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88 BLUES ELECTION ENDORSEMENTS 

JIMMY FULLEN - GALVESTON SHERIFF 

MIKE KNOX - HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF 

93 TCOLE TRAINING CONFERENCE 

PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS 

EDITOR REX EVANS THOUGHTS 

GUEST COMMENTARY - BRIAN T. MCVEY 

LETTERS 

GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY 

GUEST COMMENTARY - PAT DRONEY 

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NEWS AROUND THE US 

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AFTERMATH 

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CONTRIBUTING COMMENTARY 

Brian McVey 

Pat Downey 

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Karla Ward 

Taylor Six 

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Darian Stevenson 

Michael Dorgan 

Jessica Seaman 

Emily Pettus 

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Richard Moorehead 

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Jack Dura 

Heather Hollingsworth 

Rebecca Santano 

Christian Coulter 

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FROM THE PUBLISHER’S DESK 

Proud to be MAGA 

I’ve had several people ask me 

since our last issue, if you’re so 

smart Barron, what would you do 

to fix the economy? 

“Well, I’ll start with this: I grew 

up as a middle-class kid. My 

mother raised me and my sister 

and me. She worked very hard, but 

we were renters, but I grew up in 

a neighborhood of folks who were 

very proud of their lawns. You 

know? And, um, and I was raised 

to believe and to know that all 

people deserve dignity.” 

Yeah, no sorry that’s Kamala’s 

word salad not mine. If there was 

ever any doubt, The BLUES and 

its staff support Donald J. Trump 

for President in ’24. We support 

Trump because we feel he is the 

right ‘man’ for the job. He is a 

friend of law enforcement and 

will do everything within his power 

to bring law and order back to 

this country. 

That said, some of our readers 

support Harris. That’s perfectly 

fine, because the great thing about 

America, is that you have the right 

to choose and a right to vote for 

the person and or party of your 

choice. And I get it. There are a 

lot of folks, mostly women, that 

despise Trump because Trump, is 

well Trump. I’d be the first to admit 

he goes off on tangents and rants 

about things that drive people 

crazy. 

But if you happened to watch 

Trump when he appeared on 

Gutfeld on FOX, you saw the side 

of him most people don’t see. The 

kinder, considerate family man 

that truly cares about people and 

their lives. He truly loves this country 

and is willing to give up his 

life to save it. Watch it here and 

see for yourself. WATCH HERE 

Case in point. An 8-year-old 

boy named Liam, who has a rare 

brain disorder, received the surprise 

of his young life when Trump 

greeted him in person during his 

rally in New York and introduced 

the family to the crowd before he 

began his speech. Liam had just 

recently received a happy birthday 

card from the former president 

just before he turned eight. His 

family says he has been a Trump 

supporter since he was a toddler. 

“It’s a pipe dream, I can never 

imagine, to thank the world for 

helping my son come this far and 

showing support and making his 

dream come true, because believe 

it or not, this is definitely probably 

one of his big dreams, to meet 

Donald Trump, his hero since he 

was probably born. If not, very 

close,” Liam’s dad said, choking 

back tears. Doctors warned the 

family Liam might never walk, talk 

or eat on his own, according to his 

mother, Siobhan. 

This is the kind of man Trump 

truly is. Not the debate Trump. 

The REAL Donald J. Trump that 

fights every day for this country 

and takes the time to wish Happy 

Birthday to an 8-year boy and 

make his dreams come true. 

If everyone knew the REAL 

Trump, this election would be over 

before it started, and Trump would 

win in a landslide. There are only 

a few days left before the election 

and if you aren’t a Trump supporter, 

or you are undecided, watch 

the Gutfeld interview and I promise, 

you will have a completely different 

view of the man afterwards. 

In other election news, I’d like to 

also ask that you vote for two other 

great men who are running for 

Sheriff, in two different counties 

here in Texas. In Galveston County, 

The BLUES proudly endorses Jimmy 

Fullen as the Republican candidate 

for Sheriff. Jimmy has the experience 

and knowhow to turn the 

Galveston County Sheriff’s Department 

into an award-winning 

department. 

Just up the freeway in Houston 

and Harris County, Former 

City Councilman Mike Knox is the 

Republican candidate for Sheriff 

of Harris County. Mike has years 

of experience as a former HPD 

officer, an Air Force Veteran and 

a Houston City Member for eight 

years. 

Both Fullen and Knox need your 

vote on November 5th. If you want 

a better future for your kids and 

grandkids, you MUST VOTE ON 

NOVEMBER 5, 2024. 


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NOV. 5 

ELECT JIMMY FULLEN, 

SHERIFF OF GALVESTON COUNTY 

The Blues ELECT - October MIKE KNOX, ‘24 7 

SHERIFF OF HARRIS COUNTY

FROM THE EDITOR-AT-LARGE 

Block walking is still a 

thing with Jimmy Fullen. 

Working hard to earn someone’s vote 

has been around for well, a very long 

time. And it’s no easy endeavor. Some 

folks will get on TV or any number 

of social media platforms and quite 

frankly, promise you the moon and deliver 

empty promises after they’ve won 

the election with your vote. 

Rarely in today’s world will you find 

a person like Galveston County Sheriff’s 

Candidate Jimmy Fullen, block walking 

for miles and miles over many months, 

to introduce himself and listen to your 

concerns for Galveston 

County and 

it’s Sheriff’s Office. 

These Block 

Walk sessions 

can sometimes 

last all day. Of 

course, most folks 

are shocked that 

a candidate still 

comes to their 

door to meet and 

greet them. There 

have been positive 

conversations and 

some not so positive 

conversations 

along the way. 

Which is pretty 

much the case in 

any election. No 

one ever gets 100% 

of support, 100% 

of the time. 

Now to some, this may seem like 

an ancient or archaic way of trying 

to reach the public. But listening and 

engaging with them is what community 

service is all about. Fullen wants 

to educate residents on what he’ll do if 

elected as sheriff, and if elected follow 

through on his campaign promises. 

Another seemingly lost practice, nowadays. 

Campaigning is no easy task. Block 

walking, along with all the events, 

fund raisers, meetings, social gatherings, 

and debates are exhausting. 

To be honest, there’s nothing easy at 

all about running for public office. 

Especially running for County Sheriff. 

There’s just so much at stake, it 

becomes a bit of a rough ride, for all 

involved. 

I can honestly say I was taken aback 

when I heard and saw Jimmy Fullen 

and some of his closest supporter’s 

block walking. It is an “old school” way 

of doing business, so to speak. A tip 

of the old Blues Hat to Jimmy and his 

campaign staff for doing something 

not many people do in 2024. 

There is something to be said for 

someone who is 

willing to take the 

time, energy and 

commitment to 

walk for miles. For 

the one’s that do, 

there is a special 

feature to their 

campaign. They are 

willing to go the 

extra mile (literally) 

to win the election. 

And if they willing 

this hard to get 

elected, just imagine 

how hard they’ll 

work once they do 

get into office? 

When it comes 

to Jimmy Fullen, I 

believe he will not 

only live up to the 

expectations of 

Galveston County residents but will exceed 

them. Jimmy will build a Sheriff’s 

Department that operates on fairness, 

efficiency, and courtesy, while protecting 

the citizens. 

Well done, Jimmy Fullen & Co. 


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GUEST COMENTARY 

Brian T. McVey 

The Power of 8 Minutes 

How an eight-minute call can make a difference for Law Enforcement Officers. 

In an era dominated by smartphones, 

the Internet, and text messaging, 

we’ve lost many small joys 

that once helped us unwind—from 

the crazy and quiet moments during 

a roll call, to the camaraderie of 

the locker room. But for those of 

us in law enforcement, there’s one 

thing that stands out: the incredible 

importance of checking in with our 

colleagues and loved ones. 

Now, you might be thinking, “I text 

with my partner all the time!” But 

research shows that it’s simply not 

the same. In fact, a study conducted 

in 2021, reported in The New York 

Times, examined the effects of brief, 

regular phone calls on 240 adults. 

The results were striking, especially 

for those in high-stress professions 

like ours. 

Those who received calls a few 

times a week experienced a significant 

reduction in levels of depression, 

loneliness, and anxiety—issues 

that law enforcement officers are 

all too familiar with. This caught 

the attention of Dr. Bob Waldinger, 

a professor of psychiatry at Harvard 

Medical School, who emphasizes 

the importance of investing time in 

our most cherished relationships. He 

argues that these investments can 

yield tangible effects on our overall 

well-being, offering a hidden “gold 

mine of vitality” that often goes 

unnoticed. 

And this is where the “eight-minute 

catch-up” comes into play. 

The concept of the “eight-minute 

catch-up” is a practical application 

of this research, and it’s something 

that can be easily integrated into our 

daily routines. Whether you’re on a 

break between calls or just finishing 

your shift, dedicating short, focused 

periods to connect with a colleague, 

friend, or loved one can make all 

the difference. This approach not 

only cultivates a sense of closeness 

and well-being but also addresses 

the common issue of conversations 

dragging on past their welcome or 

abruptly ending—a problem identified 

in another 2021 study. 

By mutually agreeing to an 

eight-minute time limit beforehand, 

both parties can engage in a meaningful 

exchange without overstaying 

their welcome. This ensures that the 

time spent together is both beneficial 

and respected—crucial for those 

of us who often work long hours 

and irregular shifts. 

In a recent discussion on “A Bit of 

Optimism,” Simon Sinek delved deep 

into this topic with his long-time 

friend, chef, and author Christina 

Tosi. They explored the significance 

of asking for help and being there 

for others—something that resonates 

deeply within our line of work. Their 

conversation highlighted a simple 

yet powerful lesson: the act of 

reaching out for support is not only 

normal but also essential for those 

in demanding roles like ours. 

Simon shared a moment of realization 

when a friend revealed they 

had been struggling with depression. 

His immediate response was, 

“WTF? Why didn’t you call me?” 

This sparked an eye-opening realization 

about the subtle ways in 

which people, especially those in 

tough professions, ask for help. 

“There is no greater honor than to 

send them a message that says, ‘Do 

you have eight minutes?’” Christina 

said. 

This phrase has become a code 

between them, symbolizing a safe 

space where one can openly express 

vulnerability and seek comfort—a 

concept that could be invaluable 

within our ranks. 

At the end of the day, eight minutes 

of a colleague’s or friend’s 

time can make all the difference in 

the world. Best of all, it’s only eight 

minutes. “Eight minutes! When 

somebody texts you ‘Do you have 

eight minutes?’ Any of us can pause 

for a moment, step out of the squad 

car, or take a break to talk to a 

friend in need for eight minutes,” 

says Simon. 

For those of us in law enforcement, 

where the pressures of the job 

can sometimes feel overwhelming, 

this simple practice could be a lifeline. 

So, the next time you’re feeling 

the weight of the badge, consider 

reaching out—because in just eight 

minutes, you might find the support 

you didn’t know you needed. 8 minutes 

is 480 seconds, as you read this, 

make that call! 

Start sharing this phrase with 

family and friends. 

I always have time for you. 

Brian T. McVey 

Brian T. McVey, MAPP| is a Proud 

Dad, Author, Former Chicago Police 

Officer. Brian holds a Masters 

in Police Psychology from Adler 

University in Chicago IL. Reach me 

at btmcvey77@gmail.com and ask 

for 8-minutes of my time. 


LETTERS 

The world as we know it. 

Evil has invaded our nation, and our lives are never going to be the same. 

I woke up and as I had my 

morning coffee, I realized 

that everything is about to 

change. No matter how I 

vote, no matter what I say, 

something evil has invaded 

our nation, and our lives are 

never going to be the same. 

I have been confused by 

the hostility of family and 

friends. I look at people I 

have known all my life--so 

hate-filled that they agree 

with opinions they would 

never express as their own. 

I think that I may well have 

entered the Twilight Zone. 

You can’t justify this insanity. 

We have become a nation 

that has lost its collective 

mind! 

• If a man pretends to be a 

woman, you are required to 

pretend with him. 

• Somehow, it’s un-American 

for the census to count 

how many Americans are in 

America. 

• Russians influencing our 

elections are bad, but illegals 

voting in our elections are 

good. 

• It was cool for Joe Biden 

to “blackmail” the President 

of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable 

offense if Donald 

Trump inquires about it. 

• Twenty is too young to 

drink a beer, but eighteen is 

old enough to vote. 

• People who have never 

owned slaves should pay slavery 

reparations to people who 

have never been slaves. 

• People who have never 

been to college should pay 

the debts of college students 

who took out huge loans for 

their degrees. 

• Immigrants with tuberculosis 

and polio are welcome, but 

you’d better be able to prove 

your dog is vaccinated. 

• Irish doctors and German 

engineers who want to immigrate 

to the US must go 

through a rigorous vetting 

process, but any illiterate 

gang bangers who jump the 

southern fence are welcome. 

• $5 billion for border security 

is too expensive, but $1.5 

trillion for “free” health care is 

not. 

• If you cheat to get into 

college you go to prison, but 

if you cheat to get into the 

country you go to college for 

free. 

• People who say there is no 

such thing as gender are demanding 

a female President. 

• We see other countries 

going Socialist and collapsing, 

but it seems like a great plan 

to us. 

• Some people are held responsible 

for things that happened 

before they were born, 

and other people are not held 

responsible for what they are 

doing right now. 

• Criminals are caught-andreleased 

to hurt more people 

but stopping them is bad because 

it’s a violation of THEIR 

rights. 

• And pointing out all this 

hypocrisy somehow makes 

us “racists”? Nothing makes 

sense anymore, no values, 

no morals, no civility. We 

are clearly living in an upside-down 

world where right 

is wrong and wrong is right, 

where moral is immoral and 

immoral is moral, where good 

is evil and evil is good, where 

killing murderers is wrong, 

but killing innocent babies is 

right. 

Wake up America, the great 

unsinkable ship Titanic America 

has hit an iceberg, is taking 

on water, and is sinking fast. 

The choice is yours to make. 

What will it be? Time is short, 

make your choice wisely! 



Pat Droney 

Fraternal Order of Police Trump endorsement 

has leftist sheriff, political hack, former Capitol 

cops, up in arms. 

CHARLOTTE, NC - News flash 

for police officers across the 

country…Kamala Harris is a 

“tough former prosecutor” deserving 

of your support, while 

Donald Trump is a “convicted 

felon” who is not. At least so 

says Sheriff Clarence Birkhead, 

a lifelong Democrat who also 

happens to be sheriff in Durham 

County, North Carolina. 

Last week, the largest police 

union in the country, the Fraternal 

Order of Police (FOP), announced 

their endorsement of 

former President Donald Trump 

in his election bid against Harris. 

In endorsing Trump, the FOP 

called him a partner and leader 

while announcing the group’s 

support. 

“Public safety and border security 

will be important issues 

in the last months of this campaign,” 

FOP President Patrick 

Yoes said. “Our members carefully 

considered the positions 

of the candidates on the issues, 

and there was no doubt—zero 

doubt—as to who they want as 

our President for the next four 

years: Donald J. Trump.” 

After receiving the group’s endorsement 

at a FOP President’s 

meeting in Charlotte, the former 

and hopefully future president 

pledged to “back the blue” while 

at the same time slamming Harris’s 

milquetoast law enforcement 

background. Harris has in 

the past supported defunding 

the police, a position to which 

Trump takes the opposite tack. 

“We might over-fund the police,” 

Trump said. 

Trump, who has been a victim 

of a Biden/Harris administration 

lawfare campaign against him, 

also asked attendees to pay attention 

to voter fraud after some 

questionable results came about 

in the 2020 presidential race. He 

reminded those in attendance 

that early voting gets underway 

soon. 

“I hope you watch for voter 

fraud,” Trump said. “It starts 

early. It starts in a week…Believe 

it or not, they’re afraid of that 

badge. They’re afraid of you people. 

I hope you can watch.” 

That lawfare campaign has led 

Trump to criticize partisan DAs 

and attorneys general who have 

used their office to target him 

for often nonsensical “crimes.” 

Harris and her surrogates have 

spun that criticism to imply that 

Trump is “anti-law enforcement,” 

which is entirely ridiculous. 

Trump has long supported 

police officers, and police officers 

know it. 

As evidence of that, the former 

president said he was calling 



for “a strong death penalty for 

anyone who kills a police officer,” 

which drew cheers from 

the crowd of law enforcement 

professionals. 

“During his first term, President 

Trump made it clear he supported 

law enforcement and border 

security,” Yoes said. “In the 

summer of 2020, he stood with 

us when very few would. With 

his help, we defeated the ‘defund 

the police’ movement and, finally, 

we are seeing crime rates decrease. 

If we want to maintain 

these lower crime rates, we must 

re-elect Donald Trump.” 

That law enforcement support, 

however, doesn’t include politically 

elected sheriffs, including 

Birkhead, who hurried on to a 

conference call with reporters 

to gaslight the public, claiming 

that Trump “can’t be trusted to 

deliver on his promises to” law 

enforcement. 

“He would waste precious 

time and money on his personal 

grievances instead of pouring 

valuable resources into communities 

like mine that rely on our 

federal partners,” Birkhead said. 

Birkhead claimed to represent 

100 other law enforcement 

“officials,” although none were 

named. 

To the shock of nobody, Harry 

Dunn, a former Capitol police 

officer who has parlayed the Jan. 

