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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK 

Mayor needed to blame someone! 

In my opinion, the handwriting 

was on the wall the minute 

Whitmire won the Houston 

mayoral election – Troy Finner 

would be out as Houston’s police 

chief sooner or later. I even 

said so much in another editorial 

months ago. Every new mayor 

thinks he needs to clean house 

with department heads to “do a 

better job.” 

It’s no secret that Houston’s 

crime problems haven’t gotten 

any better. They are short 

some 2000 officers and that’s 

not likely to change anytime 

soon. Combined with punk 

ass DA’s and judges that let 

crooks out of jail on low 

or no bonds, they just go 

out and commit even more 

crimes. It’s an endless revolving 

door. 

Finner was fighting a losing 

battle from the day Acevedo 

left. But I’ll tell you this. 

Finner was a sincere man 

who truly cared about this 

city. Every time a family lost 

a loved one, Finner would sit 

down and comfort them and 

promise he’d do everything in 

his power to bring them justice. 

A near impossible task, 

but Finner was all about taking 

on the impossible. 

Hell, I don’t even know when 

the man slept. He was in front of 

the cameras nearly 24/7 addressing 

yet another shooting, 

another killing or some horrific 

accident that claimed yet another 

innocent life. But I believe 

he was one of the best chiefs 

Houston ever had. Unlike his 

predecessor Acevedo, he wasn’t 

all about himself and trying to 

win over every group in town 

by pretending to believe in their 

causes. 

HPD has had its share of internal 

problems over the years. And 

I’m not discounting the whole 

coding issue and lack of investigation 

into crimes. But the truth 

is, if you’re short 2000 officers 

something isn’t going to get 

done. There just aren’t enough 

resources to investigate EVERY 

SINGLE incident. But once the 

local news got involved it was a 

witch-hunt to find the smoking 

gun and who knew what when. 

Does it really matter when 

Finner knew about it. He said the 

minute he found out about the 

coding, he said “stop using 

it.” Of course, we now know 

that didn’t happen. Finner 

demoted and fired people he 

thought failed to follow his 

orders. But the news media 

wanted the story to end with 

Finner gone. The mayor felt 

the pressure and walla, Finner 

decides it’s time to go. 

I’ve heard the acting Chief 

Larry Satterwhite is also a 

good man, a good cop and 

will be a good replacement 

for Finner. Only time will 

tell if he can do what Finner 

couldn’t. Find a couple thousand 

cops that want to work 

in Houston and put an end to 

this revolving door of justice. 

As far as Finner, I’m sure 

he’ll land on his feet somewhere. 

He is a fine individual 

and a great cop who served his 

department and his community 

faithfully for over 34 years. I 

am proud to call him a friend 

and wish him and his family the 

absolute very best. 



FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE 

Those that can hurt you. 

In the course of my thirty-year+ 

career, I have been 

shot, cut, struck by a motor 

vehicle, hit with a pole, 

chuck of wood and a curling 

iron (A damn hot one, at 

that.) I’ve been spit on, cussed 

at, threatened, pushed off a 

trailer park porch and a whole 

host of other miscellaneous 

injuries. 

I was the recipient of multiple 

ambulance rides, a couple 

of Life Flight rides and even a 

ride on a TPW Game Warden 

Boat (Because a snake I absolutely 

did not see, stepped 

on and then was subsequently 

bitten by) made it happen. 

Well friend as you might 

imagine I have a few scars. 

Some healed up pretty good. 

Others, not so much. I have 

all the heart-breaking scars 

to go with the physical scars 

as well. I have lost a total of 

14 Law Enforcement Officers 

whom I personally knew and 

worked with, who did not survive 

their career. I freely attest 

they were better men, brothers, 

husbands, fathers, friends 

and cops than I could have 

ever been. Hands down. They 

were the absolute best we 

(our profession) had to offer. 

Now, to the point of this 

8 The Blues - June ‘24 

month’s column. All the pain, 

loss, horrible memories and 

heart break, pales in comparison 

to the blows I took not 

from crooks, but from the few 

who took swipes at me wearing 

the same damn uniform 

and badge as I was. That’s 

right you’re tracking. The 

worst pain I ever had, came 

from our own. 

Don’t start thinking this is a 

pity-party column cause it’s 

not. I am simply pointing out 

something which is rarely ever 

spoken about in our profession. 

And that is we eat our 

own. We do. I have personally 

seen it happen time and time 

again. I have the scars on my 

heart and in my memories to 

prove it. And I’m not the only 

one. There’s plenty more just 

like me out there. You only to 

look left or right, whomever 

you see in a uniform, they’ve 

had it happen too. 

It’s not all doom and gloom, 

however. Not at all. There’s 

always the gleaming beam 

of light, a shining beacon of 

hope that pierces the darkness 

of such treachery and that my 

friends are called…KHARMA!! 

Ah, yes. That moment when 

you have either been subjected 

to their treachery or 

you watched it all go down 

to some other cop. When the 

universe spins the wheel, and 

it stops on them…there’s not 

much like. In fact, it’s like going 

through the drive through 

and you get the freshest fries 

right out of the fryer and 

salter. It just doesn’t get much 

better than that! 

So, fear not the criminals 

and poor folks who just take 

a swing out of desperation 

to get away, not so much to 

hurt you. Be wary of those 

who lurk among us who while 

wearing the same uniform, 

will plant a knife squarely in 

your back and smile at you 

when you turn around. Believe 

me, they are out there. In large 

numbers. 

Till next time my friend, be 

smart and be safe. Be kind 

when and wherever you can, 

until you can’t.

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GUEST COMENTARY 

Doug Griffith 

As the World Turns, 

and Turns Some More 

The Houston Police Department 

has had more twists 

and turns on the SL Code 

scandal than a daytime soap 

opera. 

Yesterday, the great SL code 

investigation was provided to 

the Administrative Discipline 

Committee as completed. 

We soon found out that this 

investigation was promulgated 

on a discovery letter that 

was generated by an Executive 

Assistant Chief. This 

letter details a meeting in 

which this Executive Assistant 

Chief “distinctly recalled a 

heightened concern” over the 

SL code being used in sexual 

assault cases. 

There is only one small 

problem with this discovery 

letter. The HPOU found that 

this Executive Assistant Chief 

was 233 miles away at a “Being 

First” retreat. For those 

who do not know, Being First 

is the program that brought 

us ONE HPD. It appears that 

this discovery letter was 

factually inaccurate but still 

used as a basis to conduct a 

very quick, one sided investigation, 

leading to a list of 


former Assistant and Executive 

Assistant Chiefs being 

blamed for the code and for 

allowing it to continue. Oddly 

enough, the Chief, who admitted 

to knowing about this 

in 2021 was absolved from the 

investigation, and never even 

questioned. 

What is really frustrating, is 

how the department has been 

shoving ONE HPD down our 

throats for the last few years. 

Positions have been created 

to help change the culture of 

the department and telling 

us how much the leadership 

loves and respects the employees 

of the Houston Police 

Department. We are all ONE 

HPD. RIGHT!!!! That is until a 

scandal hits the department 

and they need individuals to 

blame. 

It appears that there is a 

pattern and practice with 

the Chief. A critical incident 

takes place, we immediately 

start an investigation and find 

someone to blame. First the 

Astroworld tragedy, where 

he demoted three esteemed 

Assistant Chiefs. Now we have 

the SL Code debacle with the 

DOUG GRIFFITH, 

PRESIDENT, HPOU 

demotion of two more Assistant 

Chiefs. I am not sure why 

anyone would want to be an 

Assistant Chief in this atmosphere. 

You too could be the 

next person tossed under the 

bus and then backed over. I 

guess the tenants of ONE HPD 

are only important when you 

are trying to protect HPD-1. 

EDITOR: We are waiting for 

the next Badge & Gun to publish 

to see the continuation 

of this story now that Finner 

is gone. The news stopped 

reporting about the whole 

coding issue as soon as Finner 

retired. Like all of a sudden 

the issue was resolved. News 

Media wanted Finner out and 

by damn they got their wishes. 

Can’t wait to see what’s next. 

Stay Tuned.



Pat Droney 

CHINESE ARE FLOODING IN 

In just two days in May, more Chinese nationals illegally 

crossed into U.S. than the entire year of 2021. 

Right in the nick of time, right 

Mr. Biden? In the same week 

where the White House has 

been floating the idea of a border 

“crackdown” comes news 

that the invasion of our country 

by Chinese nationals has been 

hitting a fever pitch. In fact, more 

illegal Chinese nationals entered 

the U.S. in two days this month 

than all of 2021, The Federalist 

reports. 

This week, the New York Post 

reported that Biden is planning 

to issue an executive order that 

would allow him to shut down 

the U.S.-Mexico border once 

the number of illegal crossings 

reaches 4,000 per day. That 

extrapolates to nearly 1.5 million 

illegals entering the country annually. 

Biden’s action to give the 

appearance of doing something 

to control the flow of illegals 

into the country is far too little, 

far too late. 

While the administration has 

been gaslighting the American 

people into believing the “migrants” 

coming to the United 

States are doing so for a “better 

life,” the fact is that an overwhelming 

majority of those who 

have entered the U.S. are from 

countries other than Mexico and 

most are single, military-aged 

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males. They have come from all 

over the world, including Sudan, 

Iran, Venezuela, Egypt and other 

Middle Eastern countries, and 

the People’s Republic of China, 

among many others. 

It is those coming from the 

Middle East and China which 

have raised the most alarm bells. 

Unlike most countries, Chinese 

citizens don’t merely fly out of 

the country. They have to get 

permission from the Chinese 

Communist government in order 

to leave. So those who have 

somehow found their way thousands 

of miles across the Pacific 

Ocean and into our country are 

not walking on water. They are 

being flown to this side of the 

globe. 

As The Federalist notes, the 

influx of Chinese nationals 

entering the U.S. is particularly 

alarming. The outlet notes 

that “this phenomenon not only 

underscores a significant breach 

in national security, but also 

facilitates greater infiltration by 

the Chinese Communist Party 

(CCP) into the U.S., which current 

federal policies not assessing the 

substantial risks of that infiltration. 

In the first two days of May, 

reports show that more Chinese 

nationals entered the country 

than in the entire year of 2021. 

This is attributed to what The 

Federalist called “an alarming 

oversimplification in the vetting 

process instituted by the De- 




partment of Homeland Security 

(DHS), which has reduced the 

number of vetting questions 

asked of Chinese nationals from 

approximately 40 to only five. 

By so doing, DHS is prioritizing 

“processing efficiency” over 

national security, which causes 

massive vulnerabilities that 

could be exploited by bad actors, 

such as China, to embed espionage 

agents or worse within the 

country. 

The Federalist lays the blame 

for the focus on “processing 

efficiency” on Biden’s nonexistent 

border policies, with border 

patrol agents being so overwhelmed 

with illegal crossings 

and bogus asylum requests that 

standard national security measures 

have been mothballed. 

What can only be described as 

a cold war with China escalated 

this week when Biden slammed 

economic and trade sanctions on 

Chinese goods, including aluminum, 

computer chips, lithium-ion 

EV batteries, and other 

products. The irony in the EV 

batteries cannot be overlooked, 

since the administration is forcing 

draconian emission standards 

on American automakers 

to force the companies to focus 

on electric and hybrid electric 

vehicles. Many states are likewise 

trying to phase out the sale 

of gasoline-powered vehicles by 

the early 2030s. 

The sanctions are expected 

to see Beijing ramp up its doctrine 

of “unrestricted warfare,” 

“which advocates for the use of 

various tactics including economic 

pressure, cyber-attacks, 

and ideological infiltration.” The 

lack of proper screening and the 

high volume of Chinese nationals 

entering the US is therefore 

deeply concerning. Fears are not 

only that the Chinese nationals 

may engage in nefarious activities, 

but given the current 

nationwide demonstrations in 

support of Hamas, with many 

Asians participating, it may also 

be a goal to further social chaos 

in the U.S. 

There is also the issue of 

fentanyl, with the CCP supplying 

Mexican drug cartels with 

the precursor materials for the 

manufacture of the deadly drug, 

along with other synthetic opioids. 

Moreover, the CCP is also 

assisting cartels with money 

laundering and financial transactions 

by using Chinese banks, 

businesses, and networks to 

move and hide their illegally-gained 

profits. They have also 

begun to engage in extensive 

illegal marijuana production and 

distribution networks, run by socalled 

“snakeheads”--Chinese 

organized crime that operates 

under the CCP 

The use of drugs is nothing 

new, The Federalist reports. 

Famous Chinese dictator Mao 

once declared that “drug warfare, 

obtaining sudden and huge 

profits by spreading disaster in 

other countries” was part of the 

“three great campaigns” of the 

Chinese revolution. It has long 

been suggested that the CCP 

was behind a number of “armed 

insurgencies and terrorist groups 

in Southeast Asia, Latin America, 

and Africa by providing drugs 

and weapons in exchange for 

loyalty and influence.” 

According to The Federalist 

citing U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, over 10,000 Chinese 

illegals have been apprehended 

since October 2022, contrasted 

with only 500 in the same period 

in 2021. And that only accounts 

for encounters and apprehensions, 

not so-called “gotaways.” 

Some of that increase could 

be attributed to economic and 

social uncertainties in China, 

the demand for cheap labor in 

the U.S. and the effectiveness of 

smugglers already embedded in 

the U.S. Still, it is difficult to just 

“walk out” of China. 

Law Enforcement Today has 

previously reported on the number 

of so-called Chinese “police 

stations” in cities throughout the 

U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, 

San Francisco, and Houston. 

The “stations” are staffed by 

so-called “volunteers,” who we 

are told help Chinese nationals 

with services such as renewing 

drivers’ licenses or passports. 

However, as we have reported 

and as The Federalist confirmed, 

these “police stations” are run by 

the CCP and operate as “overseas 

repression operations,” with 

the goal of “locating, intimidating, 

and silencing dissidents, 

activists, and critics of the regime.” 

It is also believed that due 

to Chinese law requiring Chinese 

nationals to engage in espionage 

wherever they are, these “police 

stations” ensure that they do so. 

The Federalist also noted that 

through allied United Front organizations, 

they also serve to 

“undermine the credibility and 

legitimacy of the U.S. government 

and its institutions, creating 

division and conflicts among 

Americans.” 

China has a strategy of “hybrid 

warfare,” which includes 

implementing various means “of 

coercion, pressure, and desta-

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ilization against the U.S. and 

its allies, such as cyberattacks, 

espionage, disinformation, and 

weaponized migration.” Note the 

last element. It’s fairly easy to 

argue that our migration system 

has been “weaponized.” 

None of this appears to be 

by accident, and seems to be 

the full-scale implementation 

of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, 

which is to overload the system 

until it breaks down. So-called 

“sanctuary” jurisdictions across 

the country are at that point, 

where they simply do not have 

the housing or infrastructure 

to handle the influx of illegals 

into their communities. That 

has resulted in “non-sanctuary” 

jurisdictions having to take the 


overflow. Simply put, it is not 

sustainable. 

The Federalist breaks down 

the current border situation and 

compares it to tactics used by 

Belarus against the EU, where 

mass migration was “used as a 

tool to overwhelm systems, sow 

discord, and destabilize regions. 

The outlet further notes that “in 

the US., this strategy aligns disturbingly 

well with the observed 

increase in Chinese illegal entries, 

suggesting a coordinated 

effort to exploit the U.S. immigration 

system’s current weaknesses.” 

Leading one to further concluded 

that none of this is by 

accident, actions (or more accurately, 

inactions) taken by the 

Biden administration has made 

the above issues worse. Instead 

of focusing on national security, 

the administration under feckless 

Secretary of Homeland Security 

Alejandro Mayorkas has emphasized 

so-called “humanitarian” 

priorities, which has diverted 

border security officials from 

their primary duty of enforcing 

the border to instead handle administrative 

work to make entry 

into the country for illegal aliens 

seamless. 

The current administration has 

shown no interest in shutting 

off the invasion at the southern 

border, likely hoping that those 

they allow into the country will 

be future Democrat voters. None 

of these foreign invaders are being 

assimilated into our culture. 

Instead, as we’ve seen at college 

campuses and city streets across 

the country, they take down OUR 

flag and replace it with THEIRS, 

from so-called “repressive regimes” 

that they are ostensibly 

trying to escape. 

Instead of working with state 

governments to stop the flow 

into the country, the Biden administration 

has sued states such 

as Texas at every turn when they 

try to do what the federal government 

refuses to. 

The only hope for our country 

is to make a regime change in 

November. However, given what 

China has been able to do in only 

two days in May, eight months 

until Inauguration Day in January 

may be too late. A lame duck 

Biden is much more dangerous 

than the empty suit we’ve had 

in office for the past 3-½ years. 

By January 20, 2025, China may 

have the United States right 

where they want us…and that’s 

not good for any of us.



Pat Droney 

BIDEN VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW 

Biden ‘forgets’ to list luxury vacations at homes of billionaires 

on his ethics disclosure form, a violation of federal law 

WASHINGTON, DC- The New 

York Post reported that Joe 

Biden refused to reveal his stays 

at the vacation homes of rich 

mega-donors in apparent violation 

of federal law. The revelation 

comes after leftist-rag Pro- 

Publica was awarded a Pulitzer 

Prize for attacking conservative 

Supreme Court justices for ostensibly 

the same thing. 

The Post report says that 

Biden took four vacations where 

he stayed at the ritzy vacation 

homes of wealthy campaign 

donors with none listed as gifts 

on the forms he signed. Under 

the Ethics in Government Act of 

1978, all federal officeholders, 

including judges and yes, the 

president, are required to submit 

the paperwork annually. 

“If there’s a deliberate omission 

of a gift, an intentional lie, 

that can very well be prosecuted 

as a criminal offense,” said 

Richard Painter, who served as 

White House chief ethics lawyer 

under President George W. Bush. 

“It just seems to me to be 

stupid to leave it off the form 

because everyone knows about 

[presidential] trips and everyone’s 

going to ask who paid,” 

Painter added. As a point of 


information, Painter ran unsuccessfully 

as a Democrat in 2018 

and 2022. 

In 2023, the Bidens stayed for 

free at the St. Croix home of 

Bill and Connie Neville for the 

New Year’s holiday, and ended 

the same year at the beachfront 

property, which the Neville’s 

typically list as a VRBO rental. 

Newsmax reports that Neville 

is the founder of US Viking, a 

software company that makes 

ENPS, which is news production 

software sold by the Associated 

Press. 

Last year, the Biden’s spent 

six days over Thanksgiving at 

the Nantucket home of billionaire 

hedge fund founder David 

Rubenstein, and nine days last 

August at the waterfront retreat 

on Lake Tahoe, Nevada of billionaire 

climate investor and activist 

Tom Steyer. 

The New York Post reported 

that the Biden trip to Rubenstein 

home was unpaid, however 

neither Biden nor Rubenstein has 

confirmed that. 

When it was revealed that 

Biden would be staying at Steyer’s 

retreat, the media was told 

that he would pay “fair market 

value” for use of the property, 

however a local investigation 

revealed that Steyer did not have 

a permit to rent out the property. 

For what was likely political 

pressure, the investigation into 

the matter was quickly dropped 

and no rental terms have ever 

been revealed. 

The Post reported that it is not 

believed any of the billionaire 

property owners were present 

for any of the four trips the 

Biden’s took in 2023. 

Painter told The Post that 

deliberately omitting gifts from 

the ethics forms could open up 

Biden or his staff to criminal 

liability. It should be noted that 

Biden’s Justice Department is 

currently trying to prosecute 

former President Trump, claiming 

that presidents do not have 

immunity from criminal prosecution. 

“If somebody told the White 

House Counsel’s Office, which 

prepares the gift schedule, ‘That 

doesn’t need to go on there because 

the president paid for the 

trip,’ and then the White House 

Counsel’s Office relies on that in 

drafting the gift schedule, it is 

then given to the president and 

the president signs–whoever it 

was told the White House Coun-

sel’s Office that doesn’t need to 

go on there because the president 

paid for the trip, if that person 

knew that was not true and 

knowingly told a lie to the White 

House Counsel’s Office, whoever 

that person is, they violated 18 

United States Code 1001, the false 

statements statute,” Painter said 

of the Bidens’ stay at Steyer’s 

home. 

“If [Biden] knew the gift schedule 

was incomplete and someone 

told him, he would have the 

same liability,” Painter added. 

Under 18 USC § 1001, violating 

that regulation is punishable by 

up to five years in prison. 

“It just seems to me to be 

stupid to leave it off the form 

because everyone knows about 

[presidential trips] and everyone’s 

going to ask who paid,” 

added Painter. 

“So you either have to pay for 

the house, make sure the owner 

is present, or put it on the form. 

Those are your three options.” 

The Bidens have other issues 

where they appear to have been 

skirting the ethics law, including 

a trip by Jill Biden to the Super 

Bowl in February 2023, where 

the Philadelphia Eagles were 

participating, where it is not believed 

she paid for the ticket and 

which was also not disclosed. 

Conversely, Kamala Harris did 

disclose tickets provided by ESPN 

to last December’s Celebration 

Bowl college football game 

between Howard University and 

Florida A&M. Those tickets cost 

$1,890, according to a disclosure 

made by Harris. 

Meanwhile, while ProPublica 

has avoided looking into Biden’s 

apparent skirting of the ethics 

law, they have been all over conservative 

Supreme Court justices 

Clarence Thomas and Samuel 

Alito, ignoring a carveout in the 

policy which provides officials 

do not have to disclose “any 

food, lodging, or entertainment 

received as personal hospitality.” 

Both Thomas and Alito claim that 

privilege. 

Most experts including Painter 

and Walter Schaub, who led the 

Obama-era Office of Government 

Ethics, say a homeowner 

must be present for a free vacation 

to be exempted from disclosure, 

although some disagree 

with that assessment. 

“I have always been of the 

view that the exception cannot 

be used when the friend is not 


there, and I think arguments to 

the contrary make no sense,” 

Schaub told The Post. “It’s not the 

rich-friend-who-can-give-youstuff 

exception. It’s supposed to 

apply to things like your friends’ 

kids’ wedding or a home-cooked 

meal with your friend.” 

Conversely, some others believe 

differently, including Kedric 

Payne, general counsel of the 

Campaign Legal Center and a 

former Office of Congressional 

Ethics lawyer. Last year, Payne 

told The Post that he believes the 

executive branch “does not have 

a requirement that a host remain 

on the premises for the personal 

hospitality exemption to apply.” 

Meanwhile, Mark Paoletta, who 

served under former President 

Trump as general counsel of the 

White House budget office, told 

The Post there are “two standards” 

applied depending on 

which party the official is from. 

“This is another intentional refusal 

to disclose gifts by…Biden. 

His habit of taking over donors’ 

homes for vacations and not 

paying nor disclosing is consistent 

with his family’s long history 

of grift and corruption,” said 

Paoletta. He is a longtime friend 

of Justice Thomas, whose free 

travel with real estate billionaire 

Harlan Crow was the focus of 

ProPublica’s left-wing hit job on 

him. 

Crow was present for some of 

that travel with Thomas, and has 

no known business in front of 

the Supreme Court. 

“Some liberal ethics experts 

have called Biden’s repeated 

omissions illegal and a potential 

criminal violation of [the] law. 

And this year, Biden also failed 

to disclose Jill Biden’s use of the 


luxury box at the Super Bowl. 

They aren’t ashamed and don’t 

even bother hiding it because 

they know the liberal media 

won’t say a word,” Paoletta continued. 

