this is a difficult time for our
Sheriff’s Office family, it is times
like this where we rely on each
other and the community for
support. Together we will grieve
and try to make sense of what
happened.”
DR. TINA JAECKLE
Deputy Former served the
HCSO for 23 years and was most
recently assigned to the Ruskin
area as a community resource
deputy. “He was a guardian at
heart,” longtime friend John-Michael
Elms told the Tampa Bay
Times. “He wanted to protect
people from those bad things out
there and I think he did it wonderfully
for over 20 years.” “You
go into that profession because
you want to help people, and
what I saw of him on the job, he
never developed that stereotypical
cynicism that some do in
those kinds of jobs,” Elms added
“He always looked for the best in
people.” In addition to his service
as a law enforcement officer,
Deputy Former was also a U.S.
Army veteran, the Tampa Bay
Times reported. He leaves behind
two grown children, Elms said.
The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s
Office (FL) announced Tuesday,
January 3, 2022, that two of its
deputies died by suicide in the
last week. Deputy Clayton Osteen
attempted suicide on New
Year’s Eve and was removed
from life support by his family
days later on Sunday. In the wake
of his death, Deputy Victoria
Pachero took her life, according
to the sheriff’s office. She shared
a 1-month-old son with Deputy
Osteen. “Words cannot express
the tremendous loss we all feel
after losing these two members
of our Sheriff’s Office family,”
Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a
statement. “To the general public,
and sometimes even myself,
it’s easy to view law enforcement
as superhuman...but let’s
not forget that they’re human
just like us. “Law enforcement
deal with not only the day-today
stress we all face but also
the stress of those whom they
serve in our community, which
can sometimes be very challenging.
“While it is impossible for us
to fully comprehend the private
circumstances leading up to this
devastating loss, we pray that
this tragedy becomes a catalyst
for change, a catalyst to help
ease the stigma surrounding
mental well-being and normalize
the conversation about the
challenges so many of us face
on a regular basis.” Very well
said sheriff. The nation grieves
with you.
Please do not hesitate to reach
out for assistance at any time at
the following law enforcement
numbers, contacts, and agencies:
Copline (www.copline.org),
1-800-COPLINE; Humanizing the
Badge (contact@humanizingthebadge.com);
and Safe Call Now
(www.safecallnowusa.org),
206-459-3020.
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RUSTY BARRON
off duty & outdoors
Be Ready to Move on Late Season Doves
Between Christmas and New
Year’s Eve, I took my annual trip
to Uvalde, Texas for our endof-the-year
dove hunt with
friends and family. Without a
question, the trip reinforced
that hunting late season doves
in South Texas is the best because
the birds are hard to
predict and that makes getting
a limit challenging, and
certainly not a guarantee. So
many may wonder why would
you want the hunt to be hard,
to a point that is makes getting
a limit difficult? While I have
never been to Argentina to hunt
doves where shooting hundreds
of doves a day is a guarantee,
I have been in Uvalde, Texas
in the early part of dove season
and feel confident I could
take a hundred or so birds in
a day if legal. While I love
hunting when the sky is filled
with Whitewing Doves pouring
into the field in front of you
at tree-top level, I also don’t
want my hunting to be over in
20 minutes. That is why I like
hunting late season with many
variables that makes the dove
hunting challenging. I will do
my best to explain.
Fog. As I made my way
through the early morning
hours, I stopped at my son’s
house to pick him and his gear
up and noticed it was getting
foggy. From an hour outside of
Houston all the way to Uvalde,
it was foggy. It has been my
experience that foggy afternoons
make for unpredictable
and usually slow hunts and this
year proved this lesson to be
true. Because you never know
what time the birds will start
to fly when it is foggy, we got
in the field early, around 2:30
pm. By 3:30 we had only seen
an occasional dove buzz us
heading into the field. By 4:00,
we had one dove among four
hunters. I felt I had to change
something, so I decided to
move to another corner of the
field where I had seen some
birds flying. This move helped
some, but by sunset I ended my
first hunt with only 3 of my 15-
bird limit, two of which came
from the “grand finale flight”
of doves coming off the field
heading to the oaks to roost as
the fog finally lifted. Unfortunately,
some things you cannot
control and hunting doves in
heavy fog or light rain, usually
does not end well for the
hunter. However, I would still
rather be in the field waiting to
see if the birds start to fly and
catching an occasional lonesome
dove vs not going at all.
Besides, this was only day 1 of a
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3-day hunt.
Second morning, new area,
new field with a different problem,
but similar result. This is
the short version of my second
morning hunt. After a slow
start with that first afternoon
hunt, our host decided to move
us to another field in Knippa,
Texas for this morning’s hunt.
We had a large group and we
spread out along one end of the
field cover two corners and the
long stretch of field between.
About an hour into the hunt, I
had not even fired a single shot
and those around me only a
couple of shots at the single
birds that were catching most
of us by surprise. But there was
a pattern emerging to the hunters
who were getting shots.
They were all in one corner of
the field where the doves were
coming in and going out of the
field. They were shooting a lot
of shells and I was only getting
an occasional shot. Many
members of our group moved
closer to that corner, but I
hesitated to crowd the already
crowded group getting all the
shots, so I moved beyond them
to another corner of the field
but still ended up after the
morning hunt having only fired
8 shots and no birds to show
for it. I know that when you
can, you must move to the birds
and in this case, I waited too
late to make my move.
After lunch we decided to try
yet another field in Ulvade for
both Whitewings and Mourning
Doves. We preceded to get set
up in a similar fashion as the
last field…stretching our group
from one corner to another to
wait for the afternoon flight.
As we were setting up, I noticed
birds flying at the other
end of the field. So not wanting
to wait this time, I told my
group I was taking a walk to
check things out. Within minutes
of arriving at the other
end of the field, I realized this
was the hot corner to be in.
Mourning Doves were piling
into the field, and I was shooting
as fast as I could reload and
pick up downed birds. It didn’t
take long for my boys to show
up because I taught them to
go where the birds are, don’t
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wait to see if they will also be
coming to you. That afternoon
hunt ending with limits of birds
for my boys and I and for those
others who came to the sound
of gunshots. The rest of the
group that stayed where they
were dropped off, never fired a
single shot. That night I dinner,
I shared my experience with
those who did not come down
to my end of the field that next
time they must come to where
the birds are.
For the last morning hunt,
our host gave us a choice. Hunt
the first field we hunted in the
fog where the birds never really
flew but he still believed held
a lot of birds or get up early
and hunt this same field where
we found so much success. My
boys and I were the only ones in
our group who opted to get up
early and hunt this same field
at sunrise. The others decided
to hunt the first field closer to
the lodge. Our decision proved
to be the right one. Mourning
Doves started flying shortly
before sunrise and the Whitewing
Doves showed up around
9:00. Again, my boys and I left
the field with limits with the
doves still flying in and out
of the field well into the late
morning hours. I did learn later
that morning that many who
hunted closer to the lodge did
also get limits from the early
morning flight of the Mourning
Doves. A late Christmas gift to
bring all of us back again next
year just like a great golf shot
makes you forget the rest of
your game and brings you back
for more.
Overall, this was a great trip
with great memories that will
have to last me another year
until we return for the late
2022 dove season. If you get
the chance still this year, dove
season goes until January 14 in
the Central zone and until January
21 in the South zone.
Just remember to move to
where the birds are, not where
someone thinks they will be
based on some past experience.
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us:
Contact
pd.recruiting@bedfordtx.gov
2121 L. Don Dodson Dr.
more info and to apply online, visit:
For
https://bedfordtx.gov/503/Join-BPD
Bedford, TX 76021
www.bedfordpolice.com
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OFFICER / PUBLIC SAFETY RECRUIT
POLICE
perform preventive patrol, law enforcement, traffic control & other related duties
to
Non-Certified Recruit
$60,231.83
Certified Officer (Step 1)
$68,000
February 1st at 1PM
Tuesday,
February 2nd at 9AM
Wednesday,
February 3rd at 6PM
Thursday,
February 4th at 1PM
Friday,
competitive benefits:
Highly
Pension, Social Security,
TMRS
medical plans, dental,
2
life insurance, LTD,
vision,
vacation, sick, and
paid
plus much more!
holidays,
School Diploma or GED
High
Certified: 30 hours
TCOLE
or 2 years full-time TX
college
experience
police
Lateral Entry Pay
Longevity & Certification Pay
Non-Certified: 30 hours college
Pay scale:
$57,000 (as a non-certified Cadet) up to $82,762, depending on certification
BENEFITS
• Supportive leadership and community
• Civil Service
• 12-hour shifts for patrol division
• 3-day weekend approximately twice a month
• Take-home vehicles
• Tattoos permitted
• Longevity Pay – $4/month for each year of service;
maximum of $1,200/year
• TCOLE certificate pay
• Paid sick leave with unlimited accumulation
• Vacation – 15 days/year
• Holidays – 10 paid and 2 additional floating holidays/year
• Group health insurance with deductible, flexible spending accounts,
and Section 125 options
• Life insurance, long‐term disability and workers’ compensation
• Optional life insurance and deferred plans are also available
• Retirement plan with the Texas Municipal Retirement System
• Employee contributes 7%, city matches 2:1
• Opportunity to attend training schools
• Equipment and uniforms are furnished, including regulation weapon
• Employee Assistance Program
• Post Police Academy pay - $58,469 @ 28.11/hour
• On-duty fitness time provided
Apply By: Thursday, January 27, 2022
www.burlesontx.com/jobs
Testing Dates (assigned by January 28th):
Saturday, February 5th at 9AM
Use link above for details:
Test study guide purchase
Job information
Online application instructions &
required documents to upload
Questions: 817-426-9643 or hr@burlesontx.com
The City of Burleson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
To learn more about hiring details,
qualifications, and application instructions, visit: Bryantx.gov/PDJobs
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The City of Bryan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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CITY OF CARROLLTON
Firefighters’ and Police Officers’
Civil Service Commission
Announces
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Entrance Examination Test Date: December 11, 2021
REGISTRATION ENDS ON:
December 11, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.
Examination Date: Saturday, December 11, 2021 at
9:00a.m. - Written Exam
To register go to: www.cityofcarrollton.com/police
Complete the online registration to be submitted electronically to:
Carrollton Police Department
2025 East Jackson Road
Carrollton, Texas 75006
Phone: 972 466 3028
Website: www.cityofcarrollton.com/police
Email: policedevelopment@cityofcarrollton.com
City of Carrollton is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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salary
starting
$50,000
"Protecting those who will change the world."
CRANDALL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT
Police Officers
now hiring
Benefits Include:
Full Time Employment
Full Medical Insurance Options
Teacher Retirement System
Summers Off
Paid Holidays
*Spring Break, Thanksgiving, Christmas
Overtime Opportunities
certified officers only
See full infomation at:
www.crandall-isd.net
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GALVESTON
COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Seeking Individuals Who Are Interested in a Rewarding Career in Corrections
Begin Your Career Today!
GALVESTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
Position: Corrections Deputy I
Bureau/Division: Corrections/Jail
Title/Rank: Corrections Deputy/Deputy I
Reports to: Sergeant - Corrections
Starting Salary: $47,715.20
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Maintains the security of the facility by conducting security checks, settling disputes, and performing cell searches and
inspections; conducts outside perimeter checks.
Preparation and proper completion in the documentation of inmate records.
Issues inmate meals, clothing, linens, and personal items.
Supervise inmate programs (recreational, legal, health care, visitation and religious services)
Prepares reports on jail and inmate activities, enforce inmate handbook rules.
Supervises inmates performing such assignments as cleaning and maintaining the jail facility and continuously observe
locations and activities of inmates.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
High School / GED Certificate and must be at least 18 years of age.
Must be a U.S. Citizen and resident of the contiguous United States for a period of time sufficient to conduct a
background investigation.
Must be able to work days, nights, weekends, holidays and mandatory shifts when needed.
Must be able to work during natural disasters and or under declarations.
Must possess a valid Texas driver's license and an acceptable driving record as determined by the Galveston County
Sheriff's Office in effect at the time of application.
Must have favorable employment history. All information given regarding past employment will be thoroughly checked
Must have a stable credit history.
Must possess good computer skills and demonstrate comprehensive reading and comprehension skills.
No conviction above a Class B Misdemeanor or a Class B misdemeanor within the last 10 years nor have been on or
currently on court-ordered community supervision or probation for any criminal offense and no Family Violence
convictions of any level.
Applicant must pass all phases of the required testing.
Must be eligible for licensing by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) for the position applied for, if not
presently licensed.
TO APPLY
An applicant interested in any of GCSO position shall first download, complete and return
the Application Packet, per the instructions on the downloadable form.
The Application Packet can be found at SHERIFF.GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV
What:
When:
Where:
Register:
Basic Requirements:
• Basic:
Become a Haltom City
Police Officer
Starting Salary: $63,776 ($30.66 hourly)
Police Officer Civil Service Entrance Exam
Saturday, February 26, 2022, check-in begins at 8:00 a.m.; test begins at 9:00 a.m.
W. G. Thomas Coliseum – 6108 Broadway Ave. Haltom City, TX 76117
Complete the Police Exam Registration form at WWW.HALTOMCITYTX.COM/REGISTER
Those without internet access may call 817-222-7029 to register. Contact Detective Spillane
with questions at 817-222-7029 or mspillane@haltomcitytx.com.
Veterans and Certified Officers eligible for additional points on exam day. Visit the City’s
• High School Diploma/GED;
• valid Texas Driver’s License;
• 21 years of age at time of licensure
Physical Readiness Test:
website for details.
REGISTER PRIOR TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022
A physical readiness test will be conducted on the same day and at the same location as the written exam.
The physical readiness test will begin immediately following the written test for applicants who pass the
written exam. All Police Officer applicants are required to pass the Department’s physical readiness test to
continue in the application process. The physical readiness test consists of rowing 2000 meters on a Concept2
Rower. Testing requirements will be age, gender, and weight adjusted. Visit tiny.cc/xnoksz for a
demonstration of the basic techniques.
The City of Haltom City does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, genetic information, veteran status or
disability in employment or the provision of services.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
• Certification: No certification required
• Experience: None required.
JOIN US
VISIT SHERIFF.GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV TO APPLY!
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The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is an Equal Opportunity Employer
CONTACT US
Posting #22-006 Police Officer; Posted 01/04/2022

FILL YOUR DEPARTMENTS’
OPEN POSITIONS
LATERAL DEPUTY
Pay scale:
$57,000 (as a non-certified Cadet) up to $82,762, depending on certification
BENEFITS
• Supportive leadership and community
• Civil Service
• 12-hour shifts for patrol division
• 3-day weekend approximately twice a month
• Take-home vehicles
• Tattoos permitted
• Longevity Pay – $4/month for each year of
service; maximum of $1,200/year
• TCOLE certificate pay
• Paid sick leave with unlimited accumulation
• Vacation – 15 days/year
• Holidays – 10 paid and 2 additional floating
holidays/year
• On-duty fitness time provided
• Group health insurance with deductible, flexible
spending accounts, and Section 125 options
• Life insurance, long‐term disability and workers’
compensation
• Optional life insurance and deferred plans are
also available
• Retirement plan with the Texas Municipal
Retirement System
• Employee contributes 7%, city matches 2:1
• Opportunity to attend training schools
• Equipment and uniforms are furnished, including
regulation weapon
• Employee Assistance Program
• Post Police Academy pay - $58,469 @ 28.11/hour
Important
Information
Application Deadline:
January 14, 2022
Written exam:
January 21, 2022
To learn more about hiring details, qualifications, and application instructions, visit: Bryantx.gov/PDJobs
The City of Bryan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
FOR ONLY $250,
FOR 6 MONTHS.
REACH 1/2 MILLION
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES.
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Must be at least 21 years of age with High School diploma or equivalent.
Must meet physical, mental & educational standards set by the State and
the department.
Current Basic Peace Officer certification from TCOLE.
https://www.huttotx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/780/Certifiedinitial-application-Police-Officer-2021?bidId=
HUTTO POLICE
DEPARTMENT
BENEFITS
RETIREMENT—TMRS with City match ratio of 2 to 1 after 5-year
vesting period.
SIGN ON BONUS—$ 2,500.00
SPECIALY/CERTIFICATION PAY :
Intermediate Peace Officer—$ 50.00 per month
Advanced Peace Officer—$ 100.00 per month
Master Peace Officer—$ 150.00 per month
Bilingual—$50.00 Level 1,$75.00 Level 2 per month (after testing)
*Crash Reconstruction—$ 50.00 per month
*EMT/Paramedic—$ 50.00 per month
*Firearms Instructor—$ 50.00 per month
*Field Training Officer—$ 130.00 bi-weekly
*Hutto Response Team—$ 130.00 bi-weekly
*Officer in Charge—$ 130.00 bi-weekly
EDUCATION:
Associates Degree—$ 50.00 per month
Bachelors Degree—$ 125.00 per month
Masters Degree—$1 75.00 per month
UNIFORMS/EQUIPMENT—All necessary equipment, including
AR-15, Shotgun, TASER and Body Armor. Also included is a
$400.00 annual uniform allowance per officer.
LEAVE ACCRUALS—12 paid Holidays, 80 hours of Vacation, 96
hours of Sick Leave annually.
TAKE HOME CAR—Upon completion of Field Training Program,
officers living within 25 miles of Hutto, TX are authorized to
take their police vehicle to their residence.
STARTING SALARY—$ 58,880.00 (May vary based on experience.)
*upon approval
We want YOU to
join our team!
PATROL
TRAINING UNIT
STREET CRIMES
INVESTIGATIONS
COMMUNITY
RESOURCE
CRIME SCENE
CRASH
RECONSTRUCTION
HUTTO RESPONSE
TEAM
BIKE PATROL
K9
BECOME A JEFFERSON, TEXAS POLICE OFFICER
SEEKING LICENSED TEXAS PEACE OFFICERS
A PROFFESSION THAT’S REWARDING
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES:
LOCATION:
TMRS RETIREMENT
TAKE HOME CAR PROGRAM
MEDICAL INSURANCE
106 NORTH ALLEY STREET
JEFFERSON, TEXAS 75657
FOR MORE INFO CALL US: (903) 665-2432
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we're
WE’RE HIRING POLICE OFFICERS!
Starting Pay
$53,000
hiring!
Jailer/Corrections Officer
Jailer/Corrections Officer
Starting Pay $43,950
Starting Pay $43,950
• Officers work 12 hour shifts and have every other 3 day weekend off
• Incentive pay for Intermediate, Advanced or Master TCOLE certifications
• Incentive pay for Field Training Officer certification
• Incentive pay for college degrees: Associates, Bachelors or Masters
• After 5 years of service, employees receive longevity pay
• City of Jonestown provides 11 paid holidays
• Vacation leave accrues at the end of the first 2 weeks of employment at a rate of 3.08 hours for each 2-week
pay period worked in a calendar year, totaling 10 working days each 12 months
• Sick leave accrues to total 12 days every 12 months
• Insurance: hospitalization, medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement: Texas Municipal Retirement Systems, 7% with a 2:1 match by the City of Jonestown
Officers will be trained and certified as Marine Safety Enforcement Officers to patrol the north shores of Lake Travis.
For Questions, call
For Questions, call
1800 Ridgemar Dr.
1800 Ridgemar Dr.
For more information
512-267-7007
policeinfo@jonestowntx.gov
www.jonestowntx.gov
(817) 202. 2974
(817) 202. 2974
Cleburne, TX 76031
Cleburne, TX 76031
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• NOW HIRING •
• TCOLE CERTIFIED OFFICERS •
Do you have what we are looking for?
TRUST • INTEGRITY • PURPOSE
*5-year lateral maximum starting salary- does not include certification pay or assignment pay
CURRENT PAY STRUCTURE
GENEROUS CERTIFICATION PAY ASSIGNMENT PAY
PLENTY OF PART-TIME WORK AVAILABLE
GREAT SUPPORT FROM OUR CITIZENS
To apply, go to https://www.cityofkennedale.com/813/Recruiting
For more information you can also visit-
The Kennedale Police Department at: www.cityofkennedale.com/99/Police
The City of Kennedale at: www.cityofkennedale.com
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General Duties
This is a full-time, sworn, shift position, with the uniformed patrol division. This job requires multi-tasking in essential duties that
includes protecting the city’s residents and property; proactive patrol; answering calls-for-service; traffic control and enforcement;
traffic collision investigation; community policing programs and other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Applicants must have over 3 years of service as a regular peace officer as defined by the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement (TCOLE) at a department of similar or larger size. Officer must still complete the field training program and a
probationary period with the department. See the Hiring Disqualifiers on the website (www.leandertx.gov/police/page/recruitingemployment).
Disqualifiers are also listed on the Personal History Statement. Currently licensed out-of-state officers in good
standing must be licensed by TCOLE by the testing date.
Selection Process
Applicants completing an online application and meeting all minimum qualifications, passing a physical ability test, and passing a
written aptitude test, will then be required to turn in a completed Personal History Statement. Applicants should obtain the
Personal History Statement (PHS) from the department or the department’s website. The personal history statement requires
items such as certified birth certificate; copy of diplomas or GED; certified transcripts; copy of military discharge; court orders (as
appropriate). Documents will not be returned. Incomplete PHS may result in disqualification. For any issues regarding obtaining
necessary documents by the deadline for PHS, contact the recruiter.
Candidates will then sit for an oral board interview, with an element of the interview being a three to five minute oral presentation
to the board. All applicants must pass a criminal and personal background investigation. Top candidates after the oral board and
background will then sit for an interview with the chief or designee. Candidates selected for the chief’s interview will be notified of
the date and time. Selected candidates by the chief will be placed on an eligibility list for conditional job offers.
Policy on Reapplication
Applicants for sworn positions that were temporarily disqualified for any of the listed reasons may reapply for posted positions at
least six months after the application posted due date unless specifically notified in writing at the end of the selection process that
the disqualification was permanent. A new application must be submitted at that time. Disqualified applicants will be notified of the
reason for the disqualification.
Salary
Officer III starting pay is $32.33 ($67,246.40 annualized) plus benefits. Special duty/special assignment incentive pay.
Educational Incentive or TCOLE Certification Incentive pay. Language Proficiency Incentive Pay. Field Training Officer Pay.
Annual Longevity Pay. Moving Reimbursement Pay.
Application Deadline
Applications are only accepted online through governmentjobs.com/careers/leandertx Personal History Statement can be
found on-line at www.leandertx.gov/police/page/recruiting-employment or at the Police Department, 705 Leander Drive, Leander,
TX 78641. Application deadline is February 4, 2022 at Noon. Physical ability test and written test will be on February 5, 2022.
Personal History Statements are due the day of Oral Boards, which are February 9, 2022. EOE.
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The Reserve Peace Officer is a voluntary position with the Lockney Police Department. Each volunteer
must be able to commit 24 hours a month and attend training as needed. The City of Lockney is located
in Floyd County, northeast of Lubbock County. Lockney Police Department was re-established this year
and looking fill Reserve Positions.
Job Requirements
• Must have TCOLE Basic Peace Officer's License.
• All applicants must be a U.S. Citizen and 21 years of age.
• Valid Texas Driver's License with acceptable driving record.
• All qualified applicants MUST complete a Personal History Statement in order to be considered
for the position.
• Qualified applicants must submit to a pre employment written and physical agility test, drug
test, psychological and physical examination as well as a criminal background check.
• All qualified candidates must be of good moral character and able to communicate with the
public, be available for shift work, weekends and holidays.
* ALL EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS (EXCEPT
FOOTWEAR) ARE PROVIDED TO RESERVES.
Apply Today!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12H129HNiSARhmikVbfhIX-tLd-NiGh1b/view?usp=sharing
(806) 810-0500
Email Personal History Statement to cfitzwater@cityoflockney.com or Mail to 305 N Main Street.
Lockney, TX 79241
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Memorial Villages Police Department
Bunker Hill • Piney Point• Hunters Creek
Police Officer
EOE/M/F/D
5+ Years Patrol Experience Required
The Memorial Villages Police Department (Located on the West Side of Houston) currently has
openings for experienced officers who are self- motivated and enthusiastic about community
policing. We have overwhelming support of our communities and encourage our officers to be
proactive and innovative.
$1500 Sign on Bonus
Starting Salary Range
$71,351 – $82,980 (DOQ)
• Healthcare Insurance, DHMO Dental, Vision – 100% paid for employee, 75% for
spouse/dependents.
• Paid long-term disability and life insurance for employee, with additional life insurance
available for spouse/dependents.
• Health Savings Account with departmental contributions up to $4200 annually
• TMRS Retirement 2 to 1 match, 7% Employee ,14% Employer Contribution.
• 457 Plan with employer contribution of 2% of annual salary
• Bi-Lingual Pay (2.5% of Base salary)
• Shift Differential Pay $3600 annually
• Tuition reimbursement
• Longevity Pay up to a max of $2400 annually at 10 years of service.
• College Education incentive up to $3000 for a master’s degree
• LEMIT or FBI NA pay $1200 annually.
• ECA (Emergency Care Assistant) $1300 Annually, training provided to each employee.
• 12 hour shifts with every other Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off.
• Officer certification pay, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master up to 7.5% of Salary.
To learn more or apply, visit our website at www.mvpdtx.org
Or contact Sgt. Owens 713-365-3711 or lowens@mvpdtx.org
Or Commander E. Jones 713-365-3706 ejones@mvpdtx.org
11981 Memorial Dr. Houston, Texas 77024
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Oak Ridge North Police
Department
Chief of Police
27424 Robinson Rd.
Tom Libby Conroe, Tx. 77385
(281)292-4762
The Oak Ridge North Police Department is currently accepting resumes for the position
of Police Officer. The Department serves the City of Oak Ridge North 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. The Police Department is comprised of 1 Chief, 1 Patrol Lieutenant, 1
Administrative Lieutenant, 1 Detective Sergeant, 1 Administrative Sr. Officer, 2 Patrol
Sergeants, 1 Environmental Sergeant and 8 Patrol Officers.
Minimum Requirements:
Hiring Process:
Job Description:
1. TCOLE certified as a Texas Peace Officer.
2. 21 years of age or older.
3. Possess a valid Texas Driver’s License.
4. High School Diploma or G.E.D. certificate.
5. United States Citizen.
6. Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Armed Forces.
7. Vision correctable to 20/20.
8. Able to read, write and speak English language.
9. No Felony convictions or Class B or above in the last 10
years.
1. Submit resume to Lt. Barry, dbarry@oakridgenorthpdtx.us
2. Physical Agility Test.
3. Oral Board.
4. Background Investigation.
5. Firearms Qualification.
6. Conditional Job Offer upon successfully passing the
TCOLE mandated Medical/Drug Screening and
Psychological Examination.
1. Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding
to emergences, protecting people and property, enforcing
motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good
community relations.
2. Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects of criminal acts.
3. Prepare incident report, arrest reports and accident
reports.
4. Ability to work 12 hour shifts or other shifts.
5. Enforce applicable traffic laws of The State of Texas.
6. Enforce Ordinance Violations of the City of Oak Ridge
North.
Starting pay for an Oak Ridge North Police Officer is $59,073 annually. Additional pay
is awarded depending on qualifications, TCOLE certifications, and college degrees.
Oak Ridge North Police Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not
discriminate on race, sex, religion, color, origin, or creed.
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Ochiltree County Sheriff's Office
We’re Hiring!
$3,600 Sign on Bonus
Deputy Sheriff Position
Ochiltree County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for Deputy Sheriff. Applicants must be TCOLE
Certified and pass a ridged employment/background investigation.
Ochiltree County Sheriff’s Office is a professional and dedicated Law-Enforcement Agency located in the top of
the Texas Panhandle. The county is approximately 900 square miles with a county population of over 10,000
people We strive to serve out citizens with Honesty, Integrity and Pride. We have recently moved into a beautiful
new state of the art Law Enforcement Facility. We offer a very competitive salary ranging from $48,300-$58,000
(DOQ).
Benefits Include
$3,600 Sign-On Bonus
Take Home Units with MDT’s, Radar, and Department Issued Weapons
Vest, Uniforms, Duty Gear, and Phone Allowance
Employee Insurance is provided free, with Very Reasonable Family Coverage
Retirement: 7% employee contribution matched at 11.3% by County
Family Gym Membership, Including Racquetball, Pool and Weight Room
Certificate Pay Increases for Intermediate, Advanced and Master Certificates
Longevity Pay and Paid Overtime
Salary: Police Officer (Commissioned or Graduated the Academy)
Entry $48,000
Completion of FTO $48,500
1 st Anniversary $49,000
2 nd Anniversary $50,000
3 rd Anniversary $51,000
4 th Anniversary $52,000
5 th Anniversary $54,000
Lateral Pay Scale Available (Year for Year)
Additional Compensation:
Certificate Pay
Intermediate $45 monthly ($540 annually)
Advanced $75 monthly ($900 annually)
Master $110 monthly ($1320 annually)
Bilingual Certification $45 monthly ($540 annually)
Longevity Incentive $7 per month of employment with City – No
limit
Take home car program
for officers who reside in
the city limits.
Benefits:
TMRS Retirement: 7%, 2-1, match, 20 year, vested in 5 years
Medical: City pays 100% premium, family plans optional
Life: City pays 100% premium, family plans optional
Vacation: 2 weeks annually starting – incremental increases to 5
weeks annually at 15 years of service.
Sick leave: Accrues at 4.66 hours a month up to 240 hours
9 paid Holidays a year
Longevity Pay: $7 for each month
Contact
Ochiltree County Sheriff's Office
Attn: Sheriff Terry Bouchard
511 S Ash
Perryton, TX 79070
(806)-435-8000
txsheriff@ochiltree.net
Application is available on website:
http://www.co.ochiltree.tx.us/page/ochiltree.Sheriff
Apply in person or online
@
www.riveroakspd.com
4900 River Oaks Blvd
River Oaks TX 76114
APPLICATION DEADLINE
***OPEN UNTIL FILLED***
12 Hour Shifts, Every-Other Weekend Off
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MAKE A
DIFFERENCE
IN YOUR
COMMUNITY
We are looking for outstanding individuals to
join our team! As a Pearland Police Officer your
mission will be to prevent crime and disorder, build
partnerships within the community, and positively
impact the quality of life for all our residents.
CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS
• Competitive Salary • Outstanding Training
• Career Advancement • Exceptional Benefits
The City of Pearland is one of the fastest growing
communities within the region. Pearland is located
approximately 20 minutes south of Downtown Houston
and the current population is approximately 130,000
residents.
JOIN OUR TEAM
HIRING POLICE OFFICERS AND CADETS
$5,000 Hiring Incentive for T.C.O.L.E Certified Police
Officers who qualify with at least 2 years of experience.
TEST DATE:
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 8:30 A.M.
Register by: April 12.
Pearland Recreation Center & Natatorium
4141 Bailey Road, Pearland, TX 77584.
Doors Open: 7:15 a.m. No admittance after 7:45 a.m.
Candidates must park in the north parking lot.
SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES WILL APPLY
• Attendance limited to first 150 arrivals
• Mandatory temperature checks
• Masks required, hand sanitizer available
• Candidates seated 6 feet apart
•Be a citizen of the nited tates able to read,
write, and speak the English language
• Have a high school diploma or equivalency certificate .E.. certified by
the issuing agency with:
0 credit hours with a cumulative PA of 2.0 or higher on a .0 scale from an accredited
institute of higher learning or
- Minimum 24 months of active duty service with an honorable discharge authenticated by
a Member 2 or Member orm 21 or
15 credit hours with a cumulative PA of 2.0 or higher on a .0 scale in addition to Basic
Peace Officer Certification from TCOLE or
An Intermediate Peace Officer Certification from TCOLE
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable driving record
• Must meet all legal requirements necessary to become a licensed Peace Officer by the Texas
Commission on Law Enforcement TCOLE.
• Be between 21 and 5 years of age at the time of the examination or
• Be between 18 and 21 years of age if the applicant has received an associate’s degree or 60
semester hours of credit from an accredited college or university or has received an honorable
discharge from the armed forces of the nited tates after at least two years of active service.
: Cadet $1. hourly Police Officer $2. hourly.
April 12, 2021. Applications will not be accepted after this date.
Submit applications online by visiting pearlandtx.gov/careers.
THE CITY OF PEARLAND IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
pecial accommodations are available when necessary to aord equal opportunity to participate
in testing. Please make request in writing, five business days prior to the test date to City of
Pearland, HR Department, 3519 Liberty Drive, Pearland, TX 77581.
or questions regarding the application process please contact Terene uddsohnson at
281.652.1617 or hr@pearlandtx.gov.
List will remain in eect for one 1 year or until exhausted, whichever is sooner.
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pearlandtx.gov/PDCareers

HIRING
WE'RE
Starting Officer Pay $57,690 - Top Out $81,840
QUALIFICATIONS:
TCOLE Certified
21 Years of Age
High School
Diploma/ GED
Valid TX Drivers
License (at date of
hire)
US Citizen
*FOR A FULL LIST OF JOB
DETAILS AND QUALIFICATIONS
VISIT POLICEAPP.COM*
Uniform Provided
City Issued Cell Phone
College Tuition/Book
Reimbursement
TCOLE Certification Incentive
Education Incentive
BENEFITS
Night Shift Differential
10 Paid Holidays
Longevity Pay
Employee Gun Buy Back
Program
& More!
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$53,560 - $64,896
($25.75 - $31.20/hourly)
• LATERAL ENTRY WITH HIGHER STARTING SALARY
• TUITION REIMBURSMENT
• 8 HOUR ROTATING PATROL SHIFTS
• EMPLOYER PAID MEDICAL, DENTAL, VISION, AND LIFE INSURANCE
• EXCELLENT RETIREMENT PLAN WITH 2-1 MATCH
• NEWER MODEL ASSIGNED TAKE HOME VEHICLE
• CITY PAID SMARTPHONE
• $360 A YEAR IN UNIFORM & EQUIPMENT ALLOWANCE
• PROMOTIONAL OPPURTUNITIES
• ABLE TO LIVE ANYWHERE IN SCURRY COUNTY
• PAYROLL DEDUCTION PROGRAM FOR WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT
• TATTOOS AND FACIAL HAIR ALLOWED
PRIDE | HONOR | INTEGRITY | COMMUNITY | INNOVATION
Equal Opportunity Employer
400 37TH STREET
Follow us @SnyderTexasPD
SNYDER, TX 79549
WWW.CI.SNYDER.TX.US
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The City of Victoria
invites applications for the position of:
Police Officer or Senior Police Officer
Salary
$48,045 - $68,500 Annually DOQ
Location
Victoria, TX
Job Type
Full-Time
JOB SUMMARY
The Victoria Police Department is hiring qualified police officer candidates to join our
team and to help enhance the livability of our community. VPD sets the bar for
professionalism, innovation and a progressive approach to our policing strategies. Our
workforce of more than 115 officers and 32 civilian support personnel are a dedicated,
enthusiastic group of professionals who proudly serve over 65,000 Victoria residents.
The Victoria Police Department offers a competitive salary and retirement structure,
great health benefits, and many other incentives such as paid time off and departmentissued
uniforms and equipment.
Officers have lateral and promotional opportunities. Regardless of the assignment, you
will work in an environment that fosters leadership, teamwork and courteous service to
our community.
No prior law enforcement experience is required but must be certified as a TCOLE
Peace Officer. Upon employment, you will participate in the City of Victoria Police
Department Field Training Program. You will receive specialized training from some of
the finest officers in law enforcement.
Salary amount offered will depend on qualifications. Lateral pay scale recognized for
Senior Police Officers. This is a non-exempt position.
Applicants currently attending a TCOLE Academy are encouraged to apply.
Employment eligibility will require successful completion of the Academy courses and
certification as a TCOLE Peace Officer.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity and to apply, visit
www.victoriatx.gov
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City of Wylie
Police Department
OFFICER SALARY RANGE: HIRING PROCESS: BENEFITS:
Non Certified Police Recruit Pay : $62, 370.00
YEARS OF SERVICE ANNUAL SALARY
1 Year—Step 0 $66, 626.06
2 Years—Step 1 $68, 291.71
3 Years—Step 2 $69, 999.00
4 Years—Step 3 $71, 748.98
5 Years—Step 4 $73, 542.70
6 Years—Step 5 $75, 381.27
7 Years—Step 6 $77, 265.80
8 Years—Step 7 $79, 197.45
9 Years—Step 8 $81, 177.38
10+Years—Step 9 $83, 206.82
ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION:
Certification Pay: Up to $1,800 annually
Field Training Officer Pay: $2, 400 annually
Bilingual Pay: $1 ,200 annually
• Complete and submit a City of Wylie
job application: https://
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/
wylietexas
• Written Exam (exempt for Laterals)
• Physical Agility Test
• Complete and submit a Personal
History Statement
• Oral Board Panel Interview
• Background Investigation
• Police Chief Interview
• Polygraph Examination
• Psychological Evaluation
• Medical Examination
RECRUITING CONTACT:
Wylie Police Department
2000 North Hwy 78
Wylie, TX 75098
Sergeant Mark Johnson
mark.johnson@wylietexas.gov
972-429-8013
• City Paid Medical/Dental/Vision
• Texas Municipal Retirement System
(TMRS) 14% City Contribution
• Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick Time)
• City Paid Uniforms
• City Paid Training
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Longevity Pay
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Recreation Center Membership
• Deferred Compensation Plan
• Ancillary Benefits Available (Aflac,
Avesis, and More)
Wylie Police Department Mission: Our mission is to impact the quality of life, by providing a professional
level of service that will foster, support, and build relationships with those we serve.
https://www.wylietexas.gov/police.php
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WOHPD
Westover Hills Police Department is supported
by the community and city council. We have a
low crime rate and call volume. Westover Hills
will provide a great opportunity to a Police
Officer applicant who is interested in community
policing with a strong sense of service.
APPLY NOW
We have two (2) Police Officer vacancies:
POLICE OFFICER
- $60,000/year
- Sick leave 14 days/year
- Paid holiday 12 days/year
- Paid vacation 2 weeks annually
- 12 h/shifts, 3 days off every other weekend
- Retirement fund 7% 2:1
- Life, health, dental and vision insurance
- Uniform allowance
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- US citizen
- High school diploma or GED
- TCOLE certified Peace Officer
- Valid & current TX driver’s license
Please email lback@westoverhillspd.org for information.
12/16/2021
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