6 Capitol siege into a career as a 

law enforcement “expert,” also 

took the occasion to slam President 

Trump. 

“He doesn’t care that he put my 

life and the lives of my fellow 

Capitol Police officers in danger 

on Jan. 6,” Dunn said. “He only 

cares about getting power for 

himself.” 

Dunn conveniently neglected 

the fact that in a speech that was 

still going on as the Capitol was 

breached, Trump told supporters 

to “peacefully and patriotically” 

go to the US Capitol “and make 

your voices heard.” At no point 

did Trump encourage violence by 

anyone. 

Some of the criticism of Trump 

comes from far-left outlets such 

as HuffPo, where a “reporter” 

published a piece claiming 

Trump has promised to “pardon 

his followers who assaulted 

police at the U.S. Capitol.” That 

statement takes gaslighting to a 

nuclear level, 

Trump has, in fact, specifically 

excluded those who assaulted 

police officers from those he has 

promised to pardon if he is elected 

in November. But it makes 

good headlines from a trash 

outlet such as HuffPo. The writer 

goes on to actually write that 

Trump’s “lies” led to “five officer 

deaths from the Capitol assault,” 

a blatantly false claim. 

The writer, S.V. Date, then goes 

on to rail about Trump commuting 

the life sentence of a man 

who was convicted in connection 

with the murder of a police 

officer in New York State in 1990. 

Jamie Davidson, who was then 

16, was sentenced in connection 

with the case, although he did 

not kill the officer. Trump commuted 

his sentence in the waning 

days of his presidency. 

Date, however, does not mention 

other notable pardons, including 

those made by Bill Clinton 

and Jimmy Carter. Clinton 

gave clemency to 16 members 

of Puerto Rican separatist group 

FALN for their role in a number 

of terrorist attacks, primarily in 

Chicago and New York City in 

the 1970s and early 1980s. One of 

those bombings seriously injured 

a NYPD detective. 

Carter, meanwhile, granted 

pardons to four Puerto Rican terrorists 

who shot up the US Capitol, 

injuring five congressmen. 

Meanwhile, heavily tattooed 

former US Capitol Police officer 

Michael Fanone, who has also 

parlayed the Capitol siege into 

a gig on CNN, also criticized the 

FOP. 

“The truth is that FOP leadership 

is more interested in kissing 

the ass of a convicted felon who 

incites violence against law enforcement, 

then hails the perpetrators 

as ‘heroes’ and ‘patriots’ 

and promises them pardons.” 

Neither Fanone, Dunn, nor 

Birkhead had similar complaints 

against Harris, who advocated 

for people to donate to a bail 

fund for Minneapolis criminals 

arrested for committing violence 

against police officers, as well 

as who burned down a police 

precinct in the city. 

Neither Fanone, Dunn, nor 

Birkhead had similar complaints 

against Harris for her call to 

defund the police and dismantle 

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ICE. None of the three criticized 

the Biden/Harris administration 

for allowing a foreign invasion 

at our southern border that has 

allowed criminal gangs into the 

country, some of whom have 

threatened to kill law enforcement 

officers. 

None of the three criticized 

Harris for actually refusing to 

prosecute the death penalty 

against a suspect who killed a 

San Francisco police officer in 

cold blood, a move that even 

drew criticism from Democrats 

such as the late Sen. Dianne 

Feinstein (C-CA). 

The fact is rank and file police 

officers know without a doubt 

who among Trump and Harris 

truly has their back. One whose 

actions and deeds have shown 

that she is anti-cop and will 

always take the side of criminals. 

The other whose actions 

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in blue. 

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Unhinged Houston judge decides to recall 

all misdemeanor warrants in his district. 

HOUSTON, TX - An unhinged 

Houston judge has taken it upon 

himself to recall all outstanding 

warrants in his court, Fox 26 in 

Houston reports. The cases involve 

thousands of traffic citations, 

evictions, and other misdemeanors. 

Fortunately, it doesn’t 

appear felony cases are affected. 

Judge Steven Duble, who 

became Harris County Justice 

of the Peace Precinct 1 in 2023, 

made the bizarre decision last 

month, completely confusing 

reporters and political figures 

alike. 

“I’ve never seen this happen in 

the 37 years I’ve been doing this,” 

said Fox 26 Senior Legal Analyst 

Chris Tritico. 

“My reaction was, this is nuts,” 

said State Sen. Paul Bettencourt. 

“It’s exactly what shouldn’t 

happen by a judge in the 21st 

Century,” Bettencourt said. 

Duble’s decision has been 

called “unprecedented” and 

could result in no fines or jail 

time for thousands of defendants 

charged with Class C misdemeanors, 

traffic citations, and 

evictions. 

On August 22, Duble drafted 

a letter to Precinct 1 Constable 

Alan Rosen’s staff, writing, 

“After extensive research and 

thoughtful consideration, I have 

decided to recall each and every 


outstanding warrant from this 

court.” 

“It’s strange that you have a 

situation where a judge is issuing 

a blanket order that affects 

every warrant in his court with 

no explanation,” Tritico said. 

“They may all have cases pending 

in there that have now been 

let go.” 

Under Texas law, judges are 

permitted to recall warrants, 

however, Duble’s action appears 

to be unprecedented, and for 

one, Bettencourt doesn’t believe 

he is legally allowed to do so. 

“The law may not be as clear 

Pat Droney 

because no one’s been quite 

frankly crazy enough to do this 

until now,” Bettencourt said. 

Fox 26 received a statement in 

response to Duble’s action: 

“We only recently were made 

aware of Judge Duble’s inexplicable 

decision to grant fugitives 

a free pass in his courtroom. 

This decision can endanger the 

lives of the public and of our law 

enforcement officers. Accountability 

is fundamental to justice, 

and without it, the public loses 

faith in our entire judicial system.” 

In attempting to justify his

decision, Duble cited an advisory 

from the Biden/Harris Department 

of Justice that “cautioned 

against discriminatory enforcement 

of fines and fees, and 

detailed obligations to comply 

with federal statutory prohibitions 

against discrimination in 

the imposition and collection of 

fines and fees by conducting an 

ability to pay determination prior 

to imposing any period of incarceration.” 

With that in mind, Duble said 

that after “extensive research 

on these issues,” he would recall 

“all outstanding class C 

misdemeanor arrest warrants 

issued by Justice of the Peace 

Court, Precinct 1, Place 2.” Duble 

claimed that “the recall of arrest 

warrants does not dismiss any 

charges.” 

Duble claimed “the cost to taxpayers 

of having officers arrest, 

transport, and process someone 

at the Harris County jail on a 

warrant arising from a class C 

misdemeanor, only to have them 

released hours later with the 

fine and court costs written off 

as ‘satisfied by jail credit’ is far 

more than the unpaid fine itself.” 

He further asserted that “the 

recall was ordered to comply 

with the Constitution,” which is 

absurd. 

Hopefully, a higher court 

occupied by judges with a remote 

understanding of our legal 

system and how the Constitution 

works will overturn this decision. 

Duble’s letter may be read HERE. 

Reprinted from Law Enforcement 

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Kamala Harris’s claim to be raised a ‘middle class 

kid’ includes private schools, lavish trips abroad. 

WASHINGTON, DC - Just a 

“middle-class” upbringing, right 

Kamala? 

Kamala Harris has repeatedly 

asserted her ‘middle-class’ 

upbringing, a claim that is 

contradicted by the facts. She 

has stated that she worked at 

McDonald’s during a summer, 

a claim that lacks any supporting 

evidence. She also presents 

herself as hailing from Oakland, 

California, a ‘blue collar’ community 

with a large minority 

population, which is not entirely 

accurate. 

In a recent foot massage interview 

by billionaire Oprah Winfrey, 

Harris told Winfrey and the 

audience, “I grew up a child of a 

mother who worked very hard. 

She raised me and my sister, and 

she save up. And by the time I 

was a teenager, she was able to 

buy a home.” Harris suspiciously 

gives the impression she grew 

up in a single-mother household. 

All of that is a lie, according to 

Breitbart News. 

Harris has continued the ruse, 

writing in a September 13 post 

on X, “Let me be clear; I will 

always put the middle class and 

working families first. I know 

where I came from.” 

Breitbart reports that Harris’s 

upbringing does not have the 

hallmarks of coming from a 

middle-class family. 

A closer look 

shows that she 

and her sister had 

many opportunities 

that middle-class 

families cannot 

avail themselves of. 

Among those were 

living abroad, going 

to private school, 

and living in some of 

the toniest locations 

in the world. 

Harris claims to 

be “a daughter of 

Oakland, California,” 

which is true to the 

point that she was 

born at the Kaiser 

Hospital in that city. However, 

her parents, who were attending 

graduate school, lived in Berkeley, 

a primarily white, liberal city 

in the Bay Area home to the farleft 

UC Berkeley, considered one 

of the top universities worldwide. 

It is NOT Oakland. 

Her “working mother,” whose 

father was an Indian diplomat, 

met her father as graduate student. 

In fact, her father, writing 

in The Diaspora, said that Kamala 

Harris “was born” in Berkeley. 

According to The New York 

Times, it wasn’t until Harris set 

her sights on statewide office 

in California that she began 

“downplaying her Berkeley 

roots.” 

Today, she often describes herself 

with the somewhat vague 

label “daughter of Oakland,” a 

phrase that ties her to a working-class 

city with less stigma– 

and counters Donald J. Trump’s 

preferred branding, a “San Francisco 

liberal.” 

The Times report said, “She 

[Harris] was indeed born in an 

Oakland hospital in 1964, but she 

did not settle in the city until she 

was in her 20s and working as a 

prosecutor in the county district 

attorney’s office.” 

Harris wrote in her memoir 


Kamala and her sister went to the Berkwood Hedge School. The annual Tuition is $31,500 for grades K-5 and 

$37,500.Included in our tuition are school supplies and stationary, most field trips, and free childcare for 

that as a child, she lived on “the 

boundary between Oakland 

and Berkeley.” A local news site 

disputes that, The Oaklandside, 

which reported “by no stretch of 

the imagination was her Bancroft 

apartment geographically close 

to the border; it’s directly west of 

downtown.” 

During a presidential debate in 

2019, Harris blasted her then-opponent, 

Joe Biden, by claiming 

she was bused to an elementary 

school in North Berkeley as part 

of an integration program, leaving 

the impression that she had 

a disadvantaged background. 

Harris, however, attended a private 

school before participating 

in the busing program. Not too 

many “middle-class kids” attend 

private schools. 

According to The Berkeleyside, 

when Harris was growing up, 

she lived only a few blocks away 

from UC Berkeley. The family 

eventually relocated to another 

apartment, nowhere near the 

border with Oakland and again 

close to UC Berkeley. 

USA Today reported that in 

1966, Harris and her family settled 

in Urbana, Illinois, after her 

father got a teaching job at the 

University of Illinois. The next 

year, they moved to Evanston, 

Illinois, after her father got a position 

at Northwestern University. 

Finally, in 1968, they relocated to 

Madison, Wisconsin, where her 

father taught and her mother 

was a researcher at the University 

of Wisconsin. Harris’s father 

said between gigs in Illinois and 

Wisconsin, he taught at Cambridge 

University in England. You 

know, typical “middle-class kid.” 

When she was five, Harris’s 

parents separated, and she, her 

mother, and her sister moved 

back to Berkeley, where her 

mother conducted cancer research 

at UC Berkeley. Her father 

stayed in Madison until 1972 

when he relocated to Connecticut 

and taught at Yale. He later 

moved back to California, where 

he taught at Stanford. Yale and 

Stanford are two of the country’s 

most prestigious private universities. 

Harris prominently features a 

yellow apartment building at 

1227 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, in 

her political campaigns. However, 

contrary to her claims that 

it was “near the border” with 

Oakland, as The Oaklandside reported, 

it was nowhere near that 

boundary. 

Harris painted her neighborhood 

as a “close-knit neighborhood 

of working families 

who were focused on doing a 

good job, paying the bills, and 

being there for one another.” 

She waxed poetic about how 

her “single mother” struggled to 

raise her and her sister, claiming 

she relied on neighbors to help. 

“My mother, you know, worked 

long hours, and our neighbor 

helped raise us. We used to call 

her–I still call her our second 

mother,” Harris wrote in her 

memoir. 

Harris omits the fact that her 

neighbor ran a daycare center 

where she and her sister would 

go after school, a convenience 

not often afforded to working 

mothers, especially those in the 

“middle class.” 

Harris attended kindergarten 

at Berkwood School, a private 

institution whose current tuition 

is $29,800/year, according to The 

Berkeleyside, citing the school’s 

website. 

Harris also attended private 

ballet lessons from a Russian 

ballerina named Madame Bovie 


at her North Berkeley studio. 

As part of her “middle-class” 

upbringing, Harris and her sister 

would spend weekends and 

summers with their father in 

Palo Alto–a wealthy and tony 

city known as the “birthplace of 

Silicon Valley “ and with a reputation 

as one of the richest and 

most exclusive zip codes in the 

US, according to USA Today and 

The Berkeleyside. 

Part of her “middle-class” 

upbringing also saw “frequent 

visits” to Jamaica, where her father 

was born, the son of “privileged” 

slaveowners. They would 

also take trips to India to visit 

her mother’s family. A “typical” 

middle-class family. 

Despite Harris downplaying 

the role her father played in her 

upbringing while up playing the 

role her mother played in her 

upbringing, according to San 

Francisco Gate’s interview with 

historian Charles Wollenberg, 

Harris’s mother appeared to deliberately 

immerse Harris and her 

sister in black culture. 

Harris’s mother “introduced 

the kids to their Indian family 

and heritage but primarily raised 

them as members of Berkeley’s 

highly politicized black community,” 

Wollenberg told the outlet. 

The Oaklandside reported that 

Harris and her sister grew up 

listening to friends of their parents, 

who came from the radical 

world of academia, where 

they would discuss politics and 

literature, as Harris wrote in her 

memoir. 

When Harris was twelve, her 

mother got a job in Montreal, 

Canada, teaching at McGill 

University, one of Canada’s most 

prominent universities. According 

to Breitbart’s Deputy Political 

Editor Emma-Jo Morris, Harris 

lived in one of the “most upscale 

neighborhoods” in Montreal, 

where homes worth over 

a million dollars were standard. 

She also wrote that there was no 

racial hostility in Montreal. 

She spent six years in Canada, 

attending a French-language 

primary school, Notre-Damedes-Neiges, 

located in a “beautiful 

neighborhood,” according 

to its website. She then attended 

an alternative public school near 

the McGill University campus. 

Finally, she attended and graduated 

from Westmount High 

School, one of the top public 

high schools in Montreal. She 

was a typical “middle-class kid.” 

Harris claimed her mother 

saved “many years” to purchase 

a home, which she described as 

a “one-level, dark gray house 

on a cul-de-sac with a shingled 

roof.” She left out a couple of 

important details, however. The 

house was in the hills by a golf 

course in one of the wealthiest 

areas of Oakland. According to 

Redfin, that home is worth just 

under one million dollars. 

After graduating from high 

school, Harris attended Vanier 

College in Canada before 

enrolling at Howard University 

in Washington, D.C., in 1982. A 

friend of Harris said she enrolled 

at Howard because she “fell in” 

with some friends who were 

also attending historically black 

colleges. 

“We all went to private school, 

we all were educated, we all 

were very much parented, but 

we knew kids that weren’t,” her 

friend, Derrick Johnson, told the 

New Yorker. 

“The idea of the struggle was 

embedded in us from our mothers, 

who told their stories,” he 

said. 

As one way to claim her “middle-class” 

bonafides, Harris 

claimed in a 2019 campaign rally 

that she has worked at a Mc- 

Donald’s between her freshman 

and sophomore years at Howard, 

with the Associated Press saying 

was to “show an understanding 

of middle-class struggles.” 

The Harris campaign explained 

earlier this year that the job was 

to help pay her way through 

college; however, they later admitted 

it was for “extra spending 

money,” according to Politico. 

Harris has never provided evidence 

that she ever worked at 

McDonald’s, however. They later 

claimed she worked at a Mc- 

Donald’s in Alameda, California. 

Alameda has two such restaurants–one 

near a state park and 

another across from a beach. 

The campaign didn’t respond 

to a request from Breitbart to 

specify which one she allegedly 

worked at. 

It is also curious why she 

would work at a McDonald’s in 

Alameda since there are others 

much closer to her mother’s 

home in the Oakland hills. 

While the campaign claimed she 

worked at McDonald’s to earn 

extra spending money, her family 

was quite well off—so well 

off that she attended law school 

at UC Hastings in San Francisco 

after graduating from Howard. 

In a Politico profile, they wrote 

that Harris took part in a program 

for “disadvantaged communities,” 

the Legal Education 

Opportunity Program (LEOP). 

Since her parents worked as pro- 


fessors at top universities at the 

time, it is unknown how Harris 

was considered “disadvantaged.” 

After graduating, she began 

working as Alameda County 

deputy district attorney when 

she was 25. 

According to a 1994 Los Angeles 

Times report, Harris purchased 

a condo in Oakland overlooking 

Lake Merritt for $116,000 in 1993 

when she was 29 years old. That 

was also when she began dating 

a married man, California State 

Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, 

31 years her senior. 