He then set his sights on Pro- 

Publica, a hack left-wing site 

funded in part by George Soros, 

which he said “was laughably 

awarded a Pulitzer for its dishonest 

agenda-driven ‘ethics’ 

reporting.” The site routinely 

targets conservatives and law 

enforcement while ignoring liberals 

and Democrats. 

“Where is the leftwing, billionaire-funded 

ProPublica?” 

Paoletta said, noting they “are 

completely fine with Biden’s actual, 

wilful violations of the law. 

Double standard doesn’t begin to 

describe the hypocrisy on display.” 

House Oversight Committee 

Chairman James Comer (R-KY) 

says there needs to be federal 

reform to focus on gift omissions. 

“The radical left’s silence on 

President Biden’s many ethics 

issues is deafening,” Comer 

said. “From President Biden’s 

involvement in his family’s influence 

peddling schemes, all the 

‘loans’ the Bidens received from 

Democrat donors, to President 

Biden’s free vacation stays at his 

donors’ homes, it’s clear we need 

to reform federal ethics laws to 

provide greater transparency to 

the American people.” 

Justice Thomas has said that 

he was advised the ethics law 

contains a “personal hospitality” 

exception and therefore he didn’t 

have to report the trips or reimburse 

for private jet flights. Reporting 

has shown that Mr. Crow 

also provided financial support 

to the justice’s mother and great 

nephew. 

Some far-left Democrats, including 

radical Sen. Ed Markey 

(D-MA) and Hamas-sympathizer 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 

(D-NY) have demanded Justice 

Thomas be impeached or forced 

to resign. Last year, the U.S. Judicial 

Conference tightened up 

rules to specify that resorts don’t 

count as personal residences and 

therefore are not exempt from 

reporting. 

“This is beyond party or partisanship. 

This degree of corruption 

is shocking–almost 

cartoonish. Thomas must be 

impeached,” Ocasio-Cortez 

screeched in a tweet on X. 

Last Thursday, an unnamed 

White House official told The 

Post that, “The President and 

First Lady did not have any 

required disclosures of gifts or 

travel reimbursements during 

the reporting period (January to 

December 2023). Under the ethics 

rules, gifts of personal hospitality 

from friends such as food, 

lodging, and entertainment are 

not required to be listed on the 

report.” 

Painter, however, isn’t buying it, 

and noted that he doesn’t believe 

there needs to be additional 

legal reforms to clarify that such 

vacation stays must be listed on 

the ethics forms. 

“Most of these billionaires 

want something, other than just 

being able to be friends with 

famous people,” Painter said. 

“President Biden should set a 

good example by either paying 

for the house or fixing those 

forms.” 

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Daniel Carr 

Officer Involved: Roger Fortson 

This case hit my radar a few 

days ago when Ben Crump gave 

several interviews to mainstream 

media. He laid out a series of 

awful circumstances that results 

in an Officer-Involved-Shooting 

(OIS) - that left a 23-year-old 

man dead. 

Within a few hours of hearing 

his version of the events I posted 

a story on Tik Tok and Instagram 

and cautioned people to not 

believe anything that Crump says 

- without independent evidence 

to back it up. 

In response I received multiple 

messages calling me a “racist”. 

Today, the video was released 

and proved that Ben Crump again 

had lied about an OIS. 

INVOLVED 

This case involved the Okaloosa 

County Sheriff’s Office in Florida 

and a young man named Roger 

Fortson. Mr. Fortson was airman 

in the U.S. Air Force and had been 

living in off-base housing. 

THE CLAIM 

Ben Crump made three major 

claims about this case: 

1. The police responded to the 

“wrong” apartment. 

2. The police did not announce 

their presence 

3. The police forced entry into 

the residence. 

THE BODY CAM VIDEO 

As of this afternoon the body 

cam video had not been released 

and people across social media 

continued to parrot the lies of 


Ben Crump. 

It was then that I was 

sent the body cam 

video from a source. 

The body cam footage 

was playing on a police 

computer and had 

been recorded by a cell 

phone. I checked Google 

and X and realized 

that I was watching 

body cam footage of 

this incident that had 

not been made public 

yet. 

I posted the video 

on my X and YouTube 

platforms. Ten minutes later Ben 

Crump and others posted the 

same footage and it all went 

viral. 

WHAT HAPPENED 

The apartment complex manager 

called police and reported 

a “domestic disturbance” involving 

a man and a woman at the 

complex. A deputy responded to 

the apartment and knocked on 

the door. The deputy then yelled, 

“Sheriff’s Office!” multiple times 

in between knocking. Eventually 

the door was opened by Mr. 

Fortson - who was holding a 

gun in his right hand. 

The deputy then fired his 

weapon at Mr. Fortson multiple 

times - killing him. 

ANALYSIS 

This call was in reference to a 

domestic disturbance - one of 

the most statistically dangerous 

calls for police officers to respond 

to. 

The deputy yelled “Sheriff’s 

Office!” multiple times. It would 

be reasonable for the deputy to 

believe that the occupants of the 

apartment heard him and knew 

that he was law enforcement. 

When Mr. Fortson opened the 

door holding the gun - what 

should the deputy have thought 

in the moment? 

A reasonable police officer 

would think: 

This guy knows that I am a police 

officer yet he answered the 

door holding a gun anyway. That 

is an overt deadly threat. 

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight 

- we know that Mr. Fortson 

was a U.S. airman and likely had 

no ill intent toward the deputy. 

But, that is not relevant. The 

relevant issue is - what would

a reasonable police officer have 

done in the moment given the 

information that they knew at 

the time? 

Any reasonable police officer 

would perceive this as a deadly 

threat and responding with 

deadly force would be objectively 

reasonable. 

This is a legal police shooting. 

One of many headlines after 

Crump’s media tour. 

THE CRITICISM 

The release of the video has 

only intensified the criticism and 

vitriol towards the deputy. 

And aside from me and a few 

honest allies - there is no one 

calling out Crump for his blatant 

lies about the facts of the case. 

It will be forgotten and his next 

grift will be met with unquestioned 

cult-like loyalty from his 

followers and the mainstream 

media. 

The biggest concern is that 

people want to know why the 

deputy fired his weapon - when 

Mr. Fortson was holding the gun 

at his side. The assertion is that 

since the gun was not pointed at 

the officer - that there was not a 

deadly threat. 

The time is takes for a person 

holding a gun at their side to 

firing a round at a target is about 

1/4 of a second. A person holding 

a gun in this position would be 

able to fire several rounds at the 

police officer - before the officer 

could respond. 

The difference between a gun 

held at the side and pointed at 

a target is 1/4 of a second. Since 

no human can react that quickly 

- those two positions should 

be viewed as nearly the same in 

reality. 

If a police officer waits until 

the gun is pointed at them - it is 

too late - they have already been 

shot. And there is no law, policy, 

or training that requires police 

officers to wait that long. 

FINAL THOUGHTS 

Mr. Fortson was not a career 

criminal. From all available 

information - he was a good 

person who dedicated his life 

to serving his country. That is 

noble and honorable. The reason 

that he answered the door while 

holding the gun is most likely a 

momentary lapse in judgment 

or that he just did not hear the 

announcement from the deputy. 

Those factors do matter - as 

to ignore them would be to deny 

the humanity present in this 

case. 

But, that should not affect the 

legal analysis. 

The actions of the deputy were 

objectively reasonable in the 

moment - given the totality of 

the circumstances. The deputies 

actions should be reviewed and 

judged based on the facts of the 

case - not on how honorable of 

a person Mr. Fortson was. 



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Daniel Carr 

Officer Involved: Samuel Sterling 

The business of tracking down 

and apprehending violent, combative 

offenders is dangerous for 

both police officers and suspects. 

The level of dangerousness 

immediately decreases in 

exact proportion to the increased 

cooperation of suspects. 

The actions of police officers 

are often taken in response to 

the level of resistance that they 

face. Since police officers sometimes 

make tactical errors or 

misjudge obstacles in real time 

dynamic situations - the odds of 

a negative outcome increase the 

more brazen the selfish criminality. 

SAMUEL STERLING 

WHAT HAPPENED 

Samuel Sterling was an aspiring 

rapper. He was also a 

convicted violent felon that had 

absconded from probation. Both 

the feds and local police were 

looking for him. 

On April 17, 2024 Michigan State 

Police officers located Mr. Sterling 

in a parking lot in Kentwood, 

Michigan. 

The officers attempted to arrest 

Mr. Sterling and he fled on 

foot instead of cooperating like a 

decent person. Officers engaged 

in a pursuit and issued commands 

for Mr. Sterling to “stop” 

and also provided a warning that 

he would be “tased” if he did not 

cease fleeing. 

Mr. Sterling ran towards a 

Burger King restaurant and it was 


there that the foot pursuit came 

to an end, and with it, Mr. Sterling’s 

life. 

USE OF FORCE 

In conjunction with officers 

pursuing Mr. Sterling on foot - 

an unmarked/undercover police 

SUV (that was driven by a State 

Police Sergeant) was following/ 

paralleling Mr. Sterling. As Mr. 

Sterling approached the entrance 

to the Burger King - the 

SUV collided with Mr. Sterling 

and pinned him between the 

vehicle and the building. 

Officers rendered air and called 

for rescue to the scene, but Mr. 

Sterling sustained a fatal injury. 

USE OF FORCE CONSIDER- 

ATIONS 

Utilizing a moving police vehicle 

to stop a suspect from 

running would be classified as 

deadly force. 

A police officer is only justified 

in using deadly force if there was 

a reasonable belief that the suspect 

posed an imminent threat 

of death of great bodily injury to 

the officer or another. 

A police officer cannot “crash” 

into a suspect only because they 

are fleeing. 

If a police officer could articulate 

a reasonable belief that a 

suspect fleeing was “armed and 

dangerous” and posed a danger 

to a specific victim and the only 

way to stop the threat was with 

deadly force - then it is possible 

that using a vehicle as a deadly 

force option would be objectively 

reasonable. 

USE OF FORCE ANALYSIS 

There is no evidence that Mr. 

Sterling was armed, dangerous, 

or posed an imminent danger to 

anyone. 

It appears that Mr. Sterling was 

running away from police officers. 

The intent of Mr. Sterling 

was to evade police. There is 

no evidence to suggest that Mr. 

Sterling held the intent or pos-

sessed the ability to harm others. 

Therefore, this was not a reasonable 

use of deadly force. This 

is obvious. The more interesting 

question is whether or not this 

was intentional or accidental. 

Did the police Sergeant intentionally 

crash into Mr. Sterling as 

he was running? 

Did the police Sergeant attempt 

to “cut off” Mr. Sterling 

so that he could not enter the 

restaurant and he misjudged that 

maneuver? 

Did the vehicle slide on the wet 

pavement as the Sergeant tried 

to stop? 

Absent relevant information 

that has not been made public - 

an intentional use of the vehicle 

to stop Mr. Sterling would not be 

reasonable. 

THE AFTERMATH 

The Michigan State Police have 

placed the Sergeant on unpaid 

leave - while the Michigan Attorney 

General’s Office determines 

if charges will be filed. The “unpaid” 

portion of this is abnormal 

and provides some insight on 

what the State Police brass think 

about this case. 

Michigan Governor Gretchen 

Whitmer has called the death 

“unacceptable” and stated, “In 

light of video footage showing 

a departure from MSP protocols 

and the high standards of the 

department, my expectation is 

the State of Michigan will take 

steps to terminate the trooper’s 

employment if criminal charges 

are issued.’ 

The attorney for Mr. Sterling’s 

family has stated that he expects 

the Sergeant to be prosecuted. 

An attorney representing the 

Sergeant stated that he is “heartbroken” 

and “wants the family to 

know that he had no intention of 

purposely harming Mr. Sterling.” 

NEW RULE 

(JUST A PROPOSAL) 

If a suspect flees, resists arrest, 

fight with police, etc… 

And that results in death or 

injury of the suspect. 

If the police officer is subsequently 

convicted of a crime in 

the case. 

The sentence for the officer 

should AT MINIMUM be cut in 

half - as the illegal actions of 

the suspect were the proximate 

cause. 

FINAL THOUGHTS 

In the light most favorable to 

the Sergeant, his actions were 

negligent. In the light being 

painted by anti-police activists, 

his actions were reckless and 

intentional. 

It is clear that the Sergeant did 

not intend to use deadly force to 

stop Mr. Sterling from running. 

It is also not clear why the Sergeant 

was the lead vehicle - instead 

of directing resources and 

operating as a scene manager. 

It is simple to say that this all 

could have been avoided if Mr. 


Sterling had “ just cooperated”. 

This is a very simply way to view 

this case, but it also true. 

However, police operate in a 

world where suspects do not 

always cooperate and there are 

policies and equipment designed 

to assist and guide police 

in these scenarios. The Police 

Sergeant on scene has a primary 

duty to ensure that these 

protocols are followed. That did 

not happen in this case and the 

result was that a young man was 

killed and a police supervisor 

will likely forfeit his career and 

possibly his freedom. 

Since the blame for the tragic 

results should be split between 

Mr. Sterling and the Sergeant - 

the best we can hope for is that 

the Sergeant is prosecuted and 

sentenced like Kim Potter - and 

not like Derek Chauvin. 

Fleeing from police officers 

is incredibly dangerous and 

greatly increases the odds that a 

suspect will be harmed. Police 

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SANTAQUIN, UT. 

Santaquin Police Sergeant Bill Hooser was struck and killed by the 

driver of a semi that was feeling from police. 

By Joanna Putman 

Police1 


SANTAQUIN, UT. — The Utah 

officer killed when he was 

rammed by a trucker fleeing a 

traffic stop has been identified 

as Sgt. Bill Hooser of the Santaquin 

Police Department, KUTV 

reported. 

Sgt. Hooser was killed on May 

5 when Michael Aaron Jayne, 

driving a stolen semi-truck, 

struck him during a traffic stop, 

according to the report. The 

incident unfolded as Hooser and 

a Utah Highway Patrol trooper 

investigated a report of a person 

on the back of the semi. 

“Bill started his law enforcement 

career journey as a volunteer; 

it was a decision he made. 

He wanted to and it’s something 

he loved to do,” said Michael 

Hooser, Sgt. Hooser’s brother, 

during an emotional conference. 

He described Sgt. Hooser’s dedication 

to his job and his profound 

impact on the community. 

The community and law 

enforcement family expressed 

deep sorrow and support for 

Hooser’s family, who are mourning 

the “senseless loss” of a 

husband, father and grandfather 

who died “doing the job he 

loved.” 

“He was a top-notch officer. It’s 

going to be hard to replace him,” 

Santaquin Police Chief Rodney 

Hurst said. 

Throughout Hooser’s seven-year 

tenure with the police 

department, Hooser served in a 

variety of roles including doing 

detective work. While investigating 

cases of child abuse in the 

Santaquin area, he worked with 

the Children’s Justice Center in 

Provo and was involved in the 

forensic interview process. 

Crystal Thorne, a forensic 

interview specialist at the CJC, 

said through her interactions 

with Hooser she learned he was 

a detailed investigator who 

always was sensitive to families 

and children navigating a traumatic 

situation. “So like the families 

that came in, the children 

that came in, he just met them 

where they were at,” she said. 

“He was very trauma-informed 

in that regard.” 

Hooser has been described 

by his peers as an officer who 

operated “by the book.” Thorne 

echoed that by saying he was 

extremely thorough in all of his 

investigations of child abuse. 

SGT. BILL HOOSER 

“He would always be willing 

to ask questions or willing to 

provide experiences that he’s had 

as part of the training. So he was 

always wanting to learn and do 

better to further help his community 

he served,” Thorne said. 

The suspect has a history of 

similar offenses, including a conviction 

of attempted assault in 

the first degree when he tried to 

run over an Oregon State Police 

trooper in 2009. 

Jayne was also charged with 

one count of attempted aggravated 

murder connected to the 

2009 incident, but he was not 

convicted, KUTV reports.

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EUCLID, OH. 

Euclid Police Officer Jacob Derbin was shot and killed while 

responding to a family disturbance call. 

EUCLID, OH. - Newly-released 

body camera footage sets the scene 

for the ambush killing of Euclid 

Police Department Officer Jacob 

Derbin, who warned other officers 

of danger while being shot, FOX 8 

reported. 

The May 11 incident occurred 

when Derbin and two other officers 

responded to a woman’s plea 

for help regarding threats from an 

ex-lover. 

Body camera videos showed the 

woman expressing her fear to the 

officers, saying, “I don’t feel safe 

standing right here and he shot my 

brother. He is texting that he is going 

to shoot me and my mother.” 

During the response, Derbin went 

to the backyard to search for the 

suspect when he was ambushed 

and shot, according to the report. 

Despite his injuries, Derbin managed 

to warn his fellow officers 

about the suspect’s location, an act 

that Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer 

described as the “total work of a 

hero.” 

Days earlier, the suspect involved 

in the shooting had been accused of 

shooting the woman’s brother and 

had outstanding warrants for a series 

of crimes and parole violations, 

according to the report. Following 

the incident, a standoff with police 

ensued, ending when the suspect 

took his own life, as confirmed by 

the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner. 


OFFICER JACOB DERBIN 

The community and the Euclid 

Police Department mourn the loss 

of Derbin, who came from a family 

deeply rooted in law enforcement, 

according to the report. 

“I am absolutely devastated by 

the loss of our officer,” Meyer said. 

“Officer Jacob Derbin is a hero. He 

did everything right.” 

Derbin, is being remembered by 

those who knew him for his enormous 

smile and great attitude. 

Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer 

said Derbin has served Euclid residents 

since July of 2023 with “dedication, 

honor and professionalism. 

His kind heart and enormous smile 

were infectious. He will be missed 

by all who know him.” 

Derbin is a veteran who served in 

the Army Reserves. He served a tour 

of duty in Kuwait. After serving in 

the military, he graduated from the 

Kent Police Academy. 

“He loved public service,” Meyer 

said. “This is somebody who’s still 

in the army reserves, who’s served 

his country. Public service meant 

everything to him.” 

Meyer said Derbin was tactically 

sound and also a “gentle giant.” 

Derbin’s father is also a police officer 

for the city of Euclid, according 

to the chief. 

“He was a kind of happy-go-lucky 

kind of a guy,” Meyer said. “He just 

loved public service and loved being 

here. He was that rare find, and I’m 

devastated, and his family is obviously 

devastated.” 

He was engaged to Liv Wuebker 

and was supposed to get married 

in July. 

According to a statement from St. 

Augustine Church in Minster, Ohio, 

they met as opposing teams at a 

state football game when he was 

a senior at Cuyahoga Heights High 

School and she was a junior on the 

Minster cheerleading squad. 

“They talked, dated, and eventually 

engaged a year ago today.” 

“Jacob had a strong faith and desire 

to have a full Catholic Mass to 

marry his high school sweetheart. 

He will have a full Catholic Funeral 

Mass and Christian burial with full 

military and police honors.

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BOLO 

The escaped inmates were identified from left to right as Omarion Hookfin, 

Avery Guidry, Jamarcus Cyprian, and Travon Johnson. 

TANGIPAHOA PARISH, LA. – Law enforcement officials in Louisiana are looking for 

four inmates who escaped from jail Sunday evening and are considered to be dangerous, 

authorities confirmed. 

Four inmates escaped through the perimeter fence of the Tangipahoa Parish Jail 

during recreation time in the jail yard, according to Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel 

Edwards. 

The escapees have been identified as Jamarcus Cyprian, 20, Travon Johnson, 21, 

Omarion Hookfin, 19, and Avery Guidry, 19, Fox News Digital reported. 

The sheriff’s office said a section of the fence that was vulnerable had been maneuvered 

in a way that allowed the inmates to squeeze through and escape. 

The jailbreak is concerning since Johnson, Hookfin and Guidry were in custody for 

a 2022 homicide in Hammond, Louisiana. Cyprian was in custody for armed robbery 

and weapon charges. 

Moreover, Hoofkin had an additional charge of aggravated battery that occurred 

while he was incarcerated in Catahoula Parish. 

Authorities are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of the escaped 

inmates to contact 911. 




UVALDE, TX. 

Families of Uvalde school shooting victims are suing Texas state 

police over delayed response. 

By Acacia Coronado and Jim 

Vertuno, Associated Press 

AUSTIN, TX. — The families of 

19 of the victims in the Uvalde 

elementary school shooting in 

Texas on Wednesday announced 

a lawsuit against nearly 100 

state police officers who were 

part of the botched law enforcement 

response. 

The families said in a statement 

that they also agreed to a 

$2 million settlement with the 

city, under which city leaders 

promised higher standards and 

better training for local police. 

The announcement came two 

days before the two-year anniversary 

of one of the deadliest 

school shootings in U.S. history. 

Nineteen fourth-graders and 

two teachers were killed on May 

24, 2022, when a teenage gunman 

burst into their classroom 

at Robb Elementary School and 

began shooting. 

The lawsuit is the latest of several 

seeking accountability for 

the law enforcement response. 

More than 370 federal, state and 

local officers converged on the 

scene, but they waited more 

than 70 minutes before confronting 

the shooter. 

It is the first lawsuit to come 


after a 600-page Justice Department 

report was released in 

January that cataloged “cascading 

failures” in training, communication, 

leadership and technology 

problems that day. 

The lawsuit notes state troopers 

did not follow their active 

shooter training and responsibility 

to confront the shooter, even 

as the students and teachers 

inside were following their own 

lockdown protocols of turning 

off lights, locking doors and 

staying silent. 

“The protocols trap teachers 

and students inside, leaving 

them fully reliant on law enforcement 

to respond quickly 

and effectively,” the families and 

their attorneys said in a statement. 

Terrified students inside the 

classroom called 911 as agonized 

parents begged officers, some 

of whom could hear shots being 

fired while they stood in a hallway, 

to go in. A tactical team of 

officers eventually went into the 

classroom and killed the shooter. 

“Law-enforcement’s inaction 

that day was a complete and 

absolute betrayal of these fam-

ilies and the sons, daughters 

and mothers they lost,” said Erin 

Rogiers, one of the attorneys 

for the families. “TXDPS had the 

resources, training and firepower 

to respond appropriately, and 

they ignored all of it and failed 

on every level. These families 

have not only the right but also 

the responsibility to demand 

justice.” 

A criminal investigation into 

the police response by Uvalde 

District Attorney Christina Mitchell’s 

office remains ongoing. A 

grand jury was summoned this 

year, and some law enforcement 

officials have already been 

called to testify. 

The lawsuit against 92 Texas 

Department of Public Safety officials 

and troopers also names 

the Uvalde School District, 

former Robb Elementary Principal 

Mandy Gutierrez and former 

Uvalde schools police Chief Peter 

Arredondo as defendants. 

Another lawsuit filed in December 

2022 against local and 

state police, the city, and other 

school and law enforcement, 

seeks at least $27 billion and 

class-action status for survivors. 

And at least two other lawsuits 

have been filed against Georgia-based 

gun manufacturer 

Daniel Defense, which made the 

AR-style rifle used by the gunman. 

The settlement with the city 

was capped at $2 million because 

the families said they 

didn’t want to bankrupt the city 

where they still live and to allow 

the community to continue to 

heal. The settlement will be 

paid from city’s insurance coverage. 

Under the settlement, the city 

agreed to a new “fitness for 

duty” standard and enhanced 

training for Uvalde police officers. 

It also establishes May 24 

as an annual day of remembrance, 

a permanent memorial 

in the city plaza, and support for 

mental health services for the 

families and the greater Uvalde 

area. 

Another report commissioned 

by the city also noted rippling 

missteps by law enforcement 

but defended the actions of local 

police, which sparked anger 

from victims’ families. 

“For two long years, we have 

languished in pain and without 

any accountability from the law 

enforcement agencies and officers 

who allowed our families to 

be destroyed that day,” said Veronica 

Luevanos, whose daughter 

Jailah and nephew Jayce were 

killed. “This settlement reflects a 

first good faith effort, particularly 

by the City of Uvalde, to begin 

rebuilding trust in the systems 

that failed to protect us.” 



LOS ANGELES, CA. 

LAPD officer injured when she was ejected from patrol car after it was stolen. 

By Melody Gutierrez 

Los Angeles Times 

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles 

police officer was injured early 

Sunday morning after a man 

stole her patrol vehicle while 

she was inside it and then was 

later ejected from the cruiser. 

The unnamed officer had been 

working a security detail at 12th 

and Figueroa streets around 

3:30 a.m. when a man approached 

her vehicle and managed 

to get inside, according to 

the department. 

“The suspect drove off with the 

police vehicle and at some point 

the officer was ejected from 

the vehicle,” according to the 

department’s summary of the 

incident, which was posted on 

the social media platform X. 

The suspect drove the vehicle 

north of Figueroa and was in 

a collision before leaving that 

scene and crashing on 7th and 

Figueroa streets. Photos of the 

scene posted by KTLA-TV show 

the police SUV crashed into a 

pole, its front end severely damaged 

as an overturned bike and 

scooters lay amid debris on a 

sidewalk. Police said the suspect 

got out of the patrol vehicle and 

attempted to flee, but was apprehended. 

The officer was transported to 

a hospital with non-life threatening 

injuries and was listed in 

stable condition. The suspect 

was evaluated at the scene and 

“cleared to be transported to the 

station for arrest processing,” the 

department summary said. 

This story originally appeared 

in Los Angeles Times. 






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LOUISVILLE, KY. 

PGA championship golfer accused of ignoring cop directing 

traffic, dragging him on median. 

By Peter Sblendorio 

New York Daily News 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Scottie Scheffler, 

the world’s top-ranked golfer, 

was arrested and reportedly hit 

with multiple charges, including 

second-degree assault of a police 

officer, after an incident early Friday 

outside of the PGA Championship. 

The chaos unfolded when Scheffler 

allegedly attempted to drive 

around the scene of a crash near 

the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, 

Ky., according to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, 

who witnessed the situation. 

Scheffler allegedly drove onto a 

median and, upon being told by a 

police officer to stop, continued 

to drive another 10 or 20 yards, 

ESPN reported. Speaking on ESPN’s 

“SportsCenter,” Darlington said an 

officer attached himself to the car, 

and that Scheffler drove another 10 

yards before stopping. 

The 27-year-old Scheffler reportedly 

then rolled down his window, 

and the officer attempted to pull 

him out of the car. Upon Scheffler 

opening the car door, the officer 

pulled him out of the vehicle and 

handcuffed him. 

Scheffler saw Darlington and 

asked him for help as he was being 

detained, according to the reporter. 

“He very clearly did not know 

what was happening in the situation,” 

Darlington said. “It moved 

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very 

quickly, 

very rapidly, 

very 

aggressively.” 

Scheffler 

was 

booked at 

a Louisville 

Metro Police 

Department 

jail at 7:28 

a.m., online inmate records show. 

His other charges include 

third-degree criminal mischief, 

reckless driving, and disregarding 

traffic signals from an officer 

directing traffic, according to the 

Louisville TV station WAVE. 

A pedestrian was hit and killed 

by a shuttle bus outside of Valhalla 

Golf Club around 5 a.m. Friday, 

police told ESPN, delaying the start 

of the second round of the tournament. 

The Louisville Metro Police Department 

hosted a press conference 

to discuss the arrest of PGA golfer 

Scottie Scheffler and to release 

videos of the incident, a livestream 

from the Courier-Journal shows. 

LMPD Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel 

began by expressing condolences 

to the family of John Mills, 

who was killed while working the 

PGA Championship on May 17. He 

was struck by a shuttle bus, according 

to the news conference. 

“By all accounts, we have learned 

that Mr. Mills was known for his 

kindness and dedication to our 

community,” Gwinn-Villaroel said. 

Gwinn-Villaroel then discussed 

the failure of the detective involved 

in the incident to turn on his body 

camera. She stated that the officer 

violated policy by not having his 

camera in a state of “operational 

readiness,” and that “corrective 

action” was taken following the 

incident. 

“I also want to take a moment to 

thank all law enforcement officials 

around the nation for the work 

that you do every day, and I’m truly 

grateful for LMPD’s dedication to 

keeping this community safe here in 

Louisville.” 

UPDATE: JUDGE DISMISSED ALL 

CHARGES ON MAY 29, 2024.



MAR-a-LAGO, FL. 

Biden’s DOJ Authorized ‘Lethal Force’ Against President Trump in 

Mar-a-Lago Raid. 

By Jim Piwowarczyk & Jessica 

McBride 

President Joe Biden’s Department 

of Justice authorized the 

FBI to use “lethal force” against 

his top political rival, President 

Donald Trump, in the Mar-a-Lago 

documents raid. 

That’s according to a court 

filing by Trump’s attorneys Todd 

Blanche and Christopher M. Kise. 

The court document, which is 

arguing to suppress evidence 

seized in the “unconstitutional” 

raid, says “the Mar-a-Lago raid 

was executed in an egregious 

fashion and in bad faith.” The 

motion contains the revelation 

about lethal force, which they 

learned through an “Operations 

Order” produced in discovery. 

The order contained a “Policy 

Statement” regarding “Use Of 

Deadly Force,” the motion says. 

That policy statement stated, 

for example, “‘Law enforcement 

officers of the Department of 

Justice may use deadly force 

when necessary . . . .” Id. at USA- 

01285183. The agents planned to 

bring ‘Standard Issue Weapon[s],’ 

‘Ammo,’ ‘Handcuffs,’ and ‘medium 

and large sized bolt cutters,’ 

but they were instructed to 

wear ‘unmarked polo or collared 


shirts’ and to keep ‘law enforcement 

equipment concealed.’” 

The FBI did not deny the claim. 

“The FBI followed standard 

protocol in this search as we do 

for all search warrants, which 

includes a standard policy statement 

limiting the use of deadly 

force. No one ordered additional 

steps to be taken and there was 

no departure from the norm in 

this matter,” the FBI told Fox 

News in a statement Tuesday. 

CNN, predictably, tried to 

soft-pedal the angle, burying 

it in a lengthy story and writing 

that the order “also includes 

boilerplate language from the 

Justice Department manual 

about use of force, including the 

limited circumstances in which 

agents are authorized to use 

deadly force.” 

Of course, a raid targeting the 

home of a former president is 

anything but boilerplate. 

The motion says there was no 

basis “for the FBI to bring firearms 

into Mar-a-Lago. There 

were no threats and no risk to 

agents’ safety arising from their 

allegations relating to possession 

of documents at a premises 

already guarded by the Secret 

Service.” The motion adds that 

the agents “improperly seized 

passports, medical documents, 

correspondence related to taxes, 

and accounting information.” 

The attorneys labeled the raid

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a “roving and highly inappropriate 

search” that involved searching 

former First Lady Melania 

Trump’s master bedroom suite 

and the bedroom of Trump’s son, 

Barron. They did not find any 

documents there. 

Trump is seeking to suppress 

evidence because he says the 

raid of Mar-a-Lago is “unconstitutional.” 

He also argues that 

there was a “subsequent unlawful 

violation” of his “attorney-client 

privilege by the Special 

Counsel’s Office.” 

Trump’s motion says: 

On Aug. 8, 2022, “armed FBI 

agents stormed the private residence 

of a former president of 

the United States.” 

The motion notes that in August 

2022, the FBI did not believe 

it was necessary to raid Mar-a- 

Lago. 

Steven D’Antuono, the Assistant 

Director in charge of the 

FBI’s Washington Field Office, 

had said the FBI’s preference in 

“dealing with cases like this” was 

to seek consent, the motion says. 

He took that position in emails 

that have not been produced, 

according to the motion. 

However, in a meeting between 

the FBI and DOJ, Deputy Assistant 

Attorney General George Toscas 

said, “he frankly doesn’t give a 

damn about the optics” of the 

raid, the motion says. Attorney 

General Garland personally approved 

the raid, it adds. 

An affidavit for a search warrant 

contained inaccuracies, 

saying the investigation began as 

a result of a referral from NARA 

on Feb. 9, 2022, and the FBI then 

opened a criminal investigation, 

the motion says. 

An agent misled the magistrate 

judge to obtain the warrant, and 

the warrant lacked the particularity 

required by the Fourth 

Amendment, Trump’s lawyers 

say. 

“First, Agent failed to disclose 

that the FBI had taken the position—in 

writing, apparently—that 

it was not necessary to execute 

a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. 

D’Antuono’s preference was 

consistent with DOJ’s handling of 

the investigation of Hillary Clinton 

where, despite the evidence 

of extensive evidence deletion, 

‘the prosecutors sought to obtain 

digital and documentary 

evidence by consent whenever 

possible,’” the documents say. 

“Second, Agent failed to disclose 

that presidents are not required 

to obtain clearances and 

that sensitive briefings including 

classified information had been 

provided to President Trump at 

Mar-a-Lago and other residences 

before and during his presidency,” 

it notes. The name of the 

agent was redacted. 

“Third, Agent suggested that 

the FBI had only initiated its investigation 

after the sham referral 

from NARA-OIG on February 

9, 2022,” the motion continues. 

“Fourth, Agent included in the 

affidavit the definition of ‘Presidential 

Records’ from the Presidential 

Records Act (“PRA”) but 

omitted the definition of ‘personal 

records,’ 44 U.S.C. § 2201(3), 

and the caselaw conferring on 

President Trump alone the discretion 

to designate documents 

as Personal Records,” the lawyers 

wrote. 

“The warrant at issue lacked the 

particularity required by the Fourth 

Amendment. Mar-a-Lago is an 

enormous property, and Agent did 

not establish a basis for rummaging 

through the majority of its rooms. 

In the affidavit, Agent described the 

property as a ’17-acre estate,’ which 

includes a ‘mansion with approximately 

58 bedrooms’ and ’33 bathrooms,’” 

the motion says. 

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HOUSTON, TX. 

New email in HPD dropped cases scandal was ‘final 

straw’ for Chief Finner, Mayor Whitmire said. 

By Yilun Cheng, Dylan McGuinness, 

After months of controversy 

surrounding the Houston Police 

Department’s practice of suspending 

cases due to short staffing, 

the revelation Tuesday that 

Chief Troy Finner was on an email 

discussing one such case in 2018 

was the “final straw”, Mayor John 

Whitmire said. 

Since February, the police department 

has been investigating 

its own practice of closing some 

264,000 cases in the last eight 

years due to lack of personnel” 

code. When Finner announced the 

investigation, he said he did not 

learn of the practice until 2021, 

and he thought he put a stop to it 

then. 

TV news stations reported late 

Tuesday morning that Finner was 

included on a 2018 email discussing 

a road rage incident that 

was suspended due to a lack of 

personnel – despite investigative 

leads, such as a license plate 

number and a witness. 

Finner, responding to the email 

then, said it was “unacceptable,” 

but the revelation that he 

may have known about the code 

earlier than he suggested proved 

damning. Finner said on X, formerly 

known as Twitter, that he 


could not recall the email until he 

saw it Tuesday. 

Even though the message said 

“suspended – lack of personnel,” 

Finner suggested he did not 

realize at the time there was an 

actual code to suspend cases for 

that reason. When discussing the 

development with news reporters 

Tuesday afternoon, he gave no 

indication he would step down. 

Whitmire left a City Council 

meeting that afternoon to determine 

the best path forward. The 

mayor said he and Finner had a 

dialogue that ended with the chief 

making the decision to retire on 

his own, and the mayor making 

the “tough decision” to accept. The 

mayor denied either asking Finner 

or offering him the option to 

resign. 

“It was the final straw. I think 

that can certainly be an honest 

statement,” Whitmire said of the 

2018 emails. “I was sick when I 

saw the recent email, but I don’t 

have time to be sick. I have to protect 

this city and lead, and it can’t 

be driven by personality. Chief 

Finner is a friend, and it was very 

painful to see someone retire in 

the middle of their assignment.” 

Whitmire said the most important 

factor in the shakeup was the 

effect the ongoing controversy has 

had on rank-and-file officers. 

“It had become… disruptive to 

the department,” Whitmire said. 

“I talked to many officers at every 

level of the department; this had 

become the dominant focus of so 

much of HPD’s staff.” 

During Wednesday’s City Council 

discussions about efforts to 

combat hot spots of criminal 

activities, Whitmire said HPD’s 

investigation into suspended cases, 

which the email concerning 

Finner has recently complicated, 

continues to get in the way of the 

department focusing on its main 

duty – fighting crime. 

“Part of the consideration is that 

the current investigation and suspended 

cases had become such a 

distraction that I was convinced 

that the department had lost 

some of its focus to address hot 

spots and response time,” Whitmire 

said. 

The department announced 

last week that it had finished the 

internal investigation and would 

release its findings soon. 

However, a new letter involving 

Executive Assistant Chief Chandra 

Hatcher forced the department 

to reopen the investigation last 

week, Whitmire said. KPRC reported 

that Hatcher, a member 

of Finner’s inner circle, initially 

requested the department launch 

its investigation, citing informa-

tion from a command meeting she 

said she attended in 2021. Documents 

obtained by the station 

raised doubt that Hatcher was at 

that meeting. 

Whitmire said the Hatcher letter 

and the Finner email, taken together, 

created major setbacks for 

the department that eventually led 

to Finner’s retirement. 

Whitmire initially promised to 

keep Finner on during his mayoral 

campaign last year. He said 

Wednesday it is common practice 

for new mayors to select their 

own police and fire chiefs. However, 

he decided not to do so due to 

his years-long experience working 

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The mayor emphasized his 

support for Finner several times 

Wednesday, saying the outgoing 

police chief was a frequent visitor 

at the mayor’s breakfast table, 

and as recently as Saturday they 

toured flooding in Kingwood before 

casting votes together. 

“You don’t just talk business, you 

talk family, you talk gentleman to 

gentleman,” Whitmire said. “This 

is not about personality. He’s a 

human being. He has feelings. He 

has a family. Everything was taken 

into consideration.” 

Whitmire has appointed Larry 

Satterwhite, formerly executive 

assistant chief, as the department’s 

acting chief as the administration 

launches a search for 

a permanent replacement. The 

mayor said the transition has been 

a smooth one, as Satterwhite 

would already fill in as acting 

chief whenever Finner was away. 

“Chief Satterwhite is an outstanding 

public servant,” the mayor 

said. “The department’s morale, 

I believe, will improve when we 

get HPD off the front page and 

out of the news and back to crime 

fighting. 

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NEW YORK CITY, NY. 

NYPD to start Drone as First Responder program, allowing UAVs to respond 

to scenes of shootings. Patrol officers will be able to watch live video feeds 

from drones dispatched to crime scenes by a gunshot detection system. 

By Thomas Tracy 



NEW YORK — Drones will soon 

be accompanying cops on shooting 

investigations and other 911 

calls throughout the city, NYPD 

officials said. 

A new Drone as First Responder 

pilot program will be in effect 

in coming months, beginning 

with five NYPD police precincts, 

NYPD Deputy Commissioner of 

Operations Kaz Daughtry announced 

at a hearing before the 

House Committee on Homeland 

Security. 

“The plan, to be rolled out in 

the coming months, is to deploy 

these drones in response 

to certain 911 calls for service,” 

Daughtry told the committee. 

Three of the precincts participating 

in the program are in 

Brooklyn, Daughtry said. A fourth 

is in the Bronx and the fifth covers 

Central Park. The precincts 

were chosen “based on recent 

crime trends,” he explained. 

The roofs of the precinct station 

houses will be retrofitted 

to support two drone platforms. 

While the drones will be departing 

and landing from the station 

rooftop, the pilot will be stationed 

at the NYPD Joint Operations 

Center at police headquarters 

in lower Manhattan and will 

be sending video and telemetry 

to cops in the field, Daughtry 

said. 

The drones are expected to 

be deployed to shootings in 

their precincts and respond to 

ShotSpotter alerts from a ring 

of microphones in the area 

designed to detect gunfire, the 

NYPD said. 

ShotSpotter gunshot detection 

system,” an NYPD spokesman 

said. “Police officers already 

receive ShotSpotter alerts as 

they do other assignments: over 

their police radios and on their 

NYPD-issued smartphones, with 

information that includes the 

time and location of the gunfire. 

The system will now additionally 

send the longitude and latitude 

of gunfire to [the drones].” 

Drone pilots will then fly over 

to the shooting location “prior to 

the officers’ arrival on the scene,” 

the spokesman said. 

“Officers will see what the 

drone sees in real time via their 

smartphones,” the spokesman 

said. 

“The information provided by 

DFR will be shared with responding 

officers,” Daughtry told 

the committee. “[It] will enhance 

officers’ situational awareness 

as they arrive on scene, promote 

officer safety, and help us deploy 

resources more effectively.” 

The NYPD currently has 85 

drones. The remote fliers are 

traditionally used to cover major 

events, such as the New Year’s 

Eve ball drop in Times Square, 

large protests, and major police 

deployments. The drones have 

also been called into service to 

check on the structural stability 

of buildings and bridges after 

accidents, Daughtry said. Drones 

have also been utilized to pa-

trol above-ground train lines to 

watch out for subway surfers. 

Drone use by the NYPD jumped 

more than 400% last year from 

2022, but Daughtry said they 

can’t be used for “warrantless 

surveillance” as well as “traffic 

enforcement or immobilizing 

vehicles of suspects.” 

The drones can’t be used on 

routine patrols either, although it 

was not clear how the new pilot 

program will affect that rule. 

Critics have blasted the department’s 

use of drones, claiming 

the remote eyes in the sky 

was a “dystopian technology” 

that tramples on residents’ civil 

rights. 

Last year, a plan to fly drones 

above Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert festival 

around Labor Day, a Caribbean-inspired 

celebration which 

has been a source of violent 

clashes in the past, was shot 

down by the New York Civil Liberties 

Union as “racialized discrimination.” 

“It doesn’t make us feel safer,” 

said Daniel Schwartz, NYCLU 

senior privacy and technology 

strategist. “The NYPD is playing 

fast and loose with our First 

and Fourth Amendment rights. 

Pervasive drone surveillance can 

be easily misused to exploit and 

discriminate against New Yorkers, 

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LOS ANGELES, CA. 

Regulators say LASD committed ‘willful’ safety violations that led to 

2023 mobile range fire, death of Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores. 

By Keri Blakinger 



LOS ANGELES — State regulators 

have accused the Los Angeles 

County Sheriff’s Department 

of skipping inspections, neglecting 

maintenance and committing 

an array of “willful” safety violations 

that led to a 2023 mobile 

shooting range fire that killed 

one deputy, according to records 

obtained by The Times. 

Last month, the California 

Division of Occupational Safety 

and Health hit the department 

with just over $300,000 in fines 

for a series of safety violations 

in a mobile range trailer parked 

outside the Castaic jail complex. 

Inspectors said the buildup of 

combustible dust — such as accumulated 

gunpowder — caused 

the deadly blaze. 

“The employer failed to conduct 

daily, weekly, monthly, 

and bi-annual preventive maintenance 

on the indoor mobile 

shooting trailer,” the agency 

wrote in a 19-page citation issued 

in April. “As a result on or 

about October 10, 2023, two employees 

suffered serious physical 

harm to their body when the indoor 

trailer exploded and caught 

on fire.” 

Both of the burned deputies 

were hospitalized, and last 

month one of them — Alfredo 

“Freddy” Flores, 51 — died. He 

was buried May 9 during a funeral 

in Sylmar. 

“We now know that Freddy 

lost his life because mobile 

trailers like the one he was in 

had a known history of catching 

fire due to poor design and poor 

maintenance,” said attorney 

John Carpenter, who is representing 

the Flores family. 

The Assn. of Los Angeles Deputy 

Sheriffs blamed county leaders 

on the Board of Supervisors 

for failing to “properly fund and 

equip” the Sheriff’s Department, 

which has a $4-billion budget. 

“The fire that caused Freddy’s 

tragic death was foreseeable and 

avoidable,” union President Richard 

Pippin wrote in an email. 

The Sheriff’s Department, 

meanwhile, said the blaze is still 

under investigation and declined 

to answer several specific questions 

about the incident, including 

whether the problems identified 

by the state have been fixed. 

“We are working with County 

Counsel to evaluate the violations,” 

the department wrote in 

an email, “but the safety of our 

personnel is paramount and our 

primary concern.” 

The agency did not say wheth-

er it appealed the citations, 

though state OSHA officials confirmed 

that it had. They said the 

fines have not been paid as the 

appeal is pending. 

Since the late 1980s, the Sheriff’s 

Department has relied on 

mobile shooting ranges to ensure 

its roughly 10,000 deputies 

can test their firearms skills four 

times a year. The department 

can move the range from station 

to station each week instead 

of paying deputies overtime to 

spend a day driving to a fixed 

location. 

The 50- to 53-foot mobile 

structures feature several shooting 

lanes overseen by a range 

master. The interior walls are 

covered with soundproofing 

foam, and a thick rubber or metal 

plate known as a bullet trap 

sits behind the target. As with 

other indoor ranges, shooting 

trailers require regular cleaning 

to prevent a dangerous buildup 

of lead and gunpowder. 

“When you shoot a gun, there’s 

gunpowder and explosives inside 

the cartridge,” one former range 

deputy told The Times in October. 

“Not all of that gunpowder 

burns — sometimes it ends up on 

the floor in front of you, sometimes 

it ends up on your hands.” 

Multiple range experts told The 

Times last year that although 

mobile range fires appear to be 

rare, the buildup of unburned 

gunpowder at any range that 

isn’t adequately cleaned and 

ventilated can lead to fires. Now, 

state regulators say, it has. 

One of the violations described 

in the Cal/ OSHA records — provided 

to The Times by the Flores 

family attorney — faulted the 

department for persistently 

failing to keep records of inspections 

dating to at least 2021, 

when the state hit the department 

with another citation for 

the same problem. It’s not clear 

how much the 2021 violation cost 

the county in fees, but the recent 

record-keeping failures netted a 

$1,000 fine. 

In its April notice, the state 

fined the department $25,000 

for failing to implement procedures 

for identifying workplace 

hazards “including the hazard 

of allowing the accumulation of 

propellant throughout the surfaces 

of indoor mobile shooting 

ranges” and for failing to do 

regular inspections. 

“The employer did not engage 

in scheduled periodic inspections 

to identify unsafe work conditions 

in indoor mobile shooting 

ranges,” the citation notice said. 

“Employer did not identify hazards 

related to indoor mobile 

shooting ranges after employer 

discovered a new hazard when 

mobile shooting ranges caught 

fire.” 

The department racked up 

another $25,000 fine for failing 

to fix safety concerns in a timely 

manner. Specifically, the state 

accused the agency of knowing 

about the danger of “accumulated 

propellant” inside range trailers 

and failing to “take sufficient 

steps to prevent the re-occurrence 

of fires in its indoor mobile 

shooting ranges.” 

One of the costliest violations, 

which the state deemed “willful” 

and “serious,” faulted the department 

for allegedly failing to 

conduct the regular inspections 

and preventive maintenance recommended 

by the trailer manufacturer. 

That violation netted a 

$125,000 fine, as did another 

“willful” and “serious” violation 

for failing to clean the range 

trailer often enough and allowing 

“the accumulations of combustible 

dust on floors, ledges, 

beams, equipment, machines, 

or elsewhere which caused an 

explosion and fire.” 

Last year, department officials 

told The Times that the range 

trailer had been serviced and 

cleaned by an outside contractor 

in July and that the department’s 

Facilities Services Bureau did 

its normal trailer maintenance 

in September. It’s not clear how 

those statements square with the 

recent citations or whether that 

could factor into the pending 

appeal, and the department did 

not clarify. 

More than six months after the 

2023 blaze, the department has 

still released few details about 

what happened. The blaze started 

around 9:30 a.m. Oct. 10 in the 

trailer, which was parked next to 

the men’s jail at Pitchess Detention 

Center. 

Two deputies were inside the 

53-foot trailer when the fire 

broke out, sheriff’s officials said. 

Flores was taking a department-mandated 

recertification 

test, and the other deputy was 

supervising. Both were rushed 

to the hospital with third-degree 

burns. Flores, a 22-year veteran 

of the department, remained 

hospitalized until his death. 

“Freddy Flores struggled to 

live for six months,” said Carpenter, 

the family attorney. “We 

still don’t know all the details of 

what happened. We just know 

that it should not have happened.” 



OAKLAND CNTY, MI. 

Chilean gangs entering U.S. under Visa Waiver program 

behind wave of home burglaries. 

OAKLAND COUNTY, MI - Sheriff 

Mike Bouchard of Oakland County, 

Michigan revealed to reporters on 

May 16th that a wave of sophisticated 

burglaries targeting high-value 

homes yielding millions in stolen 

goods is being carried out by highly 

trained criminal gangs from the 

South American nation of Chile. 

Bouchard told News Nation that a 

particular visa waiver program has 

made it easier for these gangs to 

enter the U.S. illegally and reportedly 

over forty homes in Oakland 

County alone have been burglarized 

by the group with large stores 

of cash, jewelry, and luxury items 

stolen from affluent neighborhoods 

that are home to Executives and 

CEOs of the big-three auto manufacturers. 

Bouchard explained the situation 

and the perceived connection 

to the Visa waivers to the public 

during a town hall with Bloomfield 

Hills DPS Captain Tom Van Simaeys 

and Bloomfield Police Chief James 

Gallagher on May 13th at the Christ 

Chruch Cranbrook according to 

Michigan News Source. 

Bouchard told News Nation that 

his department has sought assistance 

from the federal government 

to bring the situation under control. 

“We’re not going to stop it as a local 

agency or even with, you know, 


state and federal partners. 

It’s got to be stopped by 

national policy,” Bouchard 

said. He confirmed to the 

outlet that the groups from 

Chile targeting homes in the 

county are entering under 

a visa program that allows 

a lower level of scrutiny 

from Border Patrol Agents, 

permitting travel within the 

U.S. unimpeded for up to 90 

days. 

In a statement, a spokesman 

from the Department 

of Homeland Security 

confirmed the increase in sophisticated 

burglaries by Chilean gangs 

and said that they are working with 

authorities in Chile to address the 

problem. 

“DHS and our federal partners 

have actively engaged with all 

levels of the government of Chile to 

address this issue and have communicated 

the urgency of the situation. 

Chilean officials have responded 

by improving operational cooperation 

with DHS offices in efforts to 

detect, deter, and prevent travel to 

the United States by known criminal 

actors,” the spokesman wrote. 

The Sheriff added, “They’re aware 

of the fact that we’re having these 

crimes all across the country. But at 

this point, they’ve not shown any inclination 

to shut that program down 

or even pause it. They usually issue 

a standard statement saying they’re 

aware and they’re working closely 

with the Chilean government to try 

to increase information cooperation. 

That doesn’t help us. Our house 

is on fire with these burglaries.” 

The gangs Bouchard described are 

reportedly working in approximately 

100 different 3-6 man crews all 

over the country with operations reported 

in multiple states from New 

York to California and evidence of 

members coming from Venezuela 

and Colombia as well. The complex 

burglaries often involve using jamming 

technology to disable Wi-Fibased 

home surveillance systems 

and alarms.



LEXINGTON, SC. 

Illegal immigrant from Mexico who caused a deadly 

wreck in South Carolina, faces deportation. 

By Matthew Holloway 

LEXINGTON, SC - An Illegal immigrant 

from Mexico, Giovanni 

Mendoza-Jimenez, 20, is under 

arrest and is being held on a 

detainment order from U.S. Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement 

(ICE) after causing a fatal 

collision that cost the life of a 

motorcyclist crushed between 

his vehicle and a stopped school 

bus. 

A student on the bus also 

suffered minor injuries. Mendoza-Jimenez 

is charged with 

driving too fast for conditions 

and failure to stop for a school 

bus. 

According to a press release 

from the Lexington, South Carolina 

Police Department, on Tuesday, 

May 21st shortly after 7:00 

a.m., police were dispatched 

to the scene of a three-vehicle 

collision between a work van, 

a motorcycle, and a school bus 

that had stopped to pick up students. 

The motorcycle was stopped 

behind the school bus as the two 

vehicles were approached from 

behind by Mendoza-Jimenez, 

who was driving without a license. 

The police said that Mendoza-Jimenez 

did not see the 

stopped vehicles and collided 

with the motorcycle throwing it 

aside and then pinning the motorcyclist 

to the bus. 

“The van driver did not appear 

to see the stopped vehicles and 

collided first with the motorcycle, 

sending the driver into the 

back of the bus and pushing the 

motorcycle a distance away from 

the scene. The van then collided 

with the back of the bus, pinning 

the motorcycle driver between 

the van and the bus,” the release 

said. 

Reporting from WOLO-TV 

Wednesday revealed the identity 

of the motorcyclist as Jon Douglas 

Ratcliffe who, despite wearing 

a helmet according to Lexington 

County Coroner Margaret 

Fisher, died from his injuries at 

the scene. 

Mendoza-Jimenez also sustained 

minor injuries and was 

transported to a local hospital by 

EMS subsequent to his arrest. 




MIAMI, FL. 

Can’t make this up: Biden administration gives communist Cuba 

access to sensitive TSA areas at Miami International Airport. 

By Pat Droney 

MIAMI, FL - It’s recently been 

revealed that the Biden administration 

gave a guided tour of 

Miami International Airport’s 

TSA facilities to designated state 

sponsor of terrorism, Cuba. 

Breitbart News reports that 

earlier this week, five officials 

from Cuba, a communist country, 

received a “secret” guided 

tour of Miami International Airport 

courtesy of Alejandro Mayorkas’s 

Transportation Security 

Administration (TSA). 

Breitbart wrote that the tour, 

which lasted five hours, is being 

touted as being part of “law 

enforcement cooperation” between 

the two countries. Part of 

the tour included TSA’s control 

facilities at the airport, which 

contains some of the agency’s 

sensitive computer systems. 

News of the tour drew outrage 

from some Cuban-Americans in 

Miami, as well as officials from 

Miami-Dade county and MIA 

airport personnel, who were 

unaware of the planned visit. 

Cuba was designated a State 

Sponsor of Terrorism (SST) by 

the United States due to the 


communist nation’s ties to a 

number of international terrorist 

organizations. Those groups 

include the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary 

Guard Corps (IRGC), 

terrorist organization Hezbollah, 

Colombia’s National Liberation 

Army (ELN), and the Revolutionary 

Armed Forces of Columbia 

(FARC), the latter two being 

Marxist terrorist groups. 

The Cuban government also is 

tied to Hamas, which conducted 

a terrorist attack on Israel last 

October 7 that resulted in over 

1,000 deaths of Israeli citizens 

and which sparked the current 

armed conflict in Gaza. The 

Castro-led government has also 

condemned Israel for conducting 

self-defense operations against 

Hamas, which still holds an estimated 

200 hostages, including 

US citizens. 

During the Obama regime, he 

removed Cuba removed from 

the SST list, however the country 

was reinstated at the end of 

the Trump presidency in January 

2021. 

Currently, Cuba is still on the 

SST list, however last week the 

Biden administration removed 

the communist nation from a list 

of countries that “are not cooperating 

fully” with the United 

States in battling terrorism. 

Hamas-sympathizing Secretary 

of State Antony Blinken said 

last week that Cuba no longer


elonged on the list since Cuban 

officials and U.S. law enforcement 

officials are “once again” 

working together on counter terrorism 

and other related efforts. 

The TSA-guided tour occurred 

on May 20, which is coincidentally 

Cuban Independence Day. 

The Castro regime has tried to 

erase the legacy of that date, 

and does not celebrate it. In fact, 

the government prohibits Cubans 

from celebrating that date and 

instead forces them to celebrate 

July 26, when former Cuban 

strongman Fidel Castro led a 

terrorist attack on a military 

garrison in 1953. 

An anonymous source told 

Marti Noticias, a US-based outlet, 

that Cuban officials toured 

the airport without the knowledge 

of the Miami-Dade Aviation 

Department and caused a great 

deal of angst among the airport’s 

security personnel. Many 

of the staff are Cuban exiles who 

fled from the Castro regime. 

The source said that Cuban 

officials were invited to an area 

deemed an “exclusive and modern” 

area of the airport which 

not all airport employees are 

allowed to access. 

“It is the first time in more than 

20 years that I have seen something 

like this at the airport,” the 

source said. “The Cuban officers 

were taken to the south terminal, 

a new terminal where the 

TSA robots are. It is very modern 

and not everyone can go there.” 

The source said that in order 

to access that location, an investigation 

has to be conducted of 

each officer. 

“How are you going to bring in 

these people who are spies for 

the Cuban regime and also on 

May 20?” the source asked. 

The source didn’t elaborate 

on the technological details of 

the area, they claimed the visit 

endangered the safety of passengers. 

“They are officials from a 

terrorist country, an ally of our 

enemies, of China, of Russia, 

of Iran,” the source continued. 

“Who would think of inviting 

those people to see the most advanced 

of our technology?” 

The mayor of Miami-Dade 

County, Daniella Levine Cava released 

a statement in which she 

expressed shock over the visit by 

Cuban officials: 

The decision to allow Cuban 

officials to tour secure areas 

of MIA was made without the 

knowledge of the Miami-Dade 

Aviation Department, and took 

place on Cuban Independence 

Day–a day that we reaffirm our 

commitment to freedom and 

democracy in Cuba in the face of 

a brutal dictatorship. 

My office has directly contacted 

the Department of Homeland 

Security to understand how this 

decision was made, and to request 

that the County and MDAD 

be included in any future decisions 

regarding granting access 

to MIA facilities to foreign government 

officials. 

Miami-Dade County stands 

firmly with the Cuban people 

here in our community and on 

the island as they continue to 

fight to bring freedom to Cuba, 

and we are committed to ensuring 

the safety of our community 

and all those who travel through 

MIA. 

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TRAINING 

Jiu Jitsu’s Utility as a Law 

Enforcement Force Option 

We look closely at research from the literature on the thoughts, 

rationale, and strategies for Jiu-Jitsu in law enforcement. 

By Richard O. Segovia, Ph.D., 

Ed.D. 

A key liability in law enforcement 

today is the absence of 

situation-specific training in 

some agencies, resulting in 

officers reacting physically and 

psychologically to real-life incidents 

inappropriately. Officers 

who use unreasonable force 

violate their agency’s policies, 

state and federal statutes, and 

community standards and can 

jeopardize their lives, the lives of 

other officers, and suspects. An 

unacceptable escalation of conflict 

can also put the reputation 

of law enforcement agencies at 

risk. This article critically examines 

the peer-reviewed studies 

of police assaults, the use of 

force by law enforcement, the 

methodologies of law enforcement 

training, and the use of 

martial arts, specifically Jiu-Jitsu 

training. Given today’s law enforcement 

landscape, is Jiu-Jitsu 

(BJJ) training a viable adjunct in 

reducing risk and liability for law 

enforcement agencies? 


The work in this article used 

a qualitative narrative review 

methodology. It examined Brizin 

and Kernspecht’s general theory 

of combat and its application 

in law enforcement training. It 

explored existing literature on 

law enforcement training, the 

integration of martial arts, and 

methodological challenges. This 

article also analyzed the literature 

on real-life assaults on 

law enforcement officers and 

instances of unreasonable force 

usage, supported by culturally 

relevant examples from recent 

encounters. These insights 

underscore the urgent need for 

comprehensive training solutions 

to equip officers with the skills 

to handle high-stress situations 

effectively. 

Last, this article discusses the 

mental and physical rigors of 

Jiu-Jitsu training. It explains how 

it might empower officers and 

lead to a reduction in the application 

of inappropriate force. 

Modeling that balance could 

foster arrest and control skills 

via Jiu-Jitsu training, leading to 

a more appropriate use of force 

during a police encounter and a 

safer experience for all involved. 

If adopted in law enforcement 

training programs, Jiu-Jitsu 

training could contribute to developing 

a more robust and more 

accountable approach to using 

force. Agencies could generate 

more professionalism and rational 

ethical decision-making 

in their personnel by facilitating 

their philosophical understanding 

and skillsets. 

Where Do We Start? 

The theoretical underpinning 

of the literature review lies in the 

general theory of combat logic, 

as submitted by Brizin’s and 

Kernspecht’s work. This theory 

investigated integrating tactics 

and strategy in combat, emphasizing 

the alignment between 

the engagement’s purpose and 

the combatant’s resources or 

characteristics. Drawing from 

Eastern philosophical concepts, 

the theory proposes that efficient 

conflict resolution does

not always necessitate complete 

annihilation of the enemy. Brizin 

and Kernspecht integrate these 

ideas into a holistic framework, 

encompassing hierarchical levels 

of martial arts concepts applicable 

to combat or conflict situations. 

While promising, applying 

this theory in law enforcement 

contexts remains limited, with 

little research exploring its potential 

benefits for enhancing 

conflict resolution skills among 

officers. 

What Does the Research Say? 

The related literature discusses 

the foundational assumptions of 

Brizin and Kernspecht’s theory 

and the insights of Edward Luttwak 

and Carl von Clausewitz, 

collectively forming the general 

theory of combat logic. A thorough 

literature synthesis relevant 

to the identified problem of 

dated defensive tactics training 

and purpose unfolds, beginning 

with exploring the problem’s development 

and evolution. Subsequently, 

the review examines the 

latest literature addressing this 

topic, offering insights into contemporary 

perspectives. Methodological 

considerations, research 

design nuances, and literature 

gaps are analyzed, culminating 

in the rationale and justification 

for investigating effective training 

practices. 

Development of the Problem 

and Evolution of Police Training 

Groundbreaking and current 

literature documents the evolving 

problem of defensive tactics 

training for law enforcement 

officers. Noteworthy cases of 

injuries or deaths during altercations 

stress the gaps in officers’ 

tactical training, prompting 

urgent calls for improved 

self-defense training to mitigate 

permanent physical harm. Instances 

of unreasonable force 

by officers highlight deficiencies 

in defensive tactics training and 

emphasize the potential role of 

martial arts training in enhancing 

conflict resolution. 

Further highlighted by recent 

events, the consequences of inadequate 

preparation are evident 

due to a lack of defensive tactics 

training. The evolving nature of 

police training, encompassing 

both force and de-escalation 

tactics, reflects the complex 

demands of law enforcement 

duties. Concepts rooted in Eastern 

martial arts principles have 

shaped modern police training 



paradigms, advocating for the 

ethical use of force and emphasizing 

self-defense. Recent 

studies shed light on overlooked 

factors influencing officers’ use 

of force decisions, suggesting 

potential benefits of integrating 

martial arts training, such as 

Jiu-Jitsu, into police curricula 

to enhance threat perception 

and restraint techniques. Despite 

some limitations, such as 

the impact of anxiety on performance, 

martial arts training 

offers promise in equipping officers 

with the necessary skills to 

navigate high-tension situations 

effectively. 

Current Status and Potential 

of Martial Arts Training in Law 

Enforcement 

In the current state of law 

enforcement, martial arts training’s 

utility is a subject of increasing 

interest, with studies 

aiming to understand its impacts. 

A systematic review found 

that such training significantly 

improves tactical performance 

and reduces injury rates, anxiety, 

and stress. This aligns with 

broader literature indicating 

martial arts’ positive physical 

and mental health effects. One 

study explored the potential of 

martial arts, including Jiu-Jitsu, 

to mitigate racial bias conflicts, 

highlighting its role in reducing 

stress and improving officers’ decision-making. 

This aligns with 

concerns about racial subtext 

in police interactions. Furthermore, 

Eastern European studies 

highlight martial arts’ benefits 

on officers’ fitness and mental 

well-being, suggesting potential 

application in real-world scenarios. 

Regarding psychological impacts, 

research suggests that 

martial arts training enhances 

self-efficacy among patrol officers, 

influencing decision-making 

and motivation. Albert Bandura’s 

social learning theory 

supports this notion, emphasizing 

self-efficacy’s role in task 

accomplishment. This aligns 

with the need for effective decision-making 

and use-of-force 

protocols in law enforcement. 

Additionally, specialized techniques 

like Judo and Krav Maga 

have improved officers’ physical 

abilities, enhancing their effectiveness 

in arrest and control 

scenarios. However, challenges 

persist in integrating comprehensive 

martial arts training due 

to watered-down programs and 

lack of emphasis on philosophical 

and psychological aspects. 

Nonetheless, the potential for 

Jiu-Jitsu to offer a more focused 

and holistic approach presents 

an opportunity for improved 

training methodologies. 

Are There Research Challenges 

and Knowledge Gaps? 

Research on the effectiveness 

of martial arts training for law 

enforcement personnel has 

advanced over time, yet methodological 

issues persist, hindering 

a comprehensive understanding 

of these issues. While academic 

papers have shown the potential 

benefits of Jiu-Jitsu in law 

enforcement contexts, empirical 

evidence from experienced 

officers is essential for informed 

decision-making, and studies 

argue for the necessity of such 

evidence. For example, existing 

quantitative studies offer valuable 

insights but lack depth in 

capturing the nuanced experiences 

of police officers. Similarly, 

other researchers highlight 

the need for more qualitative 

research to explore officers’ perceptions 

and experiences with 

Jiu-Jitsu training, informing its 

integration into standard police 

practices. 

In addition to methodological 

challenges, significant gaps persist 

in understanding the impact 

of Jiu-Jitsu training on law enforcement 

professionals. Limited 

research explores officers’ firsthand 

experiences with Jiu-Jitsu, 

particularly concerning its 

efficacy in real-world scenarios. 

Despite historical efforts to enhance 

police training, including 

the introduction of nonviolent 

methods, challenges remain in 

ensuring consistent and effective 

training practices. For example, 

one study notes the increasing 

interest in martial arts training 

among law enforcement since 

the 1990s. Still, the effectiveness 

and sustainability of such programs 

require further investigation. 

Meanwhile, another study 

suggests that ongoing training 

programs may mitigate these 

challenges. 

Implementing standardized 

martial arts training holds potential 

benefits for law enforcement, 

including improved officer 

confidence and reduced use of 

lethal force. However, recent 

studies emphasize the need for 

context-specific research to 

understand the feasibility and 

effectiveness of Jiu-Jitsu training 

in diverse law enforcement 

settings. Addressing these gaps 

and methodological challenges 

is crucial for developing evidence-based 

training programs 

that enhance officer safety and 

public trust in law enforcement.

The ”Why?” 

In examining the literature 

and methodological issues 

surrounding Jiu-Jitsu training 

for law enforcement, a critical 

need emerges to investigate the 

firsthand experiences of police 

officers with this martial art. By 

capturing these experiences, 

researchers can gain valuable 

insights into the perceived effectiveness 

and practicality of 

Jiu-Jitsu within law enforcement 

contexts. This review seeks 

to bridge gaps in existing literature, 

addressing shortcomings 

such as limited applicability to 

specific police departments and 

an overemphasis on quantitative, 

cross-sectional studies. 

Employing a qualitative approach 

can uncover nuanced 

perspectives and meanings 

police officers express regarding 

their encounters with Jiu-Jitsu 

training. Ultimately, the findings 

from such research may inform 

evidence-based strategies for 

developing and implementing 

Jiu-Jitsu training programs to 

enhance officer and suspect 

safety during confrontational 

situations. This evidence could 

prove instrumental in shaping 

intervention efforts and driving 

policy reforms concerning law 

enforcement training and preparedness. 

Policy and Practice Implications 

The transition of Jiu-Jitsu 

beyond the mats represents the 

potential to change law-enforcement 

policies and practices 

for officers nationwide. Law 

enforcement readers seeking information 

about Jiu-Jitsu might 

consider the lessons examined in 

the literature. By doing so, agencies 

could adopt a more comprehensive 

outlook on reforming 

workforce abilities, officer 

safety, tactical competency, and 

feedback mechanisms in the 

workplace. As a result, this will 

empower officers to advocate for 

a safer work environment and 

enhance and foster a safer community 

overall. 

How Can We Guide Policy? 

While the benefits of rigorous 

Jiu-Jitsu training are evident, 

practical constraints such 

as time, resources, and policy 

limitations present challenges. 

Mandating officers to dedicate 

time for training amidst their 

demanding shifts could prove 

difficult. However, innovative approaches, 

like incentivizing participation 

in sponsored programs 

or advocating for increased 

funding, can pave the way for 

expanded training opportunities. 

Embracing remote learning 

modules and integrating bitesized 

training sessions into shift 

briefings offer promising avenues 

for continuous skill development 

despite operational constraints. 

Practical Applications 

The value of open discourse 

and the practical application 

of learned concepts are critical 

learning components within 

the training arena. Fostering an 

environment of discretion and 

candor among instructors and 

students cultivates trust and 

enables meaningful exchanges. 

Encouraging candid conversations 

within law enforcement 

agencies enriches their capabilities, 

fostering a culture of diversity 

and receptiveness to new 

ideas. Furthermore, collaborative 

engagements with partner agencies 

serve as strategic conduits 

for professional growth, facilitating 

knowledge exchange and 

expertise-sharing among officers 

from diverse backgrounds. 

Conclusion 

This article underscores the 

critical need for improved training 

methodologies in law enforcement, 

highlighting the 

potential of Jiu-Jitsu training to 

address existing gaps and enhance 

officer preparedness in 

high-stress situations. By synthesizing 

the literature on law 

enforcement training evolution, 

real-life assaults on officers, 

and the effectiveness of martial 

arts training, it emphasizes the 

importance of evidence-based 

approaches to bolster officer 

safety and public trust. Law 

enforcement agencies might 

want to consider integrating 

Jiu-Jitsu training into policies 

and practices, navigating practical 

constraints through innovative 

solutions, and fostering 

open dialogue and collaboration 

among officers and agencies to 

promote continuous learning and 

improvement, ultimately contributing 

to safer communities. 

About the Author 

Dr. Richard “Rich” Segovia has dedicated 

over 29 years of his life to law 

enforcement at the local and state 

levels. His career has spanned various 

areas, including patrol operations, 

investigations, training, and other 

specialized assignments. In addition, 

Rich served in the United States Coast 

Guard during the Gulf War era and is 

a disabled American veteran. Today, 

Rich continues to serve the public in a 

senior program manager role within 

the special investigations group at 

the Texas Health and Human Services 

Office of the Inspector General. He is 

a certified California and Texas law 

enforcement instructor. 



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DASH CAM VIDEO: FLOR- 

IDA WOMAN SUSPECTED 

OF STEALING CAR JUMPS 

INTO LAKE AFTER CRASHING 

DURING PURSUIT 

By Joanna Putman, Police1 

MIAMI — Dash camera footage 

released by the Florida Highway 

Patrol shows a high-speed 

pursuit that ended in a dramatic 

water rescue of a suspect who 

attempted to flee authorities by 

jumping into a lake, NBC Miami 

reported. 

The incident began on May 9 

when the suspect reportedly 

stole a car during a test drive 

from Honda of South Miami, 

prompting a BOLO alert, according 

to the report. 

The pursuit started when the 

stolen car was identified on a 

freeway. Video shows the suspect 

driving recklessly, reaching 

speeds up to 90 mph, maneuvering 

aggressively through heavy 

traffic and using the shoulder to 

go around other vehicles. 

The footage shows the suspect 

striking several vehicles, eventually 

hitting a truck hard enough 

to disable the vehicle. 

The FHP trooper, who was 

able to stay close to the suspect 

during the pursuit, exited his 


cruiser and approached the vehicle 

with a gun drawn. As other 

officers approached, the suspect 

emerged from the vehicle, 

climbing onto a concrete ledge. 

The suspect then jumped off 

the ramp and into a lake in an 

attempt to evade capture. She 

refused to grab ropes tossed 

to her from the ramp, leading 

to several officers entering the 

water. During the rescue, she 

reportedly scratched one officer 

and briefly submerged another. 

The suspect was eventually 

pulled from the water and 

arrested. She faces multiple 

charges, including grand theft of 

a vehicle, two counts of battery 

on a police officer, fleeing and 

eluding police, leaving the scene 

of a crash and resisting an officer, 


One of the drivers involved in 

the crash sustained injuries and 

was hospitalized. The incident 

is under further investigation by 

local authorities.

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NYPD COPS JUMP ONTO SUB- 

WAY TRACKS TO SAVE RIDER 

AS TRAIN APPROACHES 

By Thomas Tracy 


NEW YORK — Two daring 

NYPD cops jumped onto the 

tracks at a Bronx subway stop 

to save a fallen rider just moments 

before a train entered 

the station, recently released 

body-camera footage shows. 

The transit officers, assigned to 

the Third Ave. - 149th St. Station 

in Mott Haven to quell crime on 

the rails, were standing by the 

turnstiles when strangers ran up 

and said a commuter had an apparent 

seizure and fell onto the 

tracks about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. 

Body camera footage shows 

the cops running to the lip of 

the platform for the No. 2 and 5 

trains, where they found the man 

sprawled out across the tracks, 

his head dangerously close to the 

third rail. 

The officers hopped down 

onto the roadbed, grabbed the 

victim by each arm and hoisted 

him back onto the platform, the 

video shows. 

“Come on! Come on! Get up!” 

one cop is heard screaming as 

the officers lifted the victim to 

safety. 

One officer leapt back onto the 

platform but the other cop had 

trouble getting off the roadbed 

because his gun belt kept striking 

the lip of the platform, an 

NYPD spokesman said. 

The officer’s partner and a 

good Samaritan helped pull the 

cop back up as witnesses applauded, 

the video shows. The 

blaring horn of a train coming 

into the station is heard moments 

after the cops made it 


back onto the platform. 

“I thought the train was going 

to come,” one cop was recorded 

saying. “I thought a train was 

going to hit us. I swear to God.” 

EMS was called and medics 

took the man who fell to Lincoln 

Hospital, where he remained in 

stable condition Thursday. 

“Not only was he inches away 

from the third rail, but there was 

an oncoming train rapidly approaching 

the station,” the NYPD 

tweeted. “Officers sprang into 

action and without hesitation 

pulled him off the tracks.” 

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FBI REPORTS 2023 SAW 10- 

YEAR HIGH OF ASSAULTS ON 

OFFICERS 

The FBI has released preliminary 

data from its annual report 

on Law Enforcement Officers 

Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA). 

The data shows that 2023 saw a 

10-year high in officers assaulted. 

Agencies providing data to 

LEOKA reported 79,091 officers 

were assaulted in 2023. Most 

officer assaults occurred when 

responding to simple assaults 

against a non-officer (6,783 incidents), 

followed by drug/narcotic 

violations (4,879). 

LEOKA also reports that the 

number of officers feloniously 

killed—194—over the three-year 

period of 2021 (73), 2022 (61), 

and 2023 (60) was the highest 

number in any three-year period 

since 2003. 

Information about cop killers 

from the 2023 LEOKA show there 

were 57 perpetrators, 54 were 

male, 28 were white, 8 were 

reported as having a mental 

illness, and there were 32 violent 

prior arrests/offenses from an 

unknown number of offenders. 

From 2014 through 2023, the 

South had the most line-of-duty 

deaths yearly compared to other 

regions. There was a 38% decrease 

in line-of-duty deaths in 

the region in 2023 (20 deaths) 

compared to 2022 (32 deaths). 

Last year marked the lowest 

number of line-of-duty deaths in 

the South since 2015 (19 deaths). 

The number of officers assaulted 

and injured by firearms has 

climbed over the years, reaching 

a 10-year high in 2023 with approximately 

466 officers assaulted 

and injured by firearms. 

The annual “Law Enforcement


Officers Killed and Assaulted” 

publication will be released later 

this year and will consist of data 

tables on law enforcement officers 

who were feloniously and 

accidentally killed and assaulted 

in the line of duty in 2023. 

Also released today was 2023 

information from the Law Enforcement 

Employee Counts Data 

Collection. Law enforcement 

agencies provide these counts 

to the FBI annually and account 

for all sworn law enforcement 

officers and full-time civilian 

employees. This information may 

be used by city, county, state, 

and federal law enforcement 

agencies to establish manpower 

needs, both number and makeup, 

to provide effective enforcement 

and protection. 

SHOOTOUT IN MOSES LAKE 

By Joanna Putman 

Police1 

MOSES LAKE, WA — Body camera 

footage shows a man firing 

two guns at officers simultaneously, 

leading to an officer-involved 

shooting, KIRO reported. 

The May 4 incident began 

when officers responded to calls 

of a domestic disturbance at a 

motel, according to the report. 

Body camera footage released 

May 11 shows officers knocking at 

the motel room door, announcing 

their presence and requesting 

that the occupants come out 

with nothing in their hands. 

Video shows a woman exiting 

the room and cooperating with 

officers while a man stands in 

the doorway with one arm still 

inside the apartment. The man 

questioned officers, saying that 

he wanted to ensure his safety 


before exiting the apartment. 

One officer asked the man 

whether he had a gun, to which 

the man responded that he had 

multiple. 

“Do you have a gun in your 

hand?” the officer asked the man. 

“Yeah, I do,” the man replied. 

The officer then spoke with the 

man for several minutes, attempting 

to convince him that he 

would not be hurt as long as he 

exited the room without a gun in 

his hand. 

“I have a body camera that’s 

recording audio and visually, sir. 

I don’t want to hurt you…” the 

officer said. “…I don’t care about 

your warrants; I care about your 

safety and my safety.” 

Eventually, the man retreated 

back into the room and immediately 

re-exited, now holding 

a handgun in each hand, dash 

camera video shows. He fired a 

shot at officers from each gun, 

leading officers to return fire. 

He continued to fire multiple 

shots at officers with both guns 

until apparently running out of 

ammunition. After he stopped 

firing, he turned the corner of a 

building, after standing still for 

a few moments, he appeared to 

pass out, landing in the officers’ 

line of fire. 

One officer was shot in the 

foot during the exchange of 

gunfire, according to the report. 

He is recovering after undergoing 

surgery. 

The suspect was also wounded 

but was treated at a hospital 

and released to police custody, 


WYOMING SHERIFF UNVEILS 

RECRUITMENT BILLBOARD IN 

DENVER FOLLOWING COLO. 

PD’S BUDGET CUTS 

By Noah Zahn 

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, 

Cheyenne 

CHEYENNE, WY. — As the Denver 

Police Department braces 

for an expected $8.4 million in 

budget cuts, or 1.9%, the Laramie 

County Sheriff’s Office is taking 

advantage of the potential marketing 

edge to try to poach Colorado 

law enforcement officers. 

This week, LCSO unveiled a 

billboard in downtown Denver 

that reads “Work in Wyoming, 

where breaking the law is still 

illegal & cops are funded!” Lara-

mie County Sheriff Brian Kozak 

said this move is a part of LCSO’s 

ongoing efforts to recruit from 

across the nation. 

“We’ve been focusing on recruiting 

from Colorado for over a 

year now,” Kozak said. “Last year, 

in 2023, we focused a lot on 

digital advertising, social media 

(and) digital TV in the Colorado 

area, and we were very successful. 

We hired 72 people in just 

one year.” 

He said that not all were from 

Colorado, but a large portion of 

the hires were. 

Kozak began the campaign 

when he became sheriff in early 

2023. One of his strategies has 

been crafting marketable messaging 

that he feels is appealing 

to potential candidates. This 

messaging portrays the area as a 

community that is supportive of 

law enforcement, a conservative 

area, and one that has access to 

outdoor recreation like fishing, 

hiking and hunting. 

“We actually hired some law 

enforcement officers from the 

Denver area, and in talking to 

them, and on our contact sheets, 

... we learned that a lot of the 

officers are frustrated there because 

they feel like the ability to 

do their job is restricted,” Kozak 

said. “So, we’re really focusing 

on that aspect of it to recruit 

people.” 

“It’s also interesting that LCSO 

touts Denver in its own recruiting 

materials, stating, ‘Adventure 

awaits you in the Rocky Mountains 

or the bustling city of Denver, 

each within an hour’s drive.’” 

A recent WalletHub study 

ranked the best states to be a 

law enforcement officer based 

on opportunity and competition, 

training requirements, and job 

hazards and protection. 

It identified Colorado and 

Wyoming as the 5th and 24th 

best states to be a police officer, 

respectively. 

At LCSO, there are currently 

eight patrol positions open and 

17 openings in detention. Kozak 

said there is almost $1.3 million 

in overtime spent each year 

because of staffing shortages. 

He views these marketing investments 

as a good way to reduce 

that budget. 

For the billboard, located at 

1381 W. Alameda Ave., LCSO 

spent $2,500 for a 30-day rental. 

Kozak said he will see how 

the next month goes and decide 

whether they want to continue 

to rent the advertisement. Currently, 

LCSO is receiving 20 to 40 

responses per day from potential 

candidates expressing interest in 

one of the openings. 

Kozak said LCSO has spent 

around $40,000 on advertising in 

the fiscal year. 

“But when you think of it, 

$2,500, with all the media coverage 

we’re getting off of it, all 


the attention, it’s well worth the 

money,” Kozak said. 

Reprinted from the Wyoming 

Tribune-Eagle. 

DASH CAM VIDEO: MAN FLEE- 

ING OHIO POLICE GETS OUT 

OF CAR, FIRES AT OFFICERS 

BEFORE FATAL OIS 

By Holly Souther 

Dayton Daily News, Ohio 

COLUMBUS, OH — An Amazon 

employee is dead after exchanging 

gunfire with Columbus police 

Sunday. 

The incident started after West 

Jefferson police were dispatched 

on reports of an active shooter 

at Amazon CMH5 building, 

located at 6400 state Route 29, 

around 4:43 p.m., according to a 

Facebook post by the West Jefferson 

Police Department. 

“At least one shot was fired 

within Amazon, damaging the 

building,” the post said. 

Police officers cleared the 

building for threats and victims, 

according to police. No injuries 

were reported at the Amazon 

warehouse. 

The suspect left the scene in 

a vehicle in an unknown direction 

prior to the officers’ arrival, 

according to police. 

The suspect was later located 

in Columbus, where a second 

incident developed. The Columbus 

Dispatch reported a shooting 

occurred around 6:15 p.m. near 

the intersection of Georgesville 

and Clime roads, east of Interstate 

270. 

The suspect shot and hit a 

Columbus police officer, with 

officers returning fire, according 

to police. The suspect was pronounced 

deceased at OhioHealth 

Doctors Hospital. 


West Jefferson police said the 

officer was treated at Grant Hospital 

and is in stable condition. 

West Jefferson Police Department, 

Madison County Sheriff’s 

Office, Plain City Police Department, 

London Police Department, 

Ohio State Highway Patrol, 

Jefferson Twp. Fire Department 

and Prairie Twp. Fire Department 

responded to the scene as well. 

The Columbus Police Department 

and Ohio BCI are investigating 

the shooting. Investigations 

at both locations are open 

and ongoing. 

Reprinted from the Dayton Daily 

News. 

BWC: OHIO OFFICER 

TRAPPED IN CAR AS DRIVER 

FLEES TRAFFIC STOP 

By Kristen Spicker 

Dayton Daily News, Ohio 

DAYTON, OH — Body and dash 

camera footage from Dayton 

police showed an officer trapped 

in a car as a man reportedly 

attempted to flee a traffic stop 

earlier this week. 

Antonie Michael Still, 30, of 

Dayton was charged with one 

count each of felonious assault, 

kidnapping, obstructing official 

business and resisting arrest, 

according to Dayton Municipal 

Court records. His bond was set 

at $100,000 Wednesday. 

Around 10 p.m. Monday, Officer 

Ashley Frey and Officer Madeline 

Ambrose conducted a traffic 

stop on a Honda Civic with 

expired tags near Bierce Avenue 

and South Torrence Street. 

During the video, officers can 

be heard asking Still to stop 

moving things around inside the 

car before telling him to step 

outside. 

One of the officers opened the 

car door and Still pulled it shut 

and said, “Ma’am I’m not going to 

do that.” 

Frey and Ambrose opened the 

door again and began to pull 

Still out of the car. 

When Frey reached over to 

undo Still’s seat belt, he tried to 

speed up while she was still in 

the vehicle, according to court 

records. 

Dash camera footage showed 

Frey inside the vehicle, struggling 

with Still as they attempted 

to control the car. The car 

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which shut Frey inside the car, 

according to court records. 

Ambrose ran to the car and 

attempted to open the passenger 

door, but it was locked. The 

car reversed briefly and then 

Ambrose was able to break the 

passenger window. 

The car then accelerated forward 

again, crashing into a tree. 

The airbags deployed as a result 

of the crash. 

Still then got out of the car 

and fled on foot. One of the officers 

deployed a Taser, but Still 

managed to briefly evade police. 

While on foot, Still dropped a 

bag that he later told detectives 

contained cocaine, according 

court records. 

Two other officers found Still 

in the area hiding under a handicap 

ramp in a yard. A resident’s 

dog had bitten him. 

Frey was taken to the hospital 

and treated and released, 

according to police. Still was 

also transported to the hospital 

before he was booked into the 

Montgomery County Jail. 

While Still said he was shot 

at, police reported no shots 

were fired during the incident. 

He also did not have any broken 

ribs due to his interaction with 

police. 

“Unfortunately, this is an example 

of how quickly situations 

can escalate and become dangerous 

for our officers,” read 

a statement from the police 

department. “Fortunately, all 

parties involved in this incident 

were not more seriously injured.” 

ARMED CALIFORNIA MAN 

SHOT IN FACE AFTER PLACING 

OFFICER IN HEADLOCK 


YUCAIPA, Calif. – A California 

man who was armed with 

a handgun on his person and 

explosives in his vehicle placed 

a police officer in a headlock 

during a traffic detention before 

being shot in the face by a second 

officer, authorities said. 

Alan Metka, 56, violently fought 

with police prior to being shot. 

He survived his gunshot wounds 

and now faces several charges 

in San Bernardino County, KTLA 

reported. 

On Feb. 9, Fontana officers 

were assisting other law enforcement 

agencies when Metka 

was detained during a traffic 

stop at Yucaipa Blvd. and 14th 

Street. The Fontana Police Department 

said the reason for the 

stop involved a couple of equipment 

violations. 

Metka initially appeared polite 

and cooperative as he answered 

one of the officer’s questions, 

even acknowledging a prior arrest, 

according to bodycam footage 

released by Fontana Police 

on Monday. 

“What were you arrested for?” 

a male officer is heard asking. 

“Explosives in public,” Metka 

replied. 

The driver complied when the 

officer asked him to step out of 

the vehicle and over to the curb 

while they conducted a records 

check. 

A second officer was conducting 

a cursory pat down of Metka 

when the situation quickly escalated. 

“What’s this right here?” the 

female officer is heard asking 

him. 

“My gun,” Metka replied as he 

then proceeded to place her in a 

headlock. 

She immediately hollered to 

her partner, “He’s got a gun,” as 

she fought with the combatant. 

Fontana Police Chief Michael 

Dorsey emphasized during a 

Monday press conference how 

quickly an encounter can turned 

deadly, according to KTLA. 

“This was everything but a 

normal traffic stop with a very 

cooperative individual and in one 

second it turned into a deadly 

fight for the officer’s life,” the 

chief noted. “The female officer 

continued to fight back to keep 

his hand in his pocket, so his gun 

wasn’t withdrawn.” 

Bodycam footage of the violent 

encounter showed her partner

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esponded with a single gunshot 

contact wound, striking Metka in 

the jaw. 

“We surmised that the gunshot 

could not be heard [in the video] 

because it was a very close contact 

wound,” Dorsey said. 

In addition to the handgun 

recovered from Metka’s person, 

police searched his vehicle and 

discovered an unspecified explosive 

device. 

Metka survived his injuries 

and was subsequently charged 

with possession of a firearm by a 

felon, assault with a semiautomatic 

firearm on a peace officer, 

and possession of a destructive 

device. 

Once he was medically cleared, 

he was booked at the West Valley 

Detention Center where he 

continues to receive treatment 

for his injuries. His bail was 

set at $160,000 and he is next 

scheduled to appear in court on 

Wednesday. 

He has a maximum prison exposure 

of up to 12 years if convicted 

on all charges. 

In August 2021, Metka was 

arrested after he was found with 

enough explosives that police 

shutdown Sierra Avenue and 

Valley Boulevard in Fontana. 

“He was actually convicted of 

felony possession of an explosive 

device in public and received 

two years in county prison,” San 

Bernardino County District Attorney 

Jason Anderson said at the 

news conference. 


ILLINOIS REPLACES ‘OFFEND- 

ER’ WITH ‘JUSTICE-IMPACTED 

INDIVIDUAL’ 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – With the 

amount of violent crime occurring 

in the city of Chicago as well 

as surrounding Cook County, 

rational thinking people would 

be inclined to do more to protect 

these communities from harm. 

But the progressive politicos in 

Illinois are more concerned with 

nouns than public safety as they 

are legislating away the term “offender,” 

the Daily Wire reported. 

In March, a man by the name of 

Crosetti Brand, 37, was released 

on parole in the state of Illinois. 

He had been sentenced to 16 

years in prison due to a home invasion 

robbery, but was released 

early by the state’s prison review 

board subject to electronic monitoring. 

One day after Brand was released 

from prison, Chicago 

police say he attacked a pregnant 

woman and her 11-year-old boy, 

killing the child and critically 

injuring his mother, according to 

ABC 7. 

Chicago Police Superintendent 

Larry Snelling said it was a 

crime, “that should never happened.” 

The last time Brand was on 

parole, he threatened the same 

woman by text message and 

showed up at her home, according 

to court documents. 

Yet despite his criminal history 

along with the alleged threats, 

he was released early from incarceration. 

But let’s not refer to the alleged 

child killer as an “offender.” 

No, that would be harmful to 

his emotional disposition. Let’s 

use softer, more sympathetic 

verbiage when addressing people 

involved in crime. … At least 

that is what the state of Illinois 

is saying with its new legislation. 

With frequent examples 

similar to Brand’s case, you’d 

hope lawmakers in Illinois (and 

elsewhere) would be motivated 

to set aside the nonsense 

perpetuating the decarceration 

movement and support laws 

that reign in their approach of 

“restorative justice” in order to 

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However, the governing authorities 

in Illinois have opted for a 

very different response—something 

that would be satirical if 

they weren’t serious. 

A new bill that was just passed 

by both houses of the Illinois 

legislature will modify state law 

so the word “offender” is replaced 

by the term “justice-impacted 

individual,” according to 

the Daily Wire. 

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expected 

to sign the bill into law. 

Once that occurs, the state DOC 

and other governing authorities 

will be required to use the term 

for all the Crosetti Brand’s in its 

overflowing “justice-impacted” 

system. 

15-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED 

FOR TRYING TO CARJACK DEP- 

UTY’S PATROL CAR AT STREET 

TAKEOVER 

By Ruben Vives 


HIGHLAND, Calif. — San Bernardino 

County Sheriff’s Department 

on Thursday arrested 

a 15-year-old boy suspected 

of trying to carjack a sheriff’s 

deputy as a mob of people at an 

illegal street takeover attacked 

his patrol car. 

The teen, who was not identified 

because he is a minor, was 

arrested at his home in Highland 

and was booked at the San 

Bernardino County Juvenile Hall 

on suspicion of attempted carjacking 

and vandalism, according 

to a statement from the department. 

The alleged incident occurred 

shortly after midnight May 11 

during an illegal street takeover 

at Victoria and Highland avenues 

in the city of Highland. The 

department said a deputy was at 

a red light near the intersection 

when a large crowd swarmed 

his patrol car and began kicking 

and punching it. Some of the 

attackers, the department said, 

used unknown objects to cause 

damage to the vehicle, including 

its front windshield. 

During an investigation into 

the incident, detectives obtained 

video that captured images of a 

teenage boy opening the deputy’s 

driver side door and attempting 

to take control of it, the 

department said. 

Detectives later identified the 

boy and executed an arrest warrant 

at his home on Thursday. 

The deputy was not injured in 

the attack. This story originally 

appeared in Los Angeles Times . 



IOWA DEPUTY FORCED TO 

RIDE OUT TORNADO AFTER 

TREE FALLS ON CRUISER 

By Joanna Putman, Police1 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IA — 

Body camera video shows the 

moment an Iowa Deputy was 

caught outside during a severe 

storm when a tree fell on his 

cruiser, WOWT reported. 

A Montgomery County Sheriff’s 

Sgt. Todd Dollen was caught 

in the tornado while assisting 

campers during severe weather 

on May 21 in Red Oak, Iowa, 

according to the report. After 

ensuring the campers reached 

shelter, Dollen attempted to aid 

some horses but found himself in 

the tornado’s path. 

Body-worn camera footage 

shows Dollen maneuvering the 

vehicle away from flying debris 

as the winds intensify. The video 

captures the moment the tree 

fell on the vehicle, forcing Dollen 

to stay inside while the tornado 

passed overhead. 

“Sgt. Dollen rode out the tornado 

in his vehicle while it passed 

over the top of him,” the Montgomery 

County Sheriff’s Office 

stated in a Facebook post. The 

footage reveals Dollen holding 

tightly to the steering wheel, 

breathing heavily as the storm 

raged. 

“I put the vehicle in park, my 

foot on the brake, and grabbed 

the steering wheel. I kind of 

relate it to an amusement park 

ride where you are anticipating 

what’s going to happen,” he told 

WOWT. 

All of the campers managed 

to escape the severe weather unharmed, 

according to officials. 


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NATIONAL MISSING 

CHILDREN’S DAY 


HELP US FIND THEM 

Every year on National Missing Children’s Day, May 25, we reaffirm 

our commitment to investigating these cases and finding children 

who have been reported kidnapped or missing, and we continue to 

encourage parents, caregivers, and others to make child safety a priority. 

Please take a look at the faces of the children on three pages—these 

are just some of the many children who have gone missing, leaving 

behind family and friends waiting for any news of their loved ones. If 

you have any information about these children that could help lead to 

their recovery, please contact the FBI, local law enforcement, or submitting 

a tip online. 

The Blues -- June ‘24 81

HOW THE FBI SUPPORTS MISSING CHILDREN CASES 

Children continue to face dangerous 

threats from online predators, human 

traffickers, kidnappers, and other 

criminals who mean harm. 

The FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid 

Deployment (CARD) teams are composed 

of experienced personnel 

with a proven track record in crimes 

against children investigations, especially 

cases where a child has been 

abducted by someone other than a 

family member. Team members provide 

on-the-ground investigative, 

technical, and resource assistance to 

state and local law enforcement. The 

teams work closely with representatives 

from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis 

Unit (BAU), National Center for the 

Analysis of Violent Crime coordinators, 

and child exploitation task force 

members. 

The FBI’s Child Victim Services program 

within the Victim Services Division 

provides support to child victims, 

the families of child victims, and witnesses 

of federal crimes. The team is 

focused on ensuring that any interactions 

with child victims or witnesses 

are tailored to the child’s stage of 

development and minimize any additional 

trauma to the child. In addition, 

they connect children and families 

to other resources to support their 

health and well-being through difficult 

times. 

National Missing Children’s Day is 

also a reminder about preparedness 

should the unthinkable ever happen 

to your child. You can download the 

FBI’s Child ID app, which allows you 

to quickly share key information with 

authorities if your child is missing. The 

free app also includes tips on keeping 

children safe and guidance on what 

to do during the first crucial hours after 

a child goes missing. (The FBI does 

not collect or store the information 

or photos you enter into the app. The 

data resides on your mobile device 

unless you choose to send it to authorities 

in an emergency.) 


What to do if Your Child Goes Missing 

The FBI has jurisdiction to immediately investigate any reported mysterious 

disappearance or kidnapping involving a child. Do not wait to report a missing 

child. Call your local FBI field office or the closest international office. You can 

also contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) 

at 1-800-THE-LOST. If your child is being abducted internationally by a family 

member and is not yet abroad, contact the U.S. Department of State. 

The Blues -- June ‘24 83

You’re shopping at the mall with your children when 

one of them suddenly disappears. A quick search of 

the nearby area is unsuccessful. What do you do? 


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application created by the FBI—provides a convenient place to electronically store 

photos and other vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand 

if you need it. You can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height 

and weight to security or police officers on the spot. Using a special tab on the app, you 

can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities with a few clicks. 

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option to help keep your information safe and allows you to add pictures from 

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The app is available for download on iPhones through iTunes and on Android phones 

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An important note: The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that 

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Put your child’s safety in your own hands. Download the FBI’s Child ID app today. 


Adam’s Legacy: 

Transforming how we search for 

missing children. 

By Patricia Davis 

National Missing Children’s Day, recognized 

every May 25, will be especially poignant 

this year at NCMEC as we celebrate 

our 40th anniversary. Since opening our 

doors in 1984, we’ve witnessed a dramatic 

transformation in the way our nation 

searches for missing children. 

If 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted 

from a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida 

today, the response would be very, very 

different than it was on July 27, 1981. 

Today, unlike 40 years ago, a child abduction 

is entered into the FBI’s national 

crime database, giving law enforcement 

agencies in different jurisdictions real-time 

information to assist in the search. Missing 

child posters featuring Adam’s photo could 

quickly blanket Florida and could be shared 

on social media, national TV shows and 

trucker networks. 

Rapid deployment teams would be available 

to mobilize investigative expertise and 

critical resources – search dogs, drones, 

landscape mapping, details on nearby sex 

offenders and any attempted abductions 

in the area. If the case fit the state’s criteria, 

highway signs and cellphones would 

light up with AMBER Alerts to mobilize the 

public. Adam’s face could appear on Ring 

videos and gas station TVs. There would be 

emotional support offered for Adam’s parents, 

John and Revé Walsh. 

Back in 1981, Adam’s parents had none of 

these resources available when their son 

was abducted. When Adam vanished, there 

was no coordinated national response in 

place to search for missing children. During 

the worst moment of their lives, they realized 

that no one had a plan to find Adam, 

and they were on their own searching for 

their child. Two weeks after his abduction, 

Adam was found murdered. John and Revé 

channeled their profound grief into action 

and created a national movement to help 

all missing and exploited children. They 

co-founded NCMEC on April 6, 1984 as the 

nation’s clearinghouse and resource center 

on issues related to missing and exploited 

children. 

Over the past 40 years, while the world 

has changed in immeasurable ways, so 

has the way our nation responds when a 

child goes missing. A deeper understanding 

about issues facing children and advances 

in technology have enhanced the way we 

alert the public when a child is missing: 

• Social media enables us to spread the 

word quickly and geo-target areas where a 


child is missing or may be now. 

• AMBER Alerts are galvanizing people 

faster through their cellphones and other 

electronic devices to search for abducted 

children. 

• Here at NCMEC, we no longer wait for 

the media to call us. Instead, we proactively 

and intentionally engage media markets in 

areas where law enforcement believes a 

missing child may be. 

• We recently debuted an innovative way 

to search for missing children – using a hyper-localized 

QR code that allows users to 

view pictures of chlidren who went missing 

within a 50-mile radius. 

• Ring, GSTV and national television 

shows, like “America’s Most Wanted” and 

“On Patrol Live,” are helping us bring more 

children home. 

New laws are also having a profound 

impact on bringing children home. A law 

enacted on Sept. 29, 2014, for example, 

requires Social Services to report any child 

missing from care to both law enforcement 

and NCMEC. Tragically, the law was needed 

because so many children vanish from 

foster care and group homes and are never 

reported. You can’t find children if you don’t 

know they’re missing. Since the law was 

passed, more children missing from care 

are being recovered – our caseload has 

doubled – making the law itself a powerful 

tool. 


The spotlight on missing children in our 

country has never been brighter, thanks 

in great part to the tireless efforts of John 

and Revé Walsh. 

In 1981, after their son was abducted and 

murdered, they lobbied Congress tirelessly. 

“Where’s the Children’s Building?” Revé 

asked in a taxi when she and her husband 

landed in Washington. Today, NCMEC is that 

“children’s building.” Headquartered in Alexandria, 

Virginia, NCMEC has grown from 

a handful of employees to a staff of more 

than 450, with hundreds of volunteers and 

three regional branches across the United 

States. 

Two years after Adam’s abduction, President 

Reagan proclaimed May 25 as National 

Missing Children’s Day. It was named after 

6-year-old Etan Patz who was abducted 

on that day in 1979. Etan was walking alone 

for the very first time to his school bus stop 

in New York City and has never been found. 

His shocking abduction, and that of Adam 

and other children around that time, including 

victims of the “Atlanta’s missing and 

murdered children,” awakened the nation 

to what was happening to its most vulnerable 

citizens. The next year, President Reagan 

officially opened NCMEC as the nation’s 

beacon of hope for families of missing and 

exploited children. 

Since that day, we’ve helped law enforcement 

recover more than 426,000 missing 

children. Our partnerships with the Office 

of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs, 

federal law-enforcement agencies 

and private donors have grown stronger. 

National Missing Children’s Day honors Etan Patz. 

We have a rapid deployment team comprised 

of experienced retired law-enforcement 

officers called Team Adam. Our Adam 

Program signs up citizens and businesses 

for email alerts if a child is missing in their 

area. Code Adam keeps kids safer in businesses, 

parks, government buildings – all 

named in Adam’s memory. 

Because of what happened to Adam, 

we’re all working together now to help 

missing and exploited children. What a 

remarkable legacy Adam has left on our 

nation. 

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The following conferences represent only a few of the better 

police conferences you should attend in 2024. A list of EVERY 

police conference will appear later this month in this section. 

If your group has a conference or training session scheduled 

for2024, please send the information to: bluespdmag@gmail. 

com. 

National Sheriff’s Association Annual Education & Technology 

Conference 2024 

When: June 24-27, 2024 

Where: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 

Why You Should Go: The NSA Annual Conference and Exhibition 

features vendor displays of products and equipment relevant 

to every aspect of law enforcement including; jails, prisoner 

transport, courtroom security, and police work. 

Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators 

When: June 24-27, 2024 

Where: New Orleans 

Why You Should Go: The IACLEA 2024 annual conference will 

provide campus law enforcement professionals with the best 

educational programming for university police, a vendor showcase, 

and training and tools to positively impact their jobs. 

FBI National Academy Associates Annual 2024 Conference 

When: July 20-23, 2024 

Where: Kansas City, Missouri 

Why Attend: FBINAA is one of the best networking events with 

more than 17,000 members from 170 countries. Training and 

learning sessions have been led by experts from the likes of FBI, 

NYPD, Philadelphia Police Department, Department of Defense, 

Homeland Security, US Army War College, Ontario Provincial 

Police, leading technology companies such as Microsoft, and 

major retailers. 

2024 Crimes Against Children Conference 

When: August 11-15, 2024 

Where: Dallas, TX2021 CACC 

The annual CACC event, typically held in Dallas, Texas, is organized 

by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center and brings 

together up to 10,000 law enforcement and children advocates 

focused on preventing and addressing the repercussions of 

crimes against children. 

2024 National Interdiction Conference 

When: August 18-23, 2024 

Where: Anaheim, California 

Why Attend: This event focuses on training and influencing a 

pro-active “All Crimes” approach to criminal interdiction and is 

coordinated by the National Criminal Enforcement Association. 

Annual SMILE CONFERENCE 2024 

When: September 18-19, 2024 

Where: Palm Beach, FL. 

Why You Should Go: Hosted by the Scottsdale Police Department, 

the SMILE annual conference is the leading event devoted 

to Social Media, the Internet and Law Enforcement initiatives. 

The organization pioneered the adoption of social media by law 

enforcement agencies across the world for public outreach, 

crime prevention, and forensics. 

High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) 

When: September 19-22, 2023 

Where: Phoenix, AZ 

Why You Should Go: HTCIA features some of the world’s top industry 

leaders and is one of the most respected high technology 

investigation conferences in the world. Current practitioners 

who engage in high technology daily serve as both presenters 

and attendees. 

National Association for Civilian Oversight in Law Enforcement 

Conference 

When: October 13-17, 2024 

Where: Tucson, Arizona 

Why Attend: NACOLE started with its first event in 1995, and 

continuously works to put together comprehensive, informative, 

and inclusive programs that address skills training and current 

or emerging topics. This conference is best suited for civilian 

oversight practitioners, law enforcement officials, journalists, 

elected officials, students, community members, and others. 

International Association of Chiefs of Police 2024 Conference 

When: October 19-22, 2024 

Where: Boston, Massachusetts 

Why You Should Go: The IACP annual conference provides law 

enforcement leaders with the new strategies, techniques, and 

resources they need to successfully navigate the ever-evolving 

policing environment. 

Ontario Gang Investigators Association 2024 Conference 

When: November 2024 

Where: TBD 

The ONGIA conference brings together members of the law enforcement 

community to learn the latest in gang trends, investigations, 

and intelligence while providing professional development 

for Police, Probation and Parole, Correctional Officers, 

Crowns Attorneys, CBSA Officers, Victim Witness Assistance 

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Topics Include: 

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HONORING OUR 

SERGEANT BILL HOOSER 

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SANTAQUIN POLICE DEPARTMENT, UTAH 

END OF WATCH SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024 

AGE: 50 TOUR: 9 YEARS BADGE: N/A 

Sergeant Bill Hooser was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer that was fleeing a traffic stop on I-15 near mile 

marker 244 in Santaquin. A Utah Highway Patrol trooper and Sergeant Hooser initiated a traffic stop at 6:30 

a.m. after reports of a person standing on the back of a semi-trailer. The driver fled and turned his tractor-trailer 

around, driving south on the northbound lanes, when he hit Sergeant Hooser, his patrol car, and the trooper’s 

vehicle. Sergeant Hooser was killed instantly. The subject fled on foot and stole a truck. He was apprehended 

after crashing the truck during a short pursuit. 

Sergeant Hooser had served with the Santaquin Police Department for seven years and previously served with 

the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office (New Mexico) for two years. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and 

a granddaughter.

FALLEN HEROES 

POLICE OFFICER JACOB DERBIN 

EUCLID POLICE DEPARTMENT, OHIO 

END OF WATCH SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024 

AGE: 23 TOUR: 10 MONTHS BADGE: N/A 

Police Officer Jacob Derbin was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call in the 300 block of East 

211th Street at about 9:55 pm. He was ambushed by a subject after he arrived at the location. The man who 

shot him, who is a convicted felon and was wanted for violating conditions of his community supervision, fled 

the scene. Officer Derbin was transported to University Hospitals where he succumbed to his wounds. 

The suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next day. 

Officer Derbin had served with the Euclid Police Department for 10 months. He is survived by his fiancée. 


HONORING OUR 

TROOPER II MARCELLUS E. BETHEA 

NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE, NEW JERSEY 

END OF WATCH SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2024 

AGE: 33 TOUR: 8 YEARS BADGE: 7829 

Trooper II Marcellus Bethea collapsed and died while training at the Ewing Headquarters 

Division at 1040 River Road in Ewing Township. 

Trooper Bethea was training to join Teams Unit One, the New Jersey State Police SWAT 

Team. 

Trooper Bethea had served with the New Jersey State Police for eight years. He was survived 

by his wife and daughter. 

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FALLEN HEROES 

MASTER-AT-ARMS LYNDON JOEL COSGRIFF-FLAX 

UNITED STATES NAVY SECURITY FORCES 

END OF WATCH SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024 

AGE: 22 TOUR: 2 YEARS BADGE: N/A 

Master-at-Arms 3rd Class LJ Cosgriff-Flax died when he fell overboard while conducting 

training at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in Yorktown, Virginia. He was conducting familiarization 

training on the York River with his harbor security boat team when he fell overboard at 

about 8:05 pm. MA3 Cosgriff-Flax suffered fatal injuries during the incident. 

MA3 Cosgriff-Flax had been stationed at NWS Yorktown for two years. He is survived by his 

mother, father and stepmother, brother, sister, and grandparents. 




BY MICHAEL BARRON 

Guide to In-Patrol Car Dining 

Editor: Many years ago, a story appeared on 

my desk seeking a spot in the upcoming War 

stories section of the BLUES. While it wasn’t necessary 

a ‘war story’ per se, it was entertaining 

and somewhat educational. It centered around 

“in-patrol dining” and what foods you could eat 

while on patrol. Now I’m sure with in-car cameras 

and BWC this might not be a thing anymore, 

or perhaps it still is. Regardless, I’ve updated the 

stories to include some of the latest offerings in 

drive-thru food choices and their adaptability to 

eating while on patrol. 

While at lunch with some patrol buddies of 

mine, the conversation somehow led to “dude you 

aren’t seriously going to eat those leftovers on the 

remainder of your shift, are you?” 

Sure, why not? 

Cause the guts of those tacos are going to spill 

everywhere and I’m pretty sure your car share 

partner isn’t going to want to sit in lettuce and 

guacamole. Nevertheless, he asked for a to-go 

box and proceeded to walk out the door, happy to 

have his afternoon snack ready to go. 

So, this got me to thinking. What exactly ‘can’ 

you eat while patrolling the streets of Houston. So, 

over the next few weeks, I conducted several ‘experiments’ 

with all kinds of drive-thru and to go 

foods to see what worked and what was a disaster. 

So, in no particular order, here are my findings: 

HAND-HELD FAST FOODS 

WHATABURGER: 

FAILS 

• Whataburger #1 with lettuce, tomato, onions, 

pickles, mayo, ketchup. 

• Any specialty burger loaded with anything other 

than meat and a bun. 

• Full Size Breakfast meal with pancakes 

(this should be obvious) 

• Whataburger with chili (again a no-brainer) 

RIDEALONGS 

• Breakfast on a Bun 

• Chicken Fingers dinner (watch the gravy) 

• Chicken Sandwich without lettuce & tomato 

• Whataburger Junior without lettuce & tomato 

MACDONALDS 

FAILS 

• Breakfast Meal with Hotcakes 

• Big Mac 

• Sausage Burritos (juices pour out the bottom of 

the paper wrapping) 

• Fruit and Maple Oatmeal 

RIDEALONGS 

• Quarter Pounder with Cheese or plain 

• Small Hamburger or Cheeseburger 

• Fish Sandwich 

• McNuggets 

• Breakfast Sandwiches 


WENDYS 

FAILS 

• Cinnabon 

• Baconator (can cause stroke while driving) 

• Pretzel Baconator 

(can cause stroke & heart attack while driving) 

• Breakfast Baconator 

• Chili (come one don’t be stupid) 

• Salads – Much better for you but you ain’t 

driving and eating a salad 

RIDEALONGS 

• Single with cheese 

• Small Hamburger or Cheeseburger 

• Chicken Nuggets 

• Breakfast Sandwiches 

• Frosty – you have to stop some time 

and this is a good time to do just that. 

JACK IN THE BOX 

FAILS 

• Bacon Double Smashed Jack Combo 

• Classic Smashed Chicken 

• Anything with the name “smashed” in it 

• Classic Buttery (insert burger name here) 

• Jumbo Jack (in other words, no burgers) 

• Anything with the word ‘loaded’ at the 

front of the name 

• Chicken Fajita Pita 

• Chicken Teriyaki Bowl 

(damn good, but you’re parking for this one) 

• Grilled wraps 

RIDEALONGS 

• Popcorn Chicken 

• Chicken Strips (lots of batter) 

• Tiny Tacos (skip the loaded ones) 

• Regular Tacos (best late-night snack EVER) 

• Plain Burger with no condiments 

• Onion Rings 


FIVE GUYS 

FAILS 

• Any of their burgers. They are delicious but the 

juice runs everywhere. 

RIDEALONGS 

• A bag of their fries 

SONIC 

FAILS 

• Burgers with anything but meat and cheese 

• anything with chili 

RIDEALONGS 

• Any of their finger foods 

• Great malts and shakes 

IN & OUT 

“Keep on driving to the nearest Whataburger” 

TACO BELL 

FAILS 

• Damn near entire menu 

RIDEALONGS 

• Nacho Fries 

Chick-Fil-A 

FAILS 

• Chicken Deluxe 

• Any of their Salads 

• Closed on Sundays 

RIDEALONGS 

• Strips & Nuggets 

• Chicken Sandwiches 

• Waffle Fries (if you like waffle fries) 

• Best Damn Lemonade on the Planet 

KFC 

FAILS 

• Buckets of Chicken (Lol) 

• Mashed Potatoes and Gravy 

RIDEALONGS 


• Chicken Sandwich (so so) 

Mind you this experiment was conducted 

in TEXAS. We realize cops in other states 

and large metropolitan cities may have different 

standards. 

• New York & New Jersey – A slice. Any kind, 

any time. Fold-it and it’s good to go. 

• Philly – Cheese Steak 

• Memphis – BBQ 

• Nashville – Hot Chicken 

• Florida – Any kind of seafood 

• Boston – Bowl of Chowder (with a lid) 

• Chicago – Deep Dish Pizza 

• Hazen Arkansas – Anything Chief Bradley 

can shoot and kill on his days off. 

We could go on, but you get the drift. 

Send us your favorite RIDEALONG FOOD to: 

bluespdmag@gmail.com. 

OH YEAH, WE FORGOT ONE, 

ALL BRAND OF DONUTS 

Popeyes 

FAILS 

• A Box of Chicken (Lol) 

• Rice & Beans 

RIDEALONGS 


• Chicken Sandwich 

(voted best Chicken sandwich) 

• Seafood boxes 



WORDS BY HUNTER RANKIN 

“The Duty of Drinking 

If you’re like me (or like I was), 

there have been times you’ve 

wondered if you should be at 

work due to the previous night’s 

festivities. There are a myriad 

of reasons why there tends to 

be a phenomenon within some 

law enforcement professionals 

that never want the good times 

to end but as long as the good 

times are flowing, the feelings 

from the job simply had to wait. 

When I started in the profession 

in 1996, I was an 18-yearold 

kid who graduated high 

school the week before my start 

employment date. I had to transition 

from the normal carefree 

disposition of most high school 

kids, to now worrying about 

the stress of holding a job in a 

paramilitary environment. Beginning 

in the county detention 

center made that transition a lot 

easier but I quickly realized that 

working in a jail wasn’t much 

different than attending high 

school. 

A lot of the same people were 

there, some in orange and some 

in grey. The gossip was about 

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the same too. Much like high 

school, when the workday was 

over, it didn’t end and only just 

began. We would leave the jail, 

and ended up in the desert, or a 

bar somewhere. 

THE CULTURE 

At 18 years old, I wouldn’t 

normally have the ability to be 

involved in the after-work festivities, 

but my coworkers and 

supervisors made sure I could 

attend all of the necessary 

functions to be part of the club. 

Whether it entailed purchasing 

beer for me or sneaking me 

into the bar surrounded by cops 

wearing undershirts and uniform 

pants, I was part of “the team” 

and proved it on a nightly basis… 

after work. 

There were many days at work, 

after one of our nights of “Choir 

Practice,” that I felt like I should 

probably be checking myself into 

the drunk tank. Being from a 

small town, I began drinking at 

an early age. The drinking part 

of it was nothing new to me, but 

what came later on was. 

I was taught that drinking 

together was how you handled 

all of your stresses and emotions 

and bonded as partners. You 

didn’t talk about your feelings 

because that would make you 

seem weak. We worked in a profession 

where both sides could 

smell weakness and would use it 

to their advantage. This new way 

of dealing with life carried on 

years into my career even after I 

left the jail and was working as 

a sworn deputy. 

By my mid-twenties, I had 

been through a lot of the normal 

traumas that most in our profession 

go through but beginning 

the career at 18 years old had 

made me the Doogie Howser of 

police work. I had learned a lot, 

been through a lot, and dealt 

with none of it, all at a very early 

age. 

I experienced the gruesome 

scenes, the vulnerable victims, 

seeing people’s lives end way 

too early, and the one trauma 

that would shape the rest of my 

life, my childhood friend and 

partner was shot and killed in 

the line of duty. I chose not to

drink until he was buried but 

after the funeral, it was business 

(or fun) as usual. 

THE BOTTOM 

Drinking was how I coped with 

life, along with the accompanying 

trials and tribulations. That 

was until 2015 when I hit absolute 

rock bottom and was continuing 

to dig. That digging led 

me to beautiful Palm Springs, 

California. I always loved California 

and it was always a vacation 

destination for my family. I 

always wanted to live in California, 

so I got my wish, but I never 

dreamed it would be in a rehab 

facility under lock and key. 

90 days later, I came out a 

freshly graduated rehabber with 

a new outlook on life. It wasn’t 

easy and it took a lot of work, 

but it can absolutely be done. 

We are a unique breed in this 

profession and the journey to 

getting help was actually the 

hardest part. 

THE BEGINNING 

Once I broke down the 

long-engrained barriers that 

taught me to suck it up, drink 

your emotions, don’t talk about 

your feelings…and DON’T ask for 

help, I found a whole new world 

waiting for me. 

It was actually a world I had 

always been living in but had 

been masked by the dark filter 

I put on it. Getting sober was 

not and is not all rainbows and 

sunshine. Life still sucks, but I 

learned how to deal with life on 

life’s terms. Learning this new 

way of dealing with life has me 

happy and proud to say I am a 9 

year “graduate” of rehab. 

This is one of the biggest accomplishments 

of my life. There 

is help out there for all of us if 

we need it. Taking the first step is 

the hardest, but well worth it. 

THE SUBTLE SIGN 

In my last article, I wrote about 

the Line of Duty Death of my 

childhood friend and partner. I 

mentioned that I made a conscious 

decision not to drink until 

after the funeral. I knew that I 

needed to be strong and focused 

for the family. What I didn’t realize 

back then; is that it was a 

subtle sign I already had a drinking 

problem. 

Normal Drinkers, referred to as 

“Normies” by those of us in recovery 

never have to adjust their 

drinking for different situations. 

Normies never stop drinking or 

pause drinking to prove they can. 


Sound familiar? I hope not, but if 

it does, there is a solution. 

In 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous 

was formed by two men 

in Akron, Ohio. Bill W, a New 

York Stockbroker, and Dr. Bob S. 

an Akron surgeon had a small 

meeting. These two men, affectionately 

referred to as Bill W. 

and Dr. Bob founded a program 

so profound that it is responsible 

for millions of men and women 

achieving and maintaining sobriety 

worldwide. I’m sure neither 

of those men realized the magnitude 

of their simple meeting and 

that what they discussed would 

still be going on 89 years later. 

The Big Book of Alcoholics 

Anonymous was later created. It 

is essentially a bible for alcoholics. 

In this book, we are taught 

that the one true wish of every 

alcoholic is to be a Normie. We 

wish we could drink casually, 

occasionally, just for fun, not 

for a reason, not to get rid of 

a problem, not to decompress 

from a hard day, not to cope 

with and drown out bad memories 

until we can’t remember 

them anymore. 

Spoiler alert, those bad memories 

always come back someday. 

There is a simple test that is 

posed in this literature. It goes 

something like this… Walk into a 

bar, order an alcoholic beverage 


(pay for it) take one drink, sit it 

back down on the bar, and walk 

out. Now if your head just exploded, 

as mine did the first time 

I heard that, you might not be a 

Normie. An alcoholic or problem 

drinker’s head will explode, not 

because of the money that was 

just wasted, but because who 

in their right mind would waste 

alcohol like that? Guys like me 

used to make fun of the guys 

who didn’t finish their drinks or 

went home first. I can only imagine 

exercising that test today, 9 

years sober, and I would not be 

able to taste just one drink of 

that alcohol and be satisfied. We 

would be fastening our seatbelts 

and on a collision course with 

Last Call. 

My allergy to alcohol would 

once again be revealed. 

First Responders have a keen 

sense of awareness, and we 

pick up on signs and signals 

that most civilians don’t. We 

are taught to trust our gut, and 

when something doesn’t feel 

right it’s probably not. I can say 

the same for alcoholics and 

Normies. Alcoholics have a different 

brain, a different thought 

process, and a different way of 

viewing and living life. If any 

of this sounds familiar to you, 

or you already know but aren’t 

ready to admit it, I promise you 

there is a solution. 

Everyone’s story is different, 

everyone’s recovery is different 

and doesn’t have to be like mine. 

There are a ton of different ways 

to deal with it, and not all of 

them involve Rehab or AA. Trust 

your gut, and pay attention to 

the subtle signs, they are there 

for a reason. Cops are some of 

the strongest and smartest people 

there are on the planet, but 

also the most stubborn. 

You will know when it is time, 

just get out of your own way 

and get to work. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Hunter Rankin is a Sheriff’s 

Commander in Arizona with over 

24 years experience in law enforcement. 

He is a graduate of 

the Northwestern Police School 

of Staff and Command, Class 

453 and the Arizona Leadership 

Program Class 4. He currently 

leads the Criminal Investigations 

Bureau in a medium sized agency. 

He has command experience in 

Patrol, Traffic, Training, Dispatch, 

Internal Affairs and Human Resources. 

He has 9 years of sobriety 

from Michael’s House of Palm 

Springs, CA and Palm Desert 

Recovery Center in Palm Desert, 

CA. He is a strong advocate for 

wellness and recovery in law 

enforcement. 

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A BADGE OF HONOR 

healing our heroes 

The Reality of 

Police Work! 

There is no job on this planet 

that suffers or loses more than 

our Law Enforcement officers. 

No job buries more employees 

or sustains more physical and 

mental injuries per year then our 

Brave men and Women in Blue. 

Some want to believe it’s all 

about saving lives and being the 

Hero. Others think it’s a hefty 

and secure retirement with great 

benefits. The reality is, the Job is 

a calling. Those who choose to 

answer it, are willing to do anything 

for one another. With this 

answer, comes preparation. 

Yes, there may come a time 

or two throughout your 20 or 

30-year career, to save a life or 

be called a Hero. You may even 

have the book smarts and the 

stomach to join the politically 

fueled ranks up the Law Enforcement 

ladder. But it doesn’t mean 

anything without the proper 

preparation of your own mental 

mindset. 

The reality is you’ll work 10,957 

days or 262,974 hours of your 

life and in some cases witness 

approximately 800 Traumatic experiences 

over a 30-year career. 

We witness things each day 

that no human can truly ever 

prepare for. Our brain is not capable 

of processing the amount 

of trauma we see in such a short 


period of time. The average 

civilian sees maybe 5 Traumatic 

events in a lifetime, some of our 

Officers can experience that in 

just one 8-hour shift. 

Keeping a Healthy Mindset is 

the most important tool you will 

need to place into your Mental 

Health toolbox. 

You will spend countless hours 

off the clock decompressing 

from your shift, missing your 

kids’ baseball games and other 

family functions. This causes 

your mental health to deteriorate, 

possibly resulting in Isolation, 

addictions and self-harm. 

This can become your off-duty 

activities without the proper 

preparation. 

The reality: Loneliness, Kidney 

failure, Divorce, or Death can 

occur. The 262,974 plus hours 

you have worked so hard for 

should not be just tossed in the 

trash. There will never be a Hero 

Status, a book writing deal or 

enjoying everything you worked 

so hard for if you didn’t prepare 

or were too scared to talk. 

For most of us who are on regular 

Patrol, Detective, or Specialized 

Field Unit duties, those hefty 

pensions, book writing deals, or 

Hero Lives may never apply. But if 

you have an unhealthy mindset, 

you are almost guaranteed that 

SAMANTHA HORWITZ & 

JOHN SALERNO 

it will never happen. That’s just 

the true reality of it. 

The 800,000 plus sworn Officers 

throughout the United States 

have already seen 59 Brothers 

and Sisters laid to rest in 2024 

thus far and unfortunately there 

will be more before the years up. 

On average, we lose over 100 

Officers per year to felonious 

assaults, MVAs, drownings and 

more. Not to mention those lost 

by their own hands due to mental 

stress. 

When you look at the reality of 

these numbers and on how many 

people are impacted, the results 

are staggering. No other Job suffers 

as much. 

The Country’s expectation 

of us is more than the support 

they are willing to give. Yes, we 

have implemented many great 

peer-support groups, programs, 

and workshops. But it’s not 

enough. The reality is we as Officers 

are not utilizing them. Why? 

Well, we were never taught to 

talk the talk, only walk the walk. 

Many are afraid of the weight it 

may bring down on their careers,

and some are just afraid. 

Which is kind of ironic when 

you think about it. We will run 

towards gun fire, run into a 

burning building, climb the highest 

of peaks to save someone we 

don’t know and place ourselves 

in harm’s way, but we can’t build 

up the courage to make an appointment 

for self-help. 

It’s kind of sad when you think 

about it. We believed and aspired 

for our careers to be like 

the things we have read or heard 

about or seen on TV. That’s not 

reality. We need to set ourselves 

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Preparation for retirement and 

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those around you. Learning to 

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DARYL LOTT 

daryl’s deliberations 

Diphtheria or Plague of 

the Children 

Exactly 203 years ago in 1821 

one of humanity’s most deadly 

diseases was given a name: 

Diphtheria. The malady is named 

for a false membrane that the 

disease produces that covers the 

soft palette of the throat. The 

membrane looks like a piece 

of leather hide on the back of 

the throat so “leather” is what 

Diphtheria means in English. The 

infection produces poison and 

the leather like membrane 

grows and eventually 

suffocates the 

victim. Adults could get 

the disease and die from 

it, but children and their 

little throats are particularly 

vulnerable, so the 

disease was especially 

lethal among children. 

Diphtheria is contagious 

and is passed by 

droplets from person to 

person. In the late 1800’s, 

germ theory was limited. 

American physicians 

didn’t really buy into the 

theory, but they knew 

children were dying 

of the plague. British 

scientists warned that 

people were spreading 

the disease with a “kiss 

of death” when they 

kissed their suffocating 


children. They were correct, but 

what parent can resist kissing 

their child as the child’s blue 

face contorts in agony? 

No region of the world was 

safe from Diphtheria. No economic 

class was safe. Queen 

Victoria’s daughter, Princess Alice 

(age 35) and Alice’s daughter 

both died of the disease. 

The queen, like countless other 

parents and grandparents, was 

DARYL LOTT 

devastated. Of course, the disease 

spread like wildfire through 

densely populated cities 

like London and New 

York. The low income 

tenements were a fertile 

environment for the 

plague. 

The hospital wards 

were full of dying children 

and wailing parents. 

In New York City, 

in 1873, two physicians 

entered the fray on 

behalf of the working 

poor in the city’s crowded 

neighborhoods. The 

husband and wife team 

of Abraham Jacobi and 

Mary Putnam were 

angels of mercy in the 

crowded and deadly 

wards. These advocates 

for public health agencies 

actually created a 

new field of medicine 

known as “Pediatrics.”

The idea was that children are 

not simply smaller versions of 

an adult, but are separate beings 

with their own issues. The chief 

issue at that time was Diphtheria. 

The doctors’ own family was not 

immune to Diphtheria as they 

lost their beloved seven year old. 

This only spurred the doctors’ 

efforts to promote public health 

standards and sanitation for everyone, 

including the poor. 

In 1888, the Pasteur Institute 

of Paris had two scientists that 

isolated the pathogen that produced 

the poison. That led to a 

Japanese scientist developing a 

process for making an antitoxin. 

The Pasteur Institute followed 

the process and developed an 

antitoxin from the blood of 

horses. It included infecting the 

horses with tetanus and their 

systems produced an antitoxin 

for Diphtheria. 

This equine based treatment 

for Diphtheria was a huge breakthrough 

and the scientists involved 

won the Nobel Prize in 

1901. The fatality rate among 

children fell to 25% with the 

horse antibodies treatment. The 

world had some hope! Obviously, 

in our modern world a lethality 

rate of 25% is not a good thing, 

but the celebrations of the new 

treatment were worldwide and 

heartfelt. Of course, the availability 

of the treatment was 

a whole new problem. Many 

vulnerable populations still 

suffered without the treatments. 

President Grover Cleveland’s 

daughter, “Baby Ruth” (the candy 

bar is named for her), died even 

with the treatment. One of the 

most famous efforts to make the 

treatment available to children 

took place in Alaska in 1925. It 

involved a 674 mile dog sled race 

to Nome that is memorialized 

now by the Iditarod Race. The 

lead dog of the original race, 

“Balto”, has a statue in New 

York’s Central Park. 

The treatment for Diphtheria 

also doubled as a vaccination 

to give people, especially children, 

immunity from the dreaded 

disease. Vaccination campaigns 

were successful until the supply 

chains were disrupted by World 

War Two. Fifty thousand Europeans 

died in 1943 because they 

could not access the life saving 

antitoxin/vaccine. 

In 1948, the Diphtheria Pertussis 

Tetanus (DPT) vaccination 

was developed and distributed 

worldwide. The World Health 

Organization administers the 

vaccine to developing countries. 

The elimination of Diphtheria is a 

goal of all civilized nations. Sadly, 

the vaccine pipeline has been 

interrupted in countries where 

violence and corruption reign. 

Diphtheria is making a comeback 

in unvaccinated children. If one 

contracts Diphtheria, the treatment 

is basically the same as it 

was 100 years ago—horse blood 

created antitoxin. 


Unfortunately, the memories 

of families being decimated by 

Diphtheria and the euphoria of 

a 25% fatality rate have faded 

from our consciousness. I say 

“unfortunately” because many of 

us have lost our respect for the 

deadly repercussions of the socalled 

“childhood diseases.” We 

have forgotten what our ancestors 

experienced not so long ago. 

Vaccines are simply an inconvenient 

trip to the doctor’s office 

to have a shot placed on our 

children’s immunization record. 

Diphtheria has been relegated to 

the dustbin of history by scientists 

working tirelessly on behalf 

of their own children, many of 

whom succumbed to the deadly 

disease. The President of the 

United States and the Queen 

of England watched their own 

children being choked to death in 

gruesome scenes nobody wants 

to see repeated. 

I thank God and His agents, 

the physicians and scientists, 

for their heroic work on behalf 

of our greatest asset—our children. 

I pray for the little ones 

who have no access to vaccines 

and are contracting diseases in 

Yemen and Venezuela where 

Diphtheria is now rearing its ugly 

head. As populations of unvaccinated 

children move from one 

crowded refugee camp to another, 

it is inevitable that tragic 

outbreaks will occur. My hope 

is that the benefits of vaccines, 

clean water, and sanitation can 

be infused into the lives of these 

unfortunate people who live in 

filth and uncertain conditions 

that breed pestilence. This is 

what the medical pioneers of 

germ theory desired a hundred 

years ago. In most areas, we 

have come a long way from the 

dominance of Diphtheria, but in 

others, we have a long way to 

go. 

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blue mental health 

Making a Difference and 

Breaking Down Barriers 

Over the years, I have been 

blessed to meet countless 

excellent current and former 

law enforcement officers who 

have committed to breaking 

down the stigma and barriers 

to seeking and receiving adequate 

mental health services. 

Recently I became aware of 

a Texas-based award-winning 

radio show called MAD 

(Making a Difference) and had 

the opportunity to connect 

with John Salerno and Samantha 

Horwitz, co-hosts of 

the show, along with Charles 

Clark, Founder of the Blue 

Voice. MAD radio originated 

from the realization that 

laughter makes a difference 

and can save lives by reducing 

stress and providing a healing 

forum for the first responder 

community to understand that 

it’s okay not to be OK (#Itsoknototbeok). 

The show’s co-hosts bring 

numerous years of experience 

and wisdom. John Salerno is 

a retired New York City Detective 

with over 30 years as 

a first responder, starting as 

an emergency medical technician/firefighter 

and then 

moving into law enforcement. 

John was also a 9/11 first 


responder who conducted 

search and rescue. Samantha 

(Sam) Horwitz was a former 

United States Secret Service 

Agent in World Trade Center 

Tower 1 on 9/11 when American 

Airlines Flight 11 struck 

it. Sam is the recipient of the 

United States Secret Service 

Director’s Citation for Valor for 

her service on 9/11. Sam has 

also been honored with the 

Texas State Flag from the Texas 

House of Representatives in 

recognition of her service as 

a United States Secret Service 

Agent and a Proclamation 

from the Texas Senate honoring 

her continued service 

to the citizens of the State of 

Texas. Sam’s been featured in 

People Magazine, ABC, CBS, 

Blaze TV with Glenn Beck, and 

other local and national media. 

She is the author of The 

Silent Fall: A Secret Service 

Agent’s Story of Tragedy and 

Triumph After 9/11. Together 

John and Sam (and with 

guests) discuss the impact of 

Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) 

and Post-traumatic Stress 

Injury (PTSI) within the first 

responder community and 

offer tools and resources to 

help cope with the stressors 

DR. TINA JAECKLE 

of performing daily job tasks. 

MAD also serves as a healing 

network to share John and 

Sam’s own experiences of 

PTSD with others and to help 

smash the mental health stigma 

for first responders seeking 

assistance. 

A Badge of Honor (www. 

ABadgeofHonor.com) was 

born out of this passion and 

offers educational workshops 

on PTS throughout the country. 

This organization has 

reached hundreds in Texas 

from agencies across the DFW 

metroplex and beyond. All 

participants are provided a 

questionnaire at determined 

intervals after the workshops 

to assess whether they utilize 

the tactics and tools demonstrated. 

This approach allows 

for measuring what works 

and how A Badge of Honor 

can keep innovating and improving.

As a mental health provider 

who has consistently advocated 

for more academy training 

on these issues, I wholeheartedly 

agree with A Badge of 

Honor’s current and future 

goals. They envision a 40- 

hour block of instruction in 

academies on PTS followed by 

yearly or semi-yearly training. 

Additionally, they aim for all 

departments to have a written 

policy about mental health 

and how the department will 

support a first responder in 

need by providing 100% confidential 

resources and creating 

peer and family support programs. 

John Salerno offered the 

following valuable insight, “As 

mental health is not a one size 

fits, we need to show our first 

responders the many options 

available to them and their 

families. Families are also affected 

by PTSD, and we must 

educate them on what their 

loved ones are going through 

daily. Once a person becomes 

a frontline responder, your life 

changes if you want it to or 

not. Your mental health and 

how your department handles 

it are most important to 

the longevity of the career 

and the family unit. Many first 

responders are divorced due 

to work-related issues. So, if 

we can bring the knowledge 

to the entire first responder 

family, we may be able to save 

lives and families”. 

MAD radio, now called A 

Badge of Honor Podcast, now 

has more platforms, such as 

YouTube and others, and has 

moved the show out of the 

studio so they can interview 

first responders worldwide. 

The goal is to bring change in 

policies and procedures within 

the first responder community 

and to give front-line 


NOT SO BRIGHT AWARD 

Light Bulb Award 

LOST IN TIME 

Biden thinks COVID happened while he was VP and Obama was president. 

Sorry Joe, you’re lost in space forever. 

President Biden appeared to 

claim he was vice president 

during the coronavirus pandemic 

and that former President 

Barack Obama had dispatched 

him to Detroit to help 

with the response. 

In comments first reported 

by the New York Post, 

Biden addressed an NAACP 

campaign event in Michigan 

Sunday night, where he repeatedly 

railed against his 

presumptive Republican opponent, 

former President Trump, 

while offering an aside about 

the contagion – which began 

in 2019 while the latter was in 

office. 

“When I was vice president, 

things were kind of bad 

during the pandemic,” Biden 

said near the beginning of his 

remarks. 

“And, what happened was 

Barack said to me: ‘Go to Detroit 

– help fix it.’” 

Duggan then rose and shook 

Biden’s hand. 

The pandemic, numbered 

COVID-19 due to global health 

officials having deemed it an 

outbreak in 2019, transpired 

in the latter years of Trump’s 


term, not Obama’s. Biden 

succeeded Trump during the 

denouement of the pandemic. 

Elsewhere in the speech, 

Biden referenced working 

with civil rights activists in 

his youth, and quipped that 

Detroit helped “put food on” 

his family’s table, as his father, 

Joseph Biden Sr., was in the 

automobile business. 

Reserving much of his remarks 

to criticize Trump, 

Biden claimed at one juncture 

that “MAGA Republicans” want 

to engage in book-banning 

and other endeavors he described 

as extremist. 

“All that progress is at risk. 

Trump is trying to make the 

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country forget just how dark 

things were… when he was 

president,” Biden said. 

“We will never forget him 

lying about how serious the 

pandemic was, telling Americans 

‘just inject bleach’ – I 

think that’s what he did. I think 

that’s why he’s so screwy.” 

In another jab, Biden warned 

against his predecessor potentially 

nominating more 

justices to the Supreme Court: 

“Do you think he’ll put anybody 

[there] who has a brain?” 

“It’s clear when he lost in 

2020, and I mean this sincerely: 

something snapped in 

Trump. He just can’t accept he 

lost… That’s why Jan. 6 happened.”



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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be 21 Years Of Age 

• Must Hold an Active Tcole Peace Officer License 

• Must Complete the Following: 

• Pass Physical Agility Test 

• Background Investigation 

• Psychological Evaluation 

• Drug Screening 

DEPARTMENT BENEFITS 

• Uniforms Provided, Including Duty Weapon 

• Department Provided Training 

• Starting Pay Depends on 

Qualifications / Experience 

• TCOLE Certification / Education Pay 

• Most Officers work Day Shift with Weekends Off 

(INCENTIVE PAY FOR DETECTIVES, K-9 HANDLERS, AND 

FIREARM INSTRUCTORS.) 

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT 

SGT. HALL AT 281.442.4923 

OR VISIT ALDINEISD.ORG 

APPLY AT 

ALDINEISD.ORG 

STARTING SALARY $55,000 WITH NO EXPERIENCE 

UP TO $85,000 DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE 

ALDINE ISD PD OFFERS 

SPECIALIZED DIVISIONS 

• Criminal Investigations 

• Emergency Response Team 

• Honor Guard 

• Gang Task Force 

• Community Outreach Division 

• K-9 Division 

• Firearm Instructor 

$1,000 SIGNING BONUS 

 

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NOW HIRING 

PRIORITY BOLO 


FIND YOUR ISD 

POSITION HERE 

134 The The Blues - March June ‘24 ‘24

Now Hiring 

School District Police Officer 

Must be TCOLE Certified 

www.pfisd.net/police 

226 day work schedule with starting 

salary between $52,884 and $60,821 

depending on experience 

Overtime Opportunities Available 

Stipends for TCOLE Advanced & Master 

Licenses, MHO Certification, College 

Degrees, and Bilingual Proficiency 

Thanksgiving, Winter, & 

Spring Breaks off 

Take Home Vehicle Program 

Great Insurance & Benefits 

Package with TRS 

Retirement 

SPRING BRANCH ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT 

WE’RE 

HIRING 

Patrol & Onsite Officers (HS/MS) 

Gang Officer 

Mental Health Officers 

Community Relations Officer 

Emergency Management 

Criminal Investigations 

K-9 programs 

*All equipment provided including duty weapon 

**Training opportunities available 

DEPARTMENT 

HIGHLIGHTS 

55 officer department 

44 square mile district 

47 schools 

35,000 population 

24/7 Patrol 

We want you to preserve, protect, and defend our future. 

Starting Pay $63,000 (TCOLE Basic Peace Officer certification with no experience) 

Language pay 

Shift differential pay 

Intermediate, Advanced and 

Master Peace Officer 

certificate pay 

Paid time off 

Ample overtime opportunities 

Apply online today. springbranchisd.com/join-our-team 

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NOW HIRING 

LE job positions 

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This Is How We Serve 

Serve With Us 

Idaho State Police 

Apply now through 

March 3rd 

To Serve and protect 

the citizens 

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K9 Teams 

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Investigations 

www.isp.idaho.gov 

Capitol Protective Services 

SWAT 

Crash Reconstruction 


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JOIN OUR TEAM! 

ARANSAS PASS POLICE DEPARTMENT 

IS HIRING FOR 

TCOLE CERTIFIED POLICE OFFICERS 

The Aransas Pass Police Department is a progressive agency, employing some of the sharpest 

minds and equipping them with some of the best technology available. We continue to seek 

applications from those desiring to become part of our law enforcement family. 

Making a positive dierence in our community is what APPD is all about! Are you in? 

Opportunities 

Bike Patrol 

Crisis Intervention Team 

DEA Task Force 

Field Training Officer 

Gang/Narcotics Investigations 

Criminal Investigations Div. 

Marine Patrol & Dive Team 


School Resource Officer 

TCOLE Training Instructor 

Salary 

Annual Salary: 

$44,200.00 Base 

$6,600 Retention Stipend 

Hourly Incentives: 

$1.50 Max for College Degree 

$0.50 Per TCOLE License Step 

$0.50 Bi-Lingual 

$0.50 Special Assignment 

Benefits 

Paid Bereavement Leave 

Cell Phone 

Holiday Pay/Leave 

Longevity Pay 

Paid Personal Leave 

Sick Leave 

TMRS Retirement (2:1 at 6%) 

Tuition Reimbursement 

Vacation Leave 

Weapon Purchase Program 

Point of contact: Administrative Captain Troy Poe (361) 758-5224 ext. 2421 or tpoe@aptx.gov 

For an application or more information visit: police.aptx.gov/jobs 


The City of Aransas Pass is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability.

ALDINE ISD 


JOIN OUR TEAMAPPLY AT 

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS 


• Paid Vacation 

• Paid Holidays 

• Personal Days 

• Teacher Retirement System 

TCOLE CERTIFICATION INCENTIVE 

• Intermediate PO: $2,400 

• Advanced PO: $4,800 

• Master PO: $7,200 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be 21 Years Of Age 

• Must Hold an Active Tcole Peace Officer License 

• Must Complete the Following: 

• Pass Physical Agility Test 

• Background Investigation 

144 • Psychological The Blues Evaluation - June ‘24 

• Drug Screening 

ALDINEISD.ORG 

STARTING SALARY $55,000 WITH NO EXPERIENCE 

UP TO $85,000 DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE 

ALDINE ISD PD OFFERS 

DEPARTMENT BENEFITS 

• Uniforms Provided, Including Duty Weapon 

• Department Provided Training 

• Starting Pay Depends on 

Qualifications / Experience 

• TCOLE Certification / Education Pay 

• Most Officers work Day Shift with Weekends Off 

(INCENTIVE PAY FOR DETECTIVES, K-9 HANDLERS, AND 

FIREARM INSTRUCTORS.) 

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT 

SGT. HALL AT 281.442.4923 

OR VISIT ALDINEISD.ORG 

SPECIALIZED DIVISIONS 

• Criminal Investigations 

• Emergency Response Team 

• Honor Guard 

• Gang Task Force 

• Community Outreach Division 

• K-9 Division 

• Firearm Instructor 

$1,000 SIGNING BONUS






NOW 

HIRING 

BIG SPRING PD IS NOW HIRING POLICE OFFICERS 

• 100% PAID ACADEMY TRAINING FOR 

NON-CERTIFIED CADETS 

• EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS ARE PROVIDED 

INCLUDING TAKE HOME VEHICLES 

• TMRS RETIREMENT (2:1 CITY MATCH) 

• 100% EMPLOYEE MEDICAL AND LIFE 

INSURANCE PREMIUM PAID BY THE CITY 

• PAID VACATION AND HOLIDAYS 

• PAID SICK LEAVE 


• LONGEVITY PAY FOR YEARS OF SERVICE 

• EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM 

• PROGRESSIVE ANNUAL IN-SERVICE 

TRAINING AND EXTERNAL TRAINING 

OPPORTUNITIES. 

• OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIVERSE 

EXPERIENCE IN ASSIGNMENTS SUCH AS 

SWAT, NARCOTICS, TRAFFIC, AND CRIMINAL 

INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION 

• $1500 ACADEMY REIMBURSEMENT AND 

$2400 RELOCATION PAY FOR CERTIFIED 

OFFICERS 

$55,900 STARTING ANNUAL SALARY FOR CERTIFIED POLICE OFFICERS. 

ENTRY LEVEL TESTING ON AUGUST 1, 2023 

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JULY 26, 2023 

APPLY NOW AT WWW.MYBIGSPRING.COM 

THE CITY OF BIG SPRING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER




October 15 

WATCH FOR NEW TEST DATES 


Cuero Police Department 

Now Hiring for Patrol Officer Position 

Department Benefits 

14 Paid Holidays 

2 Weeks Paid Vacation 

Certification Pay 

100% Insurance Paid for Employees 

Retirement 2 to 1 match (20yr Retirement) 

FSA for Employees 

Longevity Pay 

Equipment & Uniforms Provided Including Duty Weapon w/ Red Dot Sight 

Take Home Vehicle Within Surrounding Counties 

10 Hour Work Shifts 

Membership Paid to Local Gym 

Department Provided Training 

Off-duty Security Opportunities 

Cell Phone Stipend 

Starting Pay Depends on Qualifications 

Requirements: Must be TCOLE Certified or currently enrolled in an accredited Police 

Academy and pass a background investigation. 

Email TCOLE Personal History Statement to sellis@cityofcuero.com 



DALLAS POLICE department 

WE aRE HIRING 

Lateral Entry Police officers 

INCENTIVE PAYS 

Education Pay Up to $2,880/yearly 

Bachelor’s Degree $3,600/yearly 

Intermediate Cert. $600/yearly 

Advanced Cert. $4,800/yearly 

Master Peace Officer $7,200/yearly 

Shift Differential 3.5% - 6.5% 

FTO Pay 

$1,200/yearly 

Language Pay Up to $1,800/yearly 

3 years experience 

$80,431 


$82,736 


$85,109 

BENEFITS 

Assistance with state licensing 

endorsement 

15 paid vacation days/year (does 

not expire) 

Relocation assistance 

No residency requirement 

Wellness Unit and Peer Support 

6 Weeks maternity/paternity leave 

Health/Vision/Dental/Life 

Insurance 

Load Bearing Vests 

All Equipment provided at no cost 

Minimum Qualifications: 

Subject to same hiring process as all other police officer applicants 

Will have college credit hours substituted 

Must have 36 months certified, full-time, law enforcement experience 

Must not have any pending disciplinary actions or investigations 

Out of state applicants will complete state licensing process prior to entry into the lateral 

academy 

Apply now at 

www.dallaspolice.gov 

DALLAS POLICE RECRUITING 

1400 Botham Jean Blvd., Dallas, TX 75215 

(214) 671-4409 








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: $51,250.00 

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 

JOIN US 

VISIT SHERIFF.GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV TO APPLY! 


The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

CONTACT US 

409.763.7585 : SO.EMPLOYMENT@GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV


GOOSE CREEK CISD PD 

NOW RECRUITING 

POLICE OFFICERS ! 

POSITION DETAILS: 

Provides law enforcement services to the school district to prevent and protect all students, personnel, 

and visitors from physical harm and prevent property loss due to theft or vandalism. Enforce all 

laws including municipal ordinances, county ordinances, and state laws. 

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240 or 202 Duty Day Schedule 

Competitive Salary - MTD9* Starting 

Stipends available for Intermediate, Advanced and Master TCOLE License 

Various opportunities including K9, Patrol, Investigations, FTO, Instructor and more 

REQUIREMENTS: 

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Current TCOLE Peace Officer License 

Ability to pass comprehensive background 

Ability to pass medical, drug and psychological 

exams 

HIRING PROCESS: 

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Online Application 

Complete preliminary interview 

Complete background investigation 

Complete Oral Board Interview 

Conditional Job Offer 

Complete Medical, Psychological and Drug Screen 

PREFERRED: 

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Intermediate TCOLE Peace Officer License 

Bilingual 

Previous ISD PD experience 

Background in law enforcement 

Contact us at 281-422-6461 to speak with a recruiter. 

Apply online @ https://www.gccisd.net/page/employment.home 


ARE WE 

HIRING 

Criminal Background 

Pass 

proficiently 

Type 

Nights, Weekends & Holidays 

Work 

Speaking Preferred 

Spanish 

11th Street 

1015 

Texas 

Hempstead, 

Hour work schedule 

12- 

every other weekend 

off 

THE CITY OF 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIVISION 

HEMPSTEAD POLICE DEPARTMENT 

Dispatchers 

QUALIFICATIONS 

18 years of age 

Minimum 

Starting Salary: $41,600 

B E N E F I T S 

BlueCross Blue Shield 

Vision & Dental Insurance 

Longevity Pay > 1 year 

Certificate Pay 

Uniform Shirts Provided 

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www.hempsteadcitytx.gov (job opportunities)

JOIN OUR TEAM 

Hempstead's Finest 

BECOME A HEMPSTEAD POLICE OFFICER 

Starting Salary: $57,750 

- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD 

- VISION & DENTAL INS 

- CERTIFICATE PAY 

- WEAPONS ISSUED 

- OFF EVERY OTHER WEEKEND 

- CONTINUING TRAINING 

NOW HIRING 3 POLICE OFFICERS 

HPD BOASTS: 

- Training Provider 

- Canine Program 

- Narcotics Investigation 

- Crash Investigators 

- Telecommunications 

Division 

1015 11th St Hempstead, TX 

hpdrecruing@hempsteadcitytx.gov 

Or call us at: (979) 826-3332 


Place your department’s recruiting ad 

in The BLUES for only $250 for an 

entire year, only $20 a month. 


LATERAL DEPUTY 





WE ARE 

HIRING! 

LATERAL DEPUTY 

REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be a licensed Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on 

Law Enforcement (TCOLE) in good standing 

• Must be currently employed as a Peace Officer (any break in 

service will be considered on a case-by-case basis) 

• Must have a minimum of 12 consecutive months experience as a 

Peace Office at any one agency 

• Must successfully pass the HCSO Physical Abilities Test (PAT) 

• Meet HCSO firearms qualification standard 

• Must pass a thorough background investigation (criminal 

background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) as 

required by TCOLE 

• Must pass a physical and psychological evaluation as required by 

TCOLE 

• Valid driver’s license and liability insurance (Texas by start date) 

• Eyesight must be correctable to 20/20, normal color, and 

peripheral vision 

• Correctable normal audible range in both ears 

• A two (2) year minimum commitment to Patrol before being 

eligible to transfer to other Bureaus 

For additional information contact 

Harris County Sheriff’s Office 

Recruitment Unit 

(713) 877-5250 


TO APPLY 

www.harriscountyso.org | www.hcsojobs.com 

SCAN 

THIS CODE Harris County 

@HCSOTexas 

Sheriff’s Office 

HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas

WE ARE 

HIRING! 

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER 

REQUIREMENTS 

• High School Diploma or G.E.D. 

• A minimum of 6 months of work experience in emergency 

dispatch, call center, customer service, or a closely related field 

• Must successfully complete Telecommunicator training and pass 

all testing required to obtain TCOLE certification within a year 

of employment 

• At least 18 years of age (by start date) 





background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) as 

required by TCOLE 

• Must pass a medical and psychological evaluation as required by 

TCOLE 

• Demonstrated proficiency with computer and related software, 

i.e., Word/Excel, writing correspondence, reports, and 

processing documents. (In-person testing required) 




(713) 877-5250 

TO APPLY 


SCAN 


@HCSOTexas 


HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas 


WE ARE 

HIRING! 

DEPUTY CADET 

REQUIREMENTS 

• At least 60 college credit hours and/or 2 years of military 

experience with an honorable discharge 


• Valid driver’s license and liability insurance (Texas by start date) 

• Must successfully pass the HCSO Physical Abilities Test (PAT) 





background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) 

• Must pass a medical and psychological evaluation as required by 

TCOLE 

• Must pass all required testing 

YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT CAREER 

STARTS HERE, JOIN OUR ACADEMY! 

• Must pass all required testing upon completion of the Basic 

Peace Officer Course (BPOC), sworn Deputies must successfully 

complete the Field Training Program (FTP) before receiving a 

Patrol assignment 

• A two (2) year minimum commitment to Patrol before being 

eligible for other Bureaus 




(713) 877-5250 


TO APPLY 


SCAN 


@HCSOTexas 


HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas

WE ARE 

HIRING! 

DETENTION OFFICER 

REQUIREMENTS 

Ask About Our Hiring Incentive 

• High School Diploma or G.E.D 

• U.S. Citizen 


• Eyesight must be correctable to 20/20, normal color, 

and peripheral vision 


• Must pass all pre-employment testing 


background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) 

as required by TCOLE 

• Must pass a medical and psychological evaluation as required 

by TCOLE 

Lateral Detention Officer: 

If you have verifiable experience as a correctional officer or a 

jailer from any correctional facility, we will pay you up to 14 

years for your experience. 




(713) 877-5250 

TO APPLY 


SCAN 


@HCSOTexas 


HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas 






THE KILLEEN POLICE DEPARTMENT 

IS NOW 

Hiring 

FOR THE POSITION OF 

Police Officer 

Online Applications 

will open: 

July 31, 2023 

Application Deadline: 

September 15, 2023 

Civil Service Exam will 

be: 

September 24, 2023 

To apply, go to: 

www.killeentexas.gov/16 

8/Job-Opportunities 

Wear The Badge, 

Make a Difference 

D 

b 

th 

a 

Officer De'Vonte Johnson 

Recruiter 

254-200-7987 

DJohnson@killeentexas.gov 

The Killeen Police Department is an 

182 

Equal 

The Blues 

Opportunity 

- June ‘24 

Employer

Starting pay - $57,889 

Paid: Vacation, Holiday & Sick Leave 

$15K Sign-on incentive for TCOLE 

certified Peace Officers 

College Degree pay incentive 

7% retirement plan through TMRS 

with a 2:1 match ratio 

Comprehensive Benefits Package 

Opportunity to work in various 

specialized units 

The Killeen Police 

epartment is dedicated to 

uilding a partnership with 

e community to fight crime 

nd improve every citizen's 

quality of life. 

Follow us at: 

KilleenPD 

KilleenPolice 

JoinKilleenPD 

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L A P O R T E 

P O L I C E D E P A R T M E N T 

Lateral Police Officer 

Starting Pay $ 62,416. to $73,775. 

Effective October 1, 2022 

No prior experience required. High School diploma or GED required. 

Possession of Class C Texas Driver License. 

Must possess a TCOLE License or be enrolled in accredited Basic Peace Officer Academy. 

Certification Pay (bi-weekly): 

$46.15 - Intermediate Peace Officer 

$69.23 - Advanced Peace Officer 

$92.31 - Master Peace Officer 

Education Pay (bi-weekly): 

$46.15 - Associates Degree 

$69.23 - Bachelors Degree 

$92.31 - Masters Degree 

Employee Benefits: 

Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance 

Longevity Pay 


TMRS Retirement (2 to 1 match) 

ICMA Deferred Compensation/Roth IRA 

$1,000 Physical Fitness Program 

Weapon Purchase Program 

Take-home Vehicles 

Specialized Divisions: 

SWAT / Bomb Squad 

Bike Patrol 

Criminal Investigative Division 

Crime Scene Unit 

Drone Pilots 

School Resource Officers 

Traffic/DOT Officers 

Police Area Representatives 

Apply online at 

www.laportetx.gov/jobs 

Paid Leave Benefits 

15 days vacation (Civil Service) 

15 days sick leave 

Military Leave 

9 observed holidays per year 

2 employee holidays per year 

Bereavement Leave 

Comp Time 



BENEFITS: 

- 10 Paid Holidays a year 

- 15 Paid Sick Days a year 

- Paid Vacation 

- Take-Home Car Program 

- Duty Equipment and Weapon Provided 

- Tuition Reimbursement for College 

- Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) 

PATROL OFFICER 

ENTRANCE EXAM: 

MAY 18, 2024 

ADDITIONAL 

INCENTIVE PAY: 

RECRUITING 

- Associate's Degree - $100 monthly 

- Bachelor's Degree - $150 monthly 

- Master's Degree - $200 monthly 

- Bilingual Pay - $50 to $100 monthly 

NOW 

VISIT LCPDJOBS.COM 

FOR MORE INFO 


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Benefits and Additional Pay: 

• $2500 Sign - On Bonus 

• Lateral Entry Program 

• Take - Home Vehicle 

$77,314 - $97,679 

• Cross Fit G ym 

• 24 /7 Private Indoor/Outdoor Range 

• Load Bearing Vests 

• Tattoos and Beards 

• Tuition Reimbursement 

• 20 Year TMRS Retirement 7% , 2:1 match 

• 457 Deferred Compensation p lan with 3.76% city match 

• 3 Weeks Paid Vacation 

• 15 Days Paid Sick Leave 

• 9 Paid Holidays 

• Field Training Officer 

• Bilingual 

• Longevity 

• Education /Certification 

GET PAID FOR YOUR EXPERIENCE AS A CERTIFIED OFFICER 

• 1 YEAR $83,566 

• 2 YEARS $86,877 

188 The Blues - June ‘24 • 3 YEARS $90,373 

• 4 YEARS $93,677 

• 5 YEARS $97,679 

Specialized Units : 

• SWAT 

• Street Crimes 

• K - 9 

• Narcotics 

• UAS Drone 

• Bicycle Patrol 

• Criminal In vestigations 

• Traffic 

• DWI 

• Commercial Vehicle Enforcement 

• Training 

• School Resource Officer 

• Neighborhood Resource Officer 

• Co - Care Crisis Team 

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Start a career with 

Longview PD 

LongviewTexas.gov/LPDJOBS 

Providing 

Professional 

Policing 

We accept lateral transfers! 

Starting Salary 

$63,090-$71,070 

Two-Tier Hiring Incentive 

$3000 


Longview Police Department


Patrol Officer 

The City of Manvel Police Department is looking to find qualified candidates to fill the ranks of the patrol 

division. 

The City of Manvel is a rapidly growing and diverse community. The current population is estimated at a 

little over 16000 and is located in the northern part of Brazoria County along the State Highway 288 

corridor approximately 4 miles South of the City of Houston. 

The Manvel Police Department has a competitive pay structure for cities of the same size. Salary is based 

on experience and certification levels. 

Requirements: 

High school diploma or GED 

Valid Texas Driver’s License 

with good driving record 

TCOLE certified OR currently 

enrolled in Academy 

program 

Preference for LE experience 

Hiring Process Includes : 

Written test 

Oral board interview 

Physical agility test 

Thorough background 

investigation 

Accelerated Field Training 

Program for experienced officers 

One year probationary period 

Pay and Benefits: 

Competitive pay with an employment 

improvement step program 

TMRS retirement up to 7% with 2:1 match 

by city 

Retirement vested after 5 years of service 

Medical Insurance covered 100% for 

employees and 100% paid for employees 

and dependent by the city after 3 years 

12 hour shifts (DuPont Schedule) 

Personal time off - Vacation and Holiday 

accruals 

Paid sick time 

Lateral transfers 

For more information you can contact 

The City of Manvel Police Department at 

281-489-1212 

194 Rochelle The Blues Carr-Lacy - June ‘24 

rcarrlacy@manvelpd.org

MEMORIAL VILLAGES POLICE DEPARTMENT 

Serving the Villages of Bunker Hill, Piney Point and Hunters Creek 

POLICE OFFICER 

The Memorial Villages Police Department is currently looking for experienced officers who are 

self-motivated, innovative, enthusiastic and love working for a community that supports them. 

5+ Years Patrol Experience Required 

Hiring Bonus $1,500 

Night Shift Differential $3,600 

E.C.A $1300 

Bi-lingual Pay 

Education Pay 

Intermediate, Advanced, Master 

Peace Officer Certification Pay 

Healthcare, Dental and Vision Insurance 

100% paid for employee, 75% for 

spouse/dependents. 

Paid long-term disability and Life Insurance 

for employee, additional life insurance 

available for spouse/dependents. 

Health Savings Account with Department 

contributions up to $4,200 annually. 

TMRS Retirement 7% w/ 2:1 match (20 yr). 

457 Deferred Compensation Plan with 

employer contribution of 2.5% of annual 

salary. 


Longevity Pay up to a max of $2,400 

annually at 10 years of service. 

12 Hour shifts with every other Friday, 

Starting at $83,459 up to $94,164 

Scan for more 

information 

W W W . M V P D T X . O R G 

11981 Memorial Drive – Houston, Tx 77024 

713.365.3700 


WE’RE HIRING 

Join our team and receive: 

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance 

• Paid vacation, employee days, well days, 

sick days and holidays 

• Competitive pay (including bilingual pay incentive) 

AND MUCH MORE! 

APPLY NOW 

Scan here or visit 

RideMETRO.org/Careers 

Call 713-739-4953 or email JoinMPD@RideMETRO.org 

for additional information. 


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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 

For additional information and to register for an upcoming Civil Service Exam, visit 

pearlandtx.gov/PDCareers 



PORT HOUSTON 


WE ARE 

HIRING 

SIGN UP TODAY! 

www.porthouston.com/careers-2 

STARTING PAY* 

$60,000 up to $71,000 

* Salary depends on experience 

Are you looking for a career with 

meaning? Do you want to make 

a difference in a highly supportive 

community? Join our team at 

Port Houston! 

REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be 21 years old 

• Must have 2+ years of po 

experience 

• Must have valid Texas Dr 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen 

• Must have an honorable 

from the military (if applic 

• Must never have been co 

Class A Misdemeanor or 

• Not been convicted of a C 

misdemeanor within the l 

• Must have a GED or high 


BENEFITS: 

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 

eligible first day of employment 

• Wellness Program 

(can earn up to $600 credit per year if requirements met) 

• Enrollment with Calm App for Wellbeing 

• Defined contribution plan (401a) 

– Employer Sponsored 

• Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan) 

– Employee Contributions 

• Vacation 


• Paid Holiday 12 days/year 

• Life and Accidental Death and 

Dismemberment Insurance 

• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Benefits 

• Flexible spending account (FSA) 

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

• Pet Insurance 

• Legal and Identity Theft Protection 

• Tuition Reimbursement 

Up to the IRS annual limit and a maximum lifetime 

reimbursement of $25,000 

• Onsite Credit Union 

– Port of Houston Credit Union 

lice officer 

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nvicted of a 

above 

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ast 10 years 

school diploma 

EMPLOYMENT 

TESTING 

Employment is contingent on passing 

any post-offer pre-employment 

screening as listed below: 

• Criminal background check 

• Motor Vehicle Record check 

• Drug screening 

• Physical exam 

• Psychological exam 

• Additional as required 

SCAN 

QR CODE 

TO APPLY 



Provide Exceptional 

Service to All! 

CONTACT 

US NOW 

972-412-6240 

Welcome Aboard 

Rowlett Police Department 

NOW HIRING 

kharrelson@rowlett.com 

4401 Rowlett Rd., 

Rowlett, TX 75088 

Accepting Lateral 

Police Officers. 

Get paid for your 

experience! 

CURRENT SALARY 

Starting salary is $65,554 

Top Out Police Officer salary is $90,861 

Lateral Transfer - May be eligible for a starting 

salary of up to $75,221 

UNITS/ DIVISIONS 

Containment Team 

SWAT 

Bike Unit 

Community Services 

School Resource Officer 

Field Training Officer 

Criminal Investigations Division 

Traffic 

Crisis Assistance Team 

Crisis Negotiation Team 

BENEFITS 

TMRS Pension 7/14 

Medical Insurance 

Dental Insurance 

Vision Insurance 

10 paid vacation days during 

first year & 10 Paid Holidays 

Paid Sick 

Beards and tattoos are 

authorized 

Longevity Pay 

Long Term Disability 

Life Insurance 

Dry cleaning 

Three department issued 

firearms 

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SPRING BRANCH ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT 

WE’RE 

HIRING 

DEPARTMENT 

HIGHLIGHTS 

55 officer department 

44 square mile district 

47 schools 

35,000 population 

24/7 Patrol 

We want you to preserve, protect, and defend our future. 

Starting Pay $63,000 (TCOLE Basic Peace Officer certification with no experience) 

Patrol & Onsite Officers (HS/MS) 

Gang Officer 


Community Relations Officer 

Emergency Management 

Criminal Investigations 

K-9 programs 

Language pay 

Shift differential pay 

Intermediate, Advanced and 

Master Peace Officer 

certificate pay 

Paid time off 

Ample overtime opportunities 

*All equipment provided including duty weapon 

**Training opportunities available 

Apply online today. springbranchisd.com/join-our-team 







We are hiring 

Police 

Officers 

now. 

Join the Waco ISD 

Police Department team! 

Pay Grade: 310 

Days: 207 and 226 

Salary: $42,228 to $55,542* 

*Depending on workday calendar 

and years of experience. 

Sign-on Bonus: $5,000 

Qualifications: 

Education/Certification: 

• High School Diploma or GED 

• Texas Peace Officer License issued by TCOLE 

• Current valid Texas class “C” drivers license 

To learn more or 

apply, please visit 

Wacoisd.org/apply 

Waco ISD Police Department 



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