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FEATURES 42 Vote Their Ass Out 46 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to COVID 50 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to LOD Deaths 56 10-Year Olds Dream Becomes a Reality DEPARTMENTS 8 Publisher’s Thoughts 12 Editor’s Thoughts 14 Your Thoughts 16 News Around the US 32 Where to Eat - El Mercadito 34 Where to Shop - Central Police Supply 38 Defending Your Rights - James Wood 75 War Stories 84 Aftermath 88 Open Road 92 Healing Our Heroes 94 Daryl’s Deliberations 98 HPOU - From the President, Douglas Griffith 100 Light Bulb Award - Judge Dora & Her Posse 102 Running 4 Heroes 104 Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle 106 Off Duty with Rusty Barron 108 Ads Back in the Day 112 Parting Shots 114 Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas 138 Back Page

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42 Vote Their Ass Out
46 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to COVID
50 Remembering Those We’ve Lost to LOD Deaths
56 10-Year Olds Dream Becomes a Reality

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12 Editor’s Thoughts
14 Your Thoughts
16 News Around the US
32 Where to Eat - El Mercadito
34 Where to Shop - Central Police Supply
38 Defending Your Rights - James Wood
75 War Stories
84 Aftermath
88 Open Road
92 Healing Our Heroes
94 Daryl’s Deliberations
98 HPOU - From the President, Douglas Griffith
100 Light Bulb Award - Judge Dora & Her Posse
102 Running 4 Heroes
104 Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle
106 Off Duty with Rusty Barron
108 Ads Back in the Day
112 Parting Shots
114 Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas
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HARRIS COUNTY JUDGE<br />

<strong>MARCH</strong> PRIMARY UPDATE<br />

DEMOCRATIC VOTE :<br />

REPUBLICAN VOTE: ALEX MEALER* 40%<br />

VIDAL MARTINEZ* 25%<br />

HIDALGO 70% - WON THE NOMINATION<br />

*BOTH GO TO RUNOFF RACE ON MAY 24,2022<br />

** ENDORSED BY THE BLUES MAGAZINE<br />

UNFIT JUDGES WE SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED<br />

184TH DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

ABIGAIL ANASTASIO<br />

185TH DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

JASON LUONG<br />

208TH DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

GREG GLASS<br />

UNFIT JUDGES TO REMOVE ON NOV. 8TH<br />

230TH DISTRICT COURT - CHRIS MORTON (D)<br />

*** BLUES ENDORSED 230TH REPUBLICAN OPPONENT -BRAD HART<br />

232ND DISTRICT COURT - JOSH HILL (D)<br />

*** BLUES ENDORSED 232ND REPUBLICAN OPPONENT - JOSHUA NORMAN<br />

248TH DISTRICT COURT - HILARY UNGER (D)<br />

*** BLUES ENDORSED 248TH REPUBLICAN OPPONENT - JULIAN RAMIREZ<br />

262ND DISTRICT COURT - LORI GRAY (D)<br />

*** BLUES ENDORSED 262ND REPUBLICAN OPPONENT - TONYA MCLAUGHLIN<br />

HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONER PCT. 2<br />

263RD DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

AMY MARTIN<br />

DEMOCRATIC - ADRIAN GARCIA - 76% WON THE NOMINATION<br />

REPUBLICAN - JACK MORMAN* - 41%<br />

JERRY MOUTON* - 22%<br />

* BOTH GO TO RUNOFF RACE ON MAY 25<br />

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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK<br />

TALE OF THREE LEADERS<br />

This issue was ready to go to<br />

press several days ago. Honestly,<br />

we were just waiting to place a<br />

few ads and boom it was done.<br />

Then the war against Ukraine<br />

began and the Tale of Three<br />

Leaders began to emerge and<br />

suddenly I felt changes had to be<br />

made before we published our<br />

March Issue.<br />

Let’s start with the worst and<br />

move our way up:<br />

Putin – What the F**K is wrong<br />

with this asshole. We’ve always<br />

known he was a prick, but now<br />

he’s just gone off the deep end.<br />

His rambling speeches and long<br />

tables are one thing, but to bomb<br />

innocent women and children<br />

is quite another. I get it that he<br />

wants to rebuild the USSR and be<br />

the supreme leader. But what’s<br />

the reward when you destroy the<br />

cities and kill its citizens. And the<br />

ones you don’t kill, leave by the<br />

millions to other countries. In<br />

the end you’re left with what – a<br />

deserted country with bombed<br />

out buildings?<br />

On one hand I agree with Senator<br />

Lindsey Graham, someone<br />

needs to take this asshole out.<br />

Drop a bomb on the Kremlin,<br />

shoot him, stab him, whatever.<br />

He’s lying to his own people and<br />

threatening to jail anyone who<br />

dares tell his people the truth.<br />

There’s no CNN, FOX, or CNBC to<br />

report what’s really going on and<br />

he’s cut off FACEBOOK as well.<br />

They have no idea the horrible<br />

things Putin is doing to their<br />

neighbors to the West.<br />

On the other hand, we risk<br />

starting WW3 if we act, and no<br />

one wants a Global War that<br />

might end up destroying our<br />

planet. So, what we just wait?<br />

Sleepy Joe Biden – Then there’s<br />

our idiot president. Joe is simply<br />

in another world. His SOTU<br />

speech was 99% lies. He must<br />

think we’re all idiots to believe<br />

anything that comes out of his<br />

mouth. The American people are<br />

fed up with his crap and his refusal<br />

to address the real problem<br />

– HE is the PROBLEM!<br />

Inflation. Rising Prices of Fuel.<br />

Supply Problems. Open Border.<br />

I could go on, but you already<br />

know the problems and this idiot<br />

of a president is too stupid to<br />

fix them. As far as Putin and this<br />

war is concerned, all he had to<br />

do is stop buying oil from Russia<br />

and go back to America being<br />

energy independent. But rather<br />

than save our country from<br />

financial ruin, he rather appease<br />

the AOCs of the Democratic<br />

party. Their climate agenda is<br />

BS. They want to drive the cost<br />

of gasoline so high that you’re<br />

only choice is to buy an EV. The<br />

problem is, there aren’t enough<br />

EVs and charging stations to satisfy<br />

the demand. That’s literally<br />

5-10 years down the road. So,<br />

what, we’re supposed to pay $6<br />

a gallon in the meantime. Come<br />

on Man. You can’t be this stupid<br />

MICHAEL BARRON<br />

or maybe you are. Three years is<br />

a long damn time to wait for this<br />

crap to end.<br />

President <strong>Vol</strong>odymyr Zelenskyy<br />

– The world’s hero of the<br />

day. This guy is the real deal.<br />

Unlike the president of Afghanistan<br />

who fled with tons of cash<br />

while his country was being<br />

overrun, Zelenskyy vowed to stay<br />

and fight for his people and his<br />

country.<br />

“I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition”<br />

That’s the quote you<br />

will remember forever. Zelenskyy<br />

could have fled to virtually<br />

anywhere in the world. But he’s a<br />

real man and a real leader. Even<br />

though Putin has hired hit men<br />

to seek him out and kill him,<br />

Zelenskyy is on the street fighting<br />

with his countrymen. Do you<br />

think our president would ever<br />

do that? Hell no. Joe would be<br />

The War Criminal<br />

the first guy on a helicopter out<br />

of here.<br />

Zelenskyy is a true modern-day<br />

hero. I hope and pray he<br />

can fight off Russian troops and<br />

maintain control of his country.<br />

I also pray that Putin isn’t successful<br />

in killing him. Because if<br />

“we wish<br />

we could<br />

be more<br />

like him”<br />

he does, and this hero is killed<br />

on TV for the world to see. I<br />

say nuke Putin and destroy his<br />

worthless ass.<br />

President Zelenskyy is what<br />

this world needs more of. A man<br />

who stands by his country and<br />

his people even if means dying<br />

THE HERO<br />

Ukrainian President,<br />

<strong>Vol</strong>odymyr Zelenskyy<br />

Asleep at the Wheel<br />

in the process. The American<br />

people are praying for you, your<br />

family, and your country.<br />

In honor of President Zelenskyy<br />

and all of Ukraine, we are proud<br />

to display the Ukrainian flag<br />

throughout this month’s issue.<br />

God Bless Ukraine.<br />

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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK<br />

ON A POSITIVE NOTE<br />

10-YEAR “DJ” DANIEL ROCKS THE COVER<br />

I’ve been told, I never have anything<br />

positive to say. All doom and<br />

gloom! So, let’s start Spring Break<br />

and our 459th issue off on a positive<br />

note.<br />

I had the distinct pleasure of<br />

meeting young 10-year-old Devarjaye<br />

“DJ” Daniel a couple of weeks<br />

ago at a swearing in ceremony at<br />

Aldine ISD. <strong>No</strong>w you would think<br />

just being sworn in as an Aldine<br />

officer would be quite a feat for a<br />

10-year-old. But not if this is your<br />

200th time to do so in less than six<br />

months. It’s all in a day’s work for<br />

DJ.<br />

I’m sure by now, you’ve heard of<br />

DJ’s dream to become a police officer<br />

and be sworn in by 100 police<br />

departments. But he never imagined<br />

that 100 would soon be 300.<br />

Police chiefs and departments<br />

all across the country have come<br />

together to make this young man’s<br />

dream come true. And the fact he<br />

has terminal cancer doesn’t slow<br />

him down a bit.<br />

In today’s world where police<br />

are vilified and defunded, this<br />

young boy’s ambition and drive<br />

can’t help but bring a tear to your<br />

eye. <strong>No</strong>t because you feel sorry for<br />

him, but rather because you’re so<br />

damn proud of him, you wish he<br />

were your kid.<br />

The way he handles himself,<br />

the respect he shows not only for<br />

the police chiefs in the room, but<br />

really for every soul there. And the<br />

boy’s got jokes:<br />

“Mr. Mike why did the cops arrest<br />

a duck?”<br />

“I don’t know DJ, why did the cops<br />

arrest a duck?<br />

“Cause, he was selling quack on<br />

the corner.” LOL<br />

It was an honor and a pleasure to<br />

meet you DJ and we are proud to<br />

feature you on this month’s cover.<br />

A New Partnership<br />

There are a few things that haven’t<br />

changed in our <strong>38</strong>-year history.<br />

One, we still have War story’s,<br />

Lightbulb Awards and Rusty Barron’s<br />

Off Duty Column. We honor<br />

EVERY fallen officer regardless<br />

of how his or her life might have<br />

ended, and we have the most loyal<br />

bunch of advertising supporters<br />

anyone could ever ask for. And<br />

while several have been along for<br />

the <strong>38</strong>-year ride, only has supported<br />

us the entire time – Alan Helman<br />

and his family at River Oaks Chrysler,<br />

Dodge, Ram and Jeep.<br />

Alan and his dad before him, have<br />

always been our Number 1 supporter.<br />

<strong>No</strong>t only have they supported<br />

the magazine with advertising, but<br />

they have raised millions of dollars<br />

for law enforcement over the years.<br />

That’s why last year, we presented<br />

Alan with The BLUES’s first ever<br />

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. His<br />

generosity is never ending. Whether<br />

it’s for the family of a deceased<br />

officer, an officer injured in the Line<br />

of Duty or even killed in a freak accident<br />

at home. Alan is and always<br />

will be the guy that makes things<br />

happen. And not just for cops<br />

either. When a young single mom<br />

comes in to purchase her dream<br />

car and finds out she only qualifies<br />

for a used car, Alan steps up<br />

and makes it happen. <strong>No</strong>-one and I<br />

mean no-one leaves his dealership<br />

unhappy. It’s a rarity to find a car<br />

dealership so dedicated to making<br />

people happy.<br />

I say all that to announce this.<br />

Alan and his son Blake are now the<br />

named sponsor of The BLUES. Like<br />

NRG is to a stadium and Minute<br />

maid is to a ballpark. From now<br />

on, it’s the Helfman Family presents<br />

The BLUES. It’s an honor to have<br />

them take on such a supportive<br />

role in this magazine and likewise<br />

we are just as supportive of all five<br />

of their dealerships. And I say that<br />

from experience. I have probably<br />

purchased more cars in my lifetime<br />

than anyone reading this magazine.<br />

The treatment from start to finish<br />

with Alan and his son Blake is simply<br />

the best you could hope to find<br />

when purchasing a car. Be sure and<br />

tell them The BLUES sent you.<br />

So, see, not doom and gloom.<br />

Spring is in the air. Be safe and God<br />

Bless and watch over all our brothers<br />

and sisters in BLUE.<br />

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FROM THE GUEST EDITOR’S DESK<br />

<br />

THE AUSTIN 19<br />

Nineteen officers working tirelessly<br />

around the clock to protect<br />

you, your family and your property.<br />

And when mobs of angry<br />

protestors showed up, they stood<br />

their ground and protected your<br />

city with the tools that were given<br />

them. Followed orders given<br />

to them from their superiors.<br />

They held the Thin Blue line of<br />

good vs evil.<br />

They did everything they could,<br />

with what they were given.<br />

These men and women did their<br />

job. They did their duty. They<br />

did not allow these hoodlums to<br />

destroy our capital or your city.<br />

And now those very same citizens<br />

who you protected want to<br />

crucify you for doing your jobs.<br />

For following orders. <strong>No</strong> sir, it<br />

doesn’t work that way.<br />

You call yourself the “District<br />

Attorney” of Travis County. The<br />

Chief Law Enforcement Officer.<br />

Yet your distain for law<br />

enforcement, makes me believe<br />

you would make a better defense<br />

attorney. Out defending<br />

crooks rather than prosecuting<br />

them. Your liberal ass belongs in<br />

California not Texas. In Texas, we<br />

support our law enforcement officers,<br />

not punish them for doing<br />

their jobs.<br />

While this carnage was taking<br />

place, you and your family<br />

were safe at home watching the<br />

mayhem on TV. While the men<br />

and women of Austin PD were on<br />

the ground going toe to toe with<br />

those that wanted to do them<br />

harm. Meanwhile the families<br />

of these officers were praying<br />

to GOD asking Him to get them<br />

home safely.<br />

<strong>No</strong>w it seems you hate the<br />

police as much as the protestors.<br />

You’ve obviously presented<br />

slanted evidence to a Grand Jury<br />

convincing them these officers<br />

were out for blood. Evil monsters<br />

with a badge. You abandoned<br />

and turned on the very<br />

people who saved your damn<br />

city. We sure as hell didn’t see<br />

your ass out there trying to calm<br />

a rioting crowd. <strong>No</strong>pe. You left<br />

that to APD and then have the<br />

nerve to cut their throats? Nineteen<br />

officers indicted for doing<br />

what their superiors told them<br />

to do.<br />

As always, you carry on with<br />

the pathetic and false narrative<br />

of “Reform.” While innocent<br />

citizens are suffering, crying and<br />

even dying, you carry on like<br />

you’re some kind of hero. Mr. District<br />

Attorney, you are no hero.<br />

You are a heartless, disgusting<br />

piece of liberal trash that belongs<br />

anywhere but Texas.<br />

Until you are ready to serve<br />

and protect the citizens that<br />

elected you, I suggest you resign<br />

and do what you’re bested suited<br />

for. Protecting these scumbags,<br />

you love so much. Join the side<br />

you belong on.<br />

I’ll close with this. When the<br />

hordes of innocents come calling<br />

REX EVANS<br />

again and they will, the men and<br />

women of the Austin Police Department,<br />

Travis County Sheriff’s<br />

Office and the Texas Department<br />

of Public Safety will once again<br />

stand between those raging<br />

crowds and you. They’ll lay down<br />

their lives, if necessary, leaving<br />

their families behind, so you and<br />

your staff can go home to yours.<br />

EDITOR NOTE:<br />

As we went live with this edition,<br />

Governor Gregg Abbott said<br />

he was considering pardonening<br />

the 19 officers. The Governor<br />

stated they were protecting the<br />

citizens of Austin and following<br />

the orders of their supervisors as<br />

well as the chief of police.<br />

“Those officers should be<br />

praised for their efforts, not<br />

prosecuted,” Abbott said in<br />

a statement. “Time will tell<br />

whether the accusations against<br />

the courageous Austin police<br />

officers is a political sham. Time<br />

will also tell whether I, as Governor,<br />

must take action to exonerate<br />

any police officer unjustly<br />

prosecuted.”<br />

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br />

MORALE, RETENTION, AND RECRUITMENT<br />

The police profession now<br />

faces unprecedented challenging<br />

times in attracting and then<br />

keeping qualified and motivated<br />

talent. The officer shortage and<br />

possible solutions to the problem<br />

are common topics of discussion<br />

among law enforcement leaders.<br />

Often, shiny new ideas such as<br />

how to best exploit social media<br />

for recruiting are among the first<br />

things mentioned in discussions<br />

of how to fill the ranks. Nearly<br />

always the power of increased<br />

salaries and additional monetary<br />

benefits and incentives also<br />

come up during the conversation.<br />

But what is generally missed is<br />

the incredible power of morale<br />

within an agency, both to attract,<br />

and then to keep the right officers,<br />

as they evolve and grow<br />

through their careers.<br />

As the power and potential<br />

positive effect of morale is undisputedly<br />

vital, the next obvious<br />

question becomes: How do we<br />

increase it?<br />

Often, chiefs and sheriffs with<br />

righteous motives will attempt<br />

to invigorate morale from their<br />

position with inspiring emails<br />

and platitudes that usually fall<br />

flat among their officers. A predictable<br />

“Keep up the good work!<br />

We’re all in this together!” email<br />

sent out to the troops during<br />

business hours is certainly a kind<br />

thing to do, but it has no effect<br />

on morale. True morale is always<br />

and only stoked at the squad<br />

level. That makes the position of<br />

sergeant or first-line supervisor<br />

the singular most important person<br />

determining the morale of a<br />

law enforcement agency.<br />

For some sergeants, motivation<br />

and team building comes naturally.<br />

We have all served under<br />

that one boss who just has “it”—<br />

that intangible, mystical quality<br />

that attracts hard workers,<br />

compels excellence, and draws<br />

the best out of his officers. Those<br />

sergeants are few and far between<br />

and should never be taken<br />

for granted. But for the overwhelming<br />

majority of sergeants<br />

who care deeply about their<br />

agency and their team, what can<br />

they do to invigorate morale?<br />

First of all, heed George Washington’s<br />

famous advice on leadership:<br />

“Listen, learn, and help…<br />

then lead.” The surest way to begin<br />

to instill positivity and pride<br />

in a small unit or squad is for the<br />

boss to work as hard, and often<br />

harder, than the officers. Morale<br />

can be quickly and irreversibly<br />

assassinated by lazy sergeants<br />

who choose to simply critique,<br />

criticize, demean, and rely solely<br />

on their positional authority as<br />

the supervisor.<br />

First-line leaders should be<br />

on the street, rubbing elbows<br />

with their officers as they strive<br />

to serve and protect, together.<br />

Sergeants should keep their<br />

hands dirty in the daily struggles<br />

of a shift alongside their officers,<br />

and never choose to quarterback<br />

from an office chair by way<br />

of cell phone. Young, impressionable<br />

officers will generally<br />

catch the fire, and take up the<br />

challenge of serving beside a<br />

sergeant who is a legitimate<br />

force multiplier as a real cop, as<br />

well as a good-hearted boss.<br />

Listen. Learn. Help. Then lead.<br />

Second, make work fun. If that<br />

sounds naïve and simplistic, it<br />

may be because we have lost our<br />

creativity and vision. Police work<br />

is chock full of hilarity and few<br />

things bond teams like shared<br />

enjoyment. As F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />

once wrote, our profession<br />

grants us “riotous excursions<br />

with privileged glimpses into the<br />

human heart.” Calls for service<br />

when unorthodox and innovative<br />

measures are used to solve residents’<br />

problems can often become<br />

comical. “Remember that<br />

call when we…” should be the<br />

soundtrack of every roll call.<br />

Similarly, infusing good-natured<br />

competition into a small<br />

team is always enjoyable, and<br />

bonding. Range drills, foot races,<br />

or even speedy handcuffing<br />

competitions will unify a squad<br />

like few other things. Our job is<br />

often dark and morbid, but sergeants<br />

should never miss an opportunity<br />

to create and encourage<br />

fun. Morale grows alongside<br />

enjoyment.<br />

Finally, sergeants should avoid<br />

micromanagement like a plague,<br />

all the while encouraging personal<br />

ownership and sovereignty<br />

of their officers. When an officer<br />

knows wholeheartedly that his<br />

decision-making and discretion<br />

is trusted by the sergeant,<br />

a powerful bond of trust gets<br />

cemented. Every time an officer<br />

calls her sergeant with a question,<br />

and instead of giving her<br />

a rote solution, he asks, “What<br />

is your recommendation?”, her<br />

confidence and appreciation<br />

increases. Morale is allergic to<br />

micromanagement, no matter<br />

the profession.<br />

Next comes the question of<br />

what chiefs and sheriffs can do<br />

to reinvigorate morale. Without<br />

a doubt, agencies should invest<br />

heavily in the development of<br />

their sergeants and first-line<br />

leaders. Too often, agencies<br />

promote young officers into<br />

supervisory positions, task them<br />

with leading properly, and never<br />

equip them with tools to make<br />

that happen. Initiating ongoing<br />

leadership mentoring programs,<br />

recommended reading lists on<br />

effective leadership, and tracking<br />

the development of young<br />

leaders and catering programs<br />

to further their efficacy are all<br />

vital and worthwhile endeavors.<br />

Powerful leadership is most<br />

often a learned skill, and agencies<br />

should build up their firstline<br />

leaders, as they are the ones<br />

most vital in spurring morale.<br />

The reputation of your agency<br />

is powerful, for good or for bad.<br />

When young recruits scan the<br />

horizon for which department<br />

they will choose to pursue as<br />

their career, they will be drawn<br />

to those with healthy morale. As<br />

the five- to 10-year veterans near<br />

the point in their careers when<br />

lateralling to other agencies is a<br />

viable option, robust morale can<br />

often keep them tethered. Finally,<br />

increased department-wide<br />

morale will help shore up an<br />

agency that most confidently and<br />

competently serves its residents.<br />

Kory Flowers is a lieutenant<br />

with the Greensboro (NC) Police<br />

Department who has extensive<br />

investigative and undercover<br />

experience tracking criminal<br />

subversive groups, including<br />

anarchists, white supremacists,<br />

and sovereign citizens. Flowers<br />

trains law enforcement officers<br />

nationwide on various extremist<br />

groups and criminal factions,<br />

and leadership and communication,<br />

and has written numerous<br />

articles for POLICE.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

TRAGEDY STRIKES<br />

AGAIN IN HOUSTON<br />

San Jacinto Pct. 1 Constable Deputy Killed<br />

while working extra job at PlazAmericas Mall.<br />

HOUSTON – San Jacinto Precinct<br />

1 Deputy Constable Neil<br />

Adams was just a few hours<br />

from finishing his last shift at the<br />

PlazAmericas Mall on Wednesday<br />

February 23, when he was<br />

shot and killed.<br />

The 62-year-old law deputy<br />

had been working an extra job at<br />

the mall for quite some time and<br />

told his wife it was becoming<br />

way too dangerous, and this was<br />

going to be his last day.<br />

According to HPD Chief Troy<br />

Finner, a few minutes before 4<br />

p.m., Adams was called to the<br />

Casanova Collezioni store for<br />

a disturbance involving a man<br />

identified as 35-year-old Czyz<br />

Harrison. Adams attempted to<br />

detain the subject and Harrsion<br />

began fighting Adams and at<br />

some point, was able to gain<br />

control of the deputy’s gun. Harrison<br />

then shot and killed Adams.<br />

Just minutes before the shooting,<br />

Harrison had posted selfies<br />

on his social media, showing<br />

him trying on multiple outfits inside<br />

the store on his on what he<br />

claimed was his 35th<br />

birthday. As he was<br />

attempting to pay for<br />

his purchases, something<br />

caused the<br />

store staff to contract<br />

the mall security<br />

and requested an<br />

officer come to their<br />

store.<br />

When Adams arrived,<br />

he approached<br />

the suspect and<br />

that’s when the altercation<br />

began.<br />

Witnesses on the<br />

scene said, “We<br />

heard five shots right<br />

there too and that’s<br />

when we started<br />

just running to the<br />

back of the store,”<br />

said one worker who<br />

shared cell phone<br />

video of gunshots.<br />

“There were kids<br />

here too, with families.”<br />

The worker who<br />

witnessed the gunfire<br />

said Adams was a constant<br />

presence at the PlazAmericas<br />

mall, working as a security<br />

officer. Precinct 1 Constable<br />

Roy Rogers, for whom Adams<br />

worked, said he had to work<br />

extra jobs to supplement his less<br />

than $40,000 a year salary.<br />

“It’s a shame you can’t make a<br />

living doing what you love doing,”<br />

said Rogers.<br />

HPD officers responding to an<br />

officer down at the mall, arrived<br />

and found the shooter at<br />

the food court. When they approached<br />

him, the suspect was<br />

carrying a knife and “came at the<br />

officers.” The officers shot the<br />

suspect, however Finner said he<br />

got up and tried to flee, so they<br />

fired a taser at him. The suspect<br />

continued to resist, and officers<br />

eventually were able to place<br />

him into custody.” He was transported<br />

to a local hospital and<br />

later died.<br />

At a press conference later<br />

that evening, with HPD Chief<br />

Troy Finner and San Jacinto Pct.<br />

1 Constable Roy Rogers, Rogers<br />

held back tears during his remarks,<br />

calling Deputy Constable<br />

Adams a hero. “He’s a hero,” he<br />

said. “And we want to honor<br />

him.”<br />

Finner also took a brief moment<br />

to offer condolences for<br />

the officer’s loved ones left behind.<br />

“I ask that everybody pray for<br />

this beautiful family,” he said.<br />

“Pray for law enforcement families,<br />

our cities, our counties, and<br />

our nation.”<br />

Amid an outpouring of support<br />

from several other law<br />

enforcement officials, Deputy<br />

Adams’ wife, shared heartbreaking<br />

testimony but also asked for<br />

support to the other officers like<br />

her husband.<br />

“My husband always said that<br />

you can either be a sheep or<br />

sheepdog. And I want everybody<br />

to pray for all the sheepdogs<br />

out there that are protecting<br />

everybody,” she said. “They get<br />

a bad rap, and they just want to<br />

protect you. That’s what they<br />

want to do in their heart. And<br />

everybody’s turned their back on<br />

them. And everybody should pray<br />

for all of them because they’re<br />

here for you.”<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

HELICOPTER CRASH<br />

Huntington Beach Police are mourning the loss of<br />

one of their when one of their helicopters crashed<br />

in Newport Harbor, killing Officer Nicholas Vella.<br />

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Investigators<br />

are still trying to<br />

determine the cause of a Huntington<br />

Beach Police helicopter<br />

crash in Newport Harbor that<br />

killed one officer and injured<br />

another.<br />

The officer who died in the<br />

Saturday, February 19th crash,<br />

was identified as 44-year-old<br />

veteran Officer Nicholas Vella,<br />

according to the Huntington<br />

Beach Police Department. Vella<br />

was the observer at the time of<br />

the crash.<br />

The pilot, who has not yet been<br />

identified, was released from the<br />

hospital the day after the crash.<br />

Jennifer Carey, the Huntington<br />

Beach spokeswoman, said the<br />

wreckage was pulled from the<br />

water late Sunday afternoon.<br />

The National Transportation<br />

Safety Board is the lead agency<br />

investigating the accident,<br />

and the Orange County Sheriff<br />

‘s Department ‘s Major Accident<br />

Reconstruction Team will be<br />

conducting its own investigation,<br />

Carey said.<br />

The pilot made a brief call to<br />

report that the helicopter was<br />

experiencing<br />

mechanical<br />

issues, before<br />

calling again<br />

to say that<br />

they were going<br />

to crash,<br />

said NTSB<br />

spokesperson<br />

Elliott Simpson<br />

during a<br />

Sunday news<br />

conference.<br />

“Right now, it<br />

appears to be<br />

a nose-down<br />

descent into<br />

the water, “<br />

Simpson said.<br />

The cause<br />

of the crash<br />

will be determined<br />

at<br />

the end of<br />

the NTSB’s<br />

investigation,<br />

which could take 12 to 18<br />

months, NTSB spokesperson Eric<br />

Weiss said.<br />

“We look at not only what<br />

happened, but we try to figure<br />

out why it happened, “ Weiss<br />

said, explaining that the agency’s<br />

investigative process looks at<br />

human, machine and environmental<br />

factors. “By figuring out<br />

why it happened, you can maybe<br />

prevent future accidents.”<br />

A Huntington Beach Police helicopter is lifted out of the water in Newport Beach, Calif.<br />

Huntington Beach Police Chief<br />

Eric Parra described Vella as “an<br />

officer that was truly dedicated<br />

to the job and was doing what<br />

he loved doing.” Vella was a 16-<br />

year veteran of the force and had<br />

previously worked as a police<br />

officer in Laguna Beach, Parra<br />

said.<br />

One witness described the craft<br />

as clearly in distress and at least<br />

partly out of control just before<br />

landing in the water about 10 to<br />

20 feet offshore. The helicopter,<br />

called HB1, went down in the<br />

vicinity of the Lido Peninsula,<br />

according to the flight- tracker<br />

website adsbexchange.com.<br />

The helicopter had been dispatched<br />

from Huntington Beach,<br />

Parra said, on a “disturbance<br />

fight call “ from Newport Beach,<br />

which contracts for aerial assistance<br />

as needed with the neighboring<br />

city.<br />

The call about the crash came<br />

in about 6:30 p.m. Saturday,<br />

Carey said. Newport Beach police<br />

were monitoring the radio<br />

broadcast and had help at the<br />

scene “instantaneously, “ said<br />

Newport Beach Police Chief Jon<br />

T. Lewis, who also was at the<br />

news conference.<br />

A witness described the minutes<br />

leading up to the crash.<br />

“We were driving over here,<br />

and we heard the pitch of the<br />

helicopter, “ the unidentified<br />

witness told KCAL-TV Channel 9<br />

news. “And it sounded like a helicopter<br />

was in distress. And then<br />

when we looked at the helicopter,<br />

it was out of control. And it<br />

was obvious that the helicopter<br />

was going to go down. And it did<br />

go down and almost immediately<br />

sunk.”<br />

Video recorded at the scene<br />

shows the craft lying on its side,<br />

mostly submerged, as rescuers<br />

worked frantically to free the<br />

officers. One officer was able to<br />

emerge quickly and walk away<br />

with assistance onto the beach.<br />

Getting to the second took longer.<br />

Both were transported to<br />

local hospitals.<br />

The Huntington Beach Police<br />

Department has three helicopters<br />

and typically keeps one<br />

in operation 24 hours a day.<br />

The two other aircraft will be<br />

grounded pending an inspection<br />

and the preliminary investigation,<br />

Parra said.<br />

“This is truly a really heartbreaking<br />

time for all of us here<br />

in Huntington Beach, “ Mayor<br />

Barbara Delgleize said. “Our<br />

community values our police<br />

department, and the loss of an<br />

officer hits us all really hard.”<br />

The Huntington Beach Police<br />

Department Air Support Unit<br />

was formed in 1968. Huntington<br />

Beach was the first city in Orange<br />

County and the fifth in the nation<br />

to use helicopters for public<br />

safety service, according to the<br />

city.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

FOLLOWING ORDERS<br />

GETS 19 INDICTED<br />

19 Austin Officers accused of excessive force during the 2020<br />

George Floyd protests, were indicted by a Grand Jury in Travis County.<br />

Nearly two years after demonstrators<br />

and police clashed in<br />

Austin during nationwide protests<br />

sparked by the murder of<br />

George Floyd, a Travis County<br />

grand jury indicted 19 officers<br />

accused of excessive force,<br />

according to the police union.<br />

Austin officials agreed to a $10<br />

million settlement with two men<br />

who had been struck with the<br />

beanbag rounds.<br />

“We believe many protesters<br />

injured by law enforcement<br />

officers during the protest were<br />

innocent bystanders. We also<br />

believe that the overwhelming<br />

majority of victims in the incidents<br />

that were investigated<br />

suffered significant injuries,”<br />

Travis County District Attorney<br />

José Garza said during a press<br />

conference held last month announcing<br />

the indictments. “Some<br />

will never fully recover.”<br />

The names of the officers being<br />

indicted are not yet public record.<br />

Garza said that his office is<br />

prohibited by law to disclose details<br />

of an indictment until that<br />

person is arrested and booked<br />

into jail.<br />

Austin Police Association president<br />

Kenneth Casaday confirmed<br />

to The Texas Tribune that 19 officers<br />

have been indicted.<br />

One of the officers indicted<br />

was Justin Berry, a candidate for<br />

the Hill Country’s Texas House<br />

District 19, according to Casaday.<br />

The number of indictments<br />

is among the highest tied to a<br />

single city’s police force in connection<br />

with the 2020 protests so<br />

far, according to the Associated<br />

Press.<br />

In an interview last month,<br />

before the grand jury handed out<br />

any indictments, Sandra Guerra<br />

Thompson, a professor at the<br />

University of Houston Law Center,<br />

said it would be surprising if<br />

such a high number of officers<br />

were charged with crimes.<br />

“Historically, we’ve seen a<br />

reluctance by grand jurors to<br />

charge police officers criminally<br />

for use of force on the job, just<br />

because of the sense that they’re<br />

putting their lives at risk and<br />

protecting the public,” Thompson<br />

said. “Those kinds of views have<br />

usually worked in their favor.”<br />

The cases could take months or<br />

years to resolve.<br />

In a short press conference,<br />

Austin Police Chief Joseph<br />

Chacon defended his officers<br />

and chided Garza for remarking<br />

on “anticipated indictments.”<br />

Flanked by APD command staff<br />

and city higher-ups, including<br />

City Manager Spencer Cronk,<br />

Chacon said officers were overwhelmed<br />

by crowds that were<br />

often “riotous and violent” —<br />

and that “less-lethal” weapons<br />

used for crowd control “did not<br />

perform in all instances in the<br />

manner anticipated.”<br />

“I am not aware of any conduct<br />

that, given the circumstances<br />

that the officers were working<br />

under, would rise to the level<br />

of a criminal violation by these<br />

officers,” Chacon said. “We are<br />

at the beginning of the criminal<br />

justice process. As we move<br />

forward, these officers must be<br />

afforded all of the same protections<br />

of any defendant, including<br />

the presumption of innocence<br />

and the right to a speedy trial.”<br />

The department has since<br />

stopped the use of less-lethal<br />

weapons.<br />

Cronk, the city’s top executive,<br />

warned that “any indictments<br />

will heighten the anxiety of our<br />

officers” and exacerbate the police<br />

department’s staffing shortages.<br />

“We are disappointed to be<br />

in this position, and we do not<br />

believe that criminal indictments<br />

of the officers working under<br />

very difficult circumstances is<br />

the correct outcome,” Cronk said<br />

in a statement.<br />

Casaday said that the indicted<br />

officers were following orders<br />

and shouldn’t be held responsible<br />

for any injuries during the<br />

protests.<br />

“These officers were only doing<br />

what they were told to do with<br />

what the city of Austin provided<br />

them during the days of the<br />

riots,” he said.<br />

Casaday accused Garza of<br />

attempting to score political<br />

points. The police union is asking<br />

Garza’s office to stop announcing<br />

indictments until after<br />

the Democratic primary and<br />

runoffs.<br />

“It’s an absolute disgrace, and<br />

it sickens me that DA Garza is<br />

using working officers as pawns<br />

in a political game of chess,”<br />

Casaday said during a press<br />

conference Thursday afternoon.<br />

“Garza ran on a platform to indict<br />

officers and has not missed<br />

the opportunity to try and ruin<br />

lives, careers and simply fulfill a<br />

campaign promise.”<br />

Garza was elected in 2020<br />

following the protests and ran<br />

on a campaign promising to<br />

hold law enforcement accountable.<br />

His current term stretches<br />

through 2024.<br />

The indictments also drew<br />

criticism from the nation’s largest<br />

police officer association.<br />

“<strong>No</strong>thing more than a political<br />

attack on 19 officers who<br />

were already cleared by their<br />

department of any wrongdoing,”<br />

tweeted Joe Gamaldi, national<br />

vice president of the Fraternal<br />

Order of Police.<br />

Also on Thursday, under a<br />

settlement unanimously approved<br />

by the Austin City Council,<br />

demonstrator Justin Howell will<br />

receive $8 million — the highest<br />

amount ever awarded in an<br />

excessive force case involving an<br />

Austin police officer, the Statesman<br />

reported. Anthony Evans,<br />

another protester, will get $2<br />

million.<br />

Both men sued the city after<br />

suffering severe head injuries in<br />

May 2020, when Austin police<br />

officers fired on demonstrators<br />

protesting police brutality in the<br />

wake of the police killings of<br />

George Floyd in Minneapolis and<br />

Michael Ramos in Austin.<br />

Howell, then a 20-year-old<br />

Texas State University student,<br />

had a fractured skull and brain<br />

damage, his brother said at the<br />

time.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

HANSEN GETS HIS<br />

MAN AFTER 30 YRS.<br />

Galveston County Lt. Tommy Hansen finally arrested a<br />

man who slit his girlfriend’s three decades ago.<br />

GALVESTON — It may have<br />

taken three decades, but a Tommy<br />

Hansen isn’t one to give up<br />

on anything and after nearly<br />

30-years he finally got his man;<br />

Luis Calderon is once again behind<br />

bars in Galveston County.<br />

Calderon was wanted for kidnapping<br />

and attempted murder,<br />

accused of slitting his girlfriend’s<br />

throat and leaving her for dead<br />

in 1991.<br />

Calderon arrived at the Galveston<br />

County jail last month,<br />

escorted by Galveston County<br />

Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Tommy<br />

Hansen - the cold case detective<br />

who’s been on top of the<br />

case for 30 years - and members<br />

of the warrant division.<br />

“Every investigator throughout<br />

their career has cases that haunt<br />

you and we all have several of<br />

those and I have a number of<br />

them,” Hansen said. “This was<br />

a horrific crime and it was a<br />

tedious process of locating him.<br />

We felt for many years that he<br />

was still in the states but as time<br />

progressed, our investigation<br />

After 30 years, Lt. Galveston County Lt. Tommy Hansen<br />

escorted fugitive Luis Calderon back to jail.<br />

led us, thanks to records we got<br />

from ICE, to El Salvador.”<br />

Calderon first went on the run<br />

in 1991 after skipping out on bail<br />

in the case involving the kidnapping<br />

and attempted murder<br />

of Diane Sanchez, his girlfriend<br />

at the time. A hot shot driver,<br />

Earl Pugh, happened to find the<br />

severely injured woman on the<br />

side of the road only because he<br />

was turning around to head back<br />

to Galveston because of truck<br />

problems.<br />

Officials said Calderon was able<br />

to get out of jail because a judge<br />

granted a bond reduction request<br />

that allowed him to be released<br />

even as prosecutors argued that<br />

he was a flight risk.<br />

In 2019, Hansen finally tracked<br />

Calderon down in El Salvador,<br />

where the suspect had family<br />

connections. Still, it would be almost<br />

another year before Hansen<br />

would be able to get Calderon<br />

into custody.<br />

With the assistance of the FBI,<br />

the US Department of Justice,<br />

Interpol and the Immigration<br />

and Customs Enforcement and<br />

Galveston County, Calderon was<br />

apprehended in El Salvador on<br />

Feb. 11, 2020.<br />

Calderon was jailed in El<br />

Salvador and has been awaiting<br />

extradition back to the United<br />

States ever since.<br />

Hansen said the process just<br />

to get Calderon back into Texas<br />

was an ordeal in itself. He explained<br />

they had to go through a<br />

lot of “red tape” and credits Sen.<br />

Ted Cruz and President Nayib<br />

Bukele, the president of El Salvador.<br />

Sen Cruz’s Office sent the following<br />

statement: “I am thankful<br />

to President Bukele, the government<br />

of El Salvador and the<br />

Galveston County Sheriff’s Office<br />

for their work in facilitating<br />

Calderon’s transfer. This sends<br />

a clear message to any fugitive<br />

of the law: you will be brought<br />

to justice. Today is a testament<br />

to the importance of America’s<br />

bilateral regional partnerships<br />

grounded in mutual interest of<br />

the apprehension of this individual<br />

and the appreciation of the<br />

rule of law.”<br />

A bond hearing was held for<br />

Calderon Tuesday morning, at<br />

which time, the judge placed a<br />

$1 million bond for each charge.<br />

Hansen said, while on the run,<br />

Calderon started a new life for<br />

himself. He is now 56 years old.<br />

“It looks like he had a normal<br />

life. He had a family, had two kids<br />

he raised. His life was in motion,”<br />

Hansen explained. Meanwhile, his<br />

victim lived on edge, not knowing<br />

if she would ever be safe.<br />

Hansen said they did not<br />

“breathe easily” until they knew<br />

he was on the plane and heading<br />

back to Texas. He said they did<br />

not notify the victim until they<br />

knew things were completely<br />

secure and spoke with her again<br />

two minutes before holding a<br />

press conference.<br />

With the most recent news<br />

regarding Calderon, his ex-girlfriend<br />

- a survivor in every sense<br />

of the word - said she can now<br />

sleep at night.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

APTS. FOR RECRUITS<br />

City of Atlanta opens new, first if its kind, apartment<br />

complex for new police cadets.<br />

By Wilborn P. <strong>No</strong>bles III<br />

ATLANTA — Atlanta police<br />

recruits have a new place to call<br />

home after officials celebrated<br />

the opening of the Unity Place<br />

åuse at least 30 officers in training.<br />

It is located at 744 <strong>No</strong>rth<br />

Ave., in the English Avenue community.<br />

City officials call the complex<br />

the first of its kind nationwide.<br />

They consider it a proactive form<br />

of community policing in an area<br />

that was once riddled with so<br />

much crime and disinvestment<br />

that it was derogatively called<br />

“The Bluff.”<br />

But Byron Amos, the new city<br />

councilmember for the area,<br />

praised the new facility as the<br />

latest of several transformative<br />

developments in the English Avenue<br />

and Vine City communities.<br />

“Three or four years ago, this<br />

was an old rundown apartment<br />

complex that the city acquired,”<br />

said Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.<br />

“And here we are right<br />

now...Having a place where cadets<br />

can live.”<br />

The building offers cadets<br />

1-to-4-bedroom units on a<br />

first-come, first-served basis<br />

during their<br />

weeks-long<br />

process of<br />

training. It<br />

has three<br />

floors and<br />

a basement-level<br />

lounge that<br />

will be filled<br />

with gym<br />

equipment,<br />

and furniture<br />

to provide<br />

space<br />

for community meetings.<br />

Seven recruits moved into the<br />

building last night and more will<br />

come later this month, said Karen<br />

Rogers, director of development<br />

and community programs<br />

for the Atlanta Police Foundation.<br />

She said the facility would<br />

have cost $7 million to build, but<br />

several developers did the work<br />

pro bono.<br />

After the city’s ribbon-cutting<br />

ceremony, some of the recruits<br />

toured the apartment for the first<br />

time.<br />

Atlanta Police Foundation<br />

President & CEO Dave Wilkinson<br />

said his organization is also<br />

working with the city and developers<br />

to build up to 50 houses<br />

for the city officers by year’s end.<br />

So far, 25 houses are built or<br />

under construction, and he said<br />

the officers living in them can<br />

receive up to a $500 monthly<br />

stipend by participating in community<br />

events. when they report<br />

how often they’ve participated in<br />

events in their community.<br />

Thelma Reneau, a lifelong English<br />

Avenue resident and treasurer<br />

of the neighborhood association,<br />

said she’s thrilled to see<br />

more officers in the community.<br />

“I’m gonna get to know them,”<br />

said Reneau, 75. “I bake cakes, so<br />

I’m gonna bring them cakes and<br />

cupcakes.”<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

EX CHIEF ARRESTED<br />

AFTER FAKING DEATH<br />

Chadbourn, NC – A former<br />

<strong>No</strong>rth Carolina police chief with<br />

40 outstanding warrants was<br />

arrested early Thursday morning<br />

after allegedly attempting to<br />

fake his own death, according to<br />

investigators.<br />

Former Chadbourn Police<br />

Chief Anthony Spivey, 36, failed<br />

to show up to court earlier in<br />

February to answer to one of the<br />

multiple criminal cases pending<br />

against him, WECT reported.<br />

Spivey claimed he couldn’t<br />

attend because he was suffering<br />

from COVID, so the hearing was<br />

reset to Feb. 21.<br />

When Spivey also skipped<br />

out on the rescheduled hearing,<br />

his attorney told the court his<br />

client was missing and that he<br />

had possibly committed suicide,<br />

WECT reported.<br />

The Columbus County Sheriff’s<br />

Office (CCSO) said it received a<br />

report Monday from <strong>No</strong>rth Carolina<br />

Wildlife Resources Commission<br />

(NCWRC) officers about<br />

a boat they found abandoned in<br />

the Lumber River.<br />

The NCWRC officers determined<br />

the boat belonged to<br />

Spivey and said he was last seen<br />

driving a truck in the area where<br />

the boat was spotted, WECT<br />

reported.<br />

CCSO investigators said they<br />

located handwritten letters at<br />

the scene and found a .22-caliber<br />

rifle in the boat.<br />

A discharged round was found<br />

inside the firearm, according to<br />

police.<br />

“Deputies arrived on the scene,<br />

along with Sheriff’s Office Investigators<br />

and Special Operations<br />

Units, including the Man Tracking<br />

and Dive Units,” the CCSO said<br />

in a press release, according to<br />

WECT. “As the Sheriff’s Office<br />

began to search the area, investigators<br />

spoke to Spivey’s friends<br />

and family who were at the<br />

scene. Investigators began collecting<br />

evidence. Family members<br />

described the incident as a<br />

possible suicide.”<br />

But the CCSO believed the<br />

scene was a farce.<br />

“Investigators quickly concluded<br />

that the evidence collected<br />

did not support a suicide scenario,”<br />

the sheriff’s office said.<br />

“As investigators collected video<br />

from surveillance systems and<br />

conducted interviews, it became<br />

even more apparent that the<br />

scene on the river was staged.”<br />

The CCSO still utilized dive<br />

crews to search the river and<br />

sent tracking teams into the<br />

woods to look for the missing<br />

former police chief, WECT reported.<br />

“Search and rescue crews conducted<br />

searches for three days,<br />

including several agencies assisting<br />

with aerial coverage, K9<br />

sniffing, and sonar scanning,” the<br />

CCSO said. “Meanwhile, Criminal<br />

Investigators were conducting a<br />

separate investigation.”<br />

The <strong>No</strong>rth Carolina State Bureau<br />

of Investigation (NCSBI)<br />

and the U.S. Marshals Service<br />

(USMS) joined in the effort and<br />

began looking into leads indicating<br />

Spivey was still alive, WECT<br />

reported.<br />

Investigators received a tip on<br />

Wednesday that the disgraced<br />

former police chief was hiding<br />

out at a family member’s home<br />

in Loris, South Carolina, and obtained<br />

a warrant for his arrest.<br />

They headed over to an apartment<br />

complex on Watson Heritage<br />

Road where Spivey’s aunt,<br />

Brenda Rowele, resides, WECT<br />

reported.<br />

Spivey was found submerged<br />

in a creek behind the complex,<br />

attempting to hide, according to<br />

police.<br />

Police ordered him to come<br />

out of the water with his hands<br />

raised, but as the suspect walked<br />

up onto a dry, wooded area, he<br />

allegedly reached towards his<br />

waistband and told the officers<br />

they would have to shoot him,<br />

The Horry Independent reported.<br />

Investigators said he was taken<br />

into custody at approximately<br />

12:45 a.m. after a brief foot<br />

pursuit and physical altercation,<br />

WECT reported.<br />

Rowele told police she had no<br />

idea Spivey skipped out on his<br />

court appearance.<br />

She claimed he called her the<br />

night before his hearing and said<br />

he was having marital problems<br />

and that he was thinking about<br />

committing suicide, according to<br />

police.<br />

Rowele said she discouraged<br />

him from harming himself and<br />

told him to come to her home<br />

for a few days, WECT reported.<br />

“I was told different stories,<br />

but I do know, and I will state to<br />

the fact that he is not no drug<br />

addict like they say he is,” she<br />

declared. “Columbus County<br />

cops is doing him wrong.”<br />

Spivey resigned from his<br />

position as chief of the Chadbourn<br />

Police Department (CPD)<br />

in April of 2021, shortly before<br />

he was arrested on 73 counts<br />

stemming from allegations<br />

that he repeatedly raided the<br />

department’s evidence room<br />

and stole tens of thousands<br />

of dollars in cash, a variety of<br />

narcotics, and multiple firearms,<br />

WECT reported at the time.<br />

Those offenses allegedly occurred<br />

between Aug. 18, 2018,<br />

and March 4, 2021.<br />

He was hit with another<br />

charge in June of 2021 for<br />

allegedly embezzling $8,000<br />

from funds donated to a family<br />

whose son died from leukemia,<br />

WECT reported.<br />

Spivey managed to post<br />

$500,000 bond in August of<br />

2021 but was arrested on new<br />

charges in January for allegedly<br />

stealing catalytic converters<br />

from the Tarbor City auto repair<br />

shop where he was working as<br />

a mechanic.<br />

He again posted bond.<br />

Spivey was booked into the J.<br />

Reuben Long Detention Center<br />

in Horry County on Thursday<br />

pending extradition back to<br />

<strong>No</strong>rth Carolina, WECT reported.<br />

He had 40 outstanding warrants<br />

with a total bond of $1<br />

million.<br />

The CCSO said he is expected<br />

to face additional charges.<br />

Two additional suspects connected<br />

with Spivey’s case were<br />

arrested by Columbus County<br />

deputies on Thursday, WECT<br />

reported.<br />

Debbie Sasser and her husband,<br />

Dean Sasser, were both<br />

charged with obstruction of<br />

justice and were being held on<br />

$100,000 bond.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

HEADS UP !<br />

POTTER GETS 24-MOS.<br />

Former Police Officer Kimberly<br />

Potter was sentenced<br />

to 24 months, 16 months<br />

to be served incarcerated,<br />

in the shooting death of<br />

Daunte Wright last year.<br />

The judge said Potter will<br />

be given credit for 58 days<br />

already served and will pay<br />

$1,000 fine, plus a $78 surcharge.<br />

Potter, 49, was convicted<br />

of first- and second-degree<br />

manslaughter in 20-yearold<br />

Wright’s killing during<br />

a traffic stop, with Potter<br />

claiming she accidentally<br />

drew her gun instead of her<br />

Taser.<br />

Hennepin County Judge<br />

Regina Chu sentenced Potter<br />

to 24 months in prison<br />

on Friday — a significant<br />

downward departure from<br />

sentencing guidelines. Potter<br />

was sentenced on the<br />

higher count, per MN law.<br />

“This is a cop who made<br />

a tragic mistake,” Chu said,<br />

noting it is not the same as<br />

the deaths of George Floyd<br />

or Justine Ruszczyk Damond.<br />

She said the Potter’s<br />

conduct was less serious<br />

than a typical manslaughter<br />

case.<br />

Rogue tire slams into patrol car windshield.<br />

By Bret Pallotto<br />

Centre Daily Times<br />

SPRING TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A<br />

pair of Spring Township police<br />

officers avoided injury Monday<br />

after a tire detached from a pickup<br />

truck and smashed into the<br />

windshield of their SUV.<br />

Two officers were monitoring<br />

traffic Monday from a median<br />

along the 1300 block of Zion<br />

Road when the rear driver-side<br />

tire from a pickup<br />

truck heading westbound detached<br />

and slammed into the<br />

windshield, the department<br />

wrote on Facebook.<br />

The tire caromed off the<br />

hood of the car, into the windshield<br />

and off of the opposite<br />

side of the road without hitting<br />

any other vehicles,<br />

The vehicle was extensively<br />

damaged, police wrote. The department<br />

did not have an estimate<br />

of repair costs as of Monday<br />

evening, police Chief Adam<br />

Salyards wrote in a text message.<br />

The driver of the pickup<br />

truck was not issued a citation.<br />

Salyards wrote the crash was a<br />

“freak accident.”<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

HPD BODY CAM<br />

HPD Released the Bodycam and Dashcam videos of the officer involved<br />

shoot-out that occurred on January 27, 2022 in Houston’s Third Ward.<br />

Charges have been filed against a suspect arrested in the shooting of three Houston police<br />

officers at 2500 Hutchins Street and 2100 McGowen Street about 2:45 p.m. on Thursday<br />

(Jan. 27).<br />

The suspect, Roland Caballero, 31, is charged with three counts of attempted capital<br />

murder of a police officer and one count of aggravated robbery in the 179th State District<br />

Court. A January 2021 booking photo of Caballero is attached to this news release. He<br />

remains hospitalized at this time.<br />

The three wounded officers – N. Gadson, 35, D. Hayden, 32, and A. Alvarez, 28 – were<br />

transported to Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center in stable condition. Officers<br />

Gadson and Hayden have been released from the hospital. Officer Alvarez remains hospitalized<br />

in stable condition.<br />

All videos can be found here: Bit.ly/CIVHutchins<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

EL MERCADITO<br />

MEXICAN FOOD<br />

The <strong>Blues</strong> is all about promoting<br />

businesses that support<br />

first responders especially<br />

those OWNED by first<br />

responders. Each month,<br />

we’ll feature a new place to<br />

eat that truly appreciate the<br />

sacrifices you make for your<br />

community and your family.<br />

And have great food.<br />

We begin with a non-traditional<br />

restaurant but one<br />

that joins a growing list<br />

of must try food places in<br />

Houston. Antojitos El Mercadito,<br />

is owned by Rubi<br />

Gabriel, whos’ husband is a<br />

Harris County deputy constable.<br />

Based in a stateof-the-art<br />

food truck, El<br />

Mercadito is parked near<br />

downtown Houston at a location<br />

known to just about<br />

every cop in Houston – Central<br />

Police Supply.<br />

Did you know what Antojitos<br />

means in Spanish?<br />

In Mexico, there’s a vast<br />

family of foods known as<br />

Antojitos, which means<br />

little cravings. Antojitos are<br />

street snacks or appetizers.<br />

They’re usually small, savory<br />

bites intended as precursors<br />

to the main meal or<br />

as late-night snacks.<br />

Years ago, you’d have to be<br />

insane to eat anything that<br />

came from a food truck.<br />

But today, some of the best<br />

food from aspiring young<br />

chefs can be found in these<br />

new, fully equipped restaurants<br />

on wheels. And Antojitos<br />

food trucks have begun<br />

popping up everywhere,<br />

some in dedicated food<br />

courts, that draw thousands<br />

each day to see what<br />

new mouth-watering items<br />

are on their ever-changing<br />

menus.<br />

At El Mercadito, chef and<br />

owner Rubi Gabriel prepares<br />

original Mexican favorites<br />

that rival some of the<br />

best TEX-MEX restaurants<br />

around Houston. BLUES editor<br />

Rex Evans stopped by El<br />

Mercadito to sample some<br />

of many dishes and he says<br />

there is nothing on the menu<br />

that isn’t 100% delicious.<br />

They have Gorditas with<br />

Bistek, Al Pastor or Chicken.<br />

Quesadillas with Bistek,<br />

Al Pastor or Chicken. Street<br />

tacos with Bistek, Al Pastor,<br />

Chicken or Chorizo.<br />

Huaraches with Bistek or<br />

Al Pastor. And my personal<br />

favorite is Quesabirrias with<br />

Steak and Beef Broth. They<br />

also list their specialties<br />

as Pambazos, Doraditas De<br />

Papa and Flautas.<br />

The bottom line is no matter<br />

what you choose, you<br />

want to come back again<br />

and again to try something<br />

new.<br />

El Mercadito is open Monday<br />

– Friday, 10am – 4:30pm<br />

El Mercadito is currently located at<br />

1410 Washington Ave, in the parking<br />

lot of Central Police Supply.<br />

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AROUND THE COUNTRY<br />

CENTRAL POLICE<br />

SUPPLY<br />

You’d have to go a mighty long<br />

ways back to find the origins<br />

of Central Police Supply Store,<br />

located at the corner of Houston<br />

and Washington Avenues. Conveniently<br />

located, right across<br />

from the old Central Headquarters<br />

of the Houston Police Department.<br />

<strong>No</strong>w to be fair, it wasn’t always<br />

called Central Police Supply. It’s<br />

original name was “F-15”. And it<br />

wasn’t always located in the red<br />

brick building it has been housed<br />

in for the last 20 years either.<br />

Though it’s always been located<br />

at that intersection, it was once<br />

housed in the smaller gray stone<br />

and brick building immediately<br />

adjacent to the current building.<br />

There were multiple owners,<br />

all Houston Police Officers, and<br />

they had gone in together on the<br />

original ‘F15’ business. Well time<br />

and fate dwindled the number<br />

of ‘partners’ in the business until<br />

the longest running partner,<br />

Officer Ray Simper, was the sole<br />

survivor of the original group.<br />

Over the years, a LOT of Officers,<br />

Deputies, Troopers, State<br />

and Federal Agents have all<br />

made a stop into Central Police<br />

Supply. I can’t possibly remember<br />

all the times I have been<br />

there over the last 30 plus years.<br />

I always had to have the latest<br />

and greatest “thing” or “whatchamacallit”.<br />

There were a few times some<br />

snap broke, some light stopped<br />

working or a jacket had a hole<br />

in it and it was always easier to<br />

just stop in at Central and get<br />

what I needed fixed, repaired,<br />

serviced or replaced! A few<br />

times, the folks there proved to<br />

be a “lifesaver” of sorts when<br />

you work evenings or nights and<br />

your SL-20 stopped charging<br />

or working. They would always<br />

repair it right then and there.<br />

I’ll even admit, there was a<br />

time or two, I had gone in with<br />

holes in my boots, uniform, or<br />

jacket and Ray or one of the<br />

girls would let ‘charge’ new pair<br />

until payday. It wasn’t often mind<br />

you, but the two or three times<br />

over 30 years I could charge<br />

something, kept me returning<br />

as a faithful and loyal customer.<br />

<strong>No</strong>t so much for the convenience,<br />

as the leniency and compassion<br />

they always had for their customers.<br />

<strong>No</strong> one there ever had<br />

to help me. They did so because<br />

they knew me and they knew I<br />

would always show up with cash<br />

and a dozen donuts. My way of<br />

saying “Thank you” for the grace<br />

given unto me when I needed it.<br />

<strong>No</strong>wadays, such customer<br />

service isn’t really afforded<br />

anywhere on this planet! Which<br />

I understand. Times and people<br />

have changed. Hell, the whole<br />

world has changed. One thing<br />

that hasn’t changed, is the fact<br />

Central Police Supply remains<br />

open and active at the intersection<br />

of Houston and Washington<br />

Avenue. And Officers, Deputies,<br />

Troopers, Federal and State<br />

Agents are still walking in, getting<br />

whatever they need, buying<br />

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the latest and greatest, and the<br />

whatchamacallits they just had<br />

to have!<br />

For a business in the City of<br />

Houston, that’s quite an accomplishment.<br />

When it comes to<br />

Law Enforcement, we haven’t<br />

exactly kept our rich, dedicated<br />

and oftentimes quite interesting<br />

history alive. Central Police Supply<br />

is a testament to over a half<br />

century of service to those who,<br />

Serve and Protect.<br />

On a personal, one day in a<br />

pouring thunderstorm, I stopped<br />

in for one of those long “Duster<br />

style” raincoats. I had just<br />

enough money for it. Ray was<br />

over attending to something<br />

else as the girl rang me up. But<br />

he stopped what he was doing<br />

and mentioned the holes in the<br />

sides of my boots where they<br />

had become separated. With the<br />

raging thunderstorm going on<br />

outside he said “What size boot<br />

do you wear?” I told him and<br />

within about a minute he walked<br />

back over with a brand new pair<br />

of boots in the box. He told me<br />

to take off my soaked, torn up<br />

boots and put on the new ones.<br />

I explained to him I only had<br />

enough money to get the coat, I<br />

didn’t have money for the boots.<br />

He went on to tell me he didn’t<br />

ask me about money, he simply<br />

couldn’t and wouldn’t let a cop<br />

come in with boots like that and<br />

walk out in a middle of thunderstorm<br />

with the same worn out<br />

boots on. He said “I know when<br />

payday is…just come back and<br />

see me then, ok?” I thank him,<br />

switched to new and dry boots<br />

and went back to work. I’ll never<br />

forgot his kindness and I’ll never<br />

shop anywhere else. Such moments<br />

are all but a rarity these<br />

days, locked away to history. <strong>No</strong>t<br />

all “Old School” was bad. <strong>No</strong>t at<br />

all….<br />

Over the years, Central became<br />

a second home to hundreds if<br />

not thousands of officers. In<br />

the almost half of century that<br />

Central and F15 have been in<br />

business, they have outfitted officers<br />

with damn near everything<br />

they could ever need. When we<br />

relaunched the BLUES a year ago,<br />

I ran across a video that Greg<br />

Smith made about Ray and the<br />

history of Central Police Supply.<br />

(see attached link) It’s a great<br />

video that gives insight into Ray’s<br />

history as an HPD police officer<br />

and his involvement with F15<br />

and later as the owner of Central<br />

Police Supply.<br />

I was out of town in August<br />

when a friend called me and<br />

said Ray had passed away. I was<br />

truly saddened by the news. Ray<br />

was always like an older brother<br />

to me and I wish that I had<br />

made it a point to visit him over<br />

the years. I am however thrilled<br />

to see his daughter Jacqueline<br />

running the family business. I<br />

know Ray was so proud when<br />

Jacqueline wanted to take over<br />

as manager and she is every bit<br />

as smart as her old man.<br />

Finally, I’d like to thank Jacqueline<br />

and the staff at Central<br />

Police Supply for once again<br />

placing their trust in the BLUES to<br />

promote a true legend in Houston.<br />

I think Ray would be proud<br />

of the “digital” version of the<br />

BLUES and the fact we choose<br />

the correct color of blue for The<br />

Central Logo.<br />

Remember when it come to<br />

police supplies, Central is a onestop<br />

shop. Especially if you work<br />

for HPD, HCSO or any of the local<br />

Harris County Constables, Central<br />

has all the gear you need.<br />

If you are looking for an<br />

off-duty gun or a long rifle,<br />

Central has GLOCK BLUE LABEL<br />

pricing and nearly every model<br />

in stock.<br />

Sure you could go to the national<br />

brand store down the<br />

street, but there’s no way you’re<br />

getting the personal attention<br />

and outstanding customer service<br />

Central Police Supply is<br />

known for.<br />

Be sure and tell the staff you<br />

are an avid reader of the BLUES<br />

Police Magazine and saw their<br />

ad. Then ask for your FREE<br />

Back-the- BLUE decal.<br />

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a finger on my right hand while<br />

fighting to handcuff a suspect. By<br />

the time I had him booked and<br />

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and my finger was blue. A trip to<br />

the emergency room revealed what<br />

I already knew. That broken finger<br />

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That’s when I knew I was being<br />

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the best in the business is James<br />

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Public service is in James<br />

Wood’s blood and his heart. His father<br />

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James himself<br />

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VOTE THEIR ASS OUT<br />

THREE JUDGES who freed accused killers on low bonds AND need to go!<br />

REPRINTED FROM THE<br />

BREAKING BOND SERIES<br />

By Randy Wallace<br />

FOX 26 Houston<br />

In this edition of Breaking<br />

Bond, FOX 26 Reporter Randy<br />

Wallace spoke with several<br />

candidates who are running<br />

against criminal court judges,<br />

who are reducing or setting<br />

bonds for repeat offenders.<br />

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - For<br />

more than a year, we’ve repeatedly<br />

asked Judges Hillary Unger,<br />

Greg Glass, and Jason Luong for<br />

interviews for Breaking Bond<br />

reports. All those requests were<br />

ignored.<br />

Three candidates running<br />

against them were more than<br />

happy to talk to us.<br />

Last September, Houston Police<br />

Department Officer Bill Jeffery<br />

was killed in a gun battle with<br />

30-year-old Deon Ledet, a habitual<br />

criminal and wanted fugitive<br />

at the time.<br />

The DA’s office asked 208th<br />

Criminal District Court Judge<br />

Greg Glass to deny Ledet bond.<br />

Instead, Judge Glass lowered<br />

Ledet’s bond to just $20,000.<br />

“This court has had so much<br />

bad publicity with the release<br />

of repeat violent offenders and<br />

I know I can make a change<br />

there,” said prosecutor Beverly<br />

Armstrong, whose running<br />

against Judge Glass.<br />

“I would look at whether this<br />

was your first-time, fifth-time,<br />

tenth-time,” Armstrong said. “I<br />

would look at is there demonstrated<br />

evidence of danger to<br />

society,”<br />

In October 2021, we told you<br />

how 248th Criminal District<br />

Court Judge Hillary Unger set<br />

bond for 40-year-old Andrew<br />

Williams, charged with capital<br />

murder at $150,000.<br />

Williams would later go on<br />

to allegedly run over and kill<br />

71-year-old Martha Medina in a<br />

McDonald’s parking lot.<br />

“Too many people are being<br />

killed on the streets of Harris<br />

County by felons who’ve been<br />

released on multiple felony<br />

bonds. These are violent offenders<br />

who are endangering our<br />

community,” said prosecutor<br />

Linda Mazagatti who hopes to<br />

unseat Judge Hillary Unger in the<br />

primary,<br />

“One bond, I certainly understand<br />

that. A second bond is a<br />

potential, but it has to be justifiable,”<br />

said Mazagatti. “A third<br />

bond is typically unreasonable.”<br />

Back in July 2020, we told you<br />

about <strong>38</strong>-year-old Brandon Andres’<br />

lengthy criminal history.<br />

That didn’t stop 185th Criminal<br />

District Court Judge Jason Luong<br />

from granting him three felony<br />

bonds.<br />

On June 14, 2021, police say<br />

Andres and another man murdered<br />

35-year-old Rodrick<br />

Miller.<br />

“The trial docket in that court<br />

is absurd. My opponent has only<br />

been to trial 10 times in three<br />

years while many of our hardworking<br />

democratic judges have<br />

been to trial 30 to 40 times in<br />

that same time period,” said<br />

prosecutor Andrea Beall whose<br />

running against Judge Jason<br />

Luong.<br />

“He hasn’t tried a capital<br />

murder. He hasn’t presided over<br />

a single child abuse case, even<br />

though the legislature requires<br />

judges prioritize those in trial<br />

order,” Beall said.<br />

248TH DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

HILLARY UNGER<br />

208TH DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

GREG GLASS<br />

185TH CRIMINAL DISTRICT JUDGE<br />

JASON LUONG<br />

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LINA HIDALGO<br />

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo accused<br />

of ‘disrespect’ at slain corporal’s funeral.<br />

HOUSTON - There are few services<br />

more somber and more sacred<br />

than those honoring a fallen<br />

law officer.<br />

And yet the funeral of slain<br />

Corporal Charles Galloway with<br />

Harris County Pct. 5 Constables<br />

now lies under a shroud of<br />

controversy with County Judge<br />

Lina Hidalgo accused of being the<br />

instigator.<br />

“What she did was wrong,”<br />

said Precinct 5 Sgt. Roy Guinn.<br />

“She completely disrespected the<br />

service that we had planned, not<br />

only to honor Corporal Galloway<br />

but for his family and for all of<br />

law enforcement. And she did it<br />

with no thought at all, no care at<br />

all.”<br />

Guinn says at Tuesday’s memorial<br />

service, Hidalgo insisted on<br />

playing an unrequested, undesired<br />

role at the private Galloway<br />

funeral, refusing to leave the<br />

ceremonial vanguard and take<br />

her assigned seat, despite his<br />

urgent and repeated requests.<br />

“It was almost venomous,” said<br />

Guinn. “She said, ‘I’m not going to<br />

sit there, do you know who I am?<br />

I’m the County Judge,’ and she<br />

was very upset I was trying to<br />

move her.”<br />

It is Guinn’s personal belief<br />

Hidalgo was more interested in<br />

a primary season photo-op than<br />

preserving the dignity of a fallen<br />

officer’s farewell.<br />

“Every place she injected<br />

herself without invitation was<br />

where cameras were present,”<br />

said Guinn.<br />

The sergeant said as much in a<br />

statement first published on the<br />

Michael Berry Show.<br />

Asked about both the incident<br />

and the criticism, the Judge’s<br />

spokesman said Hidalgo would<br />

not be responding out of respect<br />

for the family.<br />

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick,<br />

who attended the Galloway service<br />

tweeted on the issue Thursday<br />

calling Hidalgo’s actions “a<br />

shocking display of disruptive<br />

and disgraceful behavior.”<br />

Harris County Judge<br />

LINA HIDALGO<br />

“You have blood on your hands... I’m calling on<br />

you three to resign from office so the healing can<br />

begin.” STEVE RADACK, at a recent CC Meeting.<br />

Then she made an ass out of herself at Corporal<br />

Charles Galloway’s Funeral.<br />

SHE HAS TO GO!<br />

CLICK HERE TO WATCH DORA MAKE AN ASS OUT OF HERSELF<br />

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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST<br />

Officers Lost Due to COVID in February 2022<br />

LONDON POLICE OFFICER<br />

TRAVIS HURLEY<br />

END OF WATCH: THURSDAY, JANUARY 27,<br />

SEBASTAIN POLICE OFFICER<br />

WILLIAM SHIBLEY<br />

END OF WATCH: MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2022<br />

JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF<br />

LAQUINTIN J. WILSON<br />

END OF WATCH: TUESDAY, FEB. 1, 2022<br />

CROSS ROADS POLICE OFFICER<br />

CHRIS BARDWELL<br />

END OF WATCH: TUESDAY, FEB. 1, 2022<br />

FOWLER POLICE SERGEANT<br />

ARTHUR DURON<br />

END OF WATCH: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2, 2022<br />

UNION CITY POLICE CHIEF<br />

RICHARD LESLIE STEPHENS<br />

END OF WATCH: FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 2022<br />

MEDINA COUNTY AGENT<br />

JOHN DALE STAYROOK<br />

END OF WATCH: SUNDAY, FEB. 6, 2022<br />

DOUBLE OAK POLICE OFFICER<br />

JOHN MESTAS<br />

END OF WATCH: MONDAY FEB. 7,2022<br />

LAKE COUNTY CORRECTION OFFICER<br />

BRAXTON HOFMAN<br />

END OF WATCH: MONDAY, FEB. 7, 2022<br />

DOUBLE OAK POLICE OFFICER<br />

LONNIE SNEED<br />

END OF WATCH: TUESDAY, FEB. 15, 2022<br />

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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST<br />

Officers Lost Due to COVID in February 2022<br />

CHEROKEE POLICE CORPORAL<br />

KEITH MORGAN<br />

END OF WATCH: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, 2022<br />

PANTEGO POLICE CORPORAL<br />

SHELI GODBOLD<br />

END OF WATCH: THURSDAY, FEB. 1O, 2022<br />

SHELBY COUNTY CORRECTIONS DEPUTY<br />

BRIDGETTE LACHELLE HUNTER<br />

END OF WATCH: SUNDAY, FEB. 17, 2022<br />

OCEAN COUNTY SHERIFF SGT.<br />

MATTHEW HORTON<br />

END OF WATCH: TUESDAY, FEB. 22, 2022<br />

NEW HANOVER DETECTIVE<br />

MICHAEL W. GODWIN<br />

END OF WATCH: SUNDAY, FEB. 27, 2022<br />

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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST<br />

Lost in the Line of Duty<br />

Police Officer John Painter<br />

Bridgewater College Police Department, Virginia<br />

End of Watch Tuesday, February 1, 2022<br />

Age 55 Tour N/A Badge # N/A<br />

Police Officer John Painter and civilian Campus Safety Officer J.J. Jefferson<br />

were shot and killed while responding to a call involving a suspicious person<br />

carrying a duffel bag a restricted area of Memorial Hall. Officer Painter and CSO<br />

Jefferson contacted the subject. After a short interaction, the man opened fire<br />

on them, fatally wounding both. The man fled on foot into the town of Bridgewater.<br />

He was taken into custody after wading onto an island in the <strong>No</strong>rth River.<br />

The man was a former Bridgewater College student. He was charged with two<br />

counts of capital murder and additional felonies related to the incident.<br />

Officer Painter had formerly served as the police chief of the Grottoes Police<br />

Department.<br />

Correctional Officer III Helen Mae Smith<br />

<strong>No</strong>rth Carolina Department of Public Safety<br />

End of Watch Thursday, February 3, 2022<br />

Age 53 Tour 3 Years 2 Months Badge # N/A<br />

Correctional Officer III Helen Smith suffered a fatal heart attack while responding<br />

to a disturbance at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City.<br />

Shortly after the disturbance was resolved Officer Smith suffered a medical<br />

event. She was transported to a local hospital where she passed away.<br />

Officer Smith had served with the <strong>No</strong>rth Carolina Department of Public Safety<br />

for three years. She is survived by her husband and two children.<br />

Officer Daniel will be receiving a “Lifesaving Award” on Saturday, December 18,<br />

2021.<br />

Sergeant Chris Jenkins<br />

Loudon County Sheriff’s Office, Tennessee<br />

End of Watch Thursday, February 3, 2022<br />

Age 53 Tour 20 Years Badge # 904 Veteran<br />

Sergeant Chris Jenkins was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer while attempting<br />

to move a ladder from I-75 near mile marker 74. The ladder had fallen off<br />

the back of a utility truck and had created a traffic hazard on the interstate.<br />

Sergeant Jenkins had brought traffic to a stop with a rolling roadblock and then<br />

exited his vehicle to remove the ladder. An oncoming tractor-trailer was unable<br />

to stop and struck Sergeant Jenkins, his cruiser, and several other vehicles.<br />

Sergeant Jenkins was a military veteran and had served with the Loudon County<br />

Sheriff’s Office for 20 years. He is survived by his two children. His son also<br />

serves as a deputy with the agency.<br />

Captain Collin Birnie<br />

Flint Police Department, Michigan<br />

End of Watch Friday, February 4, 2022<br />

Age 53 Tour 26 Years Badge # N/A Veteran<br />

Captain Collin Birnie was killed in a vehicle crash on Elms Road, between Mount<br />

Morris Road and Francis Road. An oncoming vehicle was attempting to pass<br />

other cars when it lost control and struck Captain Birnie’s department vehicle<br />

head-on.<br />

Captain Birnie was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He<br />

had served with the Flint Police Department for 26 years. He is survived by his<br />

wife and two daughters.<br />

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REMEMBERING THOSE WE’VE LOST<br />

Lost in the Line of Duty<br />

Officer James McWhorter<br />

Florida Department of Agriculture<br />

End of Watch Saturday, February 12, 2022<br />

Age 31 Tour 2 Years 6 months Badge # N/A<br />

Officer James McWhorter was killed in a vehicle crash near the Agricultural<br />

Inspection Station on I-95 in Yulee, Florida.<br />

He was crossing from the northbound inspection station to the southbound<br />

inspection station when his vehicle was struck by an oncoming pickup truck at<br />

about 8:30 pm. All of the occupants of the truck suffered non-fatal injuries.<br />

Officer McWhorter had served with the Florida Department of Agriculture and<br />

Consumer Services - Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement for 2-1/2 years.<br />

He is survived by his four children and fiancée.During his service with the U.S.<br />

Army, Senior Inspector Keyworth escorted the riderless horse during President<br />

Ronald Reagan’s funeral.<br />

Deputy Constable Neil Adams<br />

San Jacinto County Constable’s Office - Precinct 1, Texas<br />

End of Watch Wednesday, February 23, 2022<br />

Age N/A Tour 10 Years Badge N/A<br />

Deputy Constable Neil Adams was shot and killed with his own service weapon<br />

after being attacked inside of the PlazAmericas Mall in the 7500 block of<br />

Bellaire Boulevard of Houston. The subject was able to disarm Deputy Adams<br />

and fatally shot him shortly before 4:00 pm. The man then fled to the mall’s<br />

food court where he was shot and killed by two Houston police officers when he<br />

approached him with an edged weapon.<br />

Deputy Adams had served with the San Jacinto County Constable’s Office - Precinct<br />

1 for two years and was assigned as the agency’s environmental officer.<br />

He had previously served with the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office for eight<br />

years. He is survived by his wife.<br />

Police Officer Nicholas Vella<br />

Huntington Beach Police Department, California<br />

End of Watch Saturday, February 19, 2022<br />

Age 44 Tour 16 Years Badge # 2120<br />

Police Officer Nicholas Vella was killed in a police helicopter crash at about<br />

6:30 pm. He and another officer were responding to provide aerial support to<br />

the Newport Beach Police Department at the scene of a fight call. The helicopter<br />

lost altitude and crashed into Newport Bay, near 18th Street. Officer Vella<br />

and his partner were both pulled from the helicopter and transported to a local<br />

hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.<br />

Officer Vella had served with the Huntington Beach Police Department for 14<br />

years and had previously served with the Laguna Beach Police Department for<br />

two years. He is survived by his wife and daughter.<br />

Police Officer Jorge David Alvarado, Jr.<br />

Salinas Police Department, California<br />

End of Watch Friday, February 25, 2022<br />

Age 30 Tour 6 Years Badge N/A<br />

Police Officer Jorge Alvarado was shot and killed during a traffic stop near the<br />

intersection of Griffin Street and East Market Street.<br />

A subject opened fire on him during the incident and he was fatally shot. The<br />

subject was taken into custody.<br />

Officer Alvarado was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the Salinas Police<br />

Department for two years. He had previously served with the Colma Police<br />

Department for four years.<br />

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Deputy Constable<br />

Neil Adams<br />

San Jacinto County Constable’s Office, Pct. 1<br />

End of Watch Wednesday, February 23, 2022<br />

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10-YEAR-OLD’S DREAM A REALITY<br />

Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel sworn into 200+ law enforcement agencies<br />

If you meet 10-year-old Devarjaye<br />

“DJ” Daniel, you would<br />

never know the youngster has<br />

terminal brain cancer and spinal<br />

cancer. He is respectful, polite<br />

and determined. Determined to<br />

reach his goal of being sworn<br />

in at as many police agencies<br />

as possible in an effort to bring<br />

awareness to childhood cancer.<br />

At first it was 100 agencies. Then<br />

200. <strong>No</strong>w, it’s just accept the<br />

offers as they come.<br />

On Monday, February 1st DJ<br />

reached his goal of 100 law<br />

enforcement agencies when<br />

Montgomery County Judge Mark<br />

Keough of Texas formally recognized<br />

DJ in a proclamation recognizing<br />

DJ’s formal swearing-in<br />

at 25 agencies.<br />

DJ “was sworn in to 25 law enforcement<br />

agencies in Montgomery<br />

County and it was an honor<br />

to be at his ceremony this morning,”<br />

Keough wrote in a Facebook<br />

post. “I presented him with<br />

a proclamation commemorating<br />

his achievement and recognizing<br />

him as an honorary officer at the<br />

agencies who swore him in.”<br />

“I knew he was going to get<br />

to the 100 pretty quick. I know<br />

how the community is and law<br />

enforcement, like the military for<br />

myself. I do appreciate everyone<br />

coming out to support him. This<br />

is exactly why he has the push to<br />

fight harder,” said Theodis Daniel,<br />

DJ’s father.<br />

Daniel, a single father of three,<br />

added that his son “knows the<br />

severity of his cancer, but he<br />

is not letting it set him back or<br />

anything.”<br />

Daniel works for a company<br />

called Texas Hog Enforcement,<br />

which traps wild hogs and other<br />

dangerous animals. The company<br />

also rescues neglected animals,<br />

FOX 26 reported.<br />

“<strong>No</strong> matter how hard it is. <strong>No</strong><br />

matter how tough it is, you can<br />

push through it and get through<br />

it,” Daniel told the outlet. “I was<br />

telling some of the officers, I<br />

said, you know a lot of things<br />

happened with law enforcement<br />

officers these past few years and<br />

morale was kind of low. <strong>No</strong>w<br />

here comes a 10-year-old and<br />

everyone’s spirits pick up.”<br />

Keough added that DJ is “following<br />

in Officer Abigail Arias<br />

footsteps working towards his<br />

goal of 100 agencies to be sworn<br />

into.” Abigail, a 7-year-old girl<br />

who died of a rare cancer in<br />

<strong>No</strong>vember 2019, was an honorary<br />

Freeport police officer. DJ led<br />

Monday’s event with a prayer for<br />

Abigail, according to her father.<br />

“He’s so full of life and enthusiasm<br />

and his spirit is so calming<br />

to everyone he meets. <strong>No</strong>t a dry<br />

eye in the room this morning”<br />

said Keough.<br />

I met DJ at Aldine ISD as he<br />

was sworn to another ?? departments.<br />

It was like running into<br />

an officer you’ve served with in<br />

the past and you’re catching up.<br />

He walks and talks just like a<br />

cop. He knows the lingo and he is<br />

ready to help anyone that needs<br />

assistance. Oh and the boys got<br />

jokes as well.<br />

Aldine Chief Paul Cordova, said<br />

it was a honor and a pleasure to<br />

swear DJ in as honorary officer<br />

of the Aldine ISD Police Department.<br />

On January 26, 2022 “DJ” was<br />

sworn into the Brenham and<br />

Blinn Police Departments, the<br />

Washington County Sheriff’s Office,<br />

the Brenham Fire Marshall’s<br />

Office, the Constables office, as<br />

the District Attorney’s investigator,<br />

and as a Texas Game Warden.<br />

Victoria Chief of Police Roberto<br />

Arrendondo says that he’s<br />

pretty sure DJ felt the love from<br />

the Victoria community.<br />

“DJ is battling, and he’s winning<br />

the battle right now and<br />

I think he’s winning the battle<br />

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ecause of all of the support and<br />

all the love that he’s getting from<br />

each community he visits. So I’m<br />

pretty excited about that, huge<br />

success today, I’m hoping he felt<br />

all the love,” says Chief Arrendondo.<br />

As we went to press March<br />

7, 2022, DJ had well over 300<br />

agencies under his belt. Amd<br />

more scheduled in the following<br />

days and weeks.<br />

DJ’s dad says they’ve traveled<br />

over 9,000 miles on this journey,<br />

with many more to go.<br />

“He’s going to keep going until<br />

the gas runs out of his tank,“<br />

Theodis Daniel said. “I told him,<br />

‘Well, if God keeps you here, you<br />

going to be going for the next<br />

several years.’”<br />

DJ’s goal was to hit every department<br />

in the State and here’s<br />

that list. We’ll come back and<br />

highlight everyone he made it to.<br />

ABERNATHY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIV. POLICE<br />

ABILENE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ABILENE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ABILENE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ADDISON FIRE DEPT.<br />

ADDISON POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALAMO HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALAMO POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALBA POLICE DEPT<br />

ALBANY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALDINE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALEDO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALICE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ALICE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALIEF I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALLEN FIRE DEPT.<br />

ALLEN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ALLEN POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALPINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALTO POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALTON FIRE MARSHALL’S OFFICE<br />

ALTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALVARADO MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ALVARADO POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALVIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ALVIN ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ALVIN POLICE DEPT<br />

AMARILLO AIRPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

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AMARILLO COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ATLANTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

AMARILLO FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

AUBREY ISD PD<br />

AMARILLO POLICE DEPT.<br />

AUBREY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

AUSTIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ANDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

AUSTIN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ANDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

AUSTIN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ANDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

AUSTIN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ANDERSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE AUSTIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ANDERSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

AUSTIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ANDREWS CO. CONST. PCT. 1 AND 4<br />

AUSTIN COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANDREWS CO. CONST. PCT. 2 AND 3<br />

AUSTIN COMM COL DIST POLICE<br />

ANDREWS CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT. AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE POLICE<br />

ANDREWS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

AUSTIN FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />

ANDREWS COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE AUSTIN I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ANDREWS POLICE DEPT.<br />

AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ANGELINA CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

AVERY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ANGELINA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

AZLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

ANGELINA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

AZLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANGELINA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

AZLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ANGELINA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

AZLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANGELINA CO. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

BAILEY CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ANGELINA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BAILEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ANGELINA COLLEGE POLICE DEPARTMENT BAIRD CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ANGELINA COUNTY CSCD<br />

BALCH SPRINGS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ANGELO STATE UNIV. POLICE<br />

BALCH SPRINGS FIRE DEPT.<br />

ANGLETON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BALCH SPRINGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANGLETON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BALCONES HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANGLETON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BALLINGER POLICE DEPT.<br />

ANNA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BANDERA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ANNA POLICE DEPT.<br />

BANDERA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ANSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BANDERA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ANTHONY POLICE DEPT.<br />

BANDERA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ANTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BANDERA CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ARANSAS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BANDERA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ARANSAS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BANGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARANSAS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE BARBERS HILL ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

ARANSAS CO. I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BARDWELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARANSAS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BARTLETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARANSAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE BARTONVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARANSAS PASS POLICE DEPARTMENT BASTROP CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ARANSAS PASS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BASTROP CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ARCHER CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT BASTROP CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ARCHER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BASTROP CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ARCHER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BASTROP CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ARCHER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BASTROP CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ARCHER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BASTROP COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ARCHER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BASTROP ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ARCOLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

BASTROP POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARGYLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BAY CITY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARGYLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BAY CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ARLINGTON FIRE DEPT.<br />

BAY CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARLINGTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BAYLOR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ARMSTRONG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BAYLOR UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARP ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BAYOU VISTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

ARP POLICE DEPT.<br />

BAYTOWN CITY MARSHAL OFFICE<br />

ATASCOSA CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BAYTOWN FIRE<br />

ATASCOSA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BAYTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

ATASCOSA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BEAUMONT FIRE DEPT.<br />

ATASCOSA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BEAUMONT I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ATASCOSA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BEAUMONT POLICE DEPT.<br />

ATASCOSA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BEDFORD ARSON BUREAU<br />

ATASCOSA COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL BEDFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ATHENS FIRE DEPT FIRE MARSHAL<br />

BEDFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

ATHENS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BEE CAVE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ATLANTA FIRE DEPT.<br />

BEE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ATLANTA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT BEE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

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BEE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BEE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BEE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BEEVILLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BEEVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BELL CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BELL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BELL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BELL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BELL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BELL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BELL CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BELL-LAMPASAS CO. CSCD<br />

BELLAIRE ARSON INV.<br />

BELLAIRE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BELLAIRE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BELLMEAD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BELLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL T<br />

BELLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BELLVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BELTON FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BELTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BENAVIDES POLICE DEPT.<br />

BENBROOK FIRE DEPT.<br />

BENBROOK POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BENBROOK POLICE DEPT.<br />

BERTRAM POLICE DEPT.<br />

BEVERLY HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BEXAR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BEXAR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BEXAR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BEXAR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BEXAR CO. CONSTABLE PCT. 2<br />

BEXAR CO. CONSTABLE PCT. 4<br />

BEXAR CO. CSCD<br />

BEXAR CO. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

BEXAR CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BEXAR CO. HOSP. DIST. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BEXAR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BIG SANDY POLICE DEPT.<br />

BIG SPRING FIRE DEPT.<br />

BIG SPRING POLICE DEPT.<br />

BILL BLACKWOOD LEMI OF TEXAS<br />

BISHOP POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLANCO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BLANCO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BLANCO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BLANCO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BLANCO POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLAND ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BLINN JUNIOR COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLOOMBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLOOMING GROVE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLOOMING GROVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BLUE MOUND POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOERNE FIRE MARSHALS OFFICE<br />

BOERNE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOGATA POLICE DEPT.<br />

BONHAM ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BONHAM POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOOKER POLICE DEPT.<br />

BORDEN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BORGER POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOSQUE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BOSQUE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BOSQUE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BOVINA POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOWIE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BOWIE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BOWIE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BOWIE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BOWIE CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

BOWIE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BOWIE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BOWIE FIRE DEPT.<br />

BOWIE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BOYD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRACKETTVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRADY POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRAZORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BRAZORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BRAZORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BRAZORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BRAZORIA CO. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZORIA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZORIA COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL’S<br />

BRAZORIA POLICE DEPT<br />

BRAZOS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZOS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BRAZOS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BRAZOS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BRAZOS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BRAZOS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZOS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZOS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BRAZOSPORT ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRECKENRIDGE FIRE DEPT.<br />

BRECKENRIDGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BREMOND POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRENHAM CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BRENHAM FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BRENHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BRENHAM POLICE DEPT.<br />

BREWSTER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BREWSTER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BREWSTER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BREWSTER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BRIAROAKS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRIDGE CITY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRIDGE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRIDGEPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRISCOE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BROADDUS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BROOKS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BROOKS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BROOKS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BROOKS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BROOKS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BROOKS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BROOKSHIRE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROOKSIDE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BROOKSIDE VILLAGE POLICE DEPT<br />

BROWN CO. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

BROWN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BROWN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BROWN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BROWN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BROWN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BROWN CO. WATER DIST.<br />

BROWNFIELD FIRE DEPT.<br />

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BROWNFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROWNSBORO ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROWNSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROWNSVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

BROWNSVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROWNSVILLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BROWNSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BROWNSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

BROWNWOOD FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BROWNWOOD MUNICIPAL COURT<br />

BROWNWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRUCEVILLE-EDDY POLICE DEPT.<br />

BRYAN CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

BRYAN FIRE DEPT.<br />

BRYAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

BUCKHOLTS POLICE DEPT.<br />

BUDA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BUFFALO POLICE DEPT.<br />

BULLARD ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BULLARD POLICE DEPT.<br />

BULVERDE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BUNA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

BURKBURNETT ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

BURKBURNETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

BURLESON ARSON INV.<br />

BURLESON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BURLESON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BURLESON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BURLESON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BURLESON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BURLESON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BURLESON POLICE DEPT.<br />

BURNET ARSON INV.<br />

BURNET CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

BURNET CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

BURNET CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

BURNET CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

BURNET CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BURNET CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

BURNET POLICE DEPT.<br />

BURTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CACTUS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CADDO MILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CALDWELL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CALDWELL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CALDWELL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CALDWELL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CALDWELL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CALDWELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CALDWELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CALDWELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

CALDWELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

CALHOUN CO ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

CALHOUN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CALHOUN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CALHOUN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CALHOUN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CALHOUN CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

CALHOUN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CALHOUN CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

CALHOUN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CALLAHAN CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CALLAHAN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CALLAHAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CALVERT POLICE DEPT.<br />

CAMERON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CAMERON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CAMERON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CAMERON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CAMERON CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

CAMERON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CAMERON CO. FIRE MARSHAL<br />

CAMERON CO. PARK RANGER DIV.<br />

CAMERON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CAMERON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CAMERON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CAMP CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CAMP CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CANEY CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

CANTON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CANTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CANUTILLO ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CANYON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CARRIZO SPRINGS CISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

CARRIZO SPRINGS MARSHALL’S OFFICE<br />

CARROLLTON CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CARROLLTON FIRE DEPT.<br />

CARROLLTON POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CARROLLTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CARSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CARTHAGE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CARTHAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CASS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CASS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CASS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CASS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CASS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CASS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CASS COUNTY CSCD<br />

CASTLE HILLS FIRE DEPT.<br />

CASTLE HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CASTLEBERRY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CASTRO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CASTRO CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CASTRO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CASTROVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CCA_WEBB CO. DETENTION CENTER<br />

CEDAR HILL CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CEDAR HILL FIRE DEPT.<br />

CEDAR HILL ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

CEDAR HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CEDAR HILL POLICE DEPT.<br />

CEDAR PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CEDAR PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

CELESTE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CELINA FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />

CELINA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CELINA POLICE DEPT.<br />

CENTER I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CENTER POINT ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CENTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CENTRAL TEXAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

CHAMBERS CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

CHAMBERS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CHAMBERS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CHANDLER POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHAPEL HILL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CHAPEL HILL NORTHEAST I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHEROKEE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CHEROKEE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CHEROKEE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CHEROKEE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CHEROKEE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

CHEROKEE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CHEROKEE COUNTY CSCD<br />

CHICO POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHILDRESS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CHILDRESS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CHILDRESS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHILLICOTHE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHINA GROVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHINA SPRING I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CHISUM ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CIBOLO POLICE DEPT.<br />

CISCO COLLEGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CISCO POLICE DEPT.<br />

“CITY MARSHAL OF MARSHALL, TEXAS”<br />

CITY OF ALMA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CITY OF BANDERA MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CITY OF BURLESON MUNICIPAL COURT<br />

CITY OF DENISON OFFICE OF THE CITY MARSHAL<br />

CITY OF ELGIN MARSHAL<br />

CITY OF HAPPY POLICE DEPT.<br />

CITY OF IVANHOE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CITY OF NEWARK MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CITY OF RED OAK MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CITY OF SMILEY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CITY OF SOUTH HOUSTON MARSHAL’S<br />

CITY OF STAPLES POLICE DEPT.<br />

CITY VIEW ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CLARKSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLAY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CLAY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CLEAR LAKE SHORES POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLEBURNE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CLEBURNE FIRE DEPT.<br />

CLEBURNE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLEVELAND ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

CLEVELAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLIFTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLUTE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CLYDE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COCHRAN CO. CONST. PCT. 1 - 079101<br />

COCHRAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COCKRELL HILL FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

COCKRELL HILL POLICE DEPT.<br />

COFFEE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

COKE CO. CONST. PCT<br />

COKE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLEMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COLEMAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLEMAN ISD POLICE<br />

COLEMAN PARK POLICE<br />

COLEMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND POLICE<br />

COLLEGE STATION CITY MARSHAL’S<br />

COLLEGE STATION FIRE DEPT.<br />

COLLEGE STATION POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLLEGE STATION POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLLEYVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

COLLEYVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLLIN CO. COMM. COLLEGE POLICE<br />

COLLIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COLLIN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

COLLIN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

COLLIN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

COLLIN CO. CSCD<br />

COLLIN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

COLLIN CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

COLLIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLLIN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLLINGSWORTH CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COLLINGSWORTH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLLINGSWORTH SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLLINSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLORADO CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

COLORADO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

COLORADO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COLORADO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

COLORADO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

COLORADO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

COLORADO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLORADO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COLUMBIA-BRAZORIA I.S.D. POLICE<br />

COLUMBUS POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMAL CO CRIMINAL DISTRICT AT<br />

COMAL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COMAL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

COMAL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

COMAL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

COMAL CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

COMAL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COMAL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COMANCHE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COMANCHE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COMANCHE FIRE DEPT.<br />

COMANCHE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMBES POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMBINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMMERCE FIRE DEPT.<br />

COMMERCE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMMERCE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMMUNITY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

COMO POLICE DEPT.<br />

COMO-PICKTON CISD PD<br />

CONCHO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CONCHO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CONNALLY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CONROE FIRE DEPT.<br />

CONROE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CONROE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CONROE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CONVERSE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COOKE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

COOKE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

COOKE CO. CSCD<br />

COOKE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COOLIDGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

COOPER ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

COPPELL MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

COPPELL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

COPPELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

COPPERAS COVE MUN. COURT<br />

COPPERAS COVE FIRE DEPT.<br />

COPPERAS COVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORINTH CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CORINTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORPUS CHRISTI I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORPUS CHRISTI FIRE DEPT.<br />

CORPUS CHRISTI INTL. AIRPORT<br />

CORPUS CHRISTI POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORRIGAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORSICANA FIRE DEPT.<br />

CORSICANA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORSICANA POLICE DEPT.<br />

CORYELL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CORYELL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CORYELL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CORYELL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CORYELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CORYELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COTTLE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

COTTONWOOD SHORES POLICE DEPT.<br />

COURT OF APPEALS DIST. NO. 9<br />

COVINGTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRANDALL ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

CRANDALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRANE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CRANE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CRANE POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRAWFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRISWELL COLLEGE P.D.<br />

CROCKETT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CROCKETT CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

CROCKETT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CROCKETT FIRE DEPT.<br />

CROCKETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

CROSBY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

CROSBY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CROSBYTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

CROSS PLAINS POLICE DEPT.<br />

CROWELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

CROWLEY FIRE DEPT.<br />

CROWLEY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CROWLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CROWLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRYSTAL CITY ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

CRYSTAL CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

CUERO POLICE DEPT.<br />

CULBERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

CULBERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

CULBERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

CULBERSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

CUMBY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

CUMBY POLICE DEPT.<br />

CUNEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

“CUSHING ISD POLICE DEPT,”<br />

CUT AND SHOOT POLICE DEPT.<br />

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS I.S.D. P.D.<br />

DAINGERFIELD FIRE DEPT.<br />

DAINGERFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

DAISETTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

DALHART ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DALHART POLICE DEPT.<br />

DALLAM CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DALLAM CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DALLAM-HARTLEY COUNTY JAIL<br />

DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT<br />

DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY POLICE<br />

DALLAS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DALLAS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DALLAS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

DALLAS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

DALLAS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

DALLAS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

DALLAS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

DALLAS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DALLAS CO. HOSPITAL DIST.<br />

DALLAS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DALLAS COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

DALLAS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 4<br />

DALLAS COUNTY CSCD<br />

DALLAS FIRE DEPT.<br />

DALLAS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

DALLAS POLICE DEPT<br />

DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY<br />

DALLAS-FW AIRPORT D.P.S.<br />

DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS POLICE<br />

DAMON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DANBURY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DANBURY POLICE DEPT.<br />

DAWSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DAWSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DAWSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DAYTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEAF SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DEAF SMITH CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

DEAF SMITH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DECATUR POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEER PARK FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DEER PARK POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DEER PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEKALB POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEL RIO FIRE DEPT.<br />

DEL RIO POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEL VALLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DELEON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DELTA CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

DELTA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DENISON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

DENTON CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

DENTON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

DENTON CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DENTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DENTON FIRE DEPT.<br />

DENTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DENVER CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

DESOTO CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DESOTO FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DESOTO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DESOTO POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEVINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

DEWITT CO. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE<br />

DEWITT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DEWITT CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

DEWITT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DEWITT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DIBOLL ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

DIBOLL POLICE DEPT.<br />

DICKENS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DICKINSON FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

DICKINSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

DILLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DIMMIT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DIMMIT CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

DIMMIT CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

DIMMIT CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

DIMMIT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DIMMITT ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DIMMITT POLICE DEPT.<br />

DODD CITY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DONLEY CO. CONST. PCT. 3 & 4<br />

DONLEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

DONNA I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

DONNA POLICE DEPT.<br />

DOUBLE OAK POLICE DEPT.<br />

DRISCOLL POLICE DEPT.<br />

DUBLIN FIRE DEPT.<br />

DUBLIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

DUMAS FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />

DUMAS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

DUMAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

DUNCANVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

DUNCANVILLE ISD POLICE<br />

DUNCANVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

DUVAL CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

DUVAL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

DUVAL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

DUVAL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

DUVAL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

DUVAL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

DUVAL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

EAGLE LAKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

EAGLE PASS FIRE DEPT.<br />

EAGLE PASS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

EAGLE PASS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EAGLE PASS POLICE DEPT.<br />

EARLY POLICE DEPT.<br />

EARTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

EAST CENTRAL I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

EAST MOUNTAIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

EAST TAWAKONI POLICE DEPT.<br />

EASTLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

EASTLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

EASTLAND CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

EASTLAND CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

EASTLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

ECTOR CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ECTOR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ECTOR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ECTOR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ECTOR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ECTOR CO. CORRECTIONS CENTER<br />

ECTOR CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ECTOR CO. HOSPITAL DISTRICT P.D.<br />

ECTOR CO. I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ECTOR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ECTOR COUNTY CSCD<br />

ECTOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDCOUCH POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDGEWOOD I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDGEWOOD ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EDGEWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDINBURG C.I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDINBURG FIRE DEPT.<br />

EDINBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDNA POLICE DEPT.<br />

EDWARDS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

EDWARDS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

EL CAMPO POLICE DEPT.<br />

EL CENIZO POLICE DEPT.<br />

EL PASO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

EL PASO CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

EL PASO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

EL PASO FIRE DEPT.<br />

EL PASO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

EL PASO POLICE DEPT.<br />

ELECTRA POLICE DEPT.<br />

ELGIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

ELLIS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ELLIS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ELLIS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ELLIS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ELLIS CO. CSCD<br />

ELLIS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ELLIS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ELLIS COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

ELLIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ELMENDORF POLICE DEPT.<br />

ELSA POLICE DEPT.<br />

EMORY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ENCHANTED OAKS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ENCINAL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ENNIS FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ENNIS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ENNIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ERATH CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ERATH CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ERATH CO. CONST. PCT.2<br />

ERATH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ERATH COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL’S OF<br />

ERATH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ESCOBARES POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ESTELLINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

EULESS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EULESS POLICE DEPT.<br />

EUSTACE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EUSTACE POLICE DEPT.<br />

EVADALE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EVERMAN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

EVERMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

FAIR OAKS RANCH POLICE DEPT.<br />

FAIRFIELD ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FAIRFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

FAIRVIEW FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

FAIRVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

FALFURRIAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

FALLS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FALLS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FALLS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FALLS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

FALLS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

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FALLS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FANNIN CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

FANNIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FANNIN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FANNIN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FANNIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FARMERS BRANCH FIRE DEPT.<br />

FARMERS BRANCH MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

FARMERS BRANCH POLICE<br />

FARMERS BRANCH POLICE DEPT.<br />

FARMERSVILLE ISD PD<br />

FARMERSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

FARWELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

FATE DPS<br />

FATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

FAYETTE CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

FAYETTE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FAYETTE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FAYETTE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FAYETTE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

FAYETTE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FAYETTE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FERRIS FIRE DEPT.<br />

FERRIS ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

FERRIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

FISHER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FLATONIA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FLATONIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

FLORENCE POLICE DEPT.<br />

FLORESVILLE ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

FLORESVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

FLOUR BLUFF ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FLOWER MOUND FIRE DEPT.<br />

FLOWER MOUND MUN. COURT<br />

FLOWER MOUND POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FLOWER MOUND POLICE DEPT.<br />

FLOYD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FLOYDADA POLICE DEPT.<br />

FOARD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FOARD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FOREST HILL POLICE DEPT.<br />

FORNEY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FORNEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

FORT BEND CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

FORT BEND CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FORT BEND CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FORT BEND CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FORT BEND CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

FORT BEND CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

FORT BEND CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S<br />

FORT BEND CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FORT BEND I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

FORT STOCKTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

FORT WORTH CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

FORT WORTH FIRE DEPT.<br />

FORT WORTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRANKLIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FRANKLIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FRANKLIN CO. WATER DIST.<br />

FRANKLIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRANKSTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

FREDERICKSBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

FREEPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

FREEPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

FREER POLICE DEPT.<br />

FREESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FREESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FREESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FREESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

FREESTONE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

FREESTONE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FRENSHIP I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRIENDSWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRIO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

FRIO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

FRIO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

FRIO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

FRIO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

FRIONA POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRISCO FIRE DEPT.<br />

FRISCO POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRITCH POLICE DEPT.<br />

FROST ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FROST POLICE DEPT.<br />

FRUITVALE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

FULSHEAR POLICE DEPT.<br />

FULTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

GAINES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GAINES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GAINESVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

GAINESVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GALENA PARK FIRE DEPT.<br />

GALENA PARK I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

GALENA PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

GALVESTON CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

GALVESTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GALVESTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GALVESTON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GALVESTON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GALVESTON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

GALVESTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GALVESTON FIRE DEPT.<br />

GALVESTON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

GALVESTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

GALVESTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

GANADO POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARDEN RIDGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARLAND CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

GARLAND FIRE DEPT. ARSON DIVISION<br />

GARLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARRETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARRISON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARRISON POLICE DEPT.<br />

GARZA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GARZA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GARZA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GATESVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GEORGE WEST POLICE DEPT.<br />

GEORGETOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GEORGETOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

GIDDINGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

GILLESPIE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GILLESPIE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GILLESPIE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GILLESPIE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GILLESPIE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GILLESPIE COUNTY ATTORNEY OFFICE<br />

GILMER POLICE DEPT.<br />

GLADEWATER POLICE DEPT.<br />

GLASSCOCK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GLASSCOCK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GLEN ROSE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GLENN HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT.<br />

GODLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

GOLIAD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GOLIAD CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GOLIAD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GONZALES CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

GONZALES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GONZALES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GONZALES CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GONZALES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GONZALES COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GONZALES I.S.D.POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GONZALES POLICE DEPT.<br />

GOOSE CREEK CONSOLIDATED ISD<br />

GORMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAHAM POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRANBURY POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRANBURY POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAND PRAIRIE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

GRAND PRAIRIE FIRE DEPT.<br />

GRAND PRAIRIE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAND SALINE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

GRAND SALINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRANDVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRANGER ISD<br />

GRANGER POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRANITE SHOALS POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAPELAND FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

GRAPELAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAPEVINE FIRE DEPT.<br />

GRAPEVINE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GRAPEVINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAY CO. CONST. PCT. 1 & 3<br />

GRAY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GRAY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GRAYSON CO. COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRAYSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GRAYSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GRAYSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GRAYSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GRAYSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GRAYSON COUNTY CSCD<br />

GREENBELT MIWA<br />

GREENVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

GREENVILLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GREENVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GREENVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

GREENWOOD ISD POLICE<br />

GREGG CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GREGG CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GREGG CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GREGG CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GREGG CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

GREGG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GREGORY POLICE DEPT.<br />

GREY FOREST POLICE DEPT.<br />

GRIMES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GRIMES CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GRIMES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GRIMES CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

GRIMES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GROESBECK POLICE DEPT.<br />

GROVES POLICE DEPT.<br />

GROVETON POLICE DEPT.<br />

GUADALUPE CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

GUADALUPE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

GUADALUPE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

GUADALUPE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

GUADALUPE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

GUADALUPE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

GUN BARREL CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

GUNTER ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

GUNTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

HACKBERRY CITY MARSHAL<br />

HALE CENTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

HALE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HALE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HALE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HALE CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

HALE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HALE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HALLETTSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HALLSVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HALLSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HALTOM CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HALTOM CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAMILTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HAMILTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAMLIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

HANSFORD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HARDEMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HARDEMAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HARDIN CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HARDIN CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

HARDIN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HARDIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HARDIN SIMMONS UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HARKER HEIGHTS FIRE DEPT.<br />

HARKER HEIGHTS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HARLANDALE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HARLINGEN FIRE DEPT.<br />

HARLINGEN POLICE DEPT.<br />

HARPER ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HARRIS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

HARRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

HARRIS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HARRIS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HARRIS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT 5<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 1<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 2<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 3<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 4<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 7<br />

HARRIS COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 8<br />

HARRISON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HARRISON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HARRISON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HARRISON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HARRISON CO. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

HARRISON CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HARRISON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HARRISON COUNTY CSCD<br />

HARTLEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HASKELL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HASKELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HASKELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAWK COVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAWKINS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAWLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

HAYS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HAYS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HAYS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HAYS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HAYS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HAYS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HAYS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HAYS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HEARNE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEATH POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEDWIG VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HELOTES FIRE DEPT.<br />

HELOTES POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEMPHILL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HEMPHILL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HEMPHILL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HEMPHILL POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEMPSTEAD I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEMPSTEAD POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEMPSTEAD POLICE DEPT.<br />

HENDERSON CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HENDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HENDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HENDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HENDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HENDERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HENDERSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HENDERSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HENDERSON COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

HENDERSON COUNTY SHERIFF<br />

HENDERSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEREFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

HEWITT POLICE DEPT.<br />

HICKORY CREEK POLICE DEPT.<br />

HICO POLICE DEPT.<br />

HIDALGO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HIDALGO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HIDALGO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HIDALGO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HIDALGO CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HIDALGO CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HIDALGO CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HIDALGO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HIDALGO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HIDALGO POLICE DEPT.<br />

HIGHLAND PARK DPS<br />

HIGHLAND PARK I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HIGHLAND PARK ISD POLICE<br />

HIGHLAND VILLAGE FIRE DEPT.<br />

HIGHLAND VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HILL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HILL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HILL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HILL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HILL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HILL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HILL COUNTRY VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HILL COUNTY CSCD<br />

HILLSBORO FIRE DEPT.<br />

HILLSBORO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HILLSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

HITCHCOCK ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HITCHCOCK POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOCKLEY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HOCKLEY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HOCKLEY CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HOCKLEY CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

HOCKLEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOLIDAY LAKES POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOLLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOLLIDAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOLLYWOOD PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

HONDO POLICE DEPT.<br />

HONEY GROVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOOD CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HOOD CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HOOD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOOD COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 2<br />

HOOD COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT.3<br />

HOOD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOOKS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOPKINS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HOPKINS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HOPKINS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOPKINS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HORIZON CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

HORSESHOE BAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOUSTON CO. ATTY OFFICE<br />

HOUSTON CO. CONST. PCT 2<br />

HOUSTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HOUSTON CO. DISTRICT ATTY OFFICE<br />

HOUSTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOUSTON COMM. COLLEGE SYS.<br />

HOUSTON COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

HOUSTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOUSTON FIRE DEPT. ARSON BUREAU<br />

HOUSTON I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HOUSTON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOUSTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

HOWARD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HOWARD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HOWARD COUNTY CSCD<br />

HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY<br />

HOWE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUBBARD POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUDSON ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

HUDSON OAKS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUDSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUDSPETH CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HUDSPETH CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HUDSPETH CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HUDSPETH CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HUDSPETH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HUGHES SPRINGS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUGHES SPRINGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUMBLE FIRE MARSHAL DIVISION<br />

HUMBLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HUMBLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUMBLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HUMBLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUNT CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HUNT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HUNT CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HUNT CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

HUNT CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

HUNT CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HUNT CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

HUNT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HUNTINGTON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUNTINGTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUNTSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HUNTSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

HURST POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HURST POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUTCHINS POLICE DEPT.<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. CSCD<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S<br />

HUTCHINSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

HUTTO ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HUTTO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

HUTTO POLICE DEPT.<br />

IDALOU ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

IDALOU POLICE DEPT.<br />

INDIAN LAKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

INGLESIDE POLICE DEPT.<br />

INGRAM POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

IOWA COLONY POLICE DEPT.<br />

IOWA PARK CISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

IOWA PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

IRION CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

IRVING CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

IRVING FIRE DEPT.<br />

IRVING POLICE DEPT.<br />

ITALY POLICE DEPT.<br />

ITASCA POLICE DEPT.<br />

JACINTO CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

JACK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JACK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JACKSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

JACKSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JACKSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

JACKSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

JACKSONVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

JACKSONVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

JAMAICA BEACH POLICE DEPT.<br />

JARRELL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

JASPER CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

JASPER CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

JASPER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JASPER FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

JASPER POLICE DEPT.<br />

JEFF DAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JEFF DAVIS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

JEFFERSON CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

JEFFERSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

JEFFERSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JEFFERSON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

JEFFERSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

JERSEY VILLAGE FIRE MARSHAL<br />

JERSEY VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

JEWETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

JIM HOGG CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JIM HOGG CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

JIM HOGG CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

JIM HOGG CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

JIM HOGG CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

JIM HOGG CO. I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

JIM HOGG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JIM WELLS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JIM WELLS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

JIM WELLS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

JIM WELLS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

JIM WELLS CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

JIM WELLS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JIM WELLS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JOHNSON CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

JOHNSON CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

JOHNSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

JOHNSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

JOHNSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

JOHNSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

JOHNSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

JOHNSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JOHNSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JONES CO. CONST.<br />

JONES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

JONES CREEK MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

JONESBORO ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

JONESTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

JOSEPHINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

JOSHUA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

JOSHUA POLICE DEPT.<br />

JOURDANTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

JUDSON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

JUNCTION POLICE DEPT.<br />

JUSTIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

KARNES CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

KARNES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KARNES CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

KARNES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

KARNES CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KARNES CO. CORRECTIONAL CENTER<br />

KARNES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KATY FIRE MARSHALS OFFICE<br />

KATY I.S.D POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

KATY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

KATY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

KATY POLICE DEPT.<br />

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KAUFMAN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

KAUFMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KAUFMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

KAUFMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

KAUFMAN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KAUFMAN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

KAUFMAN CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KAUFMAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KAUFMAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KAUFMAN COUNTY CSCD<br />

KAUFMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

KEENE ISD POLICE DEPARTENT<br />

KEENE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KELLER FIRE DEPT.<br />

KELLER POLICE DEPT.<br />

KEMAH FIRE DEPT.<br />

KEMAH POLICE DEPT.<br />

KEMP I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

KEMP POLICE DEPT.<br />

KEMPNER POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

KENDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KENDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

KENDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

KENDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KENDALL CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KENDALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KENDALL COUNTY CSCD<br />

KENDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KENEDY CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KENEDY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KENEDY POLICE DEPT.<br />

KENNEDALE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KENNEDALE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KENT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KERENS I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

KERENS POLICE DEPT.<br />

KERMIT POLICE DEPT.<br />

KERR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KERR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

KERR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

KERR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KERR CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

KERR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KERR COUNTY CSCD<br />

KERRVILLE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KERRVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KILGORE COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KILGORE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KILGORE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KILLEEN FIRE DEPT.<br />

KILLEEN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

KILLEEN MUN. COURT<br />

KILLEEN POLICE DEPT.<br />

KIMBLE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KIMBLE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KING CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

KING CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KINGSVILLE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

KINGSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

KINGSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KINNEY CO. DETENTION CENTER<br />

KINNEY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KINNEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KIRBY POLICE DEPT.<br />

KIRBYVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KLEBERG CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

KLEBERG CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

KLEBERG CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

KLEBERG CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

KLEBERG CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

KLEBERG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KLEBERG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KLEIN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

KNOX CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

KNOX CO. CONSTABLE’S OFFICE<br />

KNOX CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

KOSSE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KOUNTZE POLICE DEPT.<br />

KRESS POLICE DEPT.<br />

KRUM POLICE DEPT.<br />

KYLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

L.C.R.A. PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT<br />

LA COSTE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA FERIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA GRANGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LA GRANGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA GRULLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA JOYA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA JOYA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA MARQUE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LA MARQUE FIRE DEPT.<br />

LA MARQUE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA PORTE ARSON BUREAU<br />

LA PORTE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA VEGA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA VERNIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA VILLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LA WARD CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LACY LAKEVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

LADONIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAGO VISTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAGUNA VISTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKE DALLAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKE JACKSON FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LAKE JACKSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKE TANGLEWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKE WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LAKE WORTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKEPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKESIDE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKEVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAKEWAY MARSHAL SERVICE<br />

LAKEWAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAMAR CISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LAMAR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LAMAR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

LAMAR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

LAMAR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

LAMAR CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

LAMAR CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

LAMAR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LAMAR COUNTY CSCD<br />

LAMAR UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LAMB CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LIBERTY HILL POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIBERTY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LIBERTY POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIBERTY-CHAMBERS CO. CSCD<br />

LIBERTY-EYLAU I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIMESTONE CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

LIMESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LIMESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

LIMESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

LIMESTONE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

LIMESTONE CO. DETENTION CENTER<br />

LIMESTONE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LIMESTONE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LINDALE ISD POLICE DEPARTMNET<br />

LINDALE POLICE DEPT.<br />

LINDEN POLICE DEPT.<br />

LINDEN-KILDARE C.I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LINDSAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIPAN CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LIPSCOMB CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LITTLE ELM FIRE DEPT.<br />

LITTLE ELM POLICE DEPT.<br />

LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY POLICE DEPT.<br />

LITTLEFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIVE OAK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LIVE OAK CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

LIVE OAK CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

LIVE OAK CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

LIVE OAK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LIVE OAK POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIVERPOOL POLICE DEPT.<br />

LIVINGSTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

LLANO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

LLANO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LLANO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

LLANO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

LLANO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

LLANO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LLANO ISD POLICE DEPT<br />

LLANO POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOCKHART POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOG CABIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOMETA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LONDON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LONE OAK POLICE DEPT.<br />

LONE STAR COLLEGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LONE STAR POLICE DEPT.<br />

LONGVIEW CITY MARSHAL OFFICE<br />

LONGVIEW FIRE DEPT.<br />

LONGVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

LORENA POLICE DEPT.<br />

LORENZO POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOS FRESNOS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOS FRESNOS POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOS INDIOS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

LOTT POLICE DEPT.<br />

LOVING CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LOVING CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUBBOCK CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LUBBOCK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

LUBBOCK CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

LUBBOCK CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

LUBBOCK CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

LUBBOCK CO. CSCD<br />

LUBBOCK CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

LUBBOCK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LUBBOCK CO. WATER DIST. NO. 1<br />

LUBBOCK COUNTY JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER<br />

LUBBOCK FIRE DEPT. ARSON INV.<br />

LUBBOCK I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUBBOCK INTL. AIRPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUBBOCK POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUBBOCK-COOPER I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUFKIN CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

LUFKIN FIRE DEPT.<br />

LUFKIN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUFKIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

LULING POLICE DEPT.<br />

LUMBERTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

LYFORD C.I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

LYFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

LYNN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

LYTLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MABANK ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MABANK POLICE DEPT.<br />

MACKENZIE MUN. WATER AUTH.<br />

MADISON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MADISON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MADISON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MADISON CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MADISON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MADISONVILLE CISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MADISONVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MAGNOLIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

MALAKOFF I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MALAKOFF POLICE DEPT.<br />

MALONE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MANOR ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MANOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

MANSFIELD CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MANSFIELD I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MANSFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MANSFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MANVEL POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARBLE FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />

MARBLE FALLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARFA POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARION CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MARION CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MARION CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MARION CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MARION POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARLIN I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MARLIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARSHALL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MARSHALL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MARSHALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

MART POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARTIN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MARTIN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MARTINDALE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MARTINSVILLE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MASON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MATAGORDA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MATAGORDA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MATAGORDA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MATAGORDA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MATAGORDA CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

MATAGORDA CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MATAGORDA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MATHIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

MAUD ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MAUD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MAVERICK CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MAVERICK CO. CONST PCT. 3 PLACE 1<br />

MAVERICK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MAVERICK CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MAVERICK CO. CONST. PCT. 3 PLACE 2<br />

MAVERICK CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MAVERICK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

“MAVERICK, DIMMIT & ZAVALA CO. CSCD”<br />

MAYPEARL ISD POLICE<br />

MAYPEARL POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCALLEN FIRE DEPT.<br />

MCALLEN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCALLEN POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCCULLOCH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MCGREGOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCKINNEY FIRE DEPT.<br />

MCKINNEY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MCKINNEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

MCLENNAN CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

MCLENNAN CO. DETEN. CENTER<br />

MCLENNAN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MCLENNAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MCLENNAN COMM. COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCLENNAN COUNTY CSCD<br />

MCLENNAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MCLEOD ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MCMULLEN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MCMULLEN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MEADOWS PLACE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MEDINA CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MEDINA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MEDINA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MEDINA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MEDINA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MEDINA CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MEDINA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MEDINA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MELISSA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MELISSA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MELISSA POLICE DEPT.<br />

MEMORIAL VILLAGES POLICE DEPT.<br />

MEMPHIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

MENARD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MENARD COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 1<br />

MERCEDES POLICE DEPT.<br />

MERIDIAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

MERKEL POLICE DEPT.<br />

MESQUITE FIRE DEPT.<br />

MESQUITE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MESQUITE POLICE DEPT.<br />

METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEMS POLICE DEPT.<br />

METRO TRANSIT POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

METRO TRANSIT POLICE DEPT.<br />

MEXIA FIRE DEPT.<br />

MEXIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

MIDLAND CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MIDLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MIDLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MIDLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MIDLAND CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MIDLAND CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MIDLAND CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MIDLAND COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MIDLAND COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

MIDLAND FIRE DEPT.<br />

MIDLAND I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MIDLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

MIDLOTHIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MIDLOTHIAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

MIDWESTERN STATE UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MILAM CO. & DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MILAM CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MILAM CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MILAM CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MILAM CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MILAM CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MILES POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MILFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

MILLER GROVE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MILLS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MINEOLA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MINEOLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

MINERAL WELLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

MISSION FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MISSION POLICE DEPT.<br />

MISSOURI CITY FIRE DEPT.<br />

MISSOURI CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MISSOURI CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MITCHELL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MITCHELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MONAHANS POLICE DEPT.<br />

MONAHANS-WICKETT-PYOTE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MONT BELVIEU POLICE DEPT.<br />

MONTAGUE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MONTAGUE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MONTAGUE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

MONTGOMERY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT 3<br />

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 5<br />

MONTGOMERY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MONTGOMERY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MOODY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MOORE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MORGAN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MORGANS POINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

MORGANS POINT RESORT POLICE DEPT<br />

MORRIS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

MORRIS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

MORRIS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MOTLEY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

MOULTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

MOUNT ENTERPRISE CITY MARSHAL<br />

MOUNT ENTERPRISE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MOUNT PLEASANT I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MOUNT PLEASANT POLICE DEPT.<br />

MOUNT VERNON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

MOUNT VERNON POLICE DEPT.<br />

MUENSTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

MULESHOE POLICE DEPT.<br />

MULLIN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

MUNDAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MURPHY POLICE DEPT.<br />

MUSTANG RIDGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. CSCD<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

NACOGDOCHES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

NACOGDOCHES FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

NACOGDOCHES I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

NACOGDOCHES POLICE DEPT.<br />

NAPLES POLICE DEPT.<br />

NASH POLICE DEPT.<br />

NASSAU BAY FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

NASSAU BAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

NATALIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

NAVARRO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

NAVARRO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

NAVARRO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

NAVARRO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

NAVARRO CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

NAVARRO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

NAVARRO COLLEGE D.P.S.<br />

NAVARRO COUNTY CSCD<br />

NAVASOTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEDERLAND FIRE DEPT.<br />

NEDERLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEEDVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEEDVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW BOSTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW BRAUNFELS FIRE DEPT.<br />

NEW BRAUNFELS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NEW BRAUNFELS POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW CANEY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW DEAL POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW LONDON POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEW SUMMERFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

NEWTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

NEWTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

NEWTON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

NEWTON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

NEWTON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

NEWTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

NEWTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

NIXON POLICE DEPT.<br />

NOCONA POLICE DEPT.<br />

NOLAN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

NOLAN CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

NOLAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

NOLANVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

NOONDAY CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

NORMANGEE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NORMANGEE POLICE DEPT.<br />

NORTH EAST I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

NORTH HOPKINS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NORTH LAMAR ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS FIRE DEPT.<br />

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

NORTH TEXAS TOLLWAY AUTH.<br />

NORTHEAST POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

NORTHLAKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

NORTHSIDE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

NUECES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

NUECES CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

NUECES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

NUECES CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

NUECES CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

NUECES CO. CSCD<br />

NUECES CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

NUECES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

O’DONNELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

OAK GROVE CITY MARSHAL<br />

OAK POINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

OAK RIDGE NORTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

OAK RIDGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

OAK RIDGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

OAKWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

OCHILTREE CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

OCHILTREE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

OCHILTREE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ODEM POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ODESSA COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ODESSA FIRE DEPT.<br />

ODESSA POLICE DEPT.<br />

OLDHAM CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

OLMOS PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

OLNEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

OLTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

OMAHA POLICE DEPT.<br />

ONALASKA POLICE DEPT.<br />

ORANGE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ORANGE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ORANGE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ORANGE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ORANGE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ORANGE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ORANGE FIRE DEPT.<br />

ORANGE GROVE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ORANGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ORE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

OVERTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

OVILLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

OYSTER CREEK POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PADUCAH POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALACIOS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALACIOS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALESTINE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PALESTINE FIRE DEPT.<br />

PALESTINE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALESTINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALM VALLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALMER POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALMHURST POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALMVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

PALO PINTO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

PALO PINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

PALO PINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

PALO PINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

PALO PINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

PALO PINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

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PALO PINTO CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PALO PINTO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PAMPA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PAMPA POLICE DEPT.<br />

PANHANDLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PANOLA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

PANOLA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

PANOLA CO. CRIM. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

PANOLA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PANOLA COLLEGE CAMPUS POLICE<br />

PANOLA/SHELBY CO. CSCD<br />

PANORAMA VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PANTEGO POLICE DEPT.<br />

PARIS FIRE DEPT.<br />

PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE D.P.S.<br />

PARIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PARKER CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

PARKER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

PARKER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

PARKER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

PARKER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

PARKER CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

PARKER CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PARKER CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

PARKER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PARKER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PARKER POLICE DEPT.<br />

PARMER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PASADENA CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PASADENA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PASADENA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PASADENA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

PASADENA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PASADENA POLICE DEPT.<br />

PATTON VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PAYNE SPRINGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PEARLAND FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PEARLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

PEARSALL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PEARSALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

PECAN HILL CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PECOS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

PECOS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

PECOS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

PECOS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

PECOS CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

PECOS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PECOS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PELICAN BAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

PENITAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PERRYTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

PETERSBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

PEWITT CISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PFLUGERVILLE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

PFLUGERVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PHARR FIRE DEPT.<br />

PHARR POLICE DEPT.<br />

PILOT POINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

PINEHURST POLICE DEPT.<br />

PINELAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

PITTSBURG ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

PITTSBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

PLAINVIEW ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PLAINVIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

PLANO FIRE DEPT.<br />

PLANO POLICE DEPT.<br />

PLEASANTON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PLEASANTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

POINT COMFORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

POINT ISABEL I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

POINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

POLK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

POLK CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

POLK CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

POLK CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

POLK CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

POLK CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

POLK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PONDER POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT ARANSAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT ARTHUR FIRE DEPT.<br />

PORT ARTHUR I.S.D. POLICE DEPT<br />

PORT ARTHUR POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT ISABEL POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT LAVACA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PORT LAVACA POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT MANSFIELD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PORT NECHES FIRE DEPT.<br />

PORT NECHES POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT OF BEAUMONT POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT OF BROWNSVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI POLICE DEPT<br />

PORT OF GALVESTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

PORT OF HOUSTON AUTHORITY<br />

PORT OF HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PORTLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

POST I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

POTEET ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

POTEET POLICE DEPT.<br />

POTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

POTTER CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

POTTER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

POTTER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

POTTER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

POTTER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

POTTER CO. COURT AT LAW NO.1<br />

POTTER CO. COURT AT LAW NO.2<br />

POTTER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

POTTER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

POTTSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRAETORIAN GROUP - POLICE ONE<br />

PRAIRIE VIEW A & M POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRAIRIE VIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

PREMONT POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRESIDIO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

PRESIDIO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

PRESIDIO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

PRESIDIO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRESIDIO POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRIMERA POLICE DEPT.<br />

PRINCETON POLICE DEPT.<br />

PROGRESO POLICE DEPT.<br />

PROSPER FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

PROSPER ISD POLICE<br />

PROSPER POLICE DEPT.<br />

QUEEN CITY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

QUEEN CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

QUINLAN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

QUINLAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

QUITMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

RAINS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

RAINS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

RAINS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RAINS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RALLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

RANCHO VIEJO POLICE DEPT.<br />

RANDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

RANDALL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

RANDALL CO. COURT AT LAW #2<br />

RANDALL CO. COURT AT LAW NO.1<br />

RANDALL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

RANDALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RANDALL COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION<br />

RANDALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RANGER POLICE DEPT.<br />

RANSOM CANYON POLICE DEPT.<br />

RAYMONDVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RAYMONDVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

REAGAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

REAL CO. CONSTABLE’S OFFICE<br />

REAL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RED LICK ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RED OAK FIRE RESCUE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

RED OAK I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RED OAK POLICE DEPT.<br />

RED RIVER CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

RED RIVER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

RED RIVER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

REEVES CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

REEVES CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

REEVES CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

REEVES CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

REEVES CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

REEVES COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

REFUGIO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

REFUGIO CO. CONST. PCT.1 & 1A<br />

REFUGIO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

REFUGIO POLICE DEPT.<br />

RENO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RENO POLICE DEPT. (367204) - 367204<br />

RHOME POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICE I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RICE POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICE UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICE UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RICHARDSON FIRE MARSHALS OFFICE<br />

RICHARDSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICHLAND HILLS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

RICHLAND HILLS FIRE DEPT.<br />

RICHLAND HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICHLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RICHLAND SPRINGS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RICHMOND FIRE DEPT.<br />

RICHMOND POLICE DEPT.<br />

RICHWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIESEL ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

RIESEL POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO BRAVO POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO GRANDE CITY C.I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO GRANDE CITY FIRE DEPT.<br />

RIO GRANDE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO HONDO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO HONDO POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIO VISTA POLICE DEPT.<br />

RISING STAR POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIVER OAKS FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

RIVER OAKS POLICE DEPT.<br />

RIVERCREST I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROANOKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROBERTS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ROBERTSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ROBERTSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ROBERTSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ROBERTSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ROBERTSON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ROBERTSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ROBINSON ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROBINSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROBSTOWN CITY MARSHAL<br />

ROBSTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROCKDALE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROCKPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROCKWALL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ROCKWALL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ROCKWALL CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ROCKWALL CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ROCKWALL CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ROCKWALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ROCKWALL COUNTY CSCD<br />

ROCKWALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ROCKWALL FIRE DEPT.<br />

ROCKWALL POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ROCKWALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROGERS POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROLLINGWOOD POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROMA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ROMA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROMA POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROMAN FOREST POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ROMAN FOREST POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROOSEVELT I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROPES ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ROSCOE POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROSE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ROSE HILL ACRES POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROSEBUD POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROSENBERG FIRE DEPT.<br />

ROSENBERG POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROUND ROCK FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ROUND ROCK ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ROUND ROCK POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROWLETT CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ROWLETT FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

ROWLETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROYAL I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ROYSE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

RUNAWAY BAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

RUNNELS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

RUNNELS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

RUNNELS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RUSK CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

RUSK CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

RUSK CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

RUSK CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

RUSK CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

RUSK CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

RUSK CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

RUSK COUNTY ADULT PROBATION<br />

RUSK POLICE DEPT.<br />

SABINAL POLICE DEPT.<br />

SABINE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SABINE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SABINE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SACHSE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAGINAW POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SAGINAW POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAINT JO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SALADO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SALTILLO I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SAM HOUSTON ST. UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAM RAYBURN ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SAN ANGELO CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SAN ANGELO FIRE DEPT.<br />

SAN ANGELO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN ANGELO REG. AIRPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN ANTONIO AIRPORT<br />

SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPT.<br />

SAN ANTONIO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN ANTONIO PARK POLICE<br />

SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE CO. CONST. PCT 1<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE CO. CONST. PCT 2<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE CO. CONST. PCT 3<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SAN AUGUSTINE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN BENITO FIRE DEPT.<br />

SAN BENITO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN BENITO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN DIEGO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN ELIZARIO CITY MARSHAL<br />

SAN FELIPE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SAN JACINTO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SAN JACINTO COLLEGE DIST. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN JUAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN JUAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN MARCOS MARSHAL’S DEPT.<br />

SAN MARCOS POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

SAN PATRICIO CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SAN PATRICIO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SAN SABA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SAN SABA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANDY OAKS MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SANGER POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANSOM PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANTA ANNA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANTA FE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANTA FE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANTA MARIA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SANTA ROSA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SANTA ROSA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SAVOY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SCHERTZ MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SCHERTZ POLICE DEPT.<br />

SCHLEICHER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SCHULENBURG POLICE DEPT.<br />

SCURRY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SCURRY-ROSSER ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SEABROOK FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SEABROOK POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEADRIFT POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEAGOVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SEAGOVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEAGRAVES POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEALY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEALY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEGUIN FIRE EMS DEPT.<br />

SEGUIN POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SEGUIN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SELMA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEMINOLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SEVEN POINTS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SEYMOUR ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SEYMOUR POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHACKELFORD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SHACKELFORD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SHALLOWATER I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHALLOWATER POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHAVANO PARK FIRE DEPT.<br />

SHAVANO PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHELBY CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SHELBY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SHELBY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SHELBY CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

SHELBY CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

SHELBY CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

SHELBY CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SHELBY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SHELBYVILLE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHENANDOAH POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHEPHERD ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SHERMAN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SHERMAN FIRE DEPT.<br />

SHERMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHINER POLICE DEPT.<br />

SHOREACRES POLICE DEPT.<br />

SILSBEE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SILSBEE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SINTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

SKELLYTOWN CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE.<br />

SLATON ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

SLATON POLICE DEPT.<br />

SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

SMITH CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

SMITH CO. CSCD<br />

SMITH CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SMITH CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SMITH CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SMITH COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SMITHVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SNOOK CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SNYDER FIRE DEPT.<br />

SNYDER POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOCORRO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOCORRO POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOMERSET I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOMERSET POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOMERVELL CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

SOMERVELL CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

SOMERVELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SOMERVELL COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

SOMERVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SONORA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUR LAKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTH HOUSTON FIRE MARSHAL<br />

SOUTH HOUSTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND MARSHAL’<br />

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTH SAN ANTONIO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHLAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SOUTHLAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SOUTHMAYD POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHSIDE I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHSIDE PLACE POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHWEST I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SOUTHWEST TEXAS JUNIOR COLLEGE<br />

SOUTHWESTERN UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPEARMAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPLENDORA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPLENDORA POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPRING BRANCH I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPRING I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPRING VALLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPRINGTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SPUR POLICE DEPT.<br />

ST. EDWARDS UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ST. MARYS UNIV. POLICE<br />

STAFFORD FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

STAFFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

STAGECOACH POLICE DEPT.<br />

STAMFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

STANTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

STAR HARBOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

STARR CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

STARR CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

STARR CO. CSCD<br />

STARR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

STATE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN STATE UNIV.<br />

STEPHENS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

STEPHENS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

STEPHENVILLE FIRE DEPT.<br />

STEPHENVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

STERLING CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

STINNETT POLICE DEPT.<br />

STOCKDALE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

STONEWALL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

STRATFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

STRAWN CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

SUDAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUGAR LAND ARSON INV.<br />

SUGAR LAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUL ROSS UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SULLIVAN CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SULPHUR BLUFF ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SULPHUR SPRINGS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

SULPHUR SPRINGS POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUNDOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUNNYVALE FIRE DEPT.<br />

SUNNYVALE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

SUNRAY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUNRISE BEACH POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUNSET VALLEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SURFSIDE BEACH POLICE DEPT.<br />

SUTTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

SWEENY ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

SWEENY POLICE DEPT.<br />

SWEETWATER FIRE DEPT.<br />

SWEETWATER POLICE DEPT.<br />

SWISHER CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

SWISHER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TAFT I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TAFT POLICE DEPT.<br />

TAHOKA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TAHOKA POLICE DEPT.<br />

TALTY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TARLETON STATE UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TARRANT CO. COLLEGE DIST. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 7<br />

TARRANT CO. CONST. PCT. 8<br />

TARRANT CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TARRANT CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

TARRANT CO. HOSP. DIST. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TARRANT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TARRANT COUNTY CONSTABLE PCT. 3<br />

TARRANT REG. WATER DIST.<br />

TATUM POLICE DEPT.<br />

TAYLOR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TAYLOR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TAYLOR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TAYLOR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TAYLOR CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TAYLOR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TAYLOR POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TAYLOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

TDCJ PAROLE DIVISION - AUSTIN<br />

TDCJ PAROLE DIVISION - DALLAS<br />

TDCJ PAROLE DIVISION - SAN ANTONIO<br />

TDCJ PAROLE DIVISION - TYLER<br />

TDCJ-PAROLE DIVISION - MIDLAND<br />

TEAGUE ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TEAGUE POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEMPLE COLLEGE D.P.S.<br />

TEMPLE FIRE AND RESCUE<br />

TEMPLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

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TENAHA CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

TENAHA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TENAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TERRELL CO. CONST. PCT. 3 & 4<br />

TERRELL CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TERRELL HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

TERRELL I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TERRELL POLICE DEPT.<br />

TERRY CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TERRY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TERRY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TEXARKANA CITY MARSHAL<br />

TEXARKANA COMM. COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXARKANA FIRE DEPT.<br />

TEXARKANA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXARKANA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TEXARKANA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TEXAS A & M UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS A&M FOREST SERVICE<br />

TEXAS A&M INTL. UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. COMMERCE POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. CORPUS CHRISTI POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. KINGSVILLE P. D.<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. POLICE DEPT. GALVESTON<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIV. TEXARKANA<br />

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CENTRAL TEXAS<br />

TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMM.<br />

TEXAS ATTY. GENERAL’S OFFICE<br />

TEXAS BOARD OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE<br />

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS CITY FIRE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

TEXAS CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS COMM. ON JAIL STANDARDS<br />

TEXAS COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT<br />

TEXAS COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS<br />

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY<br />

TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION<br />

TEXAS LUTHERAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS RACING COMMISSION<br />

TEXAS RAILROAD ASSOCIATION<br />

TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS<br />

TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY<br />

TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TEXAS TECH POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TEXLINE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

THE COLONY FIRE DEPT.<br />

THE COLONY POLICE DEPT.<br />

THOMPSONS POLICE DEPT.<br />

THORNDALE POLICE DEPT.<br />

THORNTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

THRALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

THREE RIVERS POLICE DEPT.<br />

THROCKMORTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TIDEHAVEN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TIKI ISLAND POLICE DEPT.<br />

TIMPSON I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TIMPSON POLICE DEPT.<br />

TIOGA POLICE DEPT.<br />

TITUS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TITUS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TITUS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TITUS CO. FRESH WATER SUPP. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TITUS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TODD MISSION POLICE DEPT.<br />

TOM BEAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

TOM GREEN CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TOM GREEN CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TOM GREEN CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TOM GREEN CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TOM GREEN CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TOM GREEN CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TOMBALL POLICE DEPT.<br />

TOOL POLICE DEPT.<br />

TRAVIS CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TRAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TRAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TRAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TRAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TRAVIS CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

TRAVIS CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TRAVIS CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

TRAVIS CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TRENTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

TRINIDAD POLICE DEPT.<br />

TRINITY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TRINITY CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TRINITY CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TRINITY CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TRINITY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TRINITY I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TRINITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

TRINITY UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TRINITY VALLEY COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

TROPHY CLUB FIRE MARSHAL<br />

TROPHY CLUB POLICE DEPT.<br />

TROUP POLICE DEPT.<br />

TROY POLICE DEPT.<br />

TSTC - SWEETWATER D.P.S.<br />

TSTC - HARLINGEN CAMPUS<br />

TSTC - WACO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TULIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

TYE POLICE DEPT.<br />

TYLER CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

TYLER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

TYLER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

TYLER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

TYLER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

TYLER CO. CRIM. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

TYLER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

TYLER FIRE DEPT.<br />

TYLER I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

TYLER JR. COLLEGE CAMPUS POLICE DEPT.<br />

TYLER PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

TYLER POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

TYLER POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNITED I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNIV. HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNIV. OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS H&S CENTER<br />

UNIV. OF NORTH TEXAS POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNIV. OF ST. THOMAS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

UNIV. OF TEXAS SYSTEM POLICE<br />

UNIVERSAL CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON POLICE DEPT<br />

UNIVERSITY PARK FIRE DEPT.<br />

UNIVERSITY PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

UPSHUR CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

UPSHUR CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

UPSHUR CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

UPSHUR CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

UPSHUR CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

UPSHUR CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

UPTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

UPTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

UPTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

UVALDE CO. ATTORNEY<br />

UVALDE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

UVALDE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

UVALDE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

UVALDE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

UVALDE CO. CONST. PCT. 6<br />

UVALDE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

UVALDE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

UVALDE POLICE DEPT.<br />

VAL VERDE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

VAL VERDE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

VAL VERDE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

VAL VERDE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

VAL VERDE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

VAL VERDE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY<br />

VALLEY INTL. AIRPORT POLICE DEPT.<br />

VALLEY MILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

VALLEY VIEW ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

VALLEY VIEW POLICE DEPT.<br />

VAN ALSTYNE POLICE DEPT.<br />

VAN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

VAN POLICE DEPT.<br />

VAN VLECK ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. CSCD<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

VAN ZANDT CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

VEGA CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

VENUS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

VENUS POLICE DEPT.<br />

VERNON COLLEGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

VERNON FIRE DEPT.<br />

VERNON POLICE DEPT.<br />

VIA METRO TRANSIT POLICE DEPT.<br />

VICTORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

VICTORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

VICTORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

VICTORIA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

VICTORIA CO. CRIM. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

VICTORIA CO. FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

VICTORIA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

VICTORIA COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

VICTORIA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

VICTORIA FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

VICTORIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

VIDOR I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

VIDOR POLICE DEPT.<br />

VILLAGE FIRE DEPT.<br />

VILLAGE OF PALISADES POLICE DEPT<br />

VON ORMY POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WACO FIRE DEPT.<br />

WACO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WACO POLICE DEPT.<br />

WAELDER POLICE DEPT.<br />

WAKE VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WALKER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WALKER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WALKER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WALKER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WALKER CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WALKER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WALLER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WALLER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WALLER CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WALLER CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WALLER CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WALLER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WALLER COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WALLER COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WALLER POLICE DEPT.<br />

WALLIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WARD CO CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WARD CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WARD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WARREN ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WASHINGTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WASHINGTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WASHINGTON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WASHINGTON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WASHINGTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WASHINGTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE<br />

WASHINGTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WASKOM I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WASKOM POLICE DEPT.<br />

WATAUGA CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WATAUGA FIRE DEPARTMENT<br />

WATAUGA POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WATAUGA POLICE DEPT.<br />

WAXAHACHIE CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WAXAHACHIE FIRE DEPT.<br />

WAXAHACHIE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WAXAHACHIE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEATHERFORD COLLEGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEATHERFORD FIRE DEPT.<br />

WEATHERFORD POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEBB CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WEBB CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WEBB CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WEBB CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WEBB CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WEBB CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WEBB CONSOLIDATED I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEBSTER FIRE DEPT.<br />

WEBSTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEBSTER POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEIMAR POLICE DEPT.<br />

WELLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WESLACO ARSON INV.<br />

WESLACO POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WESLACO POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST COLUMBIA POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST LAKE HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST ORANGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST RUSK I.S.D. POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WEST TAWAKONI POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST TEXAS A & M UNIV. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WEST UNIV. PLACE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WESTLAKE DEPT OF PUBLIC SAFETY<br />

WESTLAKE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WESTOVER HILLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WESTWORTH VILLAGE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHARTON CO. ADULT PROBATION DEPT.<br />

WHARTON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WHARTON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WHARTON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WHARTON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WHARTON CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WHARTON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WHARTON ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WHARTON POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHEELER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WHEELER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WHEELER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WHITE DEER CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WHITE OAK POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITE RIVER WATER DISTRICT POLICE DEPT<br />

WHITE SETTLEMENT I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITE SETTLEMENT MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WHITE SETTLEMENT POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITEHOUSE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITESBORO ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WHITESBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITEWRIGHT ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WHITEWRIGHT POLICE DEPT.<br />

WHITNEY POLICE DEPT.<br />

WICHITA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WICHITA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WICHITA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WICHITA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WICHITA CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WICHITA CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

WICHITA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WICHITA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WICHITA FALLS CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WICHITA FALLS FIRE DEPT.<br />

WICHITA FALLS I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WICHITA FALLS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WICKETT CITY MARSHAL<br />

WILBARGER CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WILBARGER CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WILBARGER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WILBARGER COUNTY CSCD<br />

WILEY COLLEGE POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WILLACY CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WILLACY CO. CONST. PCT. 2 & 8<br />

WILLACY CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WILLACY CO. CONST. PCT. 4 & 7<br />

WILLACY CO. CONST. PCT. 5<br />

WILLACY CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WILLACY CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. CSCD<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. DIST. ATTY’S OFFICE<br />

WILLIAMSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WILLIS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WILLOW PARK POLICE DEPT.<br />

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WILLS POINT POLICE DEPT.<br />

WILMER POLICE DEPT.<br />

WILSON CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WILSON CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WILSON CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WILSON CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WILSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WINDCREST POLICE DEPT.<br />

WINFIELD POLICE DEPT.<br />

WINK POLICE DEPT.<br />

WINKLER CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WINKLER CO. CONST. PCT. 1 & 3<br />

WINKLER CO. CONST. PCT. 2 & 4<br />

WINKLER CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WINNSBORO I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WINNSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

WINONA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

WINTERS POLICE DEPT.<br />

WISE CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WISE CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WISE CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WISE CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WISE CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WISE CO. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WISE CO. FIRE MARSHAL<br />

WISE CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WODEN I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOLFE CITY POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOLFFORTH POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

WOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

WOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

WOOD CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

WOOD CO. CRIM. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

WOOD CO. CSCD<br />

WOOD CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WOOD COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL<br />

WOOD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

WOODBRANCH POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOODSBORO POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOODVILLE POLICE DEPT.<br />

WOODWAY PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT<br />

WORTHAM POLICE DEPT.<br />

WYLIE FIRE MARSHAL’S OFFICE<br />

WYLIE POLICE DEPT.<br />

YANTIS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

YOAKUM CO. CRIM. DIST. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

YOAKUM CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

YOAKUM POLICE DEPT.<br />

YORKTOWN POLICE DEPT.<br />

YOUNG CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

YOUNG CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

YOUNG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

YOUNG CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

YSLETA I.S.D. POLICE DEPT.<br />

ZAPATA CO. ARSON INV.<br />

ZAPATA CO. ATTY.’S OFFICE<br />

ZAPATA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ZAPATA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ZAPATA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ZAPATA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ZAPATA CO. JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT.<br />

ZAPATA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ZAPATA COUNTY ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ZAVALA CO. CONST. PCT. 1<br />

ZAVALA CO. CONST. PCT. 2<br />

ZAVALA CO. CONST. PCT. 3<br />

ZAVALA CO. CONST. PCT. 4<br />

ZAVALA CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE<br />

ZAVALLA ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT<br />

ZAVALLA POLICE DEPT.<br />

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BY TOM KENNEDY, B&G EDITOR<br />

War story about violent 1970s HPD drug wars<br />

set the stage for events leading to creation of<br />

Houston Police Officers Union<br />

his poison. Choosing nights in Central<br />

Patrol, he quickly became intimate with<br />

the Third Ward culture despite the fact<br />

he had never been able to vote or buy<br />

weapons or ammunition, had never<br />

gotten drunk and always locked his<br />

patrol car doors.<br />

Many officers learned before decade’s<br />

end that Thomas knew the meaning of<br />

perseverance. He persevered through<br />

the bloodshed and the tough initiation<br />

dished out by the department. He even<br />

was recruited by the Park Place Rangers,<br />

the only way a young officer could<br />

join the rugged, no-nonsense patrol<br />

known for taking no prisoners. Instead<br />

of worrying about the lack of legal<br />

representation for officers involved in<br />

shootings or fretting over insurance<br />

co-pays that added up too quickly on<br />

pay day, Thomas built a solid reputation<br />

for the savvy needed to make cases<br />

that stood<br />

own way of doing things.<br />

AGGRESSIVE WAR ON DRUGS<br />

The narcs set records for blowing<br />

the division’s monthly drug budget the<br />

first three days of a new month because<br />

they were making bigger busts, requiring<br />

much larger sums. On the night<br />

shift, Lieutenant Billy Ripley, Jim Kilty<br />

and his aggressors in the war on drugs<br />

were doing the same thing. Each of the<br />

narcs learned to always be part of a<br />

task force that involved Harris County<br />

officers, the U. S. Drug Enforcement<br />

Agency and the Texas Department of<br />

Public Safety. One task force member<br />

or another always had the money the<br />

underfunded HPD officers needed for<br />

their next bust.<br />

The workload added up, especially<br />

the time in court. The narcs worked sixteen-hour<br />

days and sometimes on their<br />

Recruiting because she was one of only<br />

a few females who could pass HPD’s<br />

tricky agility test. She became HPD’s<br />

second female narc, with braces on her<br />

teeth and a Sunday school image.<br />

She had been a narc for only three<br />

months when the Golfcrest warrant<br />

situation arose. Woods needed help to<br />

gain entry to the apartment and secure<br />

the occupants inside. He radioed Thomas<br />

as he worked late from the day shift.<br />

Doyle Green bumped him and they also<br />

got Nathan Brumley to volunteer to<br />

participate. The sergeant going to the<br />

scene was Gene Cox.<br />

The sergeant and three other officers<br />

arrived and shared information about<br />

the case. The guy in the apartment was<br />

sixty-year-old Thomas Garza Malone,<br />

the poster boy for the early release<br />

Author’s <strong>No</strong>te: The history of the Houston<br />

Police Officers Union came in three<br />

phases: 1) the formation of the Houston<br />

Police Officers Association in the 1940s;<br />

2) the creation of the Houston Police Patrolman’s<br />

Union in the late 1970s; and 3)<br />

the merging of HPOA and HPPU to form<br />

HPOU in the 1990s. The following story,<br />

based on a chapter in Houston Blue, the<br />

Story of HPD, details the formation of<br />

HPPU, whose history begins with a “war<br />

story” from the violent drug wars in<br />

Houston in the 1970s.<br />

Pappy Bond had a plan in late 1974.<br />

The new captain in Narcotics had taken<br />

over a division troubled by unsafe<br />

arrest practices and accusations of brutality,<br />

wiretapping and other questionable<br />

activities that often turned the tide<br />

in the criminals’ favor. Bond attacked<br />

the growing drug problem in the Bayou<br />

City through a special inter-departmental<br />

recruitment technique. He<br />

perused the lists of arrests from Patrol<br />

and wrote down the names of the arresting<br />

officers most often appearing.<br />

On his yellow notepad he scribbled<br />

the names of the top three from<br />

Central Patrol, <strong>No</strong>rtheast, Shepherd<br />

and Park Place. He interviewed each<br />

of them, flattered their egos by citing<br />

their aggressiveness, and appealed to<br />

their purposeful demeaner as being<br />

just what HPD needed to take on drug<br />

dealers.<br />

He sought and signed up the people<br />

who later nicknamed themselves the<br />

“buffalo hunters” on the day shift. The<br />

night shift became known as “Ripley’s<br />

Raiders” after Narcotics Lieutenant Billy<br />

Ripley. These hunters and raiders were<br />

younger officers unafraid to plunge<br />

head-on into the more challenging and<br />

dangerous police situations and live to<br />

write detailed reports.<br />

BUFFALO HUNTERS FORM<br />

One of them was Bob Thomas,<br />

who endured his share of meanness<br />

and violence as a patrolman in Third<br />

Ward and with the Park Place Rangers,<br />

known in the 1970s as HPD’s toughest<br />

patrol division. In his three years on the<br />

force, Thomas had heard more shots<br />

fired and saw more blood than hundreds<br />

of officers with far more years on<br />

any beat.<br />

The “buffalo hunters” met for the first<br />

time in early 1975, each finding himself<br />

in a roomful of strangers, a condition<br />

that quickly changed. Thomas threw<br />

in with Officer Doyle Green of Central<br />

Patrol. The modus operandi meant<br />

working in groups on shifts. Thomas’<br />

group worked days and also included<br />

Rick Ashwood, Kenny Williamson and<br />

Joe Otis. The narcs worked undercover,<br />

using tips from street people and informants<br />

to make buys of heroin and large<br />

amounts of marijuana. They grew long<br />

hair and beards and dressed the part.<br />

They put in long hours together and<br />

frequently socialized off-duty.<br />

Thomas grew up in Oak Forest on<br />

Houston’s <strong>No</strong>rthside, an ideal backdrop<br />

for conscientious young men and women<br />

of the early sixties. Many graduates<br />

of Waltrip High School, Thomas’ alma<br />

mater, became Houston police officers.<br />

An especially poignant fact in history<br />

is that three Waltrip graduates were<br />

police officers killed in the line of duty:<br />

John Bamsch, shot to death by a robbery<br />

suspect in 1975; Timothy L. Hearn,<br />

killed by a pistol-wielding drug suspect<br />

in 1978; and John Anthony Salvaggio,<br />

killed by a hit-and-run driver in 1990.<br />

The twenty-one-year-old Thomas<br />

realized that Waltrip’s HPD tradition, his<br />

three years as a UH business major and<br />

sixteen weeks in the police academy<br />

prepared him for the Houston streets –<br />

but only to a degree. He got the same<br />

on-the-job experience as thousands<br />

of his predecessors. He graduated high<br />

enough in his academy class to pick<br />

up with supervisors and later in<br />

courts.<br />

Thomas was a quick study in drug<br />

culture. He dressed the part, talked the<br />

part and became an integral part of it<br />

just like colleagues Doyle Green, Rick<br />

Ashwood, Kenny Williamson, Jim Kilty,<br />

Tim Hearn and others. He learned the<br />

dangerous trade from more seasoned<br />

narcs such as Frank Miller, Mike Woods<br />

and Joe T. Dugger.<br />

Narcs cultivated their snitches,<br />

discreetly dropping charges against<br />

suspects in return for certain introductions.<br />

Bartering for a dismissal, the defendant<br />

was required to introduce the<br />

narcs to three people who sold drugs.<br />

The informant might participate in the<br />

first dirty buy. Then the narcs would<br />

make two more on their own, building<br />

up trust and carefully working their<br />

way through the drug-dealing chain.<br />

Captain Bond was looking good, too.<br />

By the middle of 1975, the Buffalo Hunters<br />

and Ripley’s Raiders developed and<br />

cultivated a vast network of drug dealers.<br />

In their first year, the Narcotics Division<br />

saw a 300 percent increase in drug<br />

arrests, a stark contrast to the squad of<br />

predecessors disbanded because of its<br />

days off. Thomas kept his marriage to<br />

his high school sweetheart together by<br />

spending every day off with her and his<br />

daughters. Others weren’t so lucky. The<br />

HPD divorce rate grew higher, particularly<br />

among narcs. The narcs’ workload<br />

grew heavier and, as they learned on<br />

a December night in 1975 night, it also<br />

became more dangerous.<br />

Critics of the Narcotics Division of<br />

the late seventies believed narcs were<br />

overly aggressive and careless. Too<br />

often they initiated arrest operations<br />

without fully assessing the dangers.<br />

Justices of the peace, particularly<br />

Judge Lawrence H. Wayne, eagerly<br />

demonstrated their anti-drug stance by<br />

signing search warrants without posing<br />

the detailed questions about the perilous<br />

predicament in which arresting officers<br />

would soon immerse themselves.<br />

Early the evening of December 8,<br />

1975, Officers Mike Woods and June<br />

Cain were en route to a darkened and<br />

rundown multiple-unit dwelling on<br />

Golfcrest on the southeast side. The<br />

twenty-year-old Cain was still wet<br />

behind the ears. She grew up in Pasadena<br />

and always wanted to be a cop.<br />

Cain graduated from the academy at<br />

age nineteen and spent a half year in<br />

program in the Texas prisons of the seventies.<br />

He served ten years of a ninetynine-year<br />

sentence for murder. Once<br />

paroled, he killed another man in a bar<br />

fight and did another twelve years of<br />

hard time on a life sentence for murder.<br />

Malone had nineteen-year-old stripper<br />

Bonnie Sue Hollis with him. Hollis<br />

had recently sold heroin to a narc. The<br />

buffalo hunters would have sweet,<br />

innocent-sounding Cain knock on the<br />

door and say, “It’s me,” which usually<br />

prompted the drug to open up, triggering<br />

officers to hit the door with their<br />

shoulders and order the occupants up<br />

against the wall. The ruse worked –<br />

until this night.<br />

Hollis didn’t open up. Malone jammed<br />

a two-by-four against the doorknob,<br />

burying the other end into the carpet.<br />

The officers heard the toilet flush down<br />

evidence as they kicked down the door.<br />

Flushing continued steadily as several<br />

minutes passed before the narcs gained<br />

entry to the darkened one-bedroom<br />

apartment.<br />

FIVE SHOTS HIT FOUR OFFICERS<br />

Green took the lead with his shotgun.<br />

He grabbed Hollis by the arm,<br />

eased past a small Christmas tree and<br />

stepped down a hallway. Green aimed<br />

his shotgun as he rounded the corner<br />

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toward the bedroom. Malone was in a<br />

shooter’s stance with a five-shot, snubnosed<br />

.<strong>38</strong>.<br />

POW! POW . . .<br />

Malone’s first shot struck Green’s left<br />

hand on the stock side of the shotgun.<br />

The bullet hit the third knuckle of his<br />

left index finger and traveled up into<br />

his wrist where it tried to exit the palm<br />

side. Deflected by the face of Green’s<br />

watch, it then continued up his arm and<br />

came to rest near his elbow.<br />

Malone aimed his .<strong>38</strong> carefully. The<br />

memories of what happened in the<br />

next few seconds consist of the fiery<br />

yellow orange muzzle of the .<strong>38</strong>,<br />

ungodly intense pain, death and yet<br />

the strong desire to catch the bad guy<br />

whodunit.<br />

POW! POW!! POW!!!.<br />

Woods and Thomas returned the fire<br />

in uncertain directions, unable to zero<br />

in on Malone as he aimed the gun barrel<br />

precisely in their direction. All of this<br />

happened in split seconds.<br />

Malone’s second bullet struck<br />

Woods’ gun, deflecting the slug down<br />

through the officer’s groin. Woods’ gun<br />

jammed helplessly after he got off two<br />

rounds and took cover behind Brumley<br />

after a third slug traveled dead center<br />

through Brumley’s chest cavity. Brumley<br />

was shocked back to life three times<br />

that night, living in physical and mental<br />

pain for the rest of his life.<br />

“I saw the muzzle and his face,”<br />

Thomas recalled the instant a slug –<br />

believed to be from Malone’s fourth<br />

shot – tore through his stomach and<br />

stuck between two vertebrae, barely<br />

missing his spinal column. The officer<br />

returned a total of fourteen rounds.<br />

Green was down near the dinette<br />

table. He had his regular duty weapon<br />

in his “jack ass” shoulder holster, but<br />

he was left-handed with the wound<br />

putting his left hand out of commission.<br />

So, he just lay there – shot, bloody and<br />

scared – wondering if he should try<br />

to get his gun out of his holster and<br />

shoot right-handed. He later said he<br />

was afraid he would be too slow or<br />

miss, and Malone would take it away<br />

from him and shoot him with it. Playing<br />

possum was his best decision.<br />

Woods retreated out the front door,<br />

where Thomas had difficulty standing<br />

and walking. Woods and Thomas<br />

thought Green and Brumley were dead.<br />

‘I’ve been shot! Get me some help!’<br />

Malone went into the bedroom to<br />

put on a t-shirt, came back out and<br />

picked up Green’s shotgun, wanting<br />

to shoot the possum. Malone started<br />

pulling what he thought was the<br />

trigger while pointing the shotgun at<br />

Green’s head. In his confusion Malone<br />

actually caused the slide to release and<br />

eject one live round and pump another<br />

one into the chamber. He kept pumping<br />

until the gun was empty and Green was<br />

still alive.<br />

Thomas and Cain were shoulder-to-shoulder,<br />

side-by-side in the<br />

doorway when the shots rang out. The<br />

shot that hit Thomas in the gut caused<br />

blood to spill out over his left hand,<br />

which was holding his stomach. “I’ve<br />

been shot!” Thomas said to Cain. “Get<br />

me some help!” He continued shooting,<br />

thinking he had hit Malone. The bullet<br />

in Thomas’ vertebrae pressed against<br />

the nerve that put his right leg asleep.<br />

Woods picked up Brumley from a pool<br />

of fresh red blood and pulled him out,<br />

while Green hugged the floor, ever the<br />

possum.<br />

Malone was shot one time, through<br />

the sagging skin that hung below his<br />

bicep area. It was never determined<br />

whose bullet hit him.<br />

Thomas’ leg was numb, and he<br />

couldn’t stand up. He heard the racking<br />

of Green’s shotgun and thought<br />

Malone was trying to kill him. The gun<br />

wasn’t working. It never fired. Malone<br />

never released the safety. He pointed<br />

the shotgun at Thomas twice, tried to<br />

pull the trigger and ejected at least two<br />

rounds. Thomas had seven rounds left<br />

and wanted to sit there and keep him<br />

in this apartment. But he couldn’t see<br />

what he was doing behind the counter<br />

of the living room, only hearing the<br />

racking of the shotgun.<br />

In less than another split second<br />

twenty-year-old June Cain had to<br />

make a decision of what to do. Cain<br />

saw the muzzle blasting of a gun like<br />

it was in slow motion. She cocked her<br />

gun and pointed it at Bonnie Sue Hollis,<br />

whose hands were spread out on the<br />

carpet. Cain had to get help for her<br />

partners. This meant sprinting down the<br />

stairway to a police radio. Officers had<br />

Walkie Talkies in 1975 that were useless<br />

in “dead zones” like this rundown<br />

apartment. <strong>No</strong>t taking a chance on a<br />

dead zone, Cain got to the stair steps<br />

and yelled to Sergeant Cox to throw her<br />

the keys to the police car so she could<br />

get to a reliable radio.<br />

Then Malone got help from an<br />

unexpected source, the apartment<br />

manager who mistook Thomas for the<br />

drug dealer. The manager was about<br />

three-hundred pounds and clad in a<br />

sleeveless t-shirt and boxer shorts. He<br />

barked at the wounded Thomas: “Drop<br />

your gun! I’ve called the police!” Then he<br />

fired a shot that barely missed the officer’s<br />

head. Thomas painfully tossed his<br />

badge in the man’s direction. “Anybody<br />

can get a badge,” he responded, and<br />

fired more shots.<br />

Thomas limped down the steps,<br />

dodging more bullets. The pistol-packing<br />

manager soon surrendered to<br />

somebody who set him straight.<br />

Cain radioed, “Officers down,” asking<br />

for help and ambulances. Before she<br />

could put down the radio mike, she<br />

heard sirens and saw Thomas out in the<br />

street waving for help. Cain told him to<br />

sit down, hearing him state, “June, I’ve<br />

got to get these patrol cars and ambulances<br />

in here. I think Doyle’s dead.”<br />

Meanwhile, Malone tiptoed over the<br />

wounded Green, left his apartment and<br />

crept down the narrow second-story<br />

walkway to the apartment unit of an<br />

older woman two doors down.<br />

Almost as chaotic as the actual<br />

shooting scene was the narrow Golfcrest<br />

Street with cars parked on both<br />

sides, virtually blocking the ambulances<br />

and responding officers. Cane and<br />

four others actually picked up the back<br />

end of a car parked on the side of the<br />

road and moved it toward the drainage<br />

ditch so ambulances could get through.<br />

BRUMLEY ‘DIED’ THREE TIMES<br />

Despite his four hits with five pistol<br />

shots and seeming to have luck on his<br />

side, Malone couldn’t find an adequate<br />

escape route. Sergeant Cox arrested<br />

him at the apartment unit down the<br />

walkway as Houston Fire Department<br />

paramedics carefully placed four<br />

wounded officers into three ambulances.<br />

A few miracles kept all four alive<br />

or else the Houston Police Department<br />

would have experienced its second<br />

bloodiest night in history next to the<br />

Camp Logan Riot.<br />

The four officers survived serious<br />

line-of-duty wounds and returned to<br />

duty six months later. Instead of heroes,<br />

they become “morale problems.” Their<br />

overall treatment led Bob Thomas and<br />

others to seriously question departmental<br />

philosophies and benefits<br />

enough to initiate a new, more aggressive<br />

police union within three and a<br />

half years.<br />

Thomas felt he was alive because<br />

Malone mishandled the shotgun and<br />

that the trigger-happy apartment manager<br />

missed shooting a man, he didn’t<br />

know was a police officer. Malone was<br />

able to launch his escape attempt when<br />

Thomas left Green and sought shelter<br />

from the manager’s shooting attack<br />

behind a parked vehicle downstairs.<br />

About twenty-five to thirty apartment<br />

dwellers gathered downstairs<br />

after hearing the shots. They spotted<br />

Malone and pointed toward his temporary<br />

haven as Sergeant Cox rushed in to<br />

arrest the man whose shootings came<br />

within inches of killing four officers.<br />

Fire Department paramedics placed<br />

Green and Woods in one ambulance<br />

and Thomas and Brumley in another.<br />

Nathan Brumley “died” at the scene.<br />

Paramedics quickly resuscitated him<br />

and laid him and Thomas side-by-side<br />

in their ambulance. Halfway to Ben<br />

Taub General Hospital, they lost Brumley<br />

again. They pulled over to the side<br />

of the road, again shocked him back to<br />

life, and rushed him to Ben Taub while<br />

leaving the still-breathing Thomas with<br />

a paramedic. Within seconds another<br />

ambulance arrived to pick them up.<br />

Brumley “died” yet a third time and<br />

underwent an out-of-body experience<br />

as one of the best emergency doctors<br />

in the business, Dr. Ken Maddox,<br />

brought him back to life in the Ben<br />

Taub Emergency Room. Later, Brumley<br />

told his fellow officers that he remembered<br />

looking down from above his<br />

body and seeing Maddox. “He was ripping<br />

me apart like a watermelon and I<br />

could feel his fingers in my chest. I kept<br />

trying to talk. There was no pain, but I<br />

could feel the sensation. I was up above<br />

and could see a light. I was looking<br />

down at my body.”<br />

Green underwent surgery and his arm<br />

was placed in a cast. He needed two<br />

more surgeries. Woods felt lucky the<br />

bullet deflected off his watch or else<br />

he would have suffered a more serious<br />

chest wound. Both rested at home in<br />

bed for several months.<br />

Doctors cut a hole for a tube in<br />

Thomas’ abdomen to drain an abscess.<br />

They also installed a colostomy bag he<br />

used four months before undergoing<br />

surgery to repair the damage. For the<br />

next four months he endured a lowgrade<br />

fever caused by two different<br />

infections. His weight dropped sixty<br />

pounds to 135.<br />

Pappy Bond was police chief by this<br />

time and visited each of his wounded<br />

narcs on Sunday afternoons at their<br />

residences or personally called each<br />

one at his home. The four men longed<br />

to get back to normal working routines<br />

and closely bonded during their recovery<br />

process. Two months passed before<br />

the quartet was instructed to return<br />

on a limited-duty basis, Thomas still<br />

running a fever with his colostomy bag<br />

and drainage tube in tow.<br />

Narcotics underwent another series<br />

of supervisory changes, largely the<br />

result of the Golfcrest shooting, another<br />

shootout that wounded several<br />

narcs and the April 8, 1976, line-of-duty<br />

death of Jim Kilty. Most of the supervisors<br />

didn’t know Woods, Brumley,<br />

Green and Thomas, and didn’t like the<br />

fact they were physically incapable of<br />

working the streets. Brumley was in the<br />

poorest shape. While off-duty in recovery,<br />

he couldn’t hold a gun and once<br />

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ack on duty he started shaking at the<br />

sound of loud noises. The cruel jokers<br />

popped sacks behind his back, causing<br />

obvious responses of fright.<br />

The four wounded officers orchestrated<br />

their return on the same day.<br />

Woods returned to regular duty but<br />

the other three were assigned to answer<br />

phones. Within two weeks, their<br />

supervisors called them into the office<br />

for a conference. They told them that<br />

they were a lingering reminder of the<br />

danger of Narcotics, a negative morale<br />

factor. They each were to be transferred.<br />

All hell broke loose. The new brass<br />

wanted all four in lighter duty, maybe<br />

even back in uniform. The officers<br />

hobbled down to find the former<br />

captain who teamed up the buffalo<br />

hunters. There in the chief’s office sat<br />

Pappy Bond, who screamed, cussed<br />

and dressed down the new Narcotics<br />

captain. Green and Brumley transferred<br />

to the Helicopter Division, while<br />

Woods and Thomas stayed in Narcotics.<br />

Thomas went back on injury leave<br />

for his colostomy closure surgery and<br />

returned to work in June 1976. Woods<br />

was named the 100 Club’s 1976 Officer<br />

of the Year.<br />

Conditions worsened for narcs on<br />

the streets. Three more were shot in<br />

February 1976, and Jim Kilty was killed<br />

in the line of duty during an arrest on<br />

April 8. Captains and lieutenants were<br />

replaced and most of the sergeants<br />

transferred. Thomas got paperwork<br />

from two doctors saying he was fit for<br />

full-time duty. He spent time on surveillance<br />

without making any arrests<br />

through the summer. By September he<br />

was again buying drugs and making<br />

cases. Eventually he and his two closest<br />

friends in Narcotics, Ashwood and Williamson,<br />

were transferred out against<br />

their wishes.<br />

Three of the four officers stuck it out<br />

until retirement. Three of them pursued<br />

other careers, Green in U. S. Customs,<br />

Woods in land investment and Thomas<br />

as a lawyer. Brumley didn’t make it.<br />

Cancer struck him down and affected<br />

“every organ the bullet struck.” He died<br />

in 1981.<br />

The quickly seasoned June Cain<br />

stayed in Narcotics, later married an<br />

assistant police chief, Tommy Shane,<br />

and became the first female police helicopter<br />

pilot in HPD history. She retired<br />

in 2006 with thirty-one years on the<br />

job.<br />

Thomas Garza Malone was sentenced<br />

to life imprisonment for his deadly<br />

assaults on the officers. After serving<br />

five years, Malone died behind bars in<br />

Huntsville.<br />

AFTERMATH CHANGES HPD<br />

Patrol brass put Bob Thomas in “the<br />

armpit of the police force” – riding on<br />

the evening shift of the <strong>No</strong>rtheast substation.<br />

Then the two men in Thomas’<br />

corner, Pappy Bond and Lieutenant Eli<br />

Rivera – the only brass that understood<br />

the plight of the wounded narcs – retired<br />

to security jobs at Tenneco.<br />

Thomas and the other three seriously<br />

injured narcs were the first in history<br />

whose injuries were subjected to<br />

worker’s compensation laws amended<br />

in September 1975 to cover municipal<br />

employees. Heretofore, officers injured<br />

in the line of duty could not take<br />

off for sprained backs, broken bones<br />

or injuries affecting soft tissue. The<br />

department ordered Thomas to work<br />

light duty with a colostomy bag and a<br />

low-grade infection.<br />

Initially, the shabby treatment disappointed<br />

and angered four men considered<br />

to be good officers. Thomas took<br />

the sergeant’s examination and scored<br />

high except for a captain’s low evaluation<br />

given him for failing to write at<br />

least two moving tickets per day when<br />

most of Thomas’ citations involved<br />

expired plates or license stickers. When<br />

the Houston Police Officers Association<br />

wouldn’t furnish an attorney to fight the<br />

low evaluation, Thomas hired his own<br />

lawyer to argue against the captain’s<br />

unfair evaluation.<br />

Other promotion lists were similarly<br />

affected. One lieutenant, Tom Koby,<br />

died <strong>No</strong>. 1 on the captain’s promotional<br />

list three years in a row. Thomas’ case<br />

resulted in enough alterations in the<br />

evaluations to place him fifteen slots<br />

higher on the sergeant’s list, thus attracting<br />

the attention of Harry Caldwell,<br />

acting chief until Mayor Jim McConn<br />

made the appointment permanent in<br />

McConn’s first term in 1978.<br />

Thomas learned he was enjoined<br />

from entering the <strong>No</strong>rtheast Substation,<br />

subject to arrest if he did. He was<br />

then ordered to report immediately to<br />

the Property Room, long established<br />

as a duty station for injured officers<br />

during physical recovery periods. The<br />

reassignment had all the earmarks of<br />

punishment since HPD had no opening<br />

at the Property Room. There were five<br />

officers assigned there – three with<br />

heart problems, another who had suffered<br />

a nervous breakdown and a fifth<br />

with a glass eye. Thomas had Wednesdays<br />

and Thursdays off on the evening<br />

shift. s)<br />

The officer had the reputation for<br />

voicing disagreement over the way<br />

narcotics cases were handled at the<br />

Courthouse. Thomas’ record, combined<br />

with high recommendations from past<br />

supervisors, assistant district attorneys<br />

and a high-test score, made him a<br />

prime candidate for the FBI. He passed<br />

the background check, yet when word<br />

leaked that he was headed to the Feds,<br />

suddenly he became known as a malcontent<br />

who questioned authority and<br />

didn’t follow orders.<br />

Had Thomas left for the FBI, the HPPU<br />

never would have taken shape. His case<br />

for change was mounting, beginning<br />

with wounded officers’ treatment in<br />

the aftermath of the December 1975<br />

shootout; second was the torpedo from<br />

above that ruined his chances of getting<br />

into the FBI; and third, an experience<br />

that clearly showed that civil service<br />

laws didn’t provide an officer with due<br />

process after a suspension.<br />

SEXUAL ADVANTAGES<br />

The latter experience in January 1975<br />

emerged during the third week Thomas<br />

was assigned to Narcotics and involved<br />

the sexual proclivity and demands of<br />

a night shift Narcotics sergeant. The<br />

sergeant took sexual advantages of<br />

female narcotics suspects in return for<br />

dropping charges against them. The<br />

department fired the sergeant, who<br />

otherwise had an exemplary record,<br />

a wife and six children, and nineteen<br />

years and nine months service with<br />

HPD – three months away from vesting.<br />

The logical plan might have been<br />

to allow him to retire in three months.<br />

Instead, the department quietly fired<br />

him, causing him to lose a retirement<br />

that amounted to thirty percent of his<br />

salary, medical benefits and forfeiture<br />

of more than $25,000 he had contributed<br />

to his pension fund.<br />

Thomas thought that the errant<br />

sergeant should have gotten back<br />

the money he had earned and contributed<br />

to a pension fund. The young<br />

officer also was struck by the fact<br />

the sergeant had no recourse through<br />

an independent appeals process and<br />

restricted due process. The process at<br />

the time entailed a hearing before a<br />

three-member Civil Service Commission<br />

appointed by the mayor with the<br />

latter option of appealing to a state<br />

district court. This procedure was a far<br />

cry from the modern-day practice of<br />

independent arbitration.<br />

The treatment of the sergeant set the<br />

stage for the formation of a new union<br />

and an eventual reform movement that<br />

finally saw the necessary changes in<br />

procedures that would have allowed<br />

him to keep his accrued benefits.<br />

Within six months of Thomas’ assignment<br />

to the Property Room in 1978, the<br />

department conducted a surprise audit,<br />

unannounced and the first in five years.<br />

Previous Property Room audits were<br />

openly scheduled at least three months<br />

prior to the auditors’ appearance.<br />

Thomas was ready for them, taking<br />

care to log in money and pornographic<br />

films and videotapes. The audit turned<br />

up nothing negative, but it sent signals<br />

to many other officers in the department<br />

that if the higher-ups were after<br />

you, they would stop at nothing to nail<br />

you.<br />

As 1979 began, Thomas had enough<br />

ammunition to strike a mighty blow for<br />

largely overlooked Patrol officers, present<br />

and future. Like the Houston police<br />

officers who met secretly to write<br />

state laws granting them civil service<br />

protection in the 1940s, Thomas and a<br />

widening inner circle started thinking<br />

about a new union separate and apart<br />

from the HPOA.<br />

ASSOCIATION ‘TOO SOFT’<br />

Formed in 1945, the HPOA was<br />

there for every rank. Many of those<br />

forming the group had graduated to<br />

sergeants, lieutenants and above. In<br />

1979, the association was perceived as<br />

being too soft on representation and in<br />

bed with the police administration and<br />

City Hall. The oil-rich Houston economy<br />

of the seventies enabled the city to pay<br />

for two generous back-to-back pay<br />

raises under Mayor Jim McConn. Despite<br />

these lifts in morale, Bob Thomas and<br />

other leaders found shortcomings in<br />

legal representation, health insurance<br />

and job security.<br />

The economy elsewhere in the United<br />

States wasn’t as prosperous. Detroit<br />

and other cities laid off officers. So<br />

down to Houston these officers came<br />

from New York and the Midwest to<br />

enroll in HPD cadet classes. These new<br />

officers signaled a major change in HPD<br />

demographics. Instead of a force consisting<br />

of Texas country boys and former<br />

members of one military service<br />

branch or another, a growing number<br />

had some college behind them, talked<br />

differently, were more demanding and<br />

knew the power of unions.<br />

Thomas garnered a multitude of<br />

issues after serving on the HPOA board<br />

for two years. He knew if he and his<br />

friends couldn’t dramatically change<br />

HPOA, they would initiate an ambitious<br />

plan to get aggressive legal representation,<br />

more inclusive insurance coverage<br />

and due process. By the end of the<br />

1979 session of the Texas Legislature,<br />

Thomas and his fellow Waltrip High<br />

School alumnus, state Representative<br />

John Whitmire, had a notch on their<br />

political gun. Whitmire sponsored a<br />

measure to require refundability of<br />

police pension contributions if an officer<br />

left the department before twenty<br />

years of vested service – like the Narcotics<br />

sergeant earlier in the 1970s.<br />

Withholding these contributions<br />

was highly hypocritical since the city<br />

refunded them for firefighters and<br />

municipal employees. City lobbyists<br />

killed bills in two previous sessions that<br />

would have achieved this goal. Thomas<br />

and some other HPOA board members<br />

believed that many of HPD’s sharpest<br />

and brightest young officers were leaving<br />

to work in other law enforcement<br />

agencies, not wanting to contribute<br />

pension monies that they knew they<br />

would never get back unless they were<br />

around for twenty years.<br />

An HPOA meeting with the pension<br />

board members was especially rancorous.<br />

One or two of them yelled at<br />

Thomas and the others. Coincidentally,<br />

Chief Caldwell was the long-term<br />

Pension Board chairman during this<br />

period. Thomas pushed the issue at the<br />

next HPOA board meeting by requesting<br />

an unprecedented roll call vote<br />

for the Whitmire legislation. It passed<br />

unanimously and the proposed measure<br />

became the association’s sole goal<br />

in the upcoming Legislature. The bill<br />

exclusively required refundability of<br />

pension contributions and became law<br />

despite the Pension Board’s backroom<br />

effort to fight it.<br />

Conflicts like these solidified the<br />

growing belief that HPOA was not<br />

representing the average officer on the<br />

street. The association board members<br />

came mostly from areas like Burglary<br />

and Theft and Community Services. The<br />

new officers from the north and northeast,<br />

some of whom were referred to<br />

as “the Detroit Tigers,” were familiar<br />

enough with police union affiliations<br />

to provide sources of information for<br />

Thomas, Raymond McFarland and Rick<br />

Ashwood. Although Thomas was the<br />

founding president of the Houston<br />

Police Patrolmen’s Union (HPPU), Ashwood<br />

was the primary instigator.<br />

BAD BED PARTNERS<br />

Like the HPD Civil Service advocates<br />

of the 1940s, the first HPPU members<br />

met in secret. At 11 p.m. on October 29,<br />

1979, at the Holiday Inn on Memorial and<br />

Sawyer, just west of 61 Riesner, they<br />

started flocking into a meeting room.<br />

Each person brought a $10 initiation<br />

fee. A total of fifty-three people joined<br />

on the spot. The union would alter the<br />

future benefit package for all Houston<br />

officers by embarking on a crusade for<br />

improved insurance, legal representation<br />

that included due process and even<br />

higher salaries.<br />

These steps resulted in a growing<br />

number of young police officers believing<br />

that the Houston Police Officers<br />

Association was nothing more than a<br />

bed partner with the city administration.<br />

The HPOA spent $40,000 annually<br />

on athletic events that included sponsorship<br />

of Little League teams and the<br />

establishment and financing of softball<br />

leagues for its members. Younger, more<br />

aggressive officers from states in the<br />

<strong>No</strong>rtheast and Midwest expected more<br />

than a time-honored brotherhood and<br />

were bothered that HPOA budgeted a<br />

mere $15,000 for legal services.<br />

Low dues reflected low expectations.<br />

HPOA’s major thrust was the yearly<br />

study of city finances, and the recommendation<br />

of salary increases. Parity<br />

was in effect, meaning that a sergeant<br />

shared the same pay scale as a fire<br />

captain, etc., on up the line. Council<br />

members felt they had to give firefight-<br />

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ers and municipal employees the same<br />

percentage raise they gave officers.<br />

Active terms like “collective bargaining,”<br />

“grievance procedure” and even<br />

“due process” wasn’t commonly used.<br />

Feelings intensified among officers that<br />

they had fewer rights of due process<br />

than common crooks. When an officer<br />

was transferred to the jail, Dispatch or<br />

the property room as punishment, he<br />

didn’t speak out for fear his work life<br />

would worsen or he would be labeled<br />

a malcontent for the rest of his career.<br />

“Firings” weren’t labeled as such. The<br />

affected officer literally cleaned out his<br />

locker and was “allowed to resign for<br />

personal reasons.” HPD kept no record<br />

of the number of times this happened.<br />

More aggressive members of the<br />

HPOA board started to keep score and<br />

voiced concern that younger officers<br />

got no legal representation. They preferred<br />

that money be designated for<br />

legal assistance rather than nighttime<br />

softball leagues. The scorekeepers<br />

found that the retention rate of officers<br />

had reached a new low point. New recruits<br />

in town expected a totally different<br />

philosophy than the mild-mannered<br />

HPOA. Some association members had<br />

growing families and felt unions like<br />

those in the <strong>No</strong>rtheast endorsed work<br />

stoppages and strikes. HPOA President<br />

Bill Elkin and the association wanted<br />

nothing to do with an organized union.<br />

Under Elkin’s leadership, HPOA acquired<br />

land two blocks west of headquarters<br />

at 61 Riesner. The president also appointed<br />

the organization’s first African<br />

American board member, J. J. Berry.<br />

A growing number of new HPD officers<br />

hailed from Chicago, New York,<br />

Philadelphia and Boston. Many of these<br />

officers had walked picket lines with<br />

their dads, while Texas-born officers<br />

had lived in a right-to-work state.<br />

About the same time Bob Thomas of<br />

Central Patrol became a more active<br />

HPOA member, so did Tommy Britt<br />

of <strong>No</strong>rth Shepherd, Rick Ashwood of<br />

Central, Raymon McFarland or <strong>No</strong>rth<br />

Shepherd, Doug Carr of Central/<strong>No</strong>rth<br />

Shepherd and Chris Gillespie of <strong>No</strong>rtheast.<br />

Gillespie was from the Midwest<br />

and had a college degree. “It was<br />

almost like the perfect storm of people<br />

coming together,” Britt said. Each had<br />

his own strengths. Gillespie, for example,<br />

introduced the idea of collective<br />

bargaining, grievance procedures and<br />

career development.<br />

OLD INFLUENCE VS. NEW FACTION<br />

Vast differences existed with the<br />

older, more influential HPOA members.<br />

The younger faction had some college<br />

hours. These six activists each worked<br />

in uniform on weekends and nights or<br />

evenings, while the majority of HPOA<br />

board members had 8-to-5 desk jobs,<br />

take-home cars and didn’t have to wear<br />

uniforms. Each of the younger challengers<br />

had a grievance of one kind<br />

or another and sought the strength<br />

in numbers to resolve their problems.<br />

They felt the need to take a more strident<br />

involvement in the organization to<br />

deal with their perception that some of<br />

the people running the department had<br />

a moral compass that wasn’t running<br />

true north.<br />

As early as 1978, Britt, Bob Thomas<br />

and four others ran as “a reform slate”<br />

for the HPOA board. Thomas and Ashwood<br />

were already board members but<br />

unsuccessfully sought board leadership<br />

offices, causing them to believe they<br />

needed a new union.<br />

Thomas soon got the reputation as a<br />

troublemaker. Older members weren’t<br />

reluctant to express their desire to give<br />

him a good old-fashioned “whupping.”<br />

The bitterness from his 1975 near-death<br />

line-of-duty experience remained a<br />

chip on his shoulder and he sometimes<br />

came across as a smart aleck. Yet his<br />

leadership was effective enough for<br />

Britt and many others to later conclude<br />

that most of the good things that happened<br />

to officers took place because of<br />

Thomas’ leadership.<br />

These new activists were soon known<br />

by a new universal identifier, “Baby<br />

Boomers,” the first generation to grow<br />

up in the sixties, affected by protests<br />

for civil rights and women’s liberation<br />

or against the Vietnam War. The<br />

officers figured they could conduct their<br />

own form of protest and maybe get<br />

somewhere. Yet the priority for HPOA<br />

President A. J. Burke, a popular solo<br />

motorcycle officer, was a new location<br />

for the association’s headquarters. Real<br />

estate sources offered two intriguing<br />

possibilities. One was the Brazos Hotel<br />

in downtown, the other the Atascocita<br />

Country Club property on the northeast<br />

side.<br />

Both had high asking prices, discouraging<br />

most HPOA members. The association<br />

could have used the golf course<br />

for its golf-playing members and sold<br />

off most of the remaining acreage to a<br />

developer. Instead, the board decided<br />

to lease a building on Jackson Street in<br />

downtown that once housed the Salvation<br />

Army and was later torn down<br />

to make way for the George R. Brown<br />

Convention Center.<br />

HPOA then purchased property at<br />

1600 State Street, two blocks from 61<br />

Riesner, where it constructed a building<br />

opened in 1983 later dedicated to the<br />

late Lieutenant Breck Porter, a hero in<br />

the establishment of state civil service<br />

protection for officers. To help pay for<br />

the facility, HPOA sponsored a country<br />

and western concert with Roy Clark as<br />

one of the headliners in the old Coliseum.<br />

Outside supporters bought steers<br />

at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo<br />

and donated the proceeds to HPOA, the<br />

beef used at benefit barbecues.<br />

<strong>No</strong>t until grand juries stepped up<br />

investigations of police brutality cases<br />

did HPOA hire a lawyer to represent<br />

members who were targets in these<br />

investigative procedures. The first was<br />

one was a former HPD officer, John<br />

Lohmann, through his firm Lohmann,<br />

Glazer and Irwin. Another legal counselor,<br />

D. Reid Walker, also was hired<br />

through Lohmann’s firm and became an<br />

authority in state civil service law.<br />

Thomas and a growing list of ardent<br />

followers of uniformed patrol officers<br />

on duty after dark readily asserted that<br />

pay raises were one thing but legal<br />

representation and insurance benefits<br />

were quite another. At the birth of the<br />

Houston Police Patrolmen’s Union on<br />

October 29, 1979, founding President<br />

Thomas stressed points like these and<br />

backed up his words at frequent news<br />

conferences. The new union concerned<br />

Mayor McConn, Police Chief Caldwell<br />

and long-time political movers and<br />

shakers more than a Category Five<br />

hurricane. Thomas thought he would<br />

be fired and postponed the first secret<br />

organizational meeting for the union<br />

until his wife Pam gave birth to their<br />

youngest daughter in September. He<br />

didn’t want to lose maternity benefits.<br />

Summoned to Caldwell’s office on<br />

the day he announced formation of the<br />

new union, Thomas became physically<br />

ill, thinking he would be dismissed<br />

along with other union founders. From<br />

outside Caldwell’s office, he heard the<br />

chief rant and rave about the union and<br />

the disloyal officers who formed it. As<br />

the minutes ticked into hours, Thomas<br />

remained apprehensive, but his confidence<br />

slowly grew. He later learned<br />

that influential Houston area AFL-CIO<br />

labor leader Don Horn wised up Mc-<br />

Conn. The mayor was about to win his<br />

second term with Horn’s political influence<br />

and listened on the phone as Horn<br />

posed important questions: What had<br />

Thomas done that any other officer was<br />

entitled to do under the Constitution?<br />

What law had he broken? Was the city<br />

ready to combat the lawsuit that would<br />

result from a firing?<br />

According to McConn, he told Chief<br />

Caldwell to use every resource to<br />

discredit Thomas, thinking it was just<br />

a matter of time before they broke up<br />

HPPU. But HPPU membership grew by<br />

leaps and bounds because Thomas and<br />

union leaders were hitting HPOA in its<br />

weakest spots – its inability to publicly<br />

articulate the issues impacting working<br />

officers.<br />

LE AGENCIES<br />

Having staff attorneys to provide<br />

legal advice to members was in high<br />

demand by officers anxious about<br />

situations like the infamous Joyvies and<br />

Webster incidents. The union felt that<br />

having a lawyer at either of these cases<br />

might well have completely changed<br />

the dynamics of the resulting investigations.<br />

As it was, people were fired and<br />

lives destroyed at the feet of the HPOA,<br />

whose dues were $3.50 a month, which<br />

HPPU contended were not enough to<br />

hire lawyers.<br />

Thomas argued that a lawyer at the<br />

scene in which officers said suspect<br />

Randy Webster was armed with a<br />

pistol would have made a dramatic difference.<br />

Had a union lawyer been there<br />

to sort out the facts, the investigation<br />

would have shown the case to believe<br />

what many HPD officers believed it really<br />

was – an accidental shooting at the<br />

hands of one officer. The findings could<br />

well have been that his gun safety was<br />

horrendous, but it wasn’t an indictable<br />

offense. The union leaders suggested<br />

that when you have a lawyer come up<br />

and say, “What happened?” ninety-nine<br />

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WORDS BY DONNA WILLIAMS<br />

Worst Traffic Accident in<br />

Houston’s History<br />

In 1976, my dad was a detective<br />

for the Houston Police Department.<br />

On May 11, 1976, he had an<br />

early morning court call in Judge<br />

Jimmy Duncan’s court. Anyone<br />

who was a cop in the 70’s and<br />

80’s knew you’d better not be<br />

late or even worse missing from<br />

one of his court calls. You would<br />

be facing contempt of court and<br />

get locked up yourself.<br />

Shortly after 10:30am the D.A<br />

cut my dad loose and he left<br />

downtown to follow up on an<br />

attempted murder case he was<br />

working. He traveled outbound<br />

on US 59 and as he approached<br />

Loop 610 his world was about to<br />

change in ways he never imaged.<br />

Just after 11am, a tanker truck<br />

traveling on Loop 610 attempted<br />

to navigate the intersecting<br />

interchange and lost control<br />

of his rig. It slammed through<br />

the guardrail, struck a support<br />

beam and fell over 100 feet to<br />

the Southwest freeway below.<br />

Luckily it just missed striking a<br />

car below.<br />

Had it just been an empty<br />

trailer he was towing it would<br />

have just been a horrible crash<br />

that killed its driver. But not on<br />

this day. The truck was hauling<br />

a liquid tanker truck filled with<br />

7,000-gallons of anhydrous ammonia.<br />

<strong>No</strong>t the standard cleaning<br />

product one would use at home.<br />

This was pure, undiluted industrial<br />

anhydrous ammonia that<br />

is used in heavy-duty chemical<br />

processes and is extremely deadly<br />

if mishandled. The tanker ruptured<br />

upon impact and let loose<br />

a cloud of highly toxic ammonia<br />

fumes that were deadly to anyone<br />

within breathing distance.<br />

My dad rolled up on this<br />

nightmare mere seconds after<br />

it happened. He had no idea<br />

how deadly this cloud was, but<br />

immediately sensed this was<br />

bad. Really Bad. God was surely<br />

watching over my dad, because<br />

the wind was blowing the cloud<br />

away from him as he watched<br />

people collapsing on the concrete<br />

in front of him. He was<br />

close enough to breathe some of<br />

the fumes, but not enough to kill<br />

him. At least not that day anyway.<br />

For the next several minutes,<br />

my dad recused dozens of people<br />

from their cars and got them<br />

to safety. He ended up in the<br />

hospital later that day when one<br />

of his lungs collapsed.<br />

In 2019, The Houston Chronicle<br />

ran a story about what was and<br />

is the worst traffic accident in<br />

Houston’s history:<br />

May 11 marks the 44th anniversary<br />

of one of the scariest moments<br />

in Houston history, when<br />

a semitrailer carrying more than<br />

7,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia<br />

fell from a freeway ramp,<br />

spilling its lethal contents.<br />

The incident, which left seven<br />

dead and nearly 200 injured,<br />

caused officials to rethink how<br />

to tackle chemical disasters and<br />

led to rules still in use today.<br />

Over forty years later, the<br />

route that ammonia truck took<br />

still snakes through a city that<br />

has doubled in size, leaving<br />

Houston vulnerable to a catastrophic<br />

accident.<br />

Just after 11 a.m. on May 11,<br />

1976, a tanker truck carrying<br />

the dangerous chemical fell<br />

onto the Southwest Freeway<br />

from the 610 West Loop above.<br />

The driver had lost control of<br />

the rig and hit a support beam.<br />

The National Transportation<br />

Safety Board would later determine<br />

that the driver was not<br />

traveling at a safe speed. He<br />

barely missed landing on a car<br />

passing by. <strong>No</strong>t much was left<br />

from the truck in the aftermath.<br />

From a Houston Post dateline:<br />

“As the sign says, the weather<br />

is fair, it’s 83 degrees and<br />

the time is 11:17 a.m. The date<br />

is also May 11, and that white<br />

cloud in the distance is the toxic<br />

blanket of anhydrous ammonia<br />

fumes which resulted from<br />

a tank truck crash at Southwest<br />

Freeway and the West Loop<br />

which killed five persons. The<br />

Texas Air Control Board took the<br />

picture from its offices at 5555<br />

West Loop South.”<br />

(The Houston Post Building<br />

was less that 200 yards from the<br />

site of the wreck and the entire<br />

building was evacuated for the<br />

rest of the day)<br />

The fumes that were released<br />

proved fatal for those who were<br />

too close. Freeway traffic was<br />

closed for three miles in all directions.<br />

Most nearby residents<br />

left their homes. Those who<br />

were close enough to detect the<br />

smell were told to relocate until<br />

the odor dissipated.<br />

A recording of the KPRC-AM<br />

coverage of the event can be<br />

heard here. Reporter Bob Raleigh<br />

spoke to witnesses who saw the<br />

accident and confirmed fatalities<br />

at the scene with fire officials. It’s<br />

a 40-minute time capsule from<br />

one of the worst disasters in<br />

Houston history up to that point.<br />

KTRK-TV reports from the<br />

scene show medics taking away<br />

burn victims and everyday Houstonians<br />

chipping in to help the<br />

recovery effort. One medic said<br />

he had 12 people in one ambulance.<br />

Area hospitals and emergency<br />

rooms were inundated.<br />

There was almost no chance<br />

of survival for those caught in a<br />

cloud of ammonia that strong,<br />

and most greenery in the area<br />

later died.<br />

The accident claimed seven<br />

lives, including six who died at<br />

the scene or shortly afterwards:<br />

David Randle Whiteman, 48;<br />

Grace Gillebaard, 33; Earl Davis,<br />

26; Gordon D. McAdams, 40;<br />

Robert Wisnoski, 64, and truck<br />

driver William Gregory Schmidt,<br />

28<br />

Some people survived their<br />

exposure to the chemical but<br />

would live with lung damage. My<br />

dad lived another ten years after<br />

the accident and died of lung<br />

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cancer. Even though he could<br />

barely breathe somedays, my<br />

dad worked up to year before he<br />

died.<br />

In my heart, my dad was a<br />

hero that day. Hundreds could<br />

have died had he not been there.<br />

There were lots of heroes that<br />

day. Ordinary citizens risked their<br />

lives to save their fellow Houstonians.<br />

It’s a day Houston will<br />

never forget and certainly one<br />

my family won’t forget either.<br />

But I know my dad is in Heaven<br />

with our Heavenly Father watching<br />

over all of us, making sure<br />

the worst doesn’t happen again.<br />

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THE OPEN ROAD<br />

by Michael Barron<br />

2022 Jeep Wagoneer<br />

We just traded the BLUES Jeep Wrangler<br />

for a 2022 Jeep Wagoneer. The Wagooner<br />

ranks near the top of large SUV<br />

rankings thanks in part to its spacious<br />

and upscale interior, wealth of standard<br />

amenities, refined V8 powertrain, and<br />

cushioned ride. See what ya’ll think<br />

PROS & CONS<br />

Muscular, refined V8 engine<br />

Gentle ride<br />

Roomy, high-end interior<br />

Lots of standard features<br />

Terrific towing capacity<br />

High starting price for class<br />

Ungainly to maneuver in tight<br />

spaces<br />

RANKINGS & RESEARCH<br />

The 2022 Jeep Wagoneer’s #1 ranking<br />

is based on its score within the<br />

Large SUVs category. Currently the Jeep<br />

Wagoneer has a score of 9.0 out of 10,<br />

which is based on our evaluation of 8<br />

pieces of research and data elements<br />

using various sources.<br />

IS THE JEEP WAGONEER A GOOD SUV?<br />

Yes, the all-new 2022 Jeep Wagoneer<br />

is an outstanding large SUV. It<br />

offers roomy seating space for up to<br />

eight people, a huge cargo area, and<br />

a mammoth 10,000-pound towing<br />

capacity. It accelerates swiftly yet returns<br />

decent gas mileage, thanks to its<br />

hybridized V8 powertrain, and its finely<br />

tuned suspension provides a blissful<br />

ride over rough pavement. The Wagoneer<br />

also comes packed to the brim<br />

with luxe materials, a host of active<br />

safety features, and a cutting-edge<br />

infotainment system.<br />

SHOULD I BUY THE JEEP WAGONEER?<br />

The 2022 Jeep Wagoneer deserves<br />

to be on your shortlist if you’re shopping<br />

for a full-size SUV. It’s about as<br />

capable and refined as large SUVs get.<br />

The tradeoff is that it’s also expensive.<br />

Prices currently start at around $68,000<br />

(Jeep promises a $58,000 variant later<br />

in the model year). If that’s going to be<br />

a deal breaker, you may want to consider<br />

less expensive rivals like the Ford<br />

Expedition or Chevrolet Tahoe.<br />

HOW MUCH DOES THE JEEP WAGONEER<br />

COST?<br />

Jeep currently offers the Wagoneer<br />

in two trims: Series II and III. The Wagoneer<br />

Series II has a $67,995 starting<br />

price, while the Series III costs $72,995.<br />

Both are much pricier than average for<br />

the large SUV class. Jeep plans to offer<br />

a $57,995 Series I trim but not until later<br />

in the 2022 model year.<br />

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO IN-<br />

SURE A JEEP WAGONEER?<br />

The cost of insuring a Jeep Wagoneer<br />

will depend on a variety of<br />

factors, including your deductible, the<br />

level of coverage that you want, and the<br />

type of insurance that you choose. Your<br />

age, gender, location, credit score, and<br />

driving record can also have an impact<br />

on your insurance rates. Check out our<br />

car insurance guide to find the best<br />

policy for you.<br />

JEEP WAGONEER VERSUS THE<br />

COMPETITION<br />

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer is essentially<br />

a luxury version of the standard<br />

Wagoneer. It’s offered solely with fourwheel<br />

drive, and it boasts a punchier<br />

V8 engine, richer cabin materials, and<br />

subtle exterior design tweaks. It also<br />

comes with amenities that the Wagoneer<br />

doesn’t offer, like massaging<br />

seats, an extra pair of touch screens<br />

for the climate control system, and a<br />

night-vision camera. It’s the swankier<br />

SUV by far. The catch is that the Grand<br />

Wagoneer isn’t any more capable than<br />

its sibling, despite costing a lot more.<br />

Prices start at $86,995, and they can<br />

exceed $100,000.<br />

WAGONEER INTERIOR:<br />

Jeep has crafted increasingly posh<br />

interiors for its SUV models in recent<br />

years, and the all-new Wagoneer is no<br />

exception. The cabin is bank-vault quiet,<br />

elegantly styled, and trimmed with<br />

mostly high-end materials. Padded<br />

leather surfaces and soft-touch plastic<br />

are in abundant supply, though glossy<br />

hard plastic can also be found. Overall,<br />

it’s easily among the best interiors in<br />

this class.<br />

WAGONEER INFOTAINMENT, BLUE-<br />

TOOTH, AND NAVIGATION<br />

The Wagoneer is outfitted with Jeep’s<br />

new Uconnect 5 infotainment system,<br />

which includes a standard 10.3-inch<br />

digital gauge cluster behind the steering<br />

wheel and a 10.1-inch touch screen<br />

in the center of the dashboard. These<br />

screens have slick graphics and snappy<br />

responses, and they’re highly customizable.<br />

It can be a little overwhelming at<br />

first, but the system is easy to use with<br />

practice. There are also touch-sensitive<br />

buttons along the sides of the screen,<br />

so you can make quick changes to the<br />

audio and climate settings.<br />

But wait, there’s more. You can keep<br />

back-seat passengers entertained on<br />

road trips with a pair of optional 10.1-<br />

inch tablets that can stream videos,<br />

movies, and live television via Amazon<br />

Fire TV. There’s also an available touch<br />

screen for front-seat passengers that<br />

offers similar streaming capabilities<br />

plus control of the audio, navigation,<br />

and rear-seat entertainment systems.<br />

Standard infotainment features: a<br />

10.1-inch touch screen, a 10.3-inch digital<br />

gauge cluster, navigation, wireless<br />

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless<br />

device charging, a Wi-Fi hot spot,<br />

Bluetooth, eight USB ports, satellite<br />

radio, and a nine-speaker stereo<br />

Available infotainment features: a<br />

10.3-inch passenger-side touch screen,<br />

a 19-speaker stereo, and a rear-seat<br />

entertainment system with two 10.1-<br />

inch displays and Amazon Fire TV<br />

ADDITIONAL STANDARD FEATURES:<br />

keyless entry, push-button start,<br />

remote start, and tri-zone automatic<br />

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climate control<br />

OTHER AVAILABLE FEATURES: a<br />

panoramic sunroof, rear sunshades,<br />

and a lockbox<br />

WAGONEER CARGO SPACE<br />

The Jeep Wagoneer has 27.4 cubic<br />

feet of cargo space behind its third-row<br />

seats, 70.8 cubic feet with these seats<br />

folded, and a massive 116.7 cubic feet<br />

with the second and third rows folded.<br />

That cargo capacity falls short of rivals<br />

like the Chevrolet Suburban and GMC<br />

Yukon XL, but it’s more than enough<br />

space for hauling plywood, furniture, or<br />

camping gear.<br />

The Wagoneer has a payload rating<br />

of up to 1,580 pounds. A hands-free<br />

power liftgate comes standard.<br />

HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES THE<br />

WAGONEER SEAT?<br />

The Jeep Wagoneer is a three-row<br />

SUV with eight seats. You can replace<br />

the standard second-row bench seats<br />

with optional captain’s chairs and a<br />

center console, which reduces seating<br />

to seven.<br />

Regardless of layout, the front seats<br />

are nicely cushioned and highly adjustable,<br />

making it easy to find a comfy<br />

driving position. Headroom and legroom<br />

are generous for tall occupants<br />

in both the first and second rows. The<br />

third row is easy to access, thanks to<br />

the wide doors and sliding second-row<br />

seats. Better still, it can comfortably fit<br />

two adults or three kids with wiggle<br />

room to spare, even on longer trips.<br />

The Wagoneer’s square roofline and<br />

tall windows provide excellent outward<br />

visibility to the front and sides of the<br />

SUV. The sightlines are decent to the<br />

rear as well.<br />

Leather upholstery, heated and ventilated<br />

front seats, and a heated steering<br />

wheel are standard. Heated second-row<br />

seats and rear sunshades are available.<br />

WAGONEER AND CHILD CAR SEATS<br />

The Wagoneer has three or four<br />

complete sets of LATCH connectors for<br />

installing child safety seats, depending<br />

on configuration.<br />

WAGONEER PERFORMANCE: KING<br />

OF THE ROAD WAGONEER ENGINE<br />

The 2022 Jeep Wagoneer features<br />

a 5.7-liter V8 engine and a 48-volt<br />

mild-hybrid system with a combined<br />

392 horsepower and 404 pound-feet<br />

of torque. An eight-speed automatic<br />

transmission and rear-wheel drive are<br />

standard; four-wheel drive is optional.<br />

This V8 powertrain shuttles the<br />

SUV off the line and up to speed with<br />

surprising ease. There’s ample power<br />

on tap at any moment, thanks in part<br />

to the transmission’s quick yet smooth<br />

shifts, making it a breeze to pass other<br />

vehicles at speed or blast up highway<br />

on-ramps. This acceleration is often<br />

met with a lovely bark from the tailpipes.<br />

The “eTorque” mild-hybrid system<br />

deserves praise as well. This belt-driven<br />

motor is responsible for turning the<br />

engine off and on at stoplights, keeping<br />

the SUV’s electrical system charged,<br />

and supplying extra torque to improve<br />

acceleration. It works seamlessly in all<br />

respects.<br />

WAGONEER GAS MILEAGE<br />

The Wagoneer gets an EPA-rated<br />

16 mpg in the city and 22 mpg on the<br />

highway. That’s hardly thrifty, but it is<br />

better than average for a large SUV.<br />

Models with four-wheel drive see ratings<br />

dip to 15/20 mpg city/highway.<br />

WAGONEER RIDE AND HANDLING<br />

The Jeep Wagoneer is a hulking SUV,<br />

and it feels every bit as substantial on<br />

winding roads and narrow city streets.<br />

The truck-based Wagoneer tends to<br />

lean and sway through turns, and its<br />

lightly weighted steering can make it<br />

tough to place the SUV within its lane.<br />

It can also be a chore to park. You may<br />

find yourself circling the block a few<br />

times to find a large enough spot. The<br />

same can be said of most large SUVs<br />

though.<br />

The upside is that the Wagoneer<br />

devours highway miles with aplomb.<br />

It glides comfortably and quietly over<br />

bumps and gouges in the pavement, especially<br />

when paired with the available<br />

air suspension. Its big brakes slow the<br />

SUV to a halt with confidence.<br />

WAGONEER OFF-ROAD PERFORMANCE<br />

The Wagoneer has what it takes to<br />

navigate rough terrain like a rutted dirt<br />

road or logging trail, but it’s not exactly<br />

the kind of vehicle that relishes the<br />

tough stuff. It’s better suited for hauling<br />

you and your camping gear to a trailhead<br />

while leaving the rock-crawling<br />

to smaller and less expensive alternatives<br />

like the Jeep Wrangler.<br />

This Jeep has a respectable 8.3<br />

inches of ground clearance, though the<br />

optional Quadra-Lift air suspension can<br />

boost that up to 10 inches. Available<br />

off-road upgrades include skid plates,<br />

additional traction control modes,<br />

beefy all-terrain tires, and a two-speed<br />

transfer case with high- and low-range<br />

gearing.<br />

WAGONEER TOWING CAPACITY<br />

The Jeep Wagoneer can tow up<br />

to 10,000 pounds when properly<br />

equipped. That’s the highest towing<br />

capacity of any large SUV, and it clobbers<br />

the ratings of rivals like the Toyota<br />

Sequoia, Chevrolet Tahoe, and Nissan<br />

Armada.<br />

WAGONEER RELIABILITY<br />

Is the Jeep Wagoneer Reliable?<br />

The 2022 Jeep Wagoneer does not<br />

have a predicted reliability score at this<br />

time.<br />

JEEP WAGONEER WARRANTY<br />

Jeep covers the 2022 Wagoneer<br />

with a three-year/36,000-mile limited<br />

warranty and a five-year/60,000-mile<br />

powertrain warranty.<br />

WAGONEER SAFETY<br />

Wagoneer Crash Test Results<br />

Neither the National Highway Traffic<br />

Safety Administration nor the Insurance<br />

Institute for Highway Safety has crash<br />

tested the 2022 Wagoneer.<br />

WAGONEER SAFETY FEATURES<br />

Rearview camera<br />

Front and rear parking sensors<br />

Blind spot monitoring<br />

Rear cross traffic alert<br />

Forward collision warning<br />

Pedestrian and cyclist detection<br />

Forward automatic emergency braking<br />

Adaptive cruise control<br />

Lane keep assist<br />

Rear seat alert (reminds you to check<br />

for kids and pets before you exit the<br />

vehicle)<br />

Available driver assistance features:<br />

Automatic high-beam headlights<br />

Head-up display<br />

Driver drowsiness detection<br />

Hands-free parking assist<br />

Surround-view parking camera system<br />

Road sign recognition<br />

WAGONEER DIMENSIONS AND WEIGHT<br />

The Jeep Wagoneer is 17.9 feet long.<br />

Its curb weight ranges from 5,960 to<br />

6,230 pounds.<br />

WHERE IS THE 2022 JEEP WAGONEER<br />

BUILT?<br />

Jeep builds the 2022 Wagoneer in<br />

Michigan alongside the Grand Wagoneer<br />

SUV and Ram 1500 pickup truck.<br />

WHICH JEEP<br />

WAGONEER MODEL<br />

IS RIGHT FOR ME?<br />

The 2022 Jeep<br />

Wagoneer comes in<br />

three trims: Series I,<br />

Series II, and Series<br />

III. Each comes<br />

standard with eight<br />

seats, a 392-horsepower<br />

V8 engine, an<br />

eight-speed automatic<br />

transmission,<br />

and rear-wheel drive.<br />

Four-wheel drive is<br />

a $3,000 option for<br />

the Series II and III<br />

models only.<br />

The Series I is by far<br />

the most affordable<br />

choice in the Wagoneer<br />

lineup: It starts<br />

at just under $58,000.<br />

However, Jeep says<br />

it won’t be available<br />

until later in the 2022 model year. That<br />

may be the trim to get if you can wait.<br />

If you can’t, start your search with the<br />

Series II, which is jam-packed with<br />

standard features and amenities.<br />

JEEP WAGONEER SERIES II<br />

The Wagoneer Series II starts at<br />

$67,995. It comes standard with a 10.1-<br />

inch touch screen, a 10.3-inch digital<br />

gauge cluster, navigation, wireless<br />

Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless<br />

device charging, a Wi-Fi hot spot,<br />

satellite radio, a nine-speaker stereo,<br />

Bluetooth, eight USB ports, keyless entry,<br />

push-button and remote start, and<br />

tri-zone automatic climate control.<br />

Additional standard features include<br />

leather upholstery, power-adjustable<br />

front seats with heating and cooling<br />

functions, a heated steering wheel,<br />

second- and third-row bench seats,<br />

a hands-free power liftgate, a Class<br />

IV tow hitch, a limited-slip rear differential,<br />

20-inch alloy wheels, LED<br />

headlights, forward collision warning,<br />

forward automatic emergency braking,<br />

adaptive cruise control, lane keep<br />

assist, blind spot monitoring, parking<br />

sensors, a rearview camera, and rear<br />

seat alert.<br />

Several options are available, including<br />

a 10.3-inch passenger-side touch<br />

screen ($1,195), heated second-row<br />

captain’s chairs ($995), two 10.1-inch<br />

displays for rear passengers ($1,995),<br />

and a heavy-duty tow package ($995).<br />

The Convenience package ($3,295)<br />

bundles together heated second-row<br />

seats, a head-up display, driver drowsiness<br />

alert, a surround-view parking<br />

camera system, hands-free park assist,<br />

and automatic high-beam headlights.<br />

The Premium package ($2,995) adds<br />

a panoramic sunroof, roof rails, and<br />

22-inch wheels. The Advanced All-Terrain<br />

package ($2,295) includes an air<br />

suspension, skid plates, a two-speed<br />

transfer case, and 18-inch wheels with<br />

all-terrain tires.<br />

JEEP WAGONEER SERIES III<br />

The Wagoneer Series III costs<br />

$72,995. It gains a heated second-row<br />

bench seat, a head-up display, automatic<br />

high-beam headlights, and a<br />

load-leveling rear suspension.<br />

Most options carry over with minimal<br />

changes and, in some cases, discounted<br />

pricing. The Premium package<br />

costs $5,495, though, and it includes<br />

power-operated running boards and<br />

a 19-speaker stereo. An electronic lockbox<br />

raises the price of the tow package<br />

to $1,495.<br />

THE FINAL CALL<br />

After a 30-year-plus hiatus, the Jeep<br />

Wagoneer is back, and it has reshuffled<br />

the pecking order in the competitive<br />

large SUV class. The new Wagoneer<br />

has a spacious and sophisticated<br />

interior, the latest in tech and safety<br />

features, well-rounded driving dynamics,<br />

and excellent towing and hauling<br />

capability.<br />

Don’t just take our word for it. Check<br />

out comments from some of the<br />

reviews that drive our rankings and<br />

analysis.<br />

“A brilliant new competitor for traditional<br />

full-size SUVs, the Wagoneer and<br />

luxurious Grand Wagoneer are a stylish,<br />

powerful, comfortable duo loaded with<br />

new tech and capability.”<br />

Cars.com<br />

“... the 2022 Jeep Wagoneer is a<br />

fantastic buy in its own right with an<br />

excellent powertrain, oodles of options,<br />

and nearly the same visual presence<br />

as...more<br />

Motor Trend<br />

“For 2022, the wood paneling might<br />

be gone, but the Wagoneer and Grand<br />

Wagoneer both look to be solid contenders<br />

in this big-time segment.”<br />

CNET<br />

Wanna purchase a New Wagoneer<br />

and not pay Market Adjustments<br />

and upcharges? See Blake or<br />

Alan Helfman at River Oaks Chrysler,<br />

Dodge Ram & Jeep.<br />

https://www.riveroakscars.com/<br />

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A BADGE OF HONOR<br />

heal ing our heroes<br />

The Ripple Effect.<br />

So, what is the Ripple effect?<br />

Well, Websters defines it as<br />

“a cumulative effect produced<br />

when one event initiates a succession<br />

of similar events.” So<br />

how does it apply to us in the<br />

Law enforcement world as it<br />

relates to stress, mental health,<br />

and our fellow officers across<br />

the nation?<br />

Let us dig in a little. Let us look<br />

at the normal stressors in our<br />

lives: they include our personal<br />

relationships, our kids, money,<br />

debt, bills, car, house payments;<br />

along with our usual wants and<br />

needs. The list can go on and<br />

on. <strong>No</strong>w if we were accountants<br />

working in New York, and an<br />

accountant from another firm<br />

in California had been killed, it<br />

really would not affect us. We<br />

would not even know about it<br />

unless our companies were connected<br />

in some way. Even then,<br />

unless I we knew them directly,<br />

our day would go on as normal,<br />

just water cooler talks at best.<br />

“Hey, did you hear about that<br />

guy in California.”<br />

<strong>No</strong>w let’s look at our Job. In<br />

the First Responder field, it goes<br />

much deeper than that. We are<br />

all connected. It does not make<br />

a difference which department<br />

you work for or what state you<br />

live in. We are bonded by the<br />

uniform and the job. The risks<br />

are much higher. This in turn<br />

connects us on a much different<br />

and higher level.<br />

The information we receive becomes<br />

a mind stamp, and it can<br />

alter the way we tactically think<br />

during our shifts or even longer<br />

for that matter.<br />

This ripple effect can generate<br />

a lot of power and travel long<br />

distances. An officer shot or<br />

killed in a small town in Oregon,<br />

can impact officers across the<br />

nation. Think about it. If you get<br />

into work and hear an officer in<br />

Oregon was killed by some perp<br />

during a traffic stop using an<br />

AR-15 you go into a heightened<br />

alert mindset which may change<br />

your tactics for car stops that<br />

day. We may not show it, but an<br />

officer’s death across the nation<br />

has a mental impact on all of us.<br />

Sure, we tend to hide that side,<br />

but you cannot stop your mind<br />

from thinking of it.<br />

Everything is touched by that<br />

ripple. A death, an assault, even<br />

use of force, has major effects<br />

on us. Just look at the ripple<br />

of one officer, in a small town,<br />

kneeling on a man’s neck has<br />

had. Each moment of our job<br />

is hit with a ripple from somewhere<br />

else.<br />

Our Mental Health is affected<br />

most by this Ripple effect. Depending<br />

on the tools you’re given,<br />

it will make a difference and<br />

keep the ripple from becoming a<br />

wave.<br />

It all depends on the way you<br />

utilize those tools.<br />

Every department trains its<br />

officers in mental health awareness,<br />

but there is no national<br />

standard in which they follow.<br />

Some programs are better than<br />

others. The programs can differ<br />

as some departments face<br />

manpower shortages and budget<br />

issues. But to be completely<br />

honest, if you do not have 100%<br />

buy in from the upper brass, the<br />

program will fail.<br />

When we are given a toolbox<br />

full of tools, we need to be able<br />

to use those tools when we need<br />

them. We also need to be using<br />

the proper tool for the situation<br />

at hand.<br />

We have all used a butter knife<br />

to secure a screw. Depending<br />

on the surface, it never really<br />

sits right or goes all the way in.<br />

Mental Health tools work the<br />

same way. If we are not using<br />

them correctly, they will not be<br />

fully effective and can cause<br />

damage later.<br />

Let’s take the ripple a little bit<br />

further. What about our family?<br />

Well, we all try to shield<br />

our families from the traumatic<br />

events of the job, but there<br />

are too many news outlets and<br />

social media platforms that<br />

provide 24/7 access. Our families<br />

are smarter than we think.<br />

When a loved one says how<br />

was your day, our response of<br />

unicorns, rainbows, and sunshine<br />

cannot be the answer<br />

we give anymore. Our families<br />

stay connected with us, and for<br />

them to stay mentally healthy,<br />

we need to share our tools and<br />

allow them a look inside our<br />

world. We do not have to share<br />

the gruesome aspects of it, but<br />

they need to see the reality of it.<br />

It is our commitment to them to<br />

share, rather than having their<br />

minds thinking the worst.<br />

The mental stress on our loved<br />

ones each day caused by the<br />

ripple effect of social media and<br />

breaking news can cause vicarious<br />

trauma in which they are<br />

not trained to handle. Our job<br />

requires us to protect and serve<br />

strangers. Be counselors, therapists<br />

and at times judge and jury.<br />

It is our obligation to protect<br />

our family as well. Teaching our<br />

families how to use these tools<br />

will open communication and<br />

heal any relationship issues.<br />

The Ripple also has another<br />

side of it. It can be calming if<br />

used correctly. It can sooth the<br />

soul. It can release hurt and allow<br />

the pain to heal, in turn, you<br />

will provide a ripple effect of<br />

your own.<br />

COMING SUMMER 2022<br />

You will bring security, calm,<br />

understanding and openness<br />

when the ripple you create<br />

touches your family.<br />

We need to have more conversations<br />

with our loved ones. We<br />

need to allow them in. Once we<br />

do, everything will begin to fall<br />

in place. And for the ripple, well<br />

it will fade into the natural current<br />

of the water and produce<br />

those peaceful sounds we love<br />

to hear.<br />

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To those that wore it, no explanation is necessary. For life behind the badge is like no other. It is a line that once<br />

you cross, you can never go back. The line between right and wrong, happiness and sadness, and finally life and


DARYL LOTT<br />

daryl’s deliberations<br />

Heart Attacks and Miracles<br />

(Medical & Divine)<br />

“Sir, you have had a heart<br />

attack,” said the ER doctor in<br />

New Port Richey, Florida. These<br />

words were directed to me on<br />

Tuesday of last week (01-25-22).<br />

I am recounting my experience<br />

in the hopes it may save a life<br />

by demonstrating the issues of<br />

a “coronary event” and what it<br />

looked like from my perspective.<br />

<strong>No</strong>rmally, I wouldn’t put<br />

something so personal on public<br />

display, but I feel compelled to<br />

share my experience for educational<br />

purposes.<br />

Becky and I traveled to Florida<br />

via Southwest Airlines to visit<br />

our daughter, Bethany, and her<br />

husband, Joel, in the Tampa Bay<br />

Area. We landed without incident<br />

and went to a boat show<br />

in a nearby harbor. I was on my<br />

feet for a couple of hours and<br />

walked 3 1/2 miles at the outdoor<br />

boat show according to my<br />

iPhone data. I had no issues other<br />

than a touch of arthritis in my<br />

right knee.<br />

On Monday, I went to Countryside<br />

Country Club and played<br />

golf at that very nice facility in<br />

nearby Clearwater, FL. When I<br />

got through, my muscles were<br />

a bit sore which is normal for<br />

me. We ate dinner as usual with<br />

Bethany and Joel who recently<br />

moved to Florida in order to sail<br />

a 31’ boat around So Florida.<br />

The next day (Tuesday) was<br />

cold and rainy so golf was not in<br />

the forecast. Becky and Bethany<br />

got dressed early and were going<br />

to the school where Bethany<br />

works as a counselor. It was at<br />

that time I experienced an unfamiliar<br />

sensation. My sore muscles<br />

from the day before became<br />

a bit more pronounced and I<br />

started to sweat from my forehead.<br />

I got on my cell and called<br />

Becky back inside the apartment.<br />

They were still on the parking<br />

lot and came right back inside. I<br />

then had an overwhelming urge<br />

to walk around in circles, which<br />

I did.<br />

Becky was going to drive me<br />

to the hospital, but nobody knew<br />

where one was since we were<br />

visiting and Bethany just moved<br />

there. So that idea was quashed<br />

after about five seconds and 9-1-<br />

1 was called. The dispatcher told<br />

them to give me aspirin, but all<br />

we had was coated baby aspirin.<br />

She told them that I needed to<br />

chew four baby aspirin while the<br />

ambulance was enroute, which<br />

I did.<br />

The ambulance arrived in a<br />

few minutes. The EMT’s put me<br />

on a stretcher and placed me in<br />

the back of the ambulance. They<br />

put me on an EKG and started<br />

asking questions.<br />

“How much pain are you in?”<br />

“<strong>No</strong>ne.”<br />

“Anything radiating down your<br />

left arm.”<br />

“<strong>No</strong>.”<br />

“Right arm, legs?”<br />

“<strong>No</strong>.”<br />

“Heartburn or nausea?”<br />

“<strong>No</strong>.”<br />

“Your EKG and blood sugar are<br />

both normal.”<br />

“Your BP is 154/97 and pulse is<br />

100.”<br />

“That’s very high for me.”<br />

“How are you feeling?”<br />

“The same.”<br />

“I need for you to close your<br />

eyes and clear your mind. I want<br />

you to take your finger and place<br />

it on the epicenter of this sensation.”<br />

That was almost like a field<br />

sobriety test and I wondered<br />

how many accident scenes the<br />

fireman had been on.<br />

I really didn’t think it had an<br />

“epicenter”, but I followed his<br />

directions and it did. I pointed<br />

to my torso where my sternum<br />

comes to an end near my abdomen.<br />

We arrived at the hospital<br />

ER and I was taken in and they<br />

masked me up.<br />

The ER doctor and nurses<br />

began to examine me, asking<br />

me those same questions. I did<br />

tell them I battled through some<br />

nausea spells about a month or<br />

so ago where my liver enzymes<br />

had spiked. They didn’t think that<br />

was related. They did an EKG<br />

(normal), CT Scan with contrast<br />

dye (normal), and they drew an<br />

extraordinary amount of blood.<br />

BP was still high. Pulse rate of<br />

over a hundred. They started an<br />

IV solution of Heparin which is<br />

a blood thinner. They gave me<br />

an injection of it as well to bring<br />

me up to therapeutic levels.<br />

There is an enzyme called<br />

troponin that is only produced<br />

by the heart. If that enzyme is<br />

elevated, the doctor will tell the<br />

patient (me), “Sir, you have had a<br />

heart attack.”<br />

I was admitted to the hospital<br />

and placed in my room. The cardiologist<br />

came by and told me<br />

that my troponin level was elevated<br />

“mildly” and that the only<br />

way to know for sure what was<br />

going on was through a heart<br />

catheterization that he would<br />

perform first thing Wednesday<br />

morning. I stayed on Heparin and<br />

other blood thinners with constant<br />

monitoring until I went to<br />

the “Cath Lab.”<br />

I woke up (not sure I ever went<br />

to sleep) Wednesday and was<br />

taken directly to the Cath Lab.<br />

The doctor ran a catheter (little<br />

wire) into my artery through<br />

an injection site on my right<br />

thigh/groin. I was conscious,<br />

but groggy and I dozed off a bit.<br />

The procedure did not take long<br />

(20-30 minutes). The doctor said<br />

I had a 99.9 percent blockage of<br />

the “widow maker” artery. Becky<br />

took the photo of my blocked artery<br />

that accompanies this essay.<br />

He performed an angioplasty<br />

(balloon) to remove the blockage.<br />

He then placed a stent in the<br />

artery and told me what a lucky<br />

man I was. His nurse told me she<br />

got goosebumps when she saw<br />

the blockage.<br />

The nurse took me to Recovery<br />

and told me that I would have<br />

“residual chest discomfort” but it<br />

would go away. I did have it and<br />

it went away after 24-36 hours.<br />

Recovery was another room and<br />

another experience. I had to lay<br />

flat on my back, which is easier<br />

said than done. There were two<br />

nurses assigned to me. There<br />

was the issue of the catheter that<br />

was still in me. The nurses told<br />

me that I was going to be in considerable<br />

discomfort for about<br />

30-40 minutes and that the first<br />

five minutes were going to be<br />

extremely uncomfortable.<br />

They took the catheter out. One<br />

nurse pulled it out and the other<br />

one applied constant very hard<br />

pressure to the site. The danger<br />

is that of bleeding out: especially<br />

with all the blood thinners in<br />

play. After about twenty minutes<br />

(there was a clock just over<br />

their shoulders), the catheter<br />

was out, but the one nurse dared<br />

not reduce pressure for another<br />

twenty minutes or so. The<br />

skill and physicality involved to<br />

remove the catheter and keep the<br />

artery clamped using only their<br />

fingers still amazes me. Never<br />

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underestimate the role nurses<br />

play in giving you hands on care.<br />

The nurses said I made their jobs<br />

much easier because I laid perfectly<br />

still, which is apparently<br />

very important. They said that<br />

the number of patients who can’t<br />

keep still boggles their minds.<br />

After a few more hours of<br />

laying flat (hard to do) I was<br />

released to go back to my room.<br />

I could now sit up, but my right<br />

leg had to remain extended with<br />

no pressure on it.<br />

I was discharged the next day<br />

(Thursday) to go back to our<br />

daughter’s apartment. I was on<br />

restrictions such as no lifting<br />

anything over five pounds, but I<br />

could sit in a chair and watch TV.<br />

The next day (Friday) I got out<br />

of the apartment and walked<br />

around the area. It’s a beautiful<br />

area, but walkers have to watch<br />

out for alligators (it is Florida).<br />

On Friday, I began to earnestly<br />

analyze my experience from<br />

both a practical standpoint and<br />

a spiritual introspection. From a<br />

practical standpoint I started to<br />

connect the dots in what I can<br />

now see was about a two year<br />

process that culminated in my<br />

ending up in a Florida ambulance<br />

and surviving something I<br />

had no business of surviving.<br />

About two years ago, just<br />

before the pandemic, my heart<br />

developed an irregular beat and<br />

my resting heart rate was faster<br />

than usual. I went to my doctor<br />

and cardiologist. The irregular<br />

heartbeat was diagnosed as<br />

benign and treated with a drug<br />

called Metoprolol which also<br />

slowed my pulse. After starting<br />

the drug, I was extremely fatigued<br />

in the afternoons. I continued<br />

to battle my way through<br />

the fatigue, but it was not easy.<br />

I had been on a high protein<br />

diet (Atkins), but that diet basically<br />

stopped working for me. I<br />

theorized at the time it was due<br />

to the Metoprolol slowing down<br />

my metabolism.<br />

Last August at my physical, I<br />

had some blood work issues tied<br />

in with the lower metabolism. My<br />

liver enzymes were elevated. The<br />

doctor said that I could no longer<br />

be on Atkins. I had to go on a<br />

low calorie-low fat diet. So I did.<br />

That diet was/is working for me<br />

and I’ve lost over fifty pounds and<br />

I hope to be under 200 pounds<br />

shortly.<br />

About a month or so ago I<br />

would inexplicably throw up my<br />

food sometimes. I went to the<br />

doctor and my liver enzymes<br />

were elevated. I had a liver and<br />

gastro ultrasound and that was<br />

normal. The doctors were working<br />

on that problem when they<br />

cleared me to go to Florida.<br />

While connecting the dots, I<br />

recalled the fireman in the back<br />

of the ambulance. He asked me<br />

to clear my mind and point to<br />

the epicenter of my sensation. I<br />

realized that I pointed to the exact<br />

same spot where my nausea<br />

bouts began. As I look back on it,<br />

the beginning stage of the nausea<br />

episode was the same feeling<br />

as the heart attack sensation.<br />

After I would throw up, I felt fine.<br />

Of course, I told my Houston<br />

doctors this during my follow<br />

ups. Apparently, the nauseating<br />

liver experience and the coronary<br />

experience had the same<br />

point of origin: the 99.9% blockage<br />

of my artery. New blood<br />

work shows all my enzymes are<br />

perfectly normal. My BP is 104/71<br />

and pulse is 63. My primary care<br />

physician told us yesterday that<br />

she never says a heart attack is<br />

a good thing, but in my case it<br />

was. A fatal blockage was removed<br />

and there was no damage<br />

to my heart. While awaiting<br />

official word from the gastroenterologist,<br />

my liver is functioning<br />

well and all my blood work is<br />

normal. The debilitating fatigue<br />

is gone.<br />

The practical analysis of the<br />

experience revealed that I had<br />

no “classic symptoms.” <strong>No</strong> chest<br />

pain, no radiating discomfort<br />

in my arms, no heartburn, no<br />

shortness of breath - not even an<br />

abnormal EKG during the event.<br />

I had nausea a month before.<br />

I had sore muscles. I perspired<br />

from my forehead on a cold<br />

morning. I had an uncontrollable<br />

urge to walk in circles. I say<br />

all of this to tell you to listen to<br />

your body. Don’t try to rationalize<br />

away what it is telling you.<br />

Make a pact with your spouse<br />

(and anyone else you spend a<br />

lot of time with) that you will<br />

always err on the side of calling<br />

9-1-1 for each other rather than<br />

rationalizing the sensations away.<br />

All the doctors and nurses were<br />

very grateful for the 9-1- 1 call.<br />

It made all the difference from<br />

a practical standpoint. On a side<br />

note, go to the hospital with your<br />

spouse or family member and<br />

spend the night, if possible. The<br />

support and acts of aiding the<br />

patient with small requests are<br />

invaluable and help the patient<br />

and the staff.<br />

My weighty spiritual introspection<br />

was initiated after our<br />

return flight home. I received a<br />

call from the nurse who assisted<br />

in the catheterization. She called<br />

to make sure that I was receiving<br />

follow up care in Texas. I reassured<br />

her that I was receiving<br />

care from my primary and cardiology<br />

doctors. I recalled that she<br />

said she got goosebumps when<br />

she saw the blocked artery. I<br />

thanked her and her friends for<br />

saving my life. She said, “God<br />

isn’t through with you yet.” I<br />

knew that I was experiencing<br />

some form of “survivor’s guilt”<br />

and I told her that I had no idea<br />

why God saved me among so<br />

many who did not survive, but<br />

my new mission is to try and figure<br />

out what He wants of me.<br />

As one connects the dots<br />

practically, Christians (I can only<br />

speak for my beliefs) connect<br />

the dots in the realm of faith.<br />

Becky, Bethany, Joel, and I started<br />

to connect all the circumstances<br />

that had to happen for<br />

my life to be saved. It quickly<br />

spiraled out of control revealing<br />

an obvious divine intervention<br />

on my behalf. Biblical Christianity’s<br />

thesis on the “meaning<br />

of life” is that we are created to<br />

experience a personal relationship<br />

with our Creator. As one can<br />

imagine, that experience and all<br />

it entails is extremely personal<br />

and infinitely complicated.<br />

Since the beginning of time<br />

people have tried to “dumb<br />

down” this experience that we<br />

have with our Creator. It’s too<br />

easy to put God in a box and<br />

describe the Creator in simplified<br />

terms. One theological term<br />

utilized in our quest to make<br />

an immensely perplexing God<br />

understandable to finite minds<br />

is “anthropomorphic language.”<br />

For instance, a Disney cartoon<br />

will assign human characteristics<br />

to non human things. Think<br />

of a certain mouse running all<br />

over Orlando giving out advice<br />

while singing and dancing. Disney<br />

is the master of “anthropomorphic<br />

language.” Theologically<br />

speaking, in the same way, we<br />

assign God human characteristics<br />

knowing God is not human.<br />

We do these things because our<br />

minds cannot produce an image<br />

of God that doesn’t have them.<br />

As an illustration, when you<br />

think of God, do you see God’s<br />

hand giving Adam life as painted<br />

on the ceiling of the Sistine<br />

Chapel? Genesis does say that<br />

man was created in God’s image,<br />

but that means in the spiritual<br />

sense. He created us in the image<br />

of eternity.<br />

Our first inclination when experiencing<br />

a miraculous event is<br />

to praise God because He (anthropomorphic<br />

pronoun) is good.<br />

He is good, but not because He<br />

intervened on my behalf. We<br />

humans like the old standby that<br />

serves us well in science, but<br />

not in philosophy or religion. It<br />

is called “cause and effect.” The<br />

oldest book in the Bible, “Job,”<br />

demonstrates that cause and effect<br />

is ridiculous when it comes<br />

to God. Job’s friends tried to<br />

say that he was being punished<br />

because he sinned against God.<br />

The opposite of this fallacy is<br />

also ridiculous: you receive good<br />

from God because you are good.<br />

It sounds correct on the surface,<br />

but it’s absurdly simplistic and<br />

intensely callous to those who<br />

are experiencing tragic circumstances<br />

in their lives. God doesn’t<br />

work like that.<br />

I do know that God has a plan<br />

for each of us. I do not know<br />

what that plan is in specific<br />

terms, but I know that it somehow<br />

involves speaking Truth to<br />

the face of Falsehood. Job went<br />

through some desperately difficult<br />

times, including times of<br />

divine intervention on his behalf.<br />

I think I now know, in a small<br />

way, what he must have felt like.<br />

Job didn’t have all the answers,<br />

nor did he try to extrapolate his<br />

experience to others. If you open<br />

your Bibles to the Book of Job,<br />

Chapter 13, Verse 15a, Job says,<br />

“Though he slay me, yet will I<br />

trust in him.”<br />

In the “Great American <strong>No</strong>vel”,<br />

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville,<br />

Chapter IX ‘The Sermon’, there is<br />

a preacher called “Father Mapple.”<br />

Father Mapple is modeled<br />

after the real life preacher who<br />

preached at the Whaleman’s<br />

Chapel in New Bedford which<br />

still stands today. Melville’s<br />

sermon is a stand alone masterpiece<br />

within a masterpiece.<br />

It concludes with these words,<br />

“And eternal delight and deliciousness<br />

will be his, who<br />

coming to lay him down, can say<br />

with his final breath—O Father!—<br />

chiefly known to me by Thy<br />

Rod—mortal or immortal, here<br />

I die. I have striven to be Thine,<br />

more than to be this world’s, or<br />

mine own. Yet this is nothing; I<br />

leave eternity to Thee; for what<br />

is man that he should live out the<br />

lifetime of his God?”<br />

I told my Cath Lab nurse that I<br />

did not know why God saved me,<br />

but I intend to find out. I do not<br />

know what that may look like,<br />

but I trust God.<br />

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HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION<br />

from the president<br />

HPOU contract the product of long hours<br />

of hard work; It’s now in the hands of City<br />

Council for its approval.<br />

After four long months of going<br />

back and forth with the city,<br />

we now have a contract. I want<br />

to first thank all of those who<br />

made it out to vote. I am sad to<br />

say that only 1,600 of our 5,100<br />

members voted in the ratification<br />

of the contract.<br />

This is not unusual as we only<br />

had 1,891 vote in the last contract<br />

election. The contract did<br />

pass with a vote of 1,101 voting<br />

for and 510 voting against.<br />

Many of you asked questions<br />

about why we do not have<br />

online voting for the contract.<br />

There are several reasons for<br />

this, including the fact that it is<br />

a labor contract, and we must<br />

be certain no one is voting for<br />

another person.<br />

Secondly, we want officers to<br />

attend informational meetings<br />

or meet with someone who<br />

negotiated the contract before<br />

voting to make sure the officer<br />

received the correct information.<br />

A few folks, for whatever<br />

reason, tried to kill this contract<br />

vote with false information.<br />

There were several lies<br />

that were pushed around the<br />

department, one of which was<br />

from the leader of another<br />

employee group. Even some of<br />

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH<br />

his members were disappointed<br />

and shared his email with<br />

me. I was very disappointed in<br />

the fact that many just believed<br />

whatever was on social media<br />

and refused to educate themselves.<br />

When people came to the<br />

Union and asked questions, they<br />

were given a contract, and a<br />

highlight sheet, and then I or<br />

another HPOU board member<br />

answered all of their questions.<br />

Many of our board members<br />

started at stations Tuesday<br />

morning, telling everyone they<br />

could about the contract and<br />

answering questions. We then<br />

held informational sessions<br />

every hour at the Union until 1<br />

a.m. Then we had sessions several<br />

times a day every day until<br />

the end of voting. We went<br />

around the clock because one<br />

of the most important functions<br />

of a union is the contract vote.<br />

I want everyone to understand<br />

that there is absolutely no<br />

way that this organization will<br />

ever jeopardize our members<br />

with anything in a contract. Everything<br />

we do in bargaining is<br />

to better what we have and to<br />

make sure our rights are protected.<br />

With all of the “police reform”<br />

going on around the<br />

country, we were able to prevent<br />

the erosion of rights like<br />

those seen in Austin and San<br />

Antonio. I am also well aware<br />

that we cannot make everyone<br />

happy, nor is that my job.<br />

My job is to get the best deal<br />

we could possibly get – and we<br />

did. I am proud of the bargaining<br />

team and the product<br />

that was produced from all<br />

of its hard work. This was a<br />

time-consuming process that<br />

took many long days, late hours<br />

and weekends. This was a long<br />

hard process that is now moving<br />

to City Council for a vote.<br />

Thanks to all who participated.<br />

If you have any questions or<br />

comments, you are always welcome<br />

to call or email me.<br />

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NOT SO BRIGHT AWARD<br />

lig ht bul b award<br />

50,572 OPEN WARRANTS<br />

IN HARRIS COUNTY ALONE<br />

According to the Harris County<br />

Sheriff’s Dept, there are 50,672 open<br />

arrest warrants in Harris County.<br />

About 25,292 of those are charged<br />

with felonies. More than 700 people<br />

have been charged with murder.<br />

All have open arrest warrants and<br />

remain either on the streets thanks<br />

to the Living Dead on Harris County<br />

Commissioners Court. Otherwise<br />

known as Judge Hidaldo “Dora” &<br />

Commissioners Garcia and Ellis.<br />

Lt. Kacey Haberland, who works<br />

in the criminal warrants division,<br />

admits his team is overwhelm¬ed<br />

“It’s a high number. It’s not good<br />

to have anyone on a violent crime<br />

running around, but there’s only so<br />

many investigators and officers who<br />

can run these warrants,” Haberland<br />

said.<br />

According to Haberland, this does<br />

not mean more than 700 murder<br />

suspects are wandering our streets.<br />

He said some suspects are in custody<br />

in other locations waiting to be<br />

extradited to Harris County. However,<br />

he doesn’t know how many. Still,<br />

he predicts there are hundreds.<br />

Beloved and long-time Cracker<br />

Barrel employee, 59-year-old Robin<br />

Baucom, was shot and killed in<br />

January while protecting another<br />

employee at work during an attempted<br />

robbery.<br />

Her killer, Nathan Humphrey, was<br />

later killed by deputies who were<br />

trying to arrest him. (<strong>No</strong> Loss Here)<br />

Humphrey had five outstanding<br />

warrants at the time of the murder<br />

- three were for felonies. According<br />

to court records, Humphrey had<br />

a violent criminal past. He was<br />

charged with aggravated assault of<br />

a family member and burglary of<br />

a habitation for allegedly breaking<br />

into his girlfriend’s home and assaulting<br />

her more than four months<br />

before the Cracker Barrel shooting.<br />

It was not until he was accused<br />

of murder that he became a priority<br />

to track down. Baucom’s sister, Gail,<br />

is left wondering whether her sister<br />

would still be alive if officers tried<br />

to arrest Humphrey sooner.<br />

“You wonder why. What can be<br />

done?” Gail asked. “Does anyone<br />

care that can make the changes?<br />

Do you not care what happens to<br />

innocent people?”<br />

In an ABC13 report, they uncovered<br />

fewer than 10% of people with<br />

warrants were being arrested every<br />

month in 2021. While arrests are<br />

happening, there are roughly 4,000<br />

to 6,000 new warrants every month.<br />

“We are in the negative. We are<br />

in the red every time on the warrant<br />

count, more coming in than we are<br />

able to arrest,” Haberland said.<br />

The majority of the arrests come<br />

from traffic stops. However, ABC13<br />

wanted to know how many deputies<br />

are going out and arresting people<br />

on warrants each day.<br />

Records show only 17 investigators<br />

and sergeants within the Harris<br />

County Sheriff’s Office criminal<br />

warrant division are working to<br />

find wanted offenders. This means,<br />

Harris County Judge <strong>No</strong>ra Hidalgo, Commissioners Garcia<br />

and Ellis all voted against giving the<br />

<br />

<br />

slightly more than a dozen officers<br />

are responsible for looking for more<br />

than 25,000 suspects wanted for<br />

felonies right now.<br />

“We have so many murders in<br />

Harris County, unincorporated, or<br />

the city of Houston, that they focus<br />

predominately on murders,” Haberland<br />

said.<br />

Because that takes a priority,<br />

it means those wanted for other<br />

crimes, like in Humphrey’s case, a<br />

convicted felon, wanted for assaulting<br />

and breaking into his girlfriend’s<br />

apartment, are put on the back<br />

burner.<br />

“It should be a priority, I will be<br />

the first to say it, but there are not<br />

enough people,” Haberland said.<br />

Haberland said the spike in crime,<br />

not enough officers running warrants,<br />

and outside factors like the<br />

court backlog, are the reasons they<br />

can’t keep up, and in turn, there are<br />

victims like Robin Baucom, whose<br />

lives are lost to senseless violence.<br />

“Until something is done to get a<br />

handle on the crime out there and<br />

give the police what they need - the<br />

backing, the money, to get more<br />

effort into getting people off the<br />

streets, it’s going to get worse,” Gail<br />

said. It can happen to anyone. And<br />

when it happens to your family,<br />

you realize how much needs to be<br />

changed.”<br />

HERES THE LIGHT BULB AWARD.<br />

Harris County Commissioner’s<br />

Court passed a $2.1 billion budget<br />

in 2022 for the Harris County Sheriff’s<br />

Dept. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez had<br />

asked for an additional 19 NEW<br />

deputy positions within the warrants<br />

division and 12 civil record<br />

specialists to handle the administrative<br />

duties.<br />

HOW MANY DID HE GET? ZERO!<br />

NOT a single dollar was approved<br />

to add more staff to the warrants<br />

division. Gonzalez says the numbers<br />

are concerning, and residents<br />

!<br />

deserve to know when there will be<br />

a change.<br />

“We are not going to give up, and<br />

we are working closely with HPD<br />

and will try to grow partnerships to<br />

expand our reach and pursue more<br />

wanted offenders,” Gonzalez said.<br />

THE ANSWER<br />

Vote these three Walking Dead<br />

Court Members OUT. Let’s elect<br />

someone who cares about the citizens<br />

in Harris County and make our<br />

streets safe again.<br />

In the meantime, let’s form a joint<br />

task force with every department<br />

in Harris and surrounding counties,<br />

offering up a few good men and<br />

women for up to 30-days.<br />

Put 150 officers on the ground everyday<br />

rounding up these convicts.<br />

In less than a month I’m betting at<br />

least half will be behind bars.<br />

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HONORING FALLEN HEREOS<br />

“Honoring our fallen heroes through running while providing financial support to<br />

the families of our fallen Heroes, First Responders injured in the Line of Duty<br />

and Safety Equipment to K9s in need.”<br />

Zechariah<br />

Cartledge:<br />

a True American Hero<br />

Grants Awarded to Injured First Responders: 29<br />

Total Amount Awarded: $247,500<br />

Funds Awarded to Families of Fallen Heroes: 6<br />

Total Amount Awarded: $71,843<br />

Funds/Equipment Awarded to K9 Officers: $7,500<br />

Zechariah’s 2022 Run Tracker:<br />

Total Miles Run in 2022: (as of 3/5/22): 67<br />

Total Miles Run in 2021: 325<br />

Total Miles Run in 2020: 401<br />

Total Miles Run in 2019: 376<br />

Overall Miles Run: 1,169<br />

- - - - - - - - - -<br />

2022 Run Stats:<br />

Total Miles Run for 2022 Fallen LEO’s (<strong>No</strong>n COVID-19): 26<br />

Total Miles Run for 2022 Fallen Firefighters (<strong>No</strong>n COVID-19): 16<br />

Total Miles Run for 2022 Fallen Canada LEO’s: 0<br />

Total Miles Run in 2022 for Fallen COVID-19 Heroes: 9<br />

Total Miles Run for 2021 Fallen LEO’s: 11<br />

Total Miles Run for 2021 Fallen Firefighters: 2<br />

Total Tribute Runs by State: 3<br />

Total Tribute Runs by State: 2F<br />

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DR. TINA JAECKLE<br />

blue mental health<br />

Cultural Competence for Law Enforcement<br />

Mental Health Service Providers.<br />

There is no question that the<br />

lack of trust by law enforcement<br />

officers is a significant challenge<br />

for mental health professionals,<br />

however, I also contend that<br />

some of these barriers can be<br />

addressed early with the selection<br />

of a qualified clinicians and/<br />

or service provider group. I want<br />

to offer a few important questions<br />

for consideration to the<br />

decision makers in law enforcement<br />

agencies, to include human<br />

resource departments. How<br />

prepared are your employee assistance<br />

program mental health<br />

professionals in effectively providing<br />

services to your officers?<br />

Do you know and understand<br />

their training, licensure, education,<br />

views, and counseling approaches<br />

with law enforcement?<br />

Have you taken the time to meet<br />

in person with the provider(s) to<br />

discuss your officer and agency<br />

needs? Are you utilizing the same<br />

mental health professional to<br />

provide fit for duty evaluations,<br />

support, and counseling? Are you<br />

selecting providers because they<br />

simply provided the lowest and<br />

most cost-effective bid for the<br />

provision of services? Does the<br />

provider make consistent efforts<br />

to attend continuing educational<br />

opportunities on law enforcement<br />

or new treatment techniques?<br />

These questions should<br />

be essential steps in the selection<br />

process.<br />

I have been told on numerous<br />

occasions that there are very<br />

few mental health professionals<br />

who truly “understand” the law<br />

enforcement culture. I simply<br />

cannot argue against this fact.<br />

It is known in my social work<br />

profession as having “cultural<br />

competence” with those to<br />

which we provide psychological<br />

and counseling services. Cultural<br />

competence is defined as the<br />

ability to understand, communicate<br />

with, and effectively interact<br />

with people across varying<br />

cultures. It also requires mental<br />

health professionals to be aware<br />

of our own world view (any biases<br />

and values) and to develop<br />

and maintain positive attitudes<br />

towards cultural differences<br />

and an appreciation of diverse<br />

cultural practices. Sounds easy,<br />

right? <strong>No</strong>t by a long shot.<br />

In 2000, I stepped foot for the<br />

first time into a classroom to<br />

teach an in-service training on<br />

mental health to a small group<br />

of deputy sheriffs in a southern<br />

rural county sheriff’s office. My<br />

presentation was only slated for<br />

an hour, but I clearly remember<br />

every sarcastic eye roll, groan,<br />

sigh, and distancing example of<br />

body language. I was admittedly<br />

stunned at the lack of interest<br />

because I naively thought that if<br />

this was interesting and important<br />

to me, it should be to them<br />

as well. I learned a powerful<br />

DR. TINA JAECKLE<br />

lesson that day. If I was going to<br />

continue to teach and interact<br />

with law enforcement officers,<br />

I must seek to understand what<br />

drives them and yes, learn their<br />

“culture,”<br />

Despite the advancements in<br />

the law enforcement culture regarding<br />

the need to more openly<br />

embrace and practice mental<br />

health I continue to hear horror<br />

stories from officers. The most<br />

common occurs when an officer<br />

shares a difficult story with<br />

a therapist who is not trained<br />

in trauma-based approaches<br />

with first responders thus creating<br />

what is best described as a<br />

“deer in headlights” look for the<br />

professional. It can be shocking<br />

and a bit overwhelming for<br />

those without a solid foundation<br />

of understanding of police and<br />

what realistically falls into the<br />

realm of “normal” experiences<br />

for an officer.<br />

On a positive note, I do believe<br />

there are many mental health<br />

professionals who are interested<br />

in becoming more culturally<br />

competent in law enforcement<br />

norms, values, policies, and the<br />

challenges of the field. But it<br />

does take time and training and<br />

lots of patience. Both the agency<br />

and the professional must work<br />

collaboratively to build this beneficial<br />

relationship. I encourage<br />

thinking outside of the box ideas<br />

including regularly riding with an<br />

officer to observe the conditions<br />

of the job, eating a meal with a<br />

group of LEOs, volunteering to<br />

teach mental health topics in the<br />

academy, and simply taking the<br />

time to get to know our wonderful<br />

men and women in uniform.<br />

With the assistance of Dr. Nancy<br />

Wesselink in Georgia, we are<br />

currently developing a curriculum<br />

to offer to trauma trained<br />

mental health professionals who<br />

seek to become culturally competent<br />

with officers. I recognize<br />

it is a small step but an important<br />

one no less. For those interested<br />

in attending this crucial<br />

training, either virtually or in<br />

person, please contact me directly<br />

at tjaeckle@bellsouth.net.<br />

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RUSTY BARRON<br />

off duty & outdoors<br />

Field to Table Recipes: My Top Favorites (Part 2)<br />

For many of us, the fall has<br />

been filled with days hunting<br />

deer, birds, and small game<br />

resulting in freezers full of meat<br />

ready to be cooked into amazing<br />

table fare. Preparing a meal<br />

from wild game is not only<br />

amazing to share with friends,<br />

but it completes the hunting<br />

adventure. Sometime back in<br />

my youth, I made the life-long<br />

pledge to the Hunting Gods that<br />

I will not shoot it unless I enjoy<br />

eating it. Therefore, for me personally,<br />

I don’t do a lot of small<br />

game hunting and this probably<br />

explains why I love big game<br />

and dove hunting so much.<br />

Over the years I have enjoyed<br />

sharing my wild game cookouts<br />

with my family and friends<br />

and thought this month I would<br />

share two of my favorite crowd<br />

pleasers in the hopes that maybe<br />

you too can become the<br />

go-to chef for neighborhood<br />

parties.<br />

First a big disclaimer; I love<br />

cooking, but over the years I<br />

have developed my own style<br />

and philosophy of cooking. I<br />

believe cooking is an art, not a<br />

science, and therefore recipes<br />

are there to guide you, not be<br />

some chore that must me followed<br />

exactly. I encourage you<br />

to treat these two as just that,<br />

a guideline or starting point to<br />

which, you can add your own<br />

personality.Rusty’s Venison Chili:<br />

Each time I make my chili, it<br />

is slightly different based on<br />

the types of tomatoes/spices I<br />

find and the amount and type of<br />

meat I use. Also, it all changes<br />

based on the variety of ingredients<br />

I use depending on number<br />

of people I am trying to feed.<br />

This is the base recipe for feeding<br />

about 4-5 people:<br />

INGREDIENTS:<br />

-2lbs of Ground Sausage<br />

(Either Elk or Venison or one of<br />

each. )<br />

-1lb of Ground Bison or Regular<br />

Hamburger<br />

-1 large yellow or white onion<br />

-1 entire head of Garlic minced<br />

-About 5 regular size cans<br />

of diced or crushed Tomatoes<br />

with various spices included.<br />

Tomatoes with Garlic/Onion, or<br />

with Basil/Olive Oil, or whatever<br />

spices you can find added to<br />

diced or crushed tomatoes that<br />

sounds good for your chili<br />

-1-2 small cans of Rotel Tomatoes<br />

“Original”<br />

-1 additional large can of<br />

Crushed Tomatoes (Just to have<br />

to add to get the right consistency<br />

at the end)<br />

-2 cans of beans. I know there<br />

is a massive Texas debate about<br />

beans added to chili…I like<br />

them, so I add one can of black<br />

beans with Jalapenos and one<br />

can of chili beans (pinto style)<br />

that has chili spices<br />

-1Tablespoon of Chili Powder<br />

-1 teaspoon of Paprika<br />

- teaspoon of Salt<br />

-Shredded Cheese<br />

-Big Bag of Fritos Corn Chips<br />

or White Rice cooked as instructed<br />

by package if you<br />

prefer<br />

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:<br />

-Chop up the onion pretty fine<br />

and add to a large skillet/pot<br />

-Chop or mince all of the garlic<br />

cloves and add to the skillet/<br />

pot<br />

-Add all of the meat to the<br />

skillet and cook until meat is<br />

browned.<br />

-Add all of the Cans of Tomatoes<br />

and Beans.<br />

-Add the Chili Powder, Paprika,<br />

and salt<br />

-Simmer for at least 30 min<br />

but longer is better…I let mine<br />

simmer for hours and keep<br />

checking it and adding what I<br />

think it needs to get it where I<br />

like it.<br />

-Taste and add additional seasoning<br />

as required (Additional<br />

cans of Rotel Tomatoes or Add<br />

Fresh Jalapenos or green chilis<br />

for more spicy vs adding more<br />

Chili powder)<br />

Serve over Fritos or Rice<br />

topped with shredded cheese<br />

as preferred. It is also highly<br />

recommend serving with Cornbread<br />

that has been made with<br />

double the eggs, small can of<br />

cream style corn and shredded<br />

cheese in addition to the package<br />

instructions. Enjoy!<br />

RUSTY BARRON<br />

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THERE ARE NO WORDS<br />

parting shots...<br />

... pardon our humor<br />

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Bruceville-Eddy Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 03/11/2022 - 5pm<br />

Meridian Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

Marlin Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 03/30/2022 - 5pm<br />

Jersey Village Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Woodway Public Safety Department Get Info Public Safety Officer 03/25/2022 - 5pm<br />

River Oaks Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Memorial Villages Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Port Aransas Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 03/10/2022 - 5pm<br />

Richardson Police Department Get Info Peace Officer 03/19/2022 - 5pm<br />

Wylie Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Hansford County Sheriff's Department Get Info Patrol Deputy 04/20/2022 - 5pm<br />

Texas City Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/20/2022 - 5pm<br />

Kingsville Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/24/2022 - 5pm<br />

Samson Park Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/25/2022 - 5pm<br />

Oak Ridge <strong>No</strong>rth Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 04/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

Dimmitt Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/25/2022 - 5pm<br />

San Saba County Sheriff's Office Get Info Deputy Sheriff 03/25/2022 - 5pm<br />

Mansfield ISD Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/30/2022 - 5pm<br />

Cuero Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

Tyler County Sheriff's Department Get Info Deputy Sheriff 04/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

Gatesville Police Department Get Info Peace Officer 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

Ennis ISD Police Department Get Info Police Chief 04/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

The University of Texas Police at Houston Get Info Detective 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

The University of Texas Police at Houston Get Info Police Officer 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

The University of Texas Police at Houston Get Info Senior Detective 03/31/2022 - 5pm<br />

Keller Police Department Get Info Police Officer 04/05/2022 - 5pm<br />

Azle Police Department Get Info Police Chief 04/02/2022 - 5pm<br />

Roberts County Sheriff’s Office Get Info Deputy 03/07/2022 - 5pm<br />

City of Marlin Police Department Get Info Police Sergeant 04/07/2022 - 5pm<br />

Schleicher County Sheriff's Office Get Info Deputy Sheriff 04/08/2022 - 5pm<br />

City of Coleman Get Info Police Officer 04/08/2022 - 5pm<br />

City of Victoria Police Department Get Info Senior Police Officer 03/08/2022 - 5pm<br />

Texas State Technical College Police Dept. Get Info Police Officer 04/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

Dalworthington Gardens DPS Get Info Reserve Police Officer 04/12/2022 - 5pm<br />

Dalworthington Gardens DPS Get Info Public Safety Officer 04/12/2022 - 5pm<br />

City of Kingsville Police Department Get Info Entry Level Police Officer 03/21/2022 - 5pm<br />

Sulphur Springs Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/11/2022 - 5pm<br />

Santa Fe ISD Police Department Get Info Police Officer 04/10/2022 - 5pm<br />

Fair Oaks Ranch Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/11/2022 - 5pm<br />

Travis Co. Const. Office Pct. 2 Get Info Deputy Constable 04/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

Travis County Police Department Get Info Peace Officer 04/14/2022 - 5pm<br />

Tyler Junior College Police Dept. Get Info Campus Police Officer 04/15/2022 - 5pm<br />

Lampasas County Sheriff's Department Get Info Deputy 04/15/2022 - 5pm<br />

Highland Village Police Department Get Info Police Officer 04/28/2022 - 5pm<br />

Community ISD Police Department Get Info Police Officer 02/28/2022 - 5pm<br />

Saginaw Police Department Get Info Police Officer 04/15/2022 - 5pm<br />

Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office Get Info Deputy 05/17/2022 - 5pm<br />

Dallas County Sheriffs Office Get Info Peace Officer 04/17/2022 - 5pm<br />

Ochiltree County Sheriff’s Office Get Info Deputy Sheriff 04/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Jerrell Police Department Get Info Police Officer 05/15/2022 - 5pm<br />

Wise County Sheriff's Office Get Info Deputy Sheriff 04/22/2022 - 5pm<br />

San Augustine Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 04/22/2022 - 5pm<br />

Harris County Sheriff's Office Get Info Lateral Deputy 04/22/2022 - 5pm<br />

Wise Co. Sheriff's Office Get Info Deputy Officer 05/01/2022 - 5pm<br />

Horseshoe Bay Police Department Get Info Police Officer 04/15/2022 - 5pm<br />

Katy ISD Police Department Get Info Police Officer I 04/23/2022 - 5pm<br />

City of Leonard Get Info Police Chief 04/23/2022 - 5pm<br />

Pilot Point PD Get Info School Resource Officer 04/23/2022 - 2pm<br />

Delta County Sheriff's Office Get Info Deputy Sheriff 04/30/2022 - 5pm<br />

Lancaster Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/24/2022 - 5pm<br />

Brady Police Department Get Info Patrol Officer 04/24/2022 - 5pm<br />

Dallas County Sheriff's Department Get Info Reserve Deputy 04/25/2022 - 5pm<br />

Brownwood Police Department Get Info Police Officer 03/30/2022 - 5pm<br />

STATEWIDE VACANCIES FOR JAILERS<br />

Rockwall County Sheriff's Office Get Info Jailer 03/04/2022 - 5pm<br />

Galveston County Sheriff's Department Get Info Corrections Deputy 02/07/2022 - 5pm<br />

Richardson Police Department Get Info Detention Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Tarrant County Sheriff's Office Get Info Detention Officer 03/18/2022 - 5pm<br />

Mesquite Police Department Get Info Detention Officer 03/20/2022 - 5pm<br />

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EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS<br />

• Paid Vacation<br />

• Sick Leave<br />

• Paid Holidays<br />

• Personal Days<br />

• Compensatory Days<br />

• Certification Pay<br />

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS<br />

• Paid Vacation<br />

• Sick Leave<br />

• Paid Holidays<br />

• Personal Days<br />

• Compensatory Days<br />

• Certification Pay<br />

ALDINE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

now accepting applications for<br />

Full-Time Police Officers<br />

MUST HOLD A CURRENT TCOLE<br />

PEACE OFFICE CERTIFICATE<br />

TO APPLY VISIT<br />

WWW.ALDINEISD.ORG<br />

OR<br />

Contact the Personnel<br />

Department at<br />

281-985-7571<br />

OR<br />

Contact Sergeant R. Hall at<br />

281-442-4923<br />

ALDINE ISD POLICE DEPT.<br />

now accepting applications for:<br />

Dispatcher<br />

Salary starting at $32,690,<br />

TO APPLY VISIT<br />

WWW.ALDINEISD.ORG<br />

OR<br />

Contact the Personnel<br />

Department at<br />

281-985-7571<br />

OR<br />

Contact Sergeant R. Hall at<br />

281-442-4923<br />

Salary starting at $50,000<br />

with no experience<br />

HIRING PROCESS<br />

• Physical Agility Test<br />

• Written Exam<br />

• Oral Board Panel Interview<br />

• Complete Personal History Statement<br />

• Psychological Evaluation<br />

• Medical Examination<br />

• Interview with the Chief of Police<br />

no experience required.<br />

HIRING PROCESS<br />

• Oral Board Panel Interview<br />

• Complete Personal History Statement<br />

• Psychological Evaluation<br />

• Medical Examination<br />

• Interview with the Chief of Police<br />

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Pay scale:<br />

$57,000up to $82,762<br />

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Bryantx.gov/PDJobs<br />

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The City of Bryan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


Requirements<br />

Be eligible for certification from TCOLE (Texas<br />

Commission on Law Enforcement). (Please refer to Texas<br />

Administrative Code Title 37 Chapter 217.1 for clarification.)<br />

Must be 21 or older (at the time of certification)<br />

Must have a valid Texas Driver’s License (or ability to<br />

obtain)<br />

30 hours college credit from an accredited college (college<br />

requirement waived if certified peace officer OR two years<br />

active duty military experience with an honorable<br />

discharge)<br />

Incentives<br />

Step<br />

*College education pay for Associates Degree and above<br />

*TCOLE certification level pay<br />

*Foreign language pay<br />

*Tattoo and facial hair friendly<br />

Police Salary<br />

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13 Paid Holidays<br />

2 Weeks Paid Vacation<br />

Certification Pay<br />

100% Insurance Paid for Employees<br />

Retirement 2 to 1 match (20yr Retirement)<br />

FSA for Employees<br />

Longevity Pay<br />

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

Take Home Vehicle Within City Limits<br />

10 Hour Work Shifts<br />

Membership Paid to Local Gym<br />

Department Provided Training<br />

Off-duty Security Opportunities<br />

Cell Phone Stipend<br />

Starting Pay Depends on Qualifications<br />

Requirements: Must be TCOLE Certified or currently enrolled in an accredited Police<br />

Academy and pass a background investigation.<br />

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Email TCOLE Personal History Statement to sellis@cityofcuero.com


WE ARE<br />

HIRING!<br />

BENEFITS<br />

• Free basic Medical, Dental and Vision insurance for<br />

employee<br />

• Free basic Life insurance<br />

• Long Term Disability (LTD)<br />

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for<br />

eligible family members<br />

• Flexible Spending Accounts<br />

• 10 paid holidays per year<br />

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) including 10 vacation<br />

days and 13 sick days per year accrued biweekly<br />

RETIREMENT<br />

• Harris County matches your investment at 225%<br />

• 7% of your salary is invested pre-tax in your<br />

retirement account<br />

• Retirement Vesting after 8 years<br />

• Eligible upon earning 75 points (age+years of service)<br />

SALARY SCALE<br />

INCENTIVE PAY<br />

LATERAL DEPUTY<br />

REQUIREMENTS<br />

• Must be a licensed Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on Law<br />

Enforcement (TCOLE) in good standing<br />

• Must be currently employed as a first responder Peace Officer<br />

(any break in service will be discussed on a case-by-case basis)<br />

• Must have a minimum of 12 months of consecutive experience as<br />

a first responder Peace Officer at any one agency<br />

• Must successfully pass the Physical Abilities Test (PAT) obstacle<br />

course<br />

• Must pass a thorough background investigation (Criminal<br />

background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) as<br />

required by TCOLE<br />

• Must pass a physical and psychological evaluation as required by<br />

TCOLE<br />

• Valid Driver’s License (TX by start date)<br />

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

peripheral vision<br />

• Correctable normal audible range in both ears<br />

• Firearms qualification<br />

For additional information contact Harris County Sheriff’s Office Recruitment Unit: (713) 877-5250<br />

CLASSIFICATION SERVICE HOURLY ANNUAL TCOLE CERTIFICATION ANNUAL<br />

DEPUTY I 0-47 $25.22 $52,458<br />

Intermediate $1,560<br />

Advanced $3,420<br />

DEPUTY II 48-83 $26.99 $56,139<br />

Master $6,000<br />

EDUCATION<br />

ANNUAL<br />

DEPUTY III 84-119 $28.59 $59,467<br />

Associate Degree $1,320<br />

DEPUTY IV 120-155 $30.03 $62,462<br />

Bachelor’s Degree $3,180<br />

Master/Doctorate $4,500<br />

DEPUTY V 156-191 $31.52 $65,562<br />

TO APPLY<br />

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Bilingual Program $1,800<br />

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Receive up to fourteen (14) years of credit for time served! (Restrictions apply)<br />

@HCSOTexas<br />

SCAN THIS CODE<br />

Sheriff’s Office<br />

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GALVESTON<br />

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GALVESTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT OF ELIGIBILITY<br />

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<strong>No</strong>w Hiring<br />

OFFICERS<br />

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LATERAL DEPUTY<br />

Our fast-growing City shows a trending decrease in crimes based<br />

on four offenses from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting.<br />

<br />

Hutto ranked one of the<br />

safest cities in Texas.<br />

Retirement<br />

2-to-1 City match with TMRS<br />

Take-home Patrol Car<br />

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Top-of-the-line Equipment<br />

and Technology<br />

Beards and Tattoos Allowed<br />

Additional Pay<br />

+<br />

+<br />

Starting Salary<br />

$59K to $65K*<br />

Annual Leave Accruals<br />

12 paid holidays, 80 hrs vacation, 96 hrs sick leave<br />

Multiple Positions Available<br />

<br />

Education Pay up to $175/month<br />

<br />

To learn more or apply, visit or scan<br />

www.huttotx.gov/policejobs<br />

Questions? Email: PDrecruiting@huttotx.gov<br />

Sign On Bonus!<br />

$5,000 *<br />

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EOE/M/F/D<br />

5+ Years Patrol Experience Required<br />

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$1500 Sign on Bonus<br />

Starting Salary Range<br />

$71,179 – $82,808 (DOQ)<br />

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Healthcare Insurance, DHMO Dental, Vision – 100% paid for employee, 50% for<br />

spouse/dependents.<br />

Paid long-term disability and life insurance for employee, with additional life insurance<br />

available for spouse/dependents.<br />

Health Savings Account with departmental contributions up to $4200 annually<br />

TMRS Retirement 2 to 1 match, 7% Employee ,14% Employer Contribution.<br />

457 Plan with employer contribution of 2% of annual salary<br />

Bi-Lingual Pay (2.5% of Base salary)<br />

Shift Differential Pay $3600 annually<br />

Tuition reimbursement<br />

Longevity Pay up to a max of $2400 annually at 10 years of service.<br />

College Education incentive up to $3000 for a master’s degree<br />

LEMIT or FBI NA pay $1200 annually.<br />

ECA (Emergency Care Assistant) $1300 Annually, training provided to each employee.<br />

12 hour shifts with every other Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off.<br />

Officer certification pay, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master up to 7.5% of Salary.<br />

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MAKE A<br />

DIFFERENCE<br />

IN YOUR<br />

COMMUNITY<br />

We are looking for outstanding individuals to<br />

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mission will be to prevent crime and disorder, build<br />

partnerships within the community, and positively<br />

<br />

CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS<br />

• Competitive Salary • Outstanding Training<br />

<br />

The City of Pearland is one of the fastest growing<br />

communities within the region. Pearland is located<br />

approximately 20 minutes south of Downtown Houston<br />

and the current population is approximately 130,000<br />

residents.<br />

JOIN OUR TEAM<br />

HIRING POLICE OFFICERS AND CADETS<br />

<br />

<br />

TEST DATE:<br />

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 8:30 A.M.<br />

Register by: April 12.<br />

Pearland Recreation Center & Natatorium<br />

4141 Bailey Road, Pearland, TX 77584.<br />

Doors<br />

WATCH<br />

Open: 7:15 a.m.<br />

FOR<br />

<strong>No</strong> admittance<br />

UPCOMING<br />

after 7:45 a.m.<br />

Candidates must park in the north parking lot.<br />

TEST DATES IN 2022<br />

SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES WILL APPLY<br />

• <br />

• Mandatory temperature checks<br />

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• Candidates seated 6 feet apart<br />

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OFFICER SALARY RANGE: HIRING PROCESS: BENEFITS:<br />

<br />

YEARS OF SERVICE ANNUAL SALARY<br />

1 Year—Step 0 $66, 626.06<br />

2 Years—Step 1 $68, 291.71<br />

3 Years—Step 2 $69, 999.00<br />

4 Years—Step 3 $71, 748.98<br />

5 Years—Step 4 $73, 542.70<br />

6 Years—Step 5 $75, <strong>38</strong>1.27<br />

7 Years—Step 6 $77, 265.80<br />

8 Years—Step 7 $79, 197.45<br />

9 Years—Step 8 $81, 177.<strong>38</strong><br />

10+Years—Step 9 $83, 206.82<br />

ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION:<br />

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Bilingual Pay: $1 ,200 annually<br />

Complete and submit a City of Wylie<br />

job application: https://<br />

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/<br />

wylietexas<br />

Written Exam (exempt for Laterals)<br />

Physical Agility Test<br />

Complete and submit a Personal<br />

History Statement<br />

Oral Board Panel Interview<br />

<br />

Police Chief Interview<br />

Polygraph Examination<br />

Psychological Evaluation<br />

Medical Examination<br />

RECRUITING CONTACT:<br />

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City Paid Medical/Dental/Vision<br />

Texas Municipal Retirement System<br />

(TMRS) 14% City Contribution<br />

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City Paid Uniforms<br />

City Paid Training<br />

Life Insurance and AD&D<br />

Long Term Disability Insurance<br />

Employee Assistance Program<br />

Longevity Pay<br />

Tuition Reimbursement<br />

Free Recreation Center Membership<br />

Deferred Compensation Plan<br />

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Wylie Police Department Mission: Our mission is to impact the quality of life, by providing a professional<br />

level of service that will foster, support, and build relationships with those we serve.<br />

https://www.wylietexas.gov/police.php<br />

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