Brown lavished Harris with 

gifts over the next several years 

and appointed her to several 

high-paying positions on the 

taxpayers’ dole. The New York 

Post reported that he bought her 

a BMW, paid for a trip to Paris, 

and took her to the Academy 

Awards. 

Despite her public personal 

as being the recipient of privilege, 

Harris began her campaign 

for district attorney, giving the 

impression that it was a facade. 

According to The New Yorker: 

Countering the aura of privilege 

projected by her appearances 

in the society pages, 

Harris established her campaign 

headquarters in Bayview-Hunters 

Point, a forlorn part of San 

Francisco that was once a naval 

shipyard. “It’s the hood,” Amelia 

Ashley-Ward, the publisher 

of the Sun-Reporter, the city’s 

oldest black newspaper, told 

me. “Right above her offices, 

you had the public housing. And 

there was always crime. But she 

was right there in the hood. She 

would walk up and down the 

street, the liquor stores, the bars, 

and talk to people.” 

Harris fails to mention that the home her mother purchased (the grey 

house) was located in the hills of Oakland by a golf course — one of the 

wealthiest and most beautiful areas of Oakland. That three-bedroom, 

two-bathroom home is now worth an estimated $914,881, according to 

a posting on Redfin. 

As Harris started to climb up 

the political ladder, her claims 

to be from Oakland began to 

take hold, attempting to hide her 

upbringing as a child of privilege 

and giving the facade that she 

grew up “middle class.’ As The 

Times reported, Harris appeared 

to make a deliberate attempt to 

remove Berkeley from her background: 

In 2008, just before she announced 

her run for California 

attorney general, the mention 

of Berkeley was taken out of 

her bio on her political website, 

which referred to her as a “California 

native” before turning to 

“born and raised in the East Bay,’ 

and at points “born in Oakland.” 

(She has mentioned Berkeley a 

few times in speeches over the 

years to allude to the civil rights 

movement or her experience in 

school busing programs).” 

To continue the facade, Harris 

announced her failed 2020 presidential 

campaign from Oakland: 

“In the 2019 speech kicking 

off her first presidential run, Ms. 

Harris stood before a crowd of 

around 20,000 people in downtown 

Oakland,” The Times wrote. 

“Her very first words were: ‘I am 

so proud to be a daughter of 

Oakland, California.’” 

Yup, just like “Scranton Joe,” 

we have “Oakland Kamala.” 

“You can’t believe 

a single 

word that comes 

out of that 

woman’s mouth.” 

Donald J. Trump 



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Daniel Carr 

Officer Involved: Edmundo Meza 

There was a fatal Officer-Involved-Shooting 

(OIS) in Houston, 

TX that began when a suspect 

with a warrant (Edmundo 

Meza) resisted arrest and attempted 

to reach for a gun as he 

wrestled with two female police 

officers. 

The use of deadly force in this 

case should not be controversial 

and the decision to cover this OIS 

came only after I watched a local 

Houston news report on the case 

that featured a retired Police 

Chief that served as a defacto 

“expert”. 

I aim to respectfully (but aggressively) 

challenge the Chief’s 

assessment of this case. 

WHAT HAPPENED 

On August 7, 2024 two Houston, 

TX police officers were dispatched 

to a gas station where 

it had been reported that two 

males were “trespassing” at the 

business. 

Officer Jillian McGowan and 

her partner arrived on scene and 

made contact with the men. Officers 

ran their information and 

found that one of the individuals 

(Edmundo Meza) had outstanding 

warrants for his arrest. 

ARREST 

Officer McGowan made the 

decision to place Mr. Meza under 

arrest for the warrants. 

During the search of Mr. Meza 

(which was for some reason 

conducted before he was in 

handcuffs) - Officer McGowan 

discovered a handgun that was 

tucked inside his waistband. It 

was then that she tried to handcuff 

Mr. Meza and he resisted 

arrest. 

USE OF FORCE 

Mr. Meza dragged both Officer 

McGowan and her partner to the 

ground. 

Mr. Meza landed on his back 

and the other officer was positioned 

on Meza’s left side - leaning 

over him. The officer was 

working to pin his right hand/ 

arm to the ground with her left 

hand as well as control his left 

hand with her right hand - holding 

it behind his back. 

Officer McGowan was controlling 

Mr. Meza’s legs, giving 

him verbal commands to comply, 

and pressing her firearm 

against his torso. 

During this Mr. Meza did not 

comply and actively struggled 

with the officers by attempting 

to move his hands and break free 

from the officers’ grasp. 

Officer McGowan gave Mr. 

Meza multiple warnings of force 

and stated, “Do not move!” and “I 

will shoot you!”. 

After approximately 90 seconds 

Officer McGowan fired a 

single shot into Mr. Meza’s torso. 

He sustained a fatal injury. 

LAW & POLICY 

• The Texas statute for Self-Defense 

reads (in part) as follows: 

“A person is justified in using 

deadly force against another… 

when and to the degree the actor 

reasonably believes the deadly 

force is immediately necessary: 

(A) to protect the actor against 

the other’s use or attempted use 


of unlawful deadly force…” 

• The Houston Police Department 

policy on the use of deadly 

force reads as follows, “The use 

of deadly force shall be limited 

to those circumstances in which 

officers have an objectively reasonable 

belief that deadly force 

is necessary to protect themselves 

or others from the imminent 

threat of serious bodily 

injury or death.” 

That language is pretty standard 

and you get the point. If Officer 

McGowan had a reasonable 

belief that she was in imminent 

danger of death or great bodily 

injury - then she would be justified 

in utilizing deadly force to 

prevent that. 

ANALYSIS 

Was Officer McGowan’s use of 

deadly force reasonable? 

Yes. Here’s why. 

• Mr. Meza resisted a lawful 

arrest. 

• When Officer McGowan 

yelled, “He has a gun!”. Mr. Meza 

responded, “No I don’t!” 

• This is further evidence of 

an attempt to conceal a firearm 

from officers. 

• Once he was on the ground 

he continued to resist arrest and 

struggled to break free. 

• Officer McGowan instructed 

him what to do and warned him 

of the consequences of noncompliance. 

Mr. Meza responded, 

“Shoot me!”. 

And finally. If a suspect resists 

arrest and they are in possession 

of a gun - any reasonable officer 

would believe that if the suspect 

was successful - that they would 

utilize the gun in furtherance 

of their escape. No reasonable 

officer would grant a resisting, 

armed suspect like Mr. Meza the 

opportunity to and ability to 

murder them. 

That warning of force (in combination 

with the officer’s gun 

pressed against his body) should 

have been an indication to Mr. 

Meza that the officers were 

serious and perceived a deadly 

threat - should he gain possession 

of the gun waiting in his 

waistband. 

In a little under 90 seconds Officer 

McGowan ordered Mr. Meza 

to not “move” seventeen times 

and explained that the consequences 

for noncompliance were 

that she would “shoot” him - 

seven times. 

There exists no police training 

or policy that would require police 

officers to continue to wrestle 

with a suspect like Mr. Meza 

until he was successful in his 

efforts to overpower the officers 

and then allow him the freedom 

to enjoy unrestricted access to 

the firearm. 

*The use of deadly force was 

objectively reasonable. 


THE “EXPERT” 

A local Houston news station 

(KTRK) covered this story and 

had retired Texas Rangers Chief 

Tony Leal on to breakdown the 

case and provide his opinion. 

This is typical for a local news 

station to feature an expert to 

explain aspects of the case to 

the audience. 

Chief Leal made a few statements 

that I strongly disagree 

with. 

1. AD/ND 

Chief Leal questioned whether 

or not the use of deadly force 

was intentional or an “accidental 

discharge”. 

This seemed like an odd comment. 

There was nothing on the 

body cam video that would indicate 

that the use of deadly force 

was anything but intentional. 

Also, the Chief used the term 

“accidental discharge” when it is 

likely that he meant “negligent 

discharge”. The difference between 

these terms is vast. 

Accidental Discharge (AD) 

An accidental discharge is the 

unintentional firing of a shot not 

due to improper gun handling 

and through no fault of the person 

handling the gun. In the vast 

majority of cases, an accidental 

discharge is due to mechanical 

failure or equipment malfunction. 

Negligent Discharge (ND) 

A negligent discharge is an 

unintentional firing of a shot due 

to a violation of the Four Universal 

Firearms Safety Rules, or 

other improper weapon handling. 

In the case of a negligent 

discharge, the fault lies entirely 

with the person handling the 

gun, and could have been prevented. 

I am not trying to be overly 

critical of the Chief and anyone 

can misspeak. 

There was simply no evidence 

that Officer McGowan had an 

AD or an ND. If fact, after the 

shot was fired she threatened 

to shoot him again if he did 

not comply. Contrast that to the 

immediate reaction of shock 

and horror when former Officer 

Kim Potter had an ND and shot 

Daunte Wright. 

To watch this body cam video 

and think that this was possibly 

an AD/ND - shows that the Chief 

just did not appreciate the obvious 

deadly threat facing the two 

officers who were fighting for 

their lives on the ground with an 

armed suspect. 

2. Use of Force warnings 

Chief Leal was “disturbed” by 

the use of force warnings issued 

by Officer McGowan prior to the 

OIS. “Those threats can escalate 

a situation” he opined. 

This is perhaps the biggest 

issue that I have with the Chief’s 

comments. 

Here’s why - the Houston Police 

Department has a policy on this 

exact issue and Officer McGowan 

followed it! 

The use of deadly force policy 

requires officers to, “issue verbal 

warnings when possible prior to 

the use of deadly force”. 

The “de-escalation” policy 

requires police officers to inform 

suspects of the “consequences 

for noncompliance”. 

Officer McGowan followed the 

department policy. 

This policy is not unique to 

Houston PD. The majority of 

large police departments have 

similar language in their de-escalation 

and UOF policies. This is 

considered “best practices”. To 

not know that - is an indication 

that the individual has been out 

of the policing/use of force policy 

world for quite some time. 

If the Chief has an issue with 

this policy - I encourage debate 

on that topic. 

My problem is that the Chief 

criticized the officer’s actions 

and even blamed her for “escalating” 

the situation - when, 

in reality, she was following 

department policy (as she is 

required to do). To not indicate 

that the officer was following 

the policy in this regard is extremely 

negligent. 

It is almost as if the Chief did 

zero research on department 

policy and best practices before 

sitting for this interview and a 

predictable consequence of his 

carelessness was that a police 

officer was unjustly demonized 

for her use of deadly force - in 

front of thousands of local viewers. 

3. Don’t reach… 

The Chief stated, “I didn’t see 

where he reached for the weapon.” 

The officers were trying to 

control his hands and it was 

obvious that he was actively 

resisting. 

So, in your ‘expert’ opinion, 

what was Mr. Meza reaching for? 

FINAL THOUGHTS 

After an OIS police officers are 

not allowed to make any public 

statements to defend themselves. 

And, that is often where I 

come in. 

Officers in these situations have 

to endure dishonest public criticism 

from grifting attorneys and 

inconsolable family members 

- but, negligent criticism from 


a former police chief/expert is 

typically not on a cop’s radar - 

and it shouldn’t be. 

I am operating under the notion 

that Chief Leal is an honorable 

man who just made a mistake 

in this instance. That’s why I am 

asking Chief Leal to apologize 

to Officer McGowan and issue 

a public retraction of his comments 

- at least about the warning 

of force issue - as she was 

clearly following the de-escalation 

policy of the Houston Police 

Department. 

If Chief Leal reads this article 

and believes that my criticism 

was too harsh - it wasn’t as 

harsh as accusing an officer of 

“escalating” a deadly use of force 

encounter - a serious accusation 

that could lead to an officer 

being imprisoned and riots in the 

streets. 

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AROUND THE COUNTRY 

PHOENIX, AZ. 

Phoenix PD Officer Zane Coolidge, was killed when he responded 

to a larceny of a motor vehicle and the suspect opened fire on the 

officers striking Officer Coolidge. 

PHOENIX – The Phoenix Police 

Department sadly announced the 

death of Officer Zane Coolidge. 

He was shot last month while 

responding to reports of a vehicle 

burglary and succumbed to 

his injuries on Friday, Sept. 6th. 

Coolidge was a five-year veteran 

of the Phoenix Police Department 

as well as a husband 

and a father, AZCentral reported. 

“The injuries he sustained after 

the cowardly acts of another 

were just too much for him to 

overcome. Officer Coolidge’s 

legacy will forever be a part of 

this Department,” Phoenix police 

interim Chief Michael Sullivan 

wrote Friday afternoon in a 

press release. 

The Officer Down Memorial 

Page honored Coolidge with the 

following overview: 

Police Officer Zane Coolidge 

succumbed to gunshot wounds 

sustained three days earlier 

while responding to reports of 

a larceny from a motor vehicle 

near the intersection of 16th 

Street and McDowell Road at 

about 6:30 pm. 

As officers arrived on scene, 

the suspect fled on foot and 

jumped a fence into a backyard. 

The man then opened fire on 

officers, striking Officer Coolidge 

and a second officer before being 

taken into custody. 

Officer Coolidge was transported 

to a local hospital where 

he remained until succumbing to 

his wounds three days later. 

The suspect, a multi-times 

convicted felon who was on 

parole, has been charged with 

first-degree murder and illegal 

possession of a weapon. 

Officer Coolidge had served 

with the Phoenix Police Department 

for five years. He is 

survived by his wife and infant 

daughter. 

OFFICER ZANE COOLIDGE 

Officer Matthew Haney was 

also struck by gunfire during the 

incident. Fortunately, his ballistic 

vest protected him from serious 

harm. He was released from the 

hospital on Wednesday and is 

now recovering at home with 

his family, who have requested 

privacy. 


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PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

Philadelphia Police Officer Jaime Roman succumbed to gunshot 

wounds he received on June 22 during a traffic stop. 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — A Philadelphia 

Police officer is dead, 

and murder charges are now being 

filed against the man accused 

of killing him. 

Officer Jaime Roman was shot 

June 22 during a routine car stop 

in the 3500 block of F Street in 

Kensington. He was shot in the 

neck when a suspect tried to flee 

capture. 

It was a somber scene at police 

headquarters Tuesday night 

as officials gathered to announce 

Roman’s death. Mayor Cherelle 

Parker spoke about the difficulty 

in dealing with the death of an 

officer in the line of duty, her first 

as the city’s chief executive. 

“We will not allow his death 

to be in vain,” Parker said. “It 

just means we have to continue 

to work as hard as we possibly 

can to make sure that the public 

health and safety of our city is 

our number one priority, and I 

shall not be moved.” 

Police Commissioner Kevin 

Bethel said city officers make 

a commitment to protect and 

serve, and they put their lives on 

the line for that commitment. 

“We will continue to serve the 

community and what we ask 

you to do is to continue to respect 

that work,” he said. 

Bethel said he spoke to the 

officer’s father and said Roman 

“always wanted to be a cop” and 

called him a “worker.” 

The city’s police clergy pitched 

in to help in the wake of the 

shooting. Bethel said the clergy 

even helped complete a home 

project that Roman had started 

to ensure it was properly finished. 

OFFICER JAIME ROMAN 

Captain Steven Wheeler of the 

25th district described Roman 

as a man “who would light up a 

room.” 

Roman had been on the department 

for nearly seven years. 


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SHELDON, IL. 

Newton County Indiana Corporal Brandon Schreiber has died after 

being shot in the line of duty in a shootout with a suspect in Sheldon. 

SHELDON, ILL - Corporal 

Brandon Schreiber has died 

from gun shot wounds sustained 

in a shootout at the end 

of a chase in Sheldon Illinois. 

On Tuesday September 4th, 

the Newton County Sheriff’s 

Office announced Corporal 

Schreiber would not survive, 

despite ongoing efforts from 

his medical team. 

The Newton County deputy 

was shot on Sept. 1 while 

assisting the Iroquois County 

Sheriff’s Office in Illinois on a 

call involving an armed suspect 

with a hostage, according 

to state police. 

Deputies pursued the 

37-year-old suspect, identified 

by state police as Andrew 

Roselius, into Indiana 

and back to Illinois, which is 

where the chase ended in a 

crash. 

Roselius shot at deputies and 

hit Schreiber. 

The five-year veteran of the 

Newton County Sheriff’s Office 

was initially taken to Iroquois 

Memorial Hospital but later 

flown to an area trauma center 

in critical condition. 

The suspect was also shot 

and pronounced dead at the 

scene. 

“Corporal Schreiber was an 

organ donor. His sacrifice will 

CORPORAL BRANDON SCHREIBER 

present the opportunity for 

him to help many other people,” 

the Newton County Sheriff’s 

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LINCOLN PARK, MI. 

Michigan State Patrol Officer Dan Kerstetter succumbed to 

injuries he received when he was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 

75 on September 13, 2024. 

LINCOLN PARK, MI.- The 

Michigan State Police officer 

who was rear-ended during 

a traffic stop on the shoulder 

of I-75 on Friday morning has 

passed away. 

MSP Col. James F. Grady II 

confirmed Monday morning 

that Motor Carrier Officer Dan 

Kerstetter died after his organs 

were removed for donation. 

“We are heartbroken for this 

loss,” said Grady in a statement 

issued late Sunday night. 

“Traffic enforcement is dangerous 

work. The dedication 

of our motor carrier officers 

and troopers to keeping the 

public safe on our roadways is 

commendable and honorable. 

With the decision to give the 

gift of life, even in his death, 

MC Officer Kerstetter is serving 

others.” 

Kerstetter was in his MSP 

SUV during a traffic stop of a 

semi-truck on I-75 just south 

of Dix Highway in Lincoln Park 

early Friday morning when a 

white Ford Explorer hit him 

from behind – pinning him in 

the car. The other driver died 

on Friday. 

As of Friday afternoon, Grady 

said that Kerstetter was alert 

and talking in the hospital. 

“Based on the damage of the 

vehicle, he had to be extricated, 

he was pinned inside 

the car,” said MSP Col. James 

Grady II. “But he is coherent 

and talking so that’s good.” 

The MCO has been on the job 

for two years. He was taken to 

Detroit Receiving Hospital and 

is recovering and coherent. 

Grady says he has the support 

of family, friends, and other 

troopers. 

Kerstetter’s organs were donated 

and his body was then 

given a police processional 

from Detroit Receiving Hospital 

to a Verheyden Funeral 

Home. 

There are no details yet 

available on the funeral or 

services for the officer. 

Michigan’s Move Over law 

requires drivers to slow down 

and move over for police, fire, 

OFFICER DAN KERSTETTER 

EMS, and road service workers, 

including tow trucks and 

MDOT courtesy vehicles that 

have their emergency lights 

activated. 

“Every time I have to go to 

a hospital for a departmental 

member, it’s scary. It’s scary 

for the family, and it should 

be concerning for everybody,” 

Grady said. “Please pull over 

and get over a lane when you 

see a law officer, a first responder, 

a tow truck driver 

or construction worker, anybody, 

get over a lane and slow 

down.” 




RUSSELL COUNTY, KY. 

Russell County Deputy Joshua Phipps was shot and killed while pursuing a 

fleeing suspect on Bluebird Drive in Russell Springs. 

By Karla Ward and Taylor Six 

Lexington Herald-Leader 

RUSSELL COUNTY, KY. — A Russell 

County sheriff’s deputy was 

shot and killed while searching 

for a suspect Monday evening. 

Deputy Sheriff Joshua Phipps 

was helping Kentucky State Police 

and other agencies search 

on foot for the suspect around 

5:30 p.m. at Bluebird Drive. 

Gunfire broke out when they 

found him, and Phipps was shot, 

authorities said. 

Phipps died later at Russell 

County Hospital in Russell 

Springs. The suspect also died 

in the shooting. 

“Deputy Josh Phipps died 

a hero, doing what he liked, 

Protecting and Serving Russell 

County,” Sheriff Derek Polston 

wrote in a social media post 

early Tuesday. 

Polston asked for prayers for 

Phipps’ family and friends and 

the sheriff’s office and its staff. 

Phipps was a three-year veteran 

of the agency. 

He said a number of other police 

agencies had contacted to 

offer help and support covering 

calls. 

Gov. Andy Beshear issued a 

statement on the social media 

platform X, saying “Tragic 

news for our commonwealth as 

a Russell County deputy was 

killed in the line of duty last 

night. Britainy and I ask all of 

Kentucky to join us in praying 

for his family, fellow law enforcement 

officers and the entire 

Russell County community.” 

Attorney General Russell 

Coleman pledged “the full 

resources” of his office and its 

Department of Criminal Investigations 

. 

“Tonight, Russell County 

Sheriff’s Deputy Joshua Phipps 

ended his watch to his county 

and his Commonwealth,” 

Coleman said in a statement. 

“All Kentucky mourns his loss 

and honors his selfless sacrifice. 

Along with Deputy Phipps’ 

brothers and sisters in uniform 

across Kentucky and the nation, 

we send our prayers and 

condolences to his family and 

colleagues.” 

The Russell County Fiscal 

Court announced Phipps’ death 

in a post in which they said “our 

deepest prayers for comfort and 

peace are needed for his family 

and our community. Continued 

prayers for all law enforcement 

DEPUTY JOSHUA PHIPPS 

who put their life on the line 

each day to ensure our safety 

and freedom.” 

Russell Springs Mayor Eddie 

Thomas said “our community 

has suffered a great 

loss tonight,” and he asked for 

thoughts and prayers for “our 

town, our county, and all of our 

first responders,” as well as for 

the sheriff’s office and the officer’s 

family and friends. 

“This tragedy has shaken us 

all, but together, we will find 

strength and comfort,” Thomas 

wrote in a Facebook post. “Let 

us stand united as a community 

and support one another in the 

days ahead.” 


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ST. LOUIS, MO. 

St. Louis Police Officer David Lee was struck and killed by a vehicle while 

assisting at an accident scene on eastbound I-70. 

By Austin Huguelet 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 

ST. LOUIS, MO. — A St. Louis 

police officer hit by a car Sunday 

morning on Interstate 70 died in 

surgery Sunday afternoon. 

The officer was David Lee, an 

18-year veteran of the force. 

Police said they have a suspect 

in custody. 

Officer David Lee, an 18-year 

veteran of the force, died Sunday, 

Sept. 22 after being struck 

by a car. 

“Today is a day of heartbreak 

in the city of St. Louis,” Mayor 

Tishaura O. Jones said at a news 

conference Sunday evening. 

”We are devastated,” police 

Chief Robert Tracy said. 

Tracy said Lee was called to a 

one-car crash around 8:30 a.m. 

Sunday on I-70 near Grand Avenue. 

The driver in the first crash 

was an off-duty Ferguson firefighter 

on her way home. 

Lee was behind his patrol car 

retrieving traffic cones when the 

driver of another vehicle, traveling 

east, lost control, spun out 

and ran into him. 

An investigation was still ongoing 

Sunday evening, and no 

formal charges had been filed. 

Tracy said police had detained a 

24-year-old man who showed 

signs of impairment, but he 

declined to say more. Police said 

further information could be 

available Monday. 

In the aftermath of the crash, 

condolences poured in from political 

leaders and police departments 

across the region. 

“Erin and I send our deepest 

condolences — and heartfelt 

appreciation — to the family of 

Officer David Lee, killed in the 

line of duty today,” U.S. Sen. Josh 

Hawley, R- Mo., wrote on X, formerly 

Twitter. 

“My heart is with the family of 

Officer David Lee and his fellow 

officers,” St. Louis Alderwoman 

Cara Spencer, of Marine Villa, 

said. 

“Officer Lee will never be 

forgotten,” the St. Louis County 

Police Department said in a 



OFFICER DAVID LEE 

Facebook post. 

Lee, 44, had spent four years in 

the department’s traffic division, 

Tracy said. He had previously 

worked in the North Patrol Division. 

He leaves behind a wife and 

two children. 

Tonya Lee, Officer Lee’s wife, 

told the Post-Dispatch her husband 

was a great man. 

“Amazing husband,” she said. 

“Amazing father. Amazing person.” 



40 The Blues - October ‘24



OSWEGO, NY. 

Oswego County Deputy Sheriff Cailee Campbell was killed in a two-vehicle 

crash at the intersection of Route 176 and Rowlee Road in Volney. 

By Darian Stevenson 

syracuse.com 

VOLNEY, N.Y. — A two-car 

crash that killed an Oswego 

County deputy Wednesday 

morning was “simply an accident,” 

according to Oswego 

County Sheriff Don Hilton. 

Deputy Cailee Campbell, 33, 

was responding to a call with 

her lights on when her cruiser 

and a car collided in Volney, 

according to Hilton. 

She was responding to a vehicle 

crash, sheriff’s deputies said 

Wednesday evening. 

Around 6:42 a.m. Campbell 

drove through the intersection of 

Route 176 and Rowlee Road, Hilton 

said. Campbell’s cruiser and 

a car collided, he said. 

“The department doesn’t have 

a lot of particulars as to what 

went wrong,” Hilton told Syracuse.com|The 

Post-Standard 

Wednesday. 

Hilton said it’s possible the other 

driver did not see Campbell’s 

cruiser. 

“It was dark, it was raining. 

I don’t want to portray any 

thoughts that there was any fault 

of the other guy,” Hilton said. 

“That’s not the case at all.” 

DEPUTY CAILEE CAMPBELL 

Shortly after asking Campbell 

for a status check, a 911 dispatcher 

informed other units that 

there were reports her car was 

involved in a crash, according to 

dispatches from the county 911 

center. 

Several people called 911 to 

report one car had flipped at the 

intersection, according to dispatchers. 

Campbell was trapped in her 

vehicle, dispatchers said. When 

emergency crews arrived they 

requested a “heavy rescue,” 

dispatchers said. Campbell was 

removed about 15 minutes after 

the call came in, according to 

dispatches. 

Hilton said Campbell’s platoon 

mates arrived and tried life-saving 

measures. Campbell died at 

Oswego Hospital. 

“There are some pretty shaken 

up people, especially her platoon 

mates,” Hilton said. 

The other driver was taken to 

Upstate University Hospital in 

Syracuse with non-life-threatening 

injuries, Hilton said. The 

driver should be released from 

the hospital later today, he said. 

Wednesday afternoon, a procession 

of a hearse, police cars 

and other vehicles took Campbell’s 

body to Syracuse. Police 

and firefighters gathered to honor 

her as she was moved from 

Oswego Hospital to the Wallie 

Howard Forensic Center in Syracuse. 

Over 200 Syracuse police officers 

and Onondaga County Sheriff’s 

Office deputies were waiting 

at the center. Syracuse Police 

Chief Joseph Cecile and Onondaga 

County Sheriff Tobias Shelley 

were among those waiting. 

Oswego police officers and 

Border Patrol agents also gathered 

at the center on Elizabeth 

Blackwell Street following the 

procession. 

Reprinted from Police1.com 




LETCHER COUNTY, KY. 

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines was charged with fatally shooting 

District Judge Kevin Mullins in his chambers. 

By Michael Dorgan Fox News 

WHITESBURG, KY – A Kentucky 

sheriff charged with 

fatally shooting a judge inside 

his chambers on Thursday was 

accused in a lawsuit earlier this 

week of failing to investigate 

claims that a local deputy was 

sexually assaulting women who 

were under house arrest. 

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn 

Stines, 43, was deposed in a 

lawsuit filed Monday by two 

women, one of whom alleged 

that a deputy forced her to have 

sex inside the same judge’s 

chambers where the shooting 

took place. The woman claims 

the deputy repeatedly sexually 

assaulted her for six months in 

exchange for staying out of jail. 

The lawsuit accuses the sheriff 

of “deliberate indifference in 

failing to adequately train and 

supervise” the deputy. 

The deposition came just 

three days before District Judge 

Kevin Mullins, 54, was shot multiple 

times at the Letcher County 

courthouse following an argument 

with Stines in Whitesburg, 

Kentucky State Police said. He 

was pronounced dead at the 

scene. 

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn Stines in his booking photo. Stines is 

charged with one count of first-degree murder in relation to the shooting 

death of District Judge Kevin Mullins. 

Stines was taken into custody 

at the location without incident 

and was charged with one count 

of first-degree murder, police 

said. He is being held at nearby 

Leslie County Detention Center, 

two counties away. 

It is unclear what the pair were 

arguing about or if it was in any 

way related to the lawsuit. 

The lawsuit stems from a case 

involving the now-former deputy 

sheriff, Ben Fields, who pleaded 

guilty in January to raping a female 

prisoner while she was on 

home incarceration. 

Fields, who formerly worked 

as a deputy jailer, was sentenced 

this year to six months in 

jail and then six and a half years 

on probation for rape, sodomy, 

perjury and tampering with a 

prisoner monitoring device, The 

Mountain Eagle reported. Three 


District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was killed by Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43, 

in his judge’s chambers, authorities said Thursday. 

charges related to a second 

woman were dismissed because 

she is now dead, having died 

from a drug overdose. 

Prisoners under house arrest 

are required to pay for electronic 

monitoring, and the women 

claimed Fields told them he 

would not make them pay for the 

monitoring if they would do him 

“a favor,” per the outlet. 

Fields disabled the women’s 

devices and told the monitoring 

company that bail conditions had 

been changed, so the devices 

were not required. He then used 

threats of arrest to force the 

women to have sex with him, according 

to The Mountain Eagle. 

The killing of the judge sent 

shock waves through the 

tight-knit Appalachian town. 

Whitesburg is the county seat 

of government with about 1,700 

residents located about 145 miles 

southeast of Lexington. 

Lead county prosecutor Matt 

Butler described an outpouring 

of sympathy as he recused 

himself and his office from the 

investigation, citing social and 

family ties to Mullins. 

“We all know each other here. 

... Anyone from Letcher County 

would tell you that Judge Mullins 

and I married sisters and that 

we have children who are first 

cousins but act like siblings,” 

Butler said in a statement from 

his office to the Associated Press. 

“For that reason, among others, 

I have already taken steps 

to recuse myself and my entire 

office.” 

Mullins served on the bench in 

the 47th Judicial District where 

he oversaw juvenile matters, 

city and county ordinances, 

misdemeanors, traffic offenses, 

arraignments, felony probable 

cause hearings, claims involving 

$2,500 or less, civil cases 

involving $5,000 or less, voluntary 

and involuntary mental 

commitments and domestic 

violence cases, according to the 

court. 

He has served as a district 

judge in Letcher County since 

he was appointed by former 

Gov. Steve Beshear in 2009 and 

elected the following year. Mullins 

promoted substance abuse 

treatment for people involved 

in the justice system and helped 

hundreds of residents enter 

inpatient residential treatment, 

according to a program for a 

drug summit he 2022. 

Fox News’ Louis Casiano and The Associated 

Press contributed to this report. 



DENVER, CO. 

Colorado State Patrol Cpl. Tye Simcox was parked in his patrol vehicle 

when a driver fired multiple shots at him; the driver then pulled over, got 

out and continued firing at the officer. 

By Jessica Seaman, 

The Denver Post 

DENVER, CO. — A gunman driving 

on U.S. 36 fired on a parked 

Colorado State Patrol trooper 

on Saturday afternoon before he 

pulled over, got out of his vehicle 

and was killed by the wounded 

law enforcement officer in 

a shootout along the turnpike’s 

center median, authorities said. 

The injured officer, identified 

by the state patrol as Cpl. Tye 

Simcox was taken to Denver 

Health and released later in the 

afternoon after being treated for 

injuries that were not life-threatening. 

“I will tell you very directly 

that our member was targeted 

today by a man that intended 

to kill him, and that is shocking 

and unacceptable,” Col. Matthew 

Packard, the chief of the Colorado 

State Patrol, said during a news 

conference Saturday evening. 

“But our Colorado state trooper 

responded appropriately and 

swiftly and courageously, and he 

won today,” he said. “And by winning, 

not only did he save his own 

life, but he saved the rest of his 

community from someone who 

was clearly intending to do evil.” 

Simcox was parked in his 

marked Ford 150 pickup truck 

between two concrete barriers 

in the center median of U.S. 36 , 

just west of Federal Boulevard in 

Westminster, doing paperwork 

around 1:18 p.m., Packard said. An 

adult male driving a black Chevrolet 

pickup truck eastbound on 

U.S. 36 slowed, he said. 

“As he passed our trooper (he) 

started to fire multiple shots from 

a handgun into our patrol car, 

aimed at a Colorado state trooper,” 

Packard said. 

The gunman pulled over, exited 

his vehicle “and began to engage 

our trooper again,” he said. The 

man fired his semiautomatic pistol 

into the patrol vehicle’s windshield 

as the wounded trooper 

got out with his rifle and returned 

fire, officials said. 

“He was able to strike and ultimately 

kill the suspect who was 

attacking him,” Packard said. 

Simcox was shot once in the 

arm and was able to apply a 

tourniquet to the limb as he waited 

for responding Colorado State 

Patrol troopers and Westminster 

police officers. 

Packard said investigators 

hadn’t yet identified the dead 

gunman and didn’t know what 

led him to fire on the parked 

trooper. 

Investigators closed U.S. 36 in 

both directions from Federal to 

Sheridan boulevards for hours 

following the early-afternoon 

shooting; westbound lanes reopened 

at 8:15 p.m. and eastbound 

lanes reopened around 10 

p.m., according to Westminster 

police. 

“I want it to be known that we 

came out on top today, and that’s 

really, really important, because 

that’s what good does,” Packard 

told reporters. “Good and courageous 

people win over evil 

cowardice — and that’s what 

happened today on Highway 36.” 




ROGERS, AR 

Man grabs Arkansas State Trooper TASER, kicks her in head, 

followed by OIS. 

ROGERS, AR. – The Arkansas 

State Police have released video 

of a traffic stop that resulted in 

an attack on a trooper and an 

officer-involved shooting that 

wounded a 26-year-old man 

from Guatemala. 

In the July 27 video Trooper 

Alexandria Duncan chases down 

a vehicle driven by Angel Zapet-Alvarsado, 

pulls him over, 

and attempts to arrest him. 

The trooper used her Taser on 

the man multiple times on the 

man, trying to get him to comply. 

Police say, Zapet-Alvarado 

wrestled the Trooper’s Taser 

from her hands and threw it into 

interstate traffic. During the incident, 

Zapet-Alvarado also kicked 

Trooper Duncan’s head multiple 

times. 

Kylie Sutton, 31, of Rogers witnessed 

the attack and tried to assist 

Trooper Duncan. The Trooper 

used her service weapon to fire 

one round at Zapet-Alvarado, 

wounding him in the right temple. 

He continued to resist arrest 

and refused Trooper Duncan’s 

instructions to get on the ground. 

Zapet-Alvarado was transported 

to a hospital, where he 

was treated and released to law 

enforcement. Toxicology results 

indicate his blood-alcohol was 

.16 and that cannabinoids were 

present. He was transported to 


Arkansas State Police Trooper Alexandria Duncan arrested a suspect 

she shot and wounded earlier this year after he reportedly grabbed her 

Taser and assaulted her. The shooting has been ruled justified. 

the Benton County Sheriff’s Office 

Detention Center, where he 

remains. He was placed on hold 

for Homeland Security Investigation 

(HSI). 

Benton County Prosecutor 

Joshua Robinson announced 

Thursday Sept. 18 that Trooper 

Duncan’s use of deadly force was 

consistent with Arkansas law. 

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JACKSON MS. 

The DOJ opened a civil rights probe of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department 

to determine if the department engaged in a pattern of excessive 

force, and whether it has used discriminatory policing practices. 

By Emily Wagster Pettus 

Associated Press 

JACKSON, MS. — The Justice 

Department has opened a civil 

rights investigation into a Mississippi 

sheriff’s department whose 

officers assaulted two men in 

a racist attack that included 

beatings, repeated use of stun 

guns and assaults with a sex toy 

before one of the victims was 

shot in the mouth, officials said 

Thursday. 

The Justice Department will 

investigate whether the Rankin 

County Sheriff’s Department has 

engaged in a pattern or practice 

of excessive force and unlawful 

stops, searches and arrests, and 

whether it has used racially discriminatory 

policing practices, 

according to Assistant Attorney 

General Kristen Clarke. 

Five Rankin sheriff’s deputies 

pleaded guilty in 2023 to breaking 

into a home without a warrant 

and engaging in an hourslong 

attack on Michael Corey 

Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. 

A sixth officer, from the Richland 

Police Department, was also 

convicted in the attack. 

Some of the officers were part 

of a group that called themselves 

the Goon Squad. All six 

were sentenced in March, receiving 

terms of 10 to 40 years. 

The charges followed an Associated 

Press investigation in 

March 2023 that linked some of 

the officers to at least four violent 

encounters since 2019 that 

left two men dead. 

“The concerns about the Rankin 

County Sheriff’s Department did 

not end with the demise of the 

Goon Squad,” Clarke said Thursday. 

The Justice Department has 

received information about other 

troubling incidents, including 

deputies overusing stun guns, 

entering homes unlawfully, using 

“shocking racial slurs” and employing 

“dangerous, cruel tactics 

to assault people in their custody,” 

Clarke said. 

The attacks on Jenkins and 

Parker began on Jan. 24, 2023, 

with a racist call for extra judicial 

violence, according to federal 

prosecutors. A person phoned 

Deputy Brett McAlpin and complained 

that two Black men were 

staying with a white woman at a 

house in Braxton. 

Once inside the home, the 

officers handcuffed Jenkins and 

Parker and poured milk, alcohol 

and chocolate syrup over their 

faces while mocking them with 

racial slurs. They forced them 

to strip naked and shower together 

to conceal the mess. They 

mocked the victims with racial 

slurs and assaulted them with 

sex objects. 

In addition to McAlpin, the 

others convicted were former 

deputies Christian Dedmon, 

Hunter Elward, Jeffrey Middleton 

and Daniel Opdyke and former 

Richland police officer Joshua 

Hartfield. 

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee 

called the former officers’ actions 

“egregious and despicable” 

and imposed sentences near the 

top of federal guidelines for five 

of the six. 

“The depravity of the crimes 

committed by these defendants 

cannot be overstated,” Attorney 

General Merrick Garland said 

after the sentencing. 

Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker, 

the attorneys for Jenkins 

and Parker, said in a statement 

Thursday that Rankin County has 

a “long and extremely violent 

legacy of departmental abuse 


FILE - This combination of photos shows, from top left, former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward, 

Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Daniel Opdyke and former Richland police officer Joshua 

Hartfield appearing at the Rankin County Circuit Court in Brandon, Miss., Aug. 14, 2023. Two Black men who 

were tortured for hours by the six Mississippi law enforcement officers in 2023 called Monday, March 18, 

2024, for a federal judge to impose the strictest possible penalties at their sentence hearing. (AP Photo) 

under Sheriff Bryan Bailey” and 

that they applaud the Justice 

Department for opening the civil 

rights investigation. 

“This is a first, critical step in 

cleaning up the Sheriff’s Department 

and holding Rankin County 

legally accountable for the 

years of constitutional violations 

against its citizenry,” Shabazz 

and Walker said. “All of this took 

place because, despite innumerable 

warnings, Rankin County 

and Sheriff Bailey belligerently 

refused to properly monitor and 

supervise this rogue department.” 

The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department 

is the 11th law enforcement 

agency in the U.S. to come 

under a Justice Department 

investigation since 2021, Clarke 

said. 

The U.S. attorney for the southern 

district of Mississippi, Todd 

Gee, said text messages between 

Goon Squad members, including 

officers who were not present 

during the January 2023 assault, 

showed that deputies “routinely 

discussed extreme, unnecessary 

uses of force and other ways to 

dehumanize residents of Rankin 

County.” He said deputies shared 

a video of an officer defecating 

in the home of one resident. 

“In Mississippi and throughout 

the nation, we have learned over 

and over that real change in civil 

rights sometimes requires us to 

dig up the past, tell painful facts 

and offer new ways of doing 

things,” Gee said. “We intend for 

this investigation to do that same 

work in Rankin County.” 

____ 

Associated Press writer Michael 

Goldberg contributed. 






VOLUSIA COUNTY, FL. 

Florida sheriff posts mug shots of students, publicly names parents 

to crack down on school shooting threats. 

By Joanna Putman, Police1 

VOLUSIA COUNTY, FL. — Volusia 

County Sheriff Mike Chitwood 

followed through on a promise 

to publicly release a mug shot 

and “perp walk” video of an 

11-year-old student arrested for 

making a school shooting threat, 

First Coast News reported. 

“Because you don’t want to 

raise your kid, so Sheriff Chitwood’s 

going to raise them,” the 

sheriff said. 

The student, from a Port Orange 

middle school, was taken 

into custody after allegedly 

creating a written list of names 

and targets. Although the child 

claimed it was a joke, the sheriff’s 

office took the threat seriously, 

recovering airsoft rifles, 

pistols, fake ammunition, knives 

and swords that the student had 

shown off to others in a video, 

according to the report. 

The sheriff’s office published a 

video showing the student being 

led in handcuffs from a patrol 

vehicle into the police station, 

where he was processed before 

being placed in a holding cell. 

Sheriff Chitwood had previously 

warned that his agency would 

begin publicly sharing the images 

of students caught making 

threats and their parents. 

“For you parents out there, today’s 

hoax cost around $21,000,” 

Chitwood said. “We’re coming 

after you, and starting Monday, 

we’re going to start publishing 

[your child’s] face and doing perp 

walks with him when we take 

him into custody. Then we’re going 

to show pictures of you, the 

parents.” 

“I can and will release the 

names and photos of juveniles 

who are committing these felonies, 

threatening our students, 

disrupting our schools and 

consuming law enforcement 

resources,” Chitwood reiterated 

on Facebook. 

Two other students, ages 13 

and 14, were also arrested in 

Volusia County last week for 

posting similar threats online, 

according to the report. 


By Sam Kosmas 

WASHINGTON - The Metropolitan 

Police Department and 

officials across the region are 

remembering an officer who 

died Wednesday after being 

shot by a gun he was attempting 

to retrieve from a storm 

drain. 

The officer, Wayne David, had 

served the department for over 

25 years, according to Executive 

Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll. 

“Wayne is a true hero to the 

District of Columbia, and today 

he gave his life to serve the 

visitors and the residents here,” 

Carroll stated Wednesday. “We 

will never forget that.” 

Around 5:40 p.m., officers say 

a person exited a suspicious 

vehicle in Northeast D.C., fled 

on foot, and jumped onto Interstate 

295. The suspect discarded 

a gun into a storm drain 

before escaping on a motorcycle. 

While officers were attempting 

to recover the weapon, it 

accidentally discharged, striking 

Officer David. Authorities 

are currently searching for the 

suspect who discarded the gun. 

“Our hearts are heavy tonight 

after the tragic loss of one of 

our own. 

Investigator Wayne David, a 

veteran MPD officer, lost his life 

while serving in the line of duty. 

There are few words to express 

the hurt and pain that Officer 



HAZEN, AR. 

Chief Bradley Taylor and his officers are lucky to be alive after a horrific 

crash occurred ‘live’ on “ON PATROL LIVE.” 

HAZEN, AR. – It’s Sunday September 

22, the morning after our 

favorite Chief in Hazen Arkansas 

was involved in a high-speed 

crash that sent one officer from 

a neighboring department to the 

hospital. 

Chief Taylor and Sgt Dillion 

along with the film crew from ON 

PATROL LIVE were attempting to 

stop a suspect in a Camaro traveling 

at speeds up to 140 mph 

and approaching an intersection 

with dozens of stopped cars. 

As Taylor crossed over into the 

oncoming lane in an attempt to 

stop the fleeing vehicle. Officer 

Cook and K 9 Bosco, just behind 

the Chief, had the same idea 

which resulted in Cook’s patrol 

unit striking the suspects vehicle 

and then slamming into the drivers 

side of the Chiefs car. 

The suspect continued a short 

distance before slamming head 

on into a neighboring officer’s 

patrol car head on. That officer 

was transported to an area hospital 

but word is she is OK. 

All was captured on live TV on 

the reality show ON PATROL LIVE. 

Only by the grace of God were 

all the Hazen officers and the 

film crew not seriously injured or 

worse killed. 

The Hazen Police Department 

CLICK TO WATCH VIDEO 

is a fan favorite of the On Patrol: 

Live community. Chief Bradley 

Taylor always emphasizes, they 

are a very small unit and do 

their best to keep everyone safe 

and put the bad guys away. But 

Saturday night, fans were terrified 

when the Chief and his men 

were involved in the jaw-dropping 

wreck. This had fans scared 

for them and wondering if they 

were okay. Later in the show, 

Chief Taylor gave a live in-person 

interview with show host 

Dan Abrams, a show first, describing 

what happened and letting 

all the fans know they were 

OK. Chief Taylor also posted to 

Facebook that they were banged 

up but doing OK. 


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“You’re going to prison for a long time” Chief Bradley Taylor 



DALLAS, TX. 

Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia to retire from Dallas PD to accept a city 

manager’s position in Austin. 

By Joanna Putman, Police1 

AUSTIN, TX — Dallas Police 

Chief Eddie García is set to retire 

from his position and transition 

to a new role as assistant city 

manager overseeing public safety 

in Austin, the city confirmed to 

the Austin American-Statesman. 

García will begin his new 

position on Nov. 4, replacing 

Bruce Mills, who retired in August, 

according to the Statesman 

report. He will be responsible for 

overseeing several key departments, 

including Austin Fire, Austin 

Police, Austin/Travis County 

Emergency Medical Services and 

Homeland Security and Emergency 

Management. 

In a memo to the Mayor and 

City Council obtained by the 

Statesman, Austin City Manager 

T.C. Broadnax praised García’s 

work in Dallas, highlighting his 

contributions to transparency 

and accountability in law enforcement. 

“In Dallas, he introduced a 

comprehensive use of force 

dashboard, worked with criminologists 

to develop a crime 

plan and supported the formation 

of a Community Advisory 

Board,” Broadnax wrote. 

García’s appointment comes 

shortly after the city named 

Lisa Davis as the new chief of 

the Austin Police Department, 

according to the report. García, 

who has over 30 years of law 

enforcement experience, had 

been considered for the role of 

police chief in Austin earlier this 

year but did not apply. 

Before leading the Dallas Police 

Department, García spent 29 

years with the San Jose Police 

Department, where he became 

chief in 2016. He also serves 

as president of the Major Cities 

Chiefs Association. 

García will be one of five assistant 

city managers in Austin, 

each overseeing different city 

departments, according to the 

report. His move follows that of 

other top Dallas officials who 

joined Austin’s leadership team 

after Broadnax assumed the role 

of city manager. 






MACOMB COUNTY, MI. 

Deputy Nichole Miron climbs from SUV into moving truck to stop 

driver experiencing medical crisis. 

MACOMB COUNTY, MI. – A 

Michigan sheriff’s deputy is being 

praised for her daring and quick 

thinking while stopping a vehicle 

that was traveling erratically on 

a Mount Clemens street. 

In the Sept. 12 incident, Macomb 

County Sheriff’s deputies 

were dispatched to the scene 

after motorist called 911 about 

a GMC Sierra that was being 

driven dangerously, the sheriff’s 

office said in a Facebook statement. 

Deputies located the vehicle 

and tried to get the driver to pull 

over. 

They soon realized that the 

63-year-old male driver could 

not comprehend what was going 

on, police say. 

The deputies pulled alongside 

the driver’s side of the truck and 

were able to get the driver to 

roll down his window and apply 

the vehicle’s brakes. 

Deputy Nichole Miron, who had 

been in the passenger side of 

the patrol vehicle, was able to 

transfer from the sheriff’s office 

SUV into the truck. Both vehicles 

were still moving. 

She stopped the truck and 

called for medical response for 

the driver. 


Screen grab from Macomb County Sheriff’s Office video shows Deputy 

Nicole Miron climbing out of a moving patrol vehicle and into a truck driven 

“I commend Deputy Miron for 

putting herself in harm’s way to 

help a citizen in need and protect 

other drivers on the roadway,” 

said Macomb County Sheriff 

Anthony Wickersham. “Due to 

her quick thinking and selfless 

actions, she safely ended what 

could have been a tragic situation.” 

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SAN DIEGO, CA. 

(IDF) says that Hamas is assisting Mexican drug cartels in digging 

tunnels between Mexico and San Diego. 

By: Pat Droney, 

Law Enforcement Today News 

SAN DIEGO, CA. - In Gaza, we 

have witnessed the sophistication 

of Hamas, which concerns 

the digging of tunnels. Now we 

are hearing they may be doing 

so much closer to home, American 

Thinker reports. 

According to Newsmax correspondent 

Jaeson Jones, a 

colonel with the Israeli Defense 

Forces (IDF) says that Hamas is 

assisting Mexican drug cartels in 

digging tunnels between Mexico 

and San Diego. 

According to CBP, the U.S. Border 

Patrol has discovered over 

200 such tunnels since 2003. 

The last one reported on was in 

2022 when a tunnel between Tijuana 

and San Diego was found. 

That tunnel was replete with 

air conditioning, electricity, and 

rail lines stretching over a mile. 

In other words, this was a very 

sophisticated operation. 

Jones interviewed IDF Col. 

Dany Tirza, who was responsible 

for planning the security infrastructure 

in the West Bank. 

“As we know, directly from 

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 

there is a group of Hamas that 

works with the syndicates in Tijuana 

to dig tunnels toward San 

Diego,” Tirza told Jones. He noted 

that Hamas engineers possess 

“special technology” that allows 

them to work and dig in sandy 

areas, noting it is technology 

“that the Mexicans [do not] have. 

And therefore they need people 

from Hamas” to construct tunnels 

in sandy terrain. 

He continued that Hamas is 

“making a lot of money” by helping 

the cartels with their knowledge 

of building tunnels. 

That, of course, spells trouble 

not only for San Diego but also 

for the United States at large, 

with Mexican drug cartels now 

having the ability to smuggle 

drugs and illegal aliens into the 


country. That doesn’t discount 

the possibility that among those 

illegal aliens may be terrorists 

who wish harm on our country. 

San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond 

also issued a stark warning 

about the city on X, “San 

Diego is leading the nation–and 

not in a good way. We account 

for 85% of all ‘Special Interest 

Aliens’--individuals with known 

ties to terrorism–who have been 

arrested, charged, or convicted 

of terrorism-related crimes by 

U.S. or foreign authorities. 

“This isn’t just a statistic–it’s a 

clear failure by the Federal Government, 

putting our communities 

and our country at risk.” 

There are a lot of similarities 

between Hamas and Mexican 

drug cartels. However, you 

wouldn’t know if one only listens 

to the mainstream media. But 

the fact there appears to be an 

unholy alliance between Hamas 

and Mexican cartels spells trouble 

for our national security. Last 

October 7, we saw the carnage 

that Hamas terrorists can do, and 

that is with a secure border. 

Given the porous situation at 

our southern border, if Hamas 

decides to undertake such an 

operation hear, the death toll 

could be exponentially higher 

than what happened last year in 

Israel. 

Reprinted from Law Enforcement Today 

KENNEDY CNTY, TX. 

16 migrants found stuffed behind fake wall of trailer with ‘no ventilation. 

KENNEDY COUNTY, TX. – A 

Houston man is facing felony 

charges of human smuggling 

after state troopers found 16 

migrants behind a false wall of 

a trailer. 

A Texas Department of Public 

Safety trooper stopped a Ford 

F-250 that was towing a cargo 

trailer on U.S. 77 in Kennedy 

County on Monday. Anthony 

Jhonson, 42, of Houston was 

behind the wheel, according to a 

post by Lt. Chris Olivarez. 

Jhonson consented to a search 

of the trailer, where troopers say 

they found a false wall. 

Body cam video shows troopers 

using drills to remove the 

false wall where 16 people were 

found “crammed inside a small 

compartment with no air ventilation.” 

The people were found to be in 

the country illegally, according 

to the Texas Department of Public 

Safety. Johnson was arrested 

and charged with 16 counts of 


Anthony Jhonson, 40, of Houston is accused of smuggling 16 people 

behind a false wall of a trailer in Kennedy County, Texas. (Copyright 2024 

by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) 

smuggling of persons with the 

likelihood of substantial bodily 

injury or death. The migrants 

were referred to U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection. 






SACRAMENTO, CA. 

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office plane makes ‘emergency landing’ in field. 

By Rosalio Ahumada and Daniel 

Hunt, The Sacramento Bee 

SACRAMENTO, CA. — A Sacramento 

County sheriff’s plane 

was forced to make an “emergency 

landing” Thursday morning 

and came to rest upside 

down in an open field in West 

Sacramento. 

The pilot in the single-engine 

Cessna 206 made it out of the 

plane without any injuries, said 

Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesman 

for the Sacramento County 

Sheriff’s Office. The pilot was 

seen after the crash inspecting 

the plane alongside West Sacramento 

police and fire personnel. 

He said the pilot was forced 

to make an “emergency landing 

due to a mechanical issue 

while in the air.” The plane 

crashed in the open field on the 

outskirts of West Sacramento 

near the intersection of Village 

Parkway and Linden Road. 

Gandhi said the pilot was taking 

the plane to a private mechanic 

shop at Watts-Woodland Airport 

when it went down. 

The plane had departed from 

Mather Field in Sacramento 

County and was headed to 

Woodland for a routine oil 

change at a mechanic shop. 

Gandhi said the pilot reported 

engine failure. 

A National Transportation 

Safety Board spokesperson said 

Thursday that the agency would 

be “coordinating with the FAA 

to investigate the crash.” 

Gandhi said the aircraft that 

crashed is used typically by the 

Sheriff’s Office for transport or 

surveillance. 

“The engine seized up over 

West Sacramento, and he had 

to make an emergency landing 

in the field,” said Sheriff Jim 

Cooper. “It came down OK in 

the front, but the front wheel 

dug into the ground in the 

field, and it flipped over.” 

The sheriff said the pilot 

couldn’t get out of the doors, 

but escaped through the back 

of the plane. 

“He’s OK. The plane is a total 

loss,” Cooper said. “We can 

buy a new plane, but you can’t 

replace a great pilot.” 








ACROSS THE US 

The Latest Breaking News as we go LIVE. 

‘TREASON’: MORE THAN 150 

HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTE 

AGAINST DEPORTING ILLEGAL 

IMMIGRANTS CONVICTED OF 

SEX CRIMES 

By Richard Moorhead, 


WASHINGTON, D.C. - A majority 

of the Democratic caucus in the 

House of Representatives refused 

to back legislation that would 

require illegal aliens convicted 

of sexual offenses be deported in 

a Wednesday vote. 

The Violence Against Women 

by Illegal Aliens Act was met 

with a “nay” vote from 158 Democratic 

members of Congress, 

according to Fox News. In spite 

of Democratic opposition, the 

legislation did pass the lower 

chamber of Congress in a 266 to 

158 vote. All Republican members 

of the House backed the 

legislation. 

In addition to mandating the 

deportation of illegal alien sex 

offenders, the legislation would 

deem illegal aliens convicted of 

sex crimes and domestic violence 

inadmissible to the United 

States. 

Some progressive Democrats 

even went so far as to criticize 

the measure, which garnished 

broad bipartisan support in the 

House. 

“Here we are again, debating 

another partisan bill that fear 

mongers about immigrants, instead 

of working together to fix 

the immigration system,” Washington 

Representative Pramila 

Jayapal said of the legislation 

during floor debate. Jayapal 

likened the legislation to an attempt 

by Republicans to demonize 

immigrants broadly, rather 

than a specific set of felons 

convicted of sexual offenses. 

“I probably shouldn’t be too 

surprised. Scapegoating immigrants 

and attempting to weaponize 

the crime of domestic 

violence is appearing to be a 

time-honored tradition for Republicans.” 

Another progressive Democrat, 

New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, took 

exception to what he viewed as 

a lack of waiver authority for 

illegal alien sex criminals he 

deemed to be worth exceptions 

to the rule, according to the 

Washington Examiner. 

South Carolina Republican Rep. 

Nancy Mace, the sponsor of the 

bill, criticized its opponents for 

their attitude towards female 

victims of illegal immigrant sex 

crime. 

“If you vote against it, you’re 

sexist against women,” Mace 

told Fox before the legislation’s 

floor vote. 



“I mean, truly, because we’re 

talking about illegals who are 

here who are committing domestic 

violence, rape and murder 

on women and children — 

they’ve gotta go. They shouldn’t 

be allowed into our country.” 

The legislation’s prospects in 

the Democratic-controlled United 

States Senate are unclear. 

Deportation levels have plummeted 

to historic lows during the 

tenure of President Joe Biden. 

Immigrations and Customs 

Enforcement have carried out 

removals at a fraction of the rate 

practiced under former President 

Donald Trump, according to the 

Center for Immigration Studies. 

The lax attitude towards removals 

coincides with a record-setting 

influx of illegal aliens across 

the nation’s southern border 

under Biden. 

FAMILY OF YOUNG STATE 

POLICE RECRUIT OUTRAGED 

AFTER LEARNING THAT HE DIED 

DURING A TRAINING EXERCISE 

By Jenna Curren 


NEW BRAINTREE, MA - After 

learning that 25-year-old Enrique 

Delgado Garcia, a recruit at 

the Massachusetts Police Academy 

died after having a medical 

crisis during a training exercise, 

his family has questions about 

how a training exercise could 

have left him with such serious 

injuries including severe brain 

trauma. 

According to NBC Boston, 

Delgado’s family said that their 

loved one suffered a broken 

neck, missing teeth, and severe 

brain damage. In a statement 

released by the Massachusetts 

State Police (MSP), authorities 

Massachusetts State Police trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia who died 

during training accident on his first day at the academy. 

said that Delgado suffered a 

medical crisis during a defensive 

tactics training and became unresponsive. 

He was later rushed 

to the hospital, where he died. 

Now, his family is demanding 

accountability as well as a much 

more detailed explanation to 

what went on inside the walls of 

that academy. A friend of Delgado 

said, “I’m ashamed of MSP 

and I feel like they need to thoroughly 

investigate this and justice 

needs to be brought because 

its not okay how they’re treating 

these troops. If my friend could 

end up like this, this could be 

anyone’s son or daughter.” 

Cousin Omel Canario Garcia 

said, “That didn’t come from 

boxing, especially a round of two 

minutes.” 

On Saturday, September 14th, 

an MSP spokesman shared some 

new information on Delgado’s 

death. Police have not yet shared 

more about the actual training 

exercise that they said Delgado 

was seriously injured in, but a 

department’s spokesman confirmed 

that the Worcester County 

District Attorney’s Office was 

“reviewing all aspects of this 

matter.” 

The spokesman also said that 

Delgado’s body was due to be 

taken from UMass Medical Center 

to the Westfield location of 

the Office of the Chief Medical 

Examiner. Tim McGuirk, the 

department’s interim director of 

media relations, said that before 

his death, Delgado was “surrounded 

by family, loved ones, 

and classmates during the bilingual 

ceremony, which culminated 

in him being pinned with his 

Trooper Badge.” 

McGuirk said that the oath of 

office was administered by two 

civilian workers at MSP serving 

as commissioners under state 

law that lets the governor appoint 

such officers. WBAY reported 

that Delgado’s mother 

said that her son was hit and 

injured. 

She said, “I don’t understand 

why it was so rough if it was 

just training. I want them to 

explain it to me, that the state 

explains to me what happened 

to my son. Why did he hit him 

so hard that it killed him, that it 

destroyed his brain and broke all 

of my son’s teeth and he had a 



neck fracture too.” 

During the training exercise, 

McGurik said that the academy’s 

on-site medical team responded 

immediately after Delgado 

became unresponsive. They then 

determined that he required urgent 

medical care and tool him 

to the hospital, where he died. 

Delgado was part of the 90th 

Recruit Training Troop, which is 

due to graduate on October 9th. 

Col. John Mawn Jr., the outgoing 

leader of MSP, said in a 

statement, “The Massachusetts 

State Police grieves the tragic 

loss of Trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia, 

and we offer our 

deepest condolences to his family 

and loved ones. They have the 

full measure of our support and 

care, and they remain full members 

of our State Police family. 

“Enrique was a fine you man 

who devoted himself to the 

service of others as a member 

of the 90th Recruit Training 

Troop and in his former role as 

a victim witness advocate in the 

Worcester County District Attorney’s 

Office. In his short time 

with the State Police, Enrique 

demonstrated an extraordinary 

capacity to learn and a desire to 

deliver excellent police services 

to the people of Massachusetts. 

He made an immediate impression 

on his classmates and the 

academy staff. 

HOUSTON PD IDENTIFIES 

OFFICER SHOT DURING HOME 

INVASION 

HOUSTON, TX. – A Houston 

police officer was shot while responding 

to a home invasion and 

armed robbery Spring Branch. 

Hours after the shooting, the officer 

has now been released from 

the hospital. 

Tuesday afternoon, HPD announced 

that Officer S.A. Durfee 

is expected to make a full recovery. 

In the press conference shortly 

after the incident, Houston Police 

Chief J. Noe Diaz said Officer 

Durfee—whose identity had not 

been made public at the time— 

had been shot one time in the 

thigh and was in stable condition. 

He was described as in “very 

good spirits.” 

“Officer Durfee is a hero in my 

book,” Chief Diaz added. 

Chief Diaz with the Houston 

Police Department said during a 

news conference that the shooting 

happened at a home in the 

7100 block of Alderney Dr. and 

Antoine Dr. 

That’s where two young gunmen 

disguised as delivery drivers 

knocked on the front door and 

forced their way inside when a 

mom who was home with her 

two kids, answered the door. 

A neighbor saw the suspicious 

situation and called 911 around 

9:40 a.m. Police officers got there 

in under five minutes, Chief Diaz 

confirmed. 

When responding officers 

Houston Police Officer S.A. Durfee 

reached the scene, they found 

the home’s door wide open. The 

young woman and her children—ages 

3 and 1—were inside. 

The mother’s wrists had been 

zip-tied, and the two men were 

attempting to rob the home. 

When one of the home invaders 

saw the cops, they shot at 

them, hitting Durfee. 

The two gunmen at the scene 

were taken into custody. 

Chief Diaz described them as 

two men in their 20s. We don’t 

know yet why they picked this 

specific home. 

THREE SHOT AS NYPD CON- 

FRONT ARMED SUSPECT WITH 

A HISTORY OF 20 ARRESTS 

By Richard Moorhead 

NEW YORK CITY, NY. - A 

shooting incident involving a 

knife-armed suspect at a Brooklyn 

subway station has landed 

four individuals, including an 

NYPD officer, in an area hospital. 

Police indicated that the gunfire 

took place on Sunday afternoon 

in the Sutter Avenue 

station in Brooklyn’s Brownsville 

neighborhood, according to CBS 

News. The suspect was hospi- 


talized after being shot multiple 

times. One 26-year old woman 

received a grazing wound, and 

a 49-year old was also shot in 

the head, and is listed in critical 

condition. 

A responding NYPD officer was 

shot in the armpit area, being 

hospitalized after performing 

law enforcement duties at the 

scene of the incident. 

Interim Police Commissioner 

Tom Donlon indicated that the 

shooting was the responsibility 

of the knife-wielding suspectwho 

reportedly has a history of 

more than twenty arrests, including 

for violent crimes. 

“Make no mistake, the events 

that occurred on the Sutter Avenue 

station platform were the 

results of an armed perpetrator, 

who was confronted by officers 

doing the job we asked them to 

do. There will be a full and thorough 

investigation conducted 

into this incident, as we always 

do in cases like this. But right 

now we are grateful that our 

officer will be OK.” 

A photograph from the scene 

of the altercation revealed the 

suspect bearing a sharp knife. 

Metro Transit Authority CEO 

Janno Lieber also pointed to the 

suspect’s history of offenses in 

identifying him as the violent 

actor in the city subway system. 

“It started because somebody 

wanted to come to the transit 

system with a weapon, somebody 

who, as the mayor said, 

had a history of crime and a 

history of violence and even gun 

charges.” 

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey 

Maddrey described the suspect 

as having threatened two 

police officers who confronted 

him for entering the subway 

system without paying the fare 

before the altercation, having 

reviewed body camera footage. 

“At a certain point on the platform 

the male mutters the words 

‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t 

stop following me,’” Maddrey 

described. The suspect began 

advancing on the officers with a 

knife after they utilized a lessthan-lethal 

Taser system. 

“The suspect decided he 

wasn’t going to go nicely with 

the officers and the officers were 

put in a very difficult situation to 

save themselves.” 

FORMER GALVESTON POLICE 

OFFICER INDICTED ON EIGHT 

CHARGES 

By Monique Batson, 

The Daily News 

GALVESTON, TX. – A grand jury 

indicted a former island police 

officer on eight charges ranging 

from third-degree felonies to 

Class A misdemeanors stemming 

from a fight at an apartment 

complex in June. 

Jared Rivas was indicted Tuesday 

on two third-degree felony 

counts of injury to a child, one 

state jail felony count of unlawful 

restraint of a child, five 

misdemeanor charges of assault 

causing bodily injury and one 

misdemeanor charge of official 

oppression. 

Rivas faces up to 10 years in 


prison for each charge of injury 

to a child and up to two years 

in state jail for unlawful restraint 

of a child, if he’s convicted. 

Rivas was fired from the Galveston 

Police Department in 

early July after he was video recorded 

punching several people 

at a pool party. 

Rivas, who was off-duty at 

the time, was a resident of 

Island Bay Resort Homes, 7400 

Jones Drive, where he had an 

agreement with management 

to provide security services. 

One June 25, he was called to 

break up a pool party at about 

7 p.m., according to information 

from Police Chief Doug Balli. 

Video later released showed 

Rivas in a physical altercation 

with at least two people. He 

called for backup and a uniformed 

officer arrived while 

Rivas was hitting a man on the 

ground, Balli said. 

The video also shows the 

uniformed officer attempting 

to apprehend the man on the 

ground while Rivas continued 

to hit him. 

Rivas was not authorized to 

use physical force, an apartment 

manager told The Daily 

News. The complex ended its 

agreement with Rivas and hired 

a private security company after 

the incident. 

“Our office will prosecute 

these cases vigorously,” Assistant 

Criminal District Attorney 

Brent Haynes said in a written 

statement. “We will seek the 

earliest possible trial date that 

fairness and due process allow.” 

Rivas was not listed as an 

inmate in the County Jail. 

Reprinted from the Daily News 

U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENT 

GETS BITTEN BY IMMIGRANT 

ATTEMPTING TO ILLEGALLY 

CROSS THE SOUTHERN BOR- 

DER 

By Jenna Curren 

SUNLAND PARK, NM.– Border 

Patrol agent was assaulted and 

bitten by an immigrant who 

was part of a group that was 

attempting to illegally cross into 

the United States at the southern 

border. 

According to the New York 

Post, the incident took place 

on Thursday, September 19th, 

around 12:50 p.m. when agents 

confronted the border-crossers 

at Mount Cristo Rey near Sunland 

Park. As the group was attempting 

to illegally cross the border, 

one of the immigrants allegedly 

attacked and bit the agent, who 

suffered non-life-threatening 

injuries. 

The agent was taken to a local 

medical facility for evaluation 


Former Galveston Police Officer Jared Rivas 

and the suspect was arrested for 

assault. Reportedly, the Sunland 

Park area is often one of the 

more chaotic corridors along 

the U.S. southern border where 

immigrants try to illegally sneak 

into the country. Local dispatchers 

field frequent emergency 

calls when the immigrants fall 

from the border wall near the 

Monte Cristo Rey monument and 

stumble on the rocks below. 

Three of the four immigrants 

in the group who tried to illegally 

enter through the corridor 

ran back into Mexico following 

the violent encounter and were 

subsequently taken into custody 

by Mexican authorities. One of 

the illegal immigrants was then 

brought to U.S. Border Patrol 

agents so he could be identified. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP) data shows that so far 

this year, 413 border agents have 

been assaulted. For fiscal year 

2023, there were 610 assaults 

against agents or officers and 

716 in fiscal year 2022. 



According to reports, a Border 

Report/KTSM camera crew witnessed 

the Border Patrol agents 

meet with Chihuahua state 

police and a Mexican National 

Guard unit after the incident. 

The Chihuahua police had three 

people in custody inside a pickup 

truck and brought out one of 

the suspects for border agents 

to identify. It is unclear what 

charges the young men were 

detained for in Mexico. 

Regarding the incident, the 

Border Patrol released the following 

statement: “A U.S. Border 

Patrol Agent assigned to the 

Santa Teresa Station responded 

to a group of undocumented 

non-citizens that had crossed the 

border illegally in the Sunland 

Park area near the Monument 

2 border marker. While taking 

the undocumented non-citizens 

into custody, the agent was 

physically assaulted and bitten 

by one of the undocumented 

non-citizens. The agent received 

non-life-threatening injuries and 

was transported to a local medical 

facility for evaluation. One 

subject has been arrested for 

assault for assault and was taken 

to a local hospital for medical 

evaluation.” 

IAN CRAMER CHANGED 

HIS PLEA IN THE DEATH OF 

MERCER COUNTY SHERIFF’S 

DEPUTY PAUL MARTIN; THE 

CHARGES INCLUDED FLEEING 

FROM AN OFFICER, PREVENT- 

ING ARREST AND DRUG POS- 

SESSION 

By Jack Dura and Heather 

Hollingsworth, Associated Press 

BISMARCK, N.D. — The adult 

son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer 

pleaded guilty on Friday to all 

Ian Cramer, son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer 

the charges he faced in connection 

with a car-chase crash that 

killed a North Dakota sheriff’s 

deputy. 

Ian Cramer, 43, changed his 

plea in the Dec. 6, 2023, death 

of Mercer County Sheriff’s Deputy 

Paul Martin, 53. The charges 

included homicide while fleeing 

peace officer, fleeing a peace officer, 

preventing arrest, reckless 

endangerment, driving under 

suspension, possession of methamphetamine, 

possession of 

cocaine, unlawful possession of 

drug paraphernalia and possession 

of marijuana. 

The judge ordered a mental 

and substance abuse evaluation 

ahead of his sentencing. 

The prosecution did not agree in 

advance to recommend a lower 

sentence as part of the plea 

deal. The homicide offense alone 

is punishable in North Dakota by 

up to 20 years in prison and/or a 

$20,000 fine. 

Kevin Cramer, a Republican 

who is running for a second 

Senate term, has said his son 

“suffers from serious mental disorders 

which manifest in severe 

paranoia and hallucinations.” 

Cramer wore an orange jumpsuit 

as he appeared for his 

sentencing over Zoom from jail. 

He repeatedly stated, “Yes, your 

honor” as the judge quizzed him 

on whether he understood the 

proceedings. The hearing lasted 

just 10 minutes. 

Neither Cramer’s attorney nor 

staff in his father’s senate office 

immediately responded to phone 

or email messages from The Associated 

Press seeking comment. 

A woman who answered the 

phone in the prosecutor’s office 

said the state’s attorney didn’t 

have any comment. 

Before the crash, Ian Cramer’s 

mother had taken him to a hospital 

because of mental health 

concerns. When she stepped 

out of the vehicle, Ian Cramer 

crawled into the driver’s seat 

and sped in reverse, smashing 

through a closed garage door to 

the ambulance bay and fleeing 

the hospital, Bismarck police 

said. 

He later fled again when a 

deputy confronted him in Hazen, 

about 70 miles (113 kilometers) 

from Bismarck, and hit speeds 

over 100 mph (160 kph), continu- 



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ing even after a spiked device 

flattened two tires, according to 

court documents. 

More spikes were set up, 

and Cramer swerved and then 

crashed head-on into Martin’s 

patrol vehicle, launching the 

deputy about 100 feet (30 meters), 

authorities said. Martin was 

pronounced dead at a hospital. 

In March, Ian Cramer pleaded 

not guilty to separate felony 

charges of theft, criminal mischief 

and reckless endangerment 

in connection with the events 

at the hospital. A jury trial was 

scheduled for November. Cramer 

has been held at the McLean 

County Jail in Washburn on 

$500,000 cash bail. 

SECRET SERVICE REPORT 

DETAILS COMMUNICATION 

FAILURES PRECEDING JULY 

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON 

TRUMP 

By Rebecca Santana, Eric Tucker 

and Alanna Durkin Richer 

Associated Press 

WASHINGTON — Communication 

breakdowns with local 

law enforcement hampered the 

Secret Service’s performance 

ahead of a July assassination 

attempt on former President 

Donald Trump, according to a 

new report that lays out a litany 

of missed opportunities to stop 

a gunman who opened fire from 

an unsecured roof. 

A five-page document summarizing 

the Secret Service 

report’s key conclusions finds 

fault with both local and federal 

law enforcement, underscoring 

the cascading and wide-ranging 

failings that preceded the July 

13 shooting at a Butler, Pennsylvania, 

campaign rally where 

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Trump was wounded in the ear 

by gunfire. 

Though the failed response has 

been well-documented through 

congressional testimony, news 

media investigations and other 

public statements, the report 

being released Friday marks the 

Secret Service’s most formal attempt 

to catalog the errors of the 

day and is being released amid 

fresh scrutiny following Sunday’s 

arrest in Florida of a man who 

authorities say wanted to kill 

Trump. 

“It’s important that we hold 

ourselves to account for the 

failures of July 13th and that we 

use the lessons learned to make 

sure that we do not have another 

mission failure like this again,” 

Secret Service acting director 

Ronald Rowe Jr. said in a statement 

accompanying the release 

of the report into the agency’s 

own internal investigation. 

The report details a series of 

“communications deficiencies” 

before the shooting by 20-yearold 

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 

who was shot by a Secret Service 

counter-sniper after firing 

eight rounds in Trump’s direction 

from the roof of a building 

less than 150 yards from where 

Trump was speaking. It makes 

clear that the Secret Service 

knew even before the shooting 

that the rally site posed a security 

challenge. 

Among the problems: Some 

local police at the site were 

unaware of the existence of two 

communications centers on the 

grounds, meaning officers did 

not know that the Secret Service 

were not receiving their radio 

transmission. 

Law enforcement also communicated 

vital information outside 

the Secret Service’s radio 

frequencies. As officers searched 

for Crooks before the shooting, 

details were being transmitted 

“via mobile/cellular devices in 

staggered or fragmented fashion” 

instead of through the Secret 

Service’s own network. 

“The failure of personnel to 

broadcast via radio the description 

of the assailant, or vital 

information received from local 



law enforcement regarding a 

suspicious individual on the roof 

of the AGR complex, to all federal 

personnel at the Butler site inhibited 

the collective awareness 

of all Secret Service personnel.” 

That breakdown was especially 

problematic for Trump’s 

protective detail, “who were not 

apprised of how focused state 

and local law enforcement were 

in the minutes leading up to the 

attack on locating the suspicious 

subject.” Had they known, the report 

says, they could have made 

the decision to relocate Trump 

while the search was in process. 

The report raises more serious 

questions about why no law enforcement 

were stationed on the 

roof Crooks climbed onto before 

opening fire. 

A local tactical team was 

stationed on the second floor of 

a building in the complex from 

which Crooks fired. Multiple 

law enforcement entities questioned 

the effectiveness of the 

team’s position, “yet there was 

no follow-up discussion” about 

changing it, the report says. And 

there was no discussion with 

Secret Service about putting a 

team on the roof, even though 

snipers from local law enforcement 

agencies “were apparently 

not opposed to that location.” 

The tactical team operating on 

the second floor of the building 

had no contact with Secret Service 

before the rally. That team 

was brought in by a local police 

department to help with the 

event, without Secret Service’s 

knowledge, the report says. 

The Secret Service understood 

in advance that the rally site, selected 

by Trump’s staff because 

it better accommodated the 


“large number of desired attendees,” 

was a security challenge 

because of lines of sight that 

could be exploited by a wouldbe 

attacker. And yet, the report 

said, no security measures were 

taken on July 13 to remove those 

concerns and the Secret Service 

lacked detailed knowledge about 

the local law enforcement support 

that would even be in place. 

The report’s executive summary 

does not identify specific 

individuals who may be 

to blame nor does it indicate 

whether any staff members have 

been disciplined, though The 

Associated Press has previously 

reported that at least five Secret 

Service agents have been placed 

on modified duty. The director 

at the time, Kimberly Cheatle, 

resigned more than a week after 

the shooting, saying she took full 

responsibility for the lapse. 

Rowe has said the July shooting 

and Sunday’s episode, in 

which 58-year-old Ryan Wesley 

Routh was arrested after Secret 

Service agents detected a rifle 

poking through shrubbery lining 

the West Palm Beach, Florida, 

golf course where Trump was 

playing, underscore the need 

for a paradigm shift in how the 

agency protects public officials. 

SHERIFF’S POSTS ABOUT 

HARRIS YARD SIGNS ASSOCI- 

ATED PRESS 

RAVENNA, OH.— A local Ohio 

elections board says the county 

sheriff’s department will not be 

used for election security following 

a social media post by 

the sheriff saying people with 

Kamala Harris yard signs should 

have their addresses recorded so 

that immigrants can be sent to 

live with them if the Democratic 

vice president wins the November 

election. 

In a statement on the Portage 

County Democrats’ Facebook 

page, county board of elections 

chair Randi Clites said members 

voted 3-1 Friday to remove the 

sheriff’s department from providing 

security during in-person 

absentee voting. 

Clites cited public comments 

indicating “perceived intimidation 

by our sheriff against 

certain voters” and the need to 

“make sure every voter in Portage 

County feels safe casting 

their ballot for any candidate 

they choose.” 

A Ravenna Record-Courier story 

on the Akron Beacon Journal 

site reported that a day earlier, 

about 150 people crowded into a 

room at the Kent United Church 

of Christ for a meeting sponsored 

by the NAACP of Portage 

County, many expressing fear 

about the Sept. 13 comments. 

“I believe walking into a voting 

location where a sheriff deputy 

can be seen may discourage voters 

from entering,” Clites said. 

The board is looking at using 

private security already in place 

at the administration building or 

having Ravenna police provide 

security, Clites said. 

Portage County Sheriff Bruce 

Zuchowski posted a screenshot 

of a Fox News segment criticizing 

President Joe Biden and 

Harris over immigration. Likening 

people in the U.S. illegally to 

“human locusts,” he suggested 

recording addresses of people 

with Harris yard signs so when 

migrants need places to live 

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TRUMP 

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION - PART 2 

By Christina Coulter, Fox News 

Now that alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh is 

in custody, the FBI and Florida police will have their hands 

full unraveling his planning process and what may have 

motivated him. 

Former NYPD investigator and security expert Patrick 

Brosnan told Fox News Digital that investigators will need 

to trawl through a litany of information in the coming 

weeks, including “all things cellular, online shopping; 

phone camera images, bank records, email correspondence, 

recent search engine inquiries, dating app activity, 

identification of any possible burner phones, footage from 

city streets, UPS trucks, Amazon trucks or backup cameras, 

and all cell tower pings within a fixed distance.” 

Using this information, investigators will build Routh’s 

profile to answer these questions, according to Gene Petrino, 

a SWAT commander with nearly three decades in law 

enforcement and a master’s degree in security management. 

1. Did Ryan Wesley Routh act alone? 

Petrino said investigators will obtain warrants to scour 

Routh’s social media and speak with his family and associates 

to determine whether someone else was involved in 

planning his assassination attempt on Sunday afternoon or 

anyone who may have trained him beforehand. 

“They’re going to look for a potential accomplice or 

someone who had knowledge and didn’t say anything,” 

Petrino said. 

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The FBI said at a news conference on Monday that it does 

not have information indicating that Routh acted with anyone 

else. 

2. What was Routh’s motive? 

Through associates and social media, investigators will 

be searching for what could have motivated the 58-yearold 

to allegedly take aim at the former president. 

“They’re definitely going to be looking into his background 

and his motive. They’re going to pull all the videos 

they can on him, they’re going to be looking at social 

media accounts, they’re going to be talking to neighbors,” 

Petrino said. “They’re going to look at what might have 

motivated him or if he has a personal vendetta.” 

Routh made a number of political posts on X. Before 

Sunday’s assassination attempt, he called Trump a “buffoon,” 

an “idiot” and a “fool,” writing that he had supported 

Trump in 2016 but came to view that decision as “a 

terrible mistake.” Routh wrote that Iran should feel “free 

to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment.” 

He also wrote that he would be willing to “volunteer to 

fight and die” to assist Ukrainian troops on the front lines. 

Routh is a pro-Ukraine activist who has spent time in 

the Eastern European country volunteering to raise more 

support for the nation’s military efforts and even sought 

Afghan veterans who fled from the Taliban to fight in the 

war, a New York Times report noted. 

“I guess if someone is passionate enough to feel like they 

have to go to another country to defend another country, 

they might feel the same way about what they feel needs 

to be done in their country,” Petrino said. 

3. How did Routh come into possession of a firearm? 

After Routh was spotted and fled the scene of Trump 

International Golf Course, police recovered a loaded SKSstyle 

rifle equipped with a scope and with the serial number 

removed. Routh was charged in federal court on Monday 

with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and 

possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. 

Routh has a criminal record in North Carolina’s Guil- 



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ford County that stretches 

back to the 1980s. Charges 

against him have ranged 

from writing multiple bad 

checks to felony firearm 

possession of a stolen vehicle 

and multiple counts of 

possession of a weapon of 

mass destruction in 2002, 

specifically, a “binary explosive 

with a 10-inch detonation 

cord and a blasting 

cap.” 

“They’re going to look into 

how he got the rifle and 

whether the rifle was used 

anywhere else,” Petrino 

said. “He had a conviction of 

weapons possession before, 

which usually means you 

aren’t able to get another 

weapon; how was he able 

to get another weapon if he 

was a convicted felon?” 

4. How did Routh know 

where to lie in wait? 

Routh arrived outside 

Trump International Golf 

Course under the cover of 

darkness and hid in shrubbery 

for nearly 12 hours, according 

to court documents. 

Petrino said authorities 

need to figure out how he 

knew where Trump would 

be and how he scoped out 


a location with a direct shot 

at the former president. 

“You’d have to have done 

some footwork to find out 

where to lay low,” Petrino 

said. “Could he have done 

that on a computer with 

Google Maps? Sure. But it 

seems like there was some 

planning and thought that 

went into this. How did he 

know to go to that spot? 

The chances of him being 

in the area, seeing a motorcade 

and saying, ‘That’s the 

president, I’m going to go 

get him,’ are very low.” 

“How did this guy get 

the ability to know where 

Trump was going to be? It 

seems to me there may be 

some kind of either a breach 

in security or somehow 

what they thought were secure 

channels were or there 

is someone on the inside 

feeding information,” Petrino 

said. 

Fox News Digital’s Audrey 

Conklin contributed to this 

report. 


Former President Donald Trump thanked the 

Mar-a-Lago estate after they captured the 


Martin County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) at his 

man accused of trying to assassinate him. 


NATIONAL FOP ENDORS 

FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

Washington, DC - Patrick Yoes, National President 

of the Fraternal Order of Police, announced 

today that the members of the FOP voted to endorse 

Donald J. Trump for President of the United 

States. 

“Public safety and border security will be important 

issues in the last months of this campaign,” 

Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered 

the positions of the candidates on the 

issues and there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to 

who they want as our President for the next four 

years: Donald J. Trump.” 

The FOP’s endorsement process is unique in 

that every member has the opportunity, through 

our 46 State Lodges, to make their choice known 

to the National Trustee. Once informed by the 

membership as to their choice, the National Trustee 

casts his or her vote at our National Board 

meeting. In order to secure our endorsement, 

the candidate needs the support of two-thirds of 

the State Lodges, a benchmark former President 

Trump easily cleared. 

“During his first term, President Trump made it 

clear he supported law enforcement and border 

security,” Yoes said. “In the summer of 2020, he 

stood with us when very few would. With his 

help, we defeated the ‘defund the police’ movement 

and, finally, we are seeing crime rates decrease. 

If we want to maintain these lower crime 

rates, we must re-elect Donald Trump.” 

Though this election was highly unusual, the 

FOP considered the two 2024 presidential candidates’ 

records—including President Trump’s 

responses to the FOP’s questionnaire, as well as 

a letter from the Harris-Walz campaign describing 

some of their positions on criminal justice 

and police labor issues. An FOP committee met 

personally with former President Trump, but no 

similar meeting was granted by the Harris-Walz 

campaign. This information was provided to the 

more than 377,000 members of the FOP so they 

could make their own decision in this election. 

“As the nation’s oldest and largest law enforcement 

labor organization, the FOP’s presidential 

endorsement is one of the most sought-after 

endorsements by candidates running for the presidency,” 

Yoes said. “The FOP is the number one 

voice of America’s law enforcement. We have 

a responsibility to our members, to the 700,000 

sworn law enforcement officers in the United 

States, and to the communities they serve to do 

our part in determining the direction in which our 

country will head.” 

In every election cycle, the FOP pays close attention 

to which presidential campaign highlights 

the issues most vital to the men and women of the 

FOP, including the challenges faced by the rankand-file 

law enforcement officers, the real issues 

in public safety, and the problems in our criminal 

justice system. The FOP has endorsed candidates— 

from both parties—that our members believe have 

made the men and women of law enforcement a 

priority: George H. W. Bush (1992); William J. Clinton 

(1996); George W. Bush (2000, 2004); John S. 

McCain III (2008); Donald J. Trump (2016, 2020). In 

2012, the FOP voted not to endorse a candidate. 

“The National FOP endorsed Donald Trump in 

2016 and 2020. He led our nation through some 

very tough times,” Yoes said. “He provided our 

nation with strong, effective leadership during his 

first term, and now that he is seeking election to a 

second term, we intend to help him win it.” 

*** 

Founded in 1915, the Fraternal Order of Police is the 

largest law enforcement organization in the United 

States, with more than 377,000 members. With national 

offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., the 

FOP is committed to improving the working conditions 

of law enforcement officers and the safety of those who 

serve through education, legislation, information, community 

involvement, and employee representation. 


ES DONALD J. TRUMP 


GALVESTON 

COUNTY 

SHERIFF’S RACE 

THE BLUES ENDORSES REPUBLICAN JIMMY FULLEN 

Jimmy Fullen is a 35+ year 

law enforcement veteran rising 

through the ranks as a patrolman, 

to police chief, to most recently 

serving the past 14 years as the 

Republican Elected Constable 

for Galveston County Precinct 2. 

His dedication to protecting the 

citizens of Galveston County has 

earned him the endorsements 

88 of nearly The every Blues municipal - September police ‘24 County Sheriff. 

association in the County along 

with CLEAT, TMPA, COPS and 90% 

of the Republican elected officials 

in Galveston County. Jimmy Fullen 

will dedicate more resources 

in the Sheriff’s Office to tackle 

the increase of gang violence and 

fentanyl overdoses in Galveston 

County. I will continue allocating 

resources to the southern border 

to help combat the invasion 

of illegal aliens that are flooding 

across our borders. 

As Sheriff, I will put criminals 

on notice that Galveston County 

is no longer open for business 

and criminal activity will not be 

tolerated. I will defend your 2nd 

amendment rights, fight against 

the woke left that want to defund 

the police and you have my promise 

that I will aggressively protect 

and defend your God Given Rights 

as Americans. Elect me, Jimmy 

Fullen as your next Galveston 

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Almost a 

year ago, longtime friend and 

fellow law enforcement officer 

Jimmy Fullen, called me to say he 

was running for sheriff. I’ve known 

Jimmy for well over 30 years, 

and he is one of the finest men to 

ever wear a badge. We’ve worked 

together during good times and 

bad. Hurricanes and Mardi Gras. 

Traffic accidents and serving felony 

warrants. No matter what the 

circumstances, Jimmy has always 

shown his passion for the job and 

his desire to serve the citizens of 

his community. He’s always the 

first one through the door and 

100% has your back. There is NO 

ONE more qualified or prepared 

than Jimmy Fullen to be the next 

Sheriff of Galveston County. 

The BLUES Police Magazne endorses 

Jimmy Fullen for the Office 

of Sheriff for Galveston County 

and asks you to please vote for 

Jimmy on November 5, 2024. 


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HARRIS 

COUNTY 

SHERIFF’S RACE 

THE BLUES ENDORSES REPUBLICAN MIKE KNOX 

Harris County faces serious 

threats. Increasing crime related 

to illegal immigration, narcotics 

and human trafficking, jail safety 

and the lack of manpower are 

issues which must be addressed. 

The next Sheriff of Harris County 

must be an advocate for law enforcement 

and must abandon the 

popular “hug a thug” approach 

currently infecting the politics at 

Commissioners Court. As Sheriff, 

I will focus on pushing back 

against unreasonable demonization 

of our law enforcement 

community. I will focus on 

enforcing all the laws of Texas 

and will get the jail re-certified 

under the requirements of the 

Texas Jail Commission. I will 

reestablish the relationship with 

our federal partners by cooperating 

with I.C.E. and re-instituting 

the 287G program. 

I bring over 15 years of practical 

police experience, from routine 

patrol to investigating complicated 

homicide cases to this 

office. I helped create the first 

Divisional Gang Unit in Houston 

and I am a founding member 

of the board of the Texas Gang 

Investigators Association, which 

now has hundreds of members 

statewide. Over 20 years ago, I 

launched a firm which consults 

with law enforcement agencies 

in the United States and abroad 

about street gangs and violent 

youthful offenders. I am a published 

author and a recognized 

international expert on street 

gangs. 

In 2015, I was elected to At- 

Large Position 1 of the Houston 

City Council and served two 

4-year terms. I gained a reputation 

as a person who stood up 

for conservative values and was 

unafraid of confrontation with 

the Democrat Mayor and liberal 

majority of council by focusing on 

good government based on social 

and fiscal conservative values. 

I have the law enforcement, 

business, political and electoral 

experience to be the winning 

Republican nominee for Harris 

County Sheriff. I am the best 

candidate to make public safety 

the most critical issue at the 

Sheriff’s office and at Commissioner’s 

Court. 

The BLUES Police Magazine 

recommends you vote for Mike 

Knox for Harris County Sheriff on 

November 5, 2024. 


MAKE PUBLIC SAFETY PRIORITY #1 

Proactively Fight Crime to Protect Our Families, 

Our Seniors and Our Children 

Clean Up and Certify the Jail 

Reinstate 287(g) to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration 

Prioritize Ending Human Trafficking/Drug Smuggling 

Be the People’s Voice for Public Safety at Commissioners Court 

ENDORSED BY 

LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 

COMMUNITY LEADERS 

ABOUT MIKE 

Houston City Council Member At-Large #1, 2015-2023 

Founding Board Member of 

The Texas Gang Investigators Association 

Houston Police Officers’ 

Union PAC 

Houston Police Organization 

of Spanish Speaking Officers 

Houston Region Business Coalition 

Afro-American Police 

Officers League 

The Blues Magazine 

C Club of Houston 

Responsible for Creation of 

Houston Police Department First Divisional Gang Unit 

15-Year Master Peace Officer 

Published Author/Expert on Gang and Youth Violence 

Certified Retired Texas Peace Officer 

Business Owner 

Air Force Veteran 

Husband, Father, Grandfather 

ELECTION INFORMATION 

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OCTOBER 

POLICE CONFERENCES 

National Association for Civilian Oversight in Law Enforcement 

Conference 

When: October 13-17, 2024 

Where: Tucson, Arizona 

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

continuously works to put together comprehensive, informative, 

and inclusive programs that address skills training and current 

or emerging topics. This conference is best suited for civilian 

oversight practitioners, law enforcement officials, journalists, 

elected officials, students, community members, and others. 

International Association of Chiefs of Police 2024 Conference 

When: October 19-22, 2024 

Where: Boston, Massachusetts 

Why You Should Go: The IACP annual conference provides law 

enforcement leaders with the new strategies, techniques, and 

resources they need to successfully navigate the ever-evolving 

policing environment. 

OCTOBER TRAINING 

1-4 Investigative Interviewing & Advanced Interrogation Fort Worth, TX 

2-4 Officer Involved Shootings by LLRMI Grand Prairie, 

7-8 Female Enforcers Two-Day Event! by Calibre Press Cypress, TX 

7-8 Pistol MOS Operator Course Texas City, TX 

7-8 Scenarios and Tactics for the Field Training Officer by El Paso, TX 

7-9 Death, Injury & Sexual Violence Scene for the First Responder 

*BY PATC 

The Woodlands, 

7-9 First Line Supervision and Management Training Rockport, TX 

7-9 Human Trafficking Investigations *BY PATC La Porte, TX 

7-11 Covert Entry Specialist I & II Course Dallas, TX 

7-11 Criminal Investigations Using Cellular Technologies Austin, TX 

7-11 Field Training Officer Certification Course by LLRMI Wht.Settlement, 

8 The Ultimate K9 Handler by Blue to Gold Pharr, TX 

9-10 Scenarios and Tactics for the Field Training Officer Denton, TX 

10-11 Successful Financial Investigations *BY PATC La Porte, TX 

14 The Narc by Blue to Gold Liberty, TX 

14-16 FTO for the Corrections Officer by LLRMI Dallas, TX 

14-17 Basic Undercover Course Killeen, TX 

14-18 Hostage Negotiations and Crisis Intervention, 

Phase I and II Pier *BY PATC 

Pharr, TX 

14-18 Intermediate Crime Scene - (TCOLE 2106) Georgetown, TX 

15 Advanced Search & Seizure by Blue to Gold Athens, TX 

15 The Narc 2.0 by Blue to Gold Liberty, TX 

16 Advanced Traffic Stops by Blue to Gold Athens, TX 

16-17 Supervising the Toxic Officer *BY PATC Denton, TX 

16-18 Detecting Deception- 2.5 Days *BY PATC McAllen, TX 

17 Bulletproof Report Writing by Blue to Gold Athens, TX 

17 Mastering Proactive Policing For Patrol by Blue to Gold Jersey Vill, TX 

21 M.A.P.P. (Motel, Airport, Parking Lot & Parcel Interdiction) 

DYNAMIC 

San Marcos, TX 

21 Street Level Policing - Geared Towards Proactive Officers Killeen , TX 

21-22 Death Investigation: Cause, Manner & Mechanism of Death New Braunfels, 

21-24 The Cognitive Interview and Analytic Interviewing Seguin, TX 

21-25 CIT & Mental Health Officer Train-the-Trainer Course Georgetown, TX 

22 Advanced Search & Seizure by Blue to Gold Denton, TX 

22 Street Level Policing - Geared Towards Proactive Officers Ft. Worth, TX 

22-24 RADAR/LiDAR Certification #2065 Texas City, TX 

23 Advanced Traffic Stops by Blue to Gold Denton, TX 

23-24 Recruiting, Hiring, Background Investigations and Retention Humble, TX 

23-24 Supervision and Leadership Training: Corrections/Jail Victoria, TX 

28 Anti Human Trafficking & Awareness Training Lakeway, TX 

29-30 Fatal Fire Investigation by LLRMI Pharr, TX 

29-31 WZ Criminal Level I Investigative Interviewing Techniques McKinney, TX 

NOVEMBER TRAINING 

4-5 Intro Into Narcotics Investigations (Dynamic Police Training) Ft. Worth, TX 

4-5 TrapMate* Criminal Interdiction & Trap Training Rockport, TX 

4-7 Investigative Interviewing & Advanced Interrogation San Antonio, TX 

4-8 Internal Affairs Conference and Certification *BY PATC San Antonio, TX 

4-8 Smartphone Technology and Forensics Certification New Braunfels, 

4-15 At-Scene Traffic Crash/Traffic Homicide Investigation by IPTM Houston, TX 

6 Confidential Informants “CI” Class (Dynamic Police Training) Ft. Worth, TX 

6-7 Fundamentals of Interview and Interrogation Round Rock, TX 

6-7 Informant Management & Control Del Valle, TX 

7 Advanced Patrol Tactics by Calibre Press Round Rock, TX 

7-8 Advanced Interview and Interrogations Course Jersey Vill, TX 

7-8 Tactical Handcuffing Instructor Certification Course Pecos, TX 

11-13 3 day Reid Technique of Interviewing & Interrogation® Rockport, TX 

11-14 Force Science Certification Course Houston, TX 

11-15 International Summit on Mexican Cartels and Gangs San Antonio, TX 

12-13 Covert Surveillance *BY PATC Texarkana, TX 

12-13 Extracting the Truth: Advanced Interview and Interrogation Denton, TX 

12-14 Prisoner Control, Search and Transport -2.5 Day *BY PATC Baytown, TX 

13 Verbal De-Escalation for Corrections Course Galveston, TX 

14-15 In-Custody Interviewing for Corrections Course Galveston, TX 

15-17 Close Quarter Tactics (CQT) San Antonio, TX 

18 High Performance Leadership - By Leading Blue Jersey Village, 

18 Tactical Pistol Low Light Texas City, TX 

18 Trafficking, Terrorism & Tactics - Interdiction Ft Worth , TX 

18-19 Investigating and Tracking Cyber Predators and Online 

Child Abuse *BY PATC 

Hondo, TX 

18-19 Investigative Interviewing: From Information To Evidence 

by Blue to Gold 

Irving, TX 

18-20 Force Encounters Analysis: Understanding Human Performance Georgetown, TX 

18-22 CIT & Mental Health Officer Train-the-Trainer Pecos, TX 

18-22 Hostage Negotiations and Crisis Intervention, Phase I and II 

(Pier *BY PATC 

Rockport, TX 

19-20 Overdose Death Investigations Mckinney , TX 

19-21 Criminal/Drug Interdiction Techniques and Concealment 

Locations *BY PATC 

La Porte, TX 

19-21 Hands-On Vehicle Fire/Arson Investigation by LLRMI Burleson, TX 

21 Fighting Fentanyl Mckinney , TX 



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TCOLE CONFERENCE AGENDA 

OCTOBER 27-30, 2024 

McALLEN, TEXAS 

Sunday, October 27th 

2:00 PM 

4:00PM 

6:00 PM Registration Palm Lobby 

Welcome Reception 

TBD 

Monday, October 28th 

Start End 

Description Location 

7:00 AM 1:30 PM Registration Palm Lobby 

8:00AM 10:00AM Reception Performing Arts Center 

8:00 AM 5:00 PM Silent Auction & Exhibitors Exhibit Hall 

9:00 AM 12:00 PM TCOLE Training Coordinator Update Performing Arts Center 

12:00 PM 1:00 PM Lunch On Your Own 

1:00 PM 

5:00 PM 

Opening Ceremony & Commission Meeting 

Performing Arts Center 

5:00 PM 

7:00 PM Social Hour with Exhibitors Exhibit Hall 

Tuesday, October 29th 

Start 

8:00 AM 

End 

12:30 

Description 

Silent Auction 

Location 

Exhibit Hall 

8:00 AM 3:00 PM Exhibitors Exhibit Hall 

8:00 AM 

9:30 AM 

10:00 AM 

* 

* 

9:30 AM 

General Session presented by TCOLE 

Exhibit Hall A 

10:00 AM 

Break 

11:30 AM 

Break Out Sessions 

Background Investigations Room 1 

Legal & IT Model Policies Room 2 

Avoid the Slippery Slope, Lessons from Enforcement 

Room 3 

11:30 AM 12:30 PM 

12:30 PM 

* 

2:30 PM 

Operational Leadership 

Room 4 

Lunch On Your Own 


Functional Peer Support Room 1 

Improving Use of Force Through Physical Fitness Room 2 

Animal Control in Law Enforcement Room 3 

We Must Adapt: Innovative Strategies in Recruiting & 

Rentention 

Room 4 

2:30 PM 3:00 PM 

Break 

2:30 PM 

Silent Auction Pick up 

Exhibit Hall 

3:00 PM 

* 

5:00 PM 


Reasonable Belief and the Totality of Circumstances: The 

Arrival Point 

Room 1 

Interdiction for the Protection of Children Overview Room 2 

Mental Health and Me, a Conversation Room 3 


* Attendees representing TCOLE academies or training providers must attend all starred (*) sessions to meet contractual obligations. 

Wednesday, October 30th 

Start End 

Description Location 

8:00 AM 3:00 PM Silent Auction Pick-up TBD 

8:00 AM 

* 

11:30 AM General Session: Leading Without Rank, Command 

Presence Training 

Performing Arts Center 

11:30 AM 12:30 PM 

12:30 PM 

* 

2:30 PM 

Lunch On Your Own 


Sleep & Nutrition: Building a Stronger Foundation for 

Resilience in Law Enforcement 

Room 1 

Surviving Hostile Encounters Using Concrete 

Applications of Emotional Intelligence 

Room 2 

The Link Between Animal Cruelty & Interpersonal 

Violence through Texas Case Examples 

Room 3 

APS: 101 Adult Protective Services Room 4 

2:30 PM 3:00 PM 

Break 

3:00 PM 

* 

5:00 PM 


Duty to Intervene Room 1 

Fail to ID: Identifying Wanted Fugitives Room 2 

The Link Between Animal Cruelty & Interpersonal 

Violence through Texas Case Examples 

Room 3 

APS: 101 Adult Protective Services Room 4 

* Attendees representing TCOLE academies or training providers must attend all starred (*) sessions to meet contractual obligations. 

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HONORING OUR 

POLICE OFFICER ZANE TRISTAN COOLIDGE 

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PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT, ARIZONA 

END OF WATCH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 

AGE: 29 TOUR: 5 YEARS BADGE: 10914 

Police Officer Zane Coolidge succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained three days earlier while responding to 

reports of a larceny from a motor vehicle near the intersection of 16th Street and McDowell Road at about 6:30 

pm. As officers arrived on scene, the suspect fled on foot and jumped a fence into a backyard. The man then 

opened fire on officers, striking Officer Coolidge and a second officer before being taken into custody. Officer 

Coolidge was transported to a local hospital where he remained until succumbing to his wounds three days later. 

Officer Coolidge had served with the Phoenix Police Department for five years. He is survived by his wife and 

infant daughter.

FALLEN HEROES 

POLICE OFFICER JAIME JUNIOR ROMAN 

PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT, PENNSYLVANIA 

END OF WATCH TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 

AGE: 31 TOUR: 61/2 YEARS BADGE: 6064 

Police Officer Jaime Roman succumbed to gunshot wounds he received on June 22, 2024, during a traffic stop. 

Officer Roman and another officer initiated a traffic stop at the 3500 block of F Street in Kensington at 7:18 p.m. 

They determined that the vehicle was unregistered and the driver did not have a license. Officers called for a tow 

truck, and they allowed the driver to call for a ride. While his three friends helped him retrieve items from his car, officers 

spotted a gun holster. They questioned the driver about it, but he ran. As he fled, the man turned in the middle 

of the road and fired three shots, one of them hitting Officer Roman in the neck. The other officer returned fire but did 

not hit the subject. Officer Roