Nov 2023. Blues Vol 39 No. 11
FEATURES 62 Alan Helfman: 40 Years of Support and Friendship 78 Working for Harris County SO in 1984 80 Is a New Home in Your Future PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS COMING NEXT MONTH GUEST COMMENTARY - DOUG GRIFFITH GUEST COMMENTARY - DANIEL CARR NEWS AROUND THE US SURVIVING THE STREETS - TOURNIQUETS SURVIVING THE STREETS - BYRNA LE ISD PD JOB LISTINGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES WAR STORIES AFTERMATH HEALING OUR HEROES DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS BLUE MENTAL HEALTH DR. LIGHT BULB AWARD ADS BACK IN THE DAY PARTING SHOTS BUYERS GUIDE NOW HIRING BACK PAGE
FEATURES
62 Alan Helfman: 40 Years of Support and Friendship
78 Working for Harris County SO in 1984
80 Is a New Home in Your Future
PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS
EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS
COMING NEXT MONTH
GUEST COMMENTARY - DOUG GRIFFITH
GUEST COMMENTARY - DANIEL CARR
NEWS AROUND THE US
SURVIVING THE STREETS - TOURNIQUETS
SURVIVING THE STREETS - BYRNA LE
ISD PD JOB LISTINGS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES
WAR STORIES
AFTERMATH
HEALING OUR HEROES
DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS
BLUE MENTAL HEALTH DR.
LIGHT BULB AWARD
ADS BACK IN THE DAY
PARTING SHOTS
BUYERS GUIDE
NOW HIRING
BACK PAGE
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CHICAGO COFFEE CITY, TX. – MAYOR,<br />
Residents of<br />
STILL A MORON<br />
a small Texas town that is famous<br />
mostly for a robust speed trap<br />
operation are worried after the city<br />
council disbanded the entire police<br />
force.<br />
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backgrounds, to police the town of<br />
just 250 residents.<br />
The force brought in more than $1<br />
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• 5,100 DUTY traffic citations GEAR last year, which<br />
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Coffee City, the<br />
report says.<br />
According to the outlet, the city’s<br />
now-fired police chief, John Jay Portillo,<br />
who was hired in 2021, quadrupled<br />
the size of the police department<br />
in a span of just two years.<br />
And a lot of those officers had<br />
troubled pasts.<br />
More than half of Coffee City’s cops<br />
had been either suspended, demoted,<br />
fired, or dishonorably discharged<br />
from their previous jobs in law<br />
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And at least a dozen Coffee City officers<br />
had previously faced criminal<br />
charges, ranging from aggravated<br />
assault with a deadly weapon to endangering<br />
a child, KHOU reported.<br />
Jeff Blackstone, the mayor of Coffee<br />
City, said in a September 1 press<br />
release that the city council had put<br />
Portillo on a 30-day suspension and<br />
would be conducting an internal<br />
investigation into his conduct.<br />
Following that investigation, the<br />
city council on Monday voted to fire<br />
Portillo and temporarily “deactivate”<br />
the entire police department, according<br />
to a local CBS station. The<br />
city’s investigation confirmed allegations<br />
that Portillo had received a DUI<br />
prior to being hired as police chief,<br />
which he did not disclose in his job<br />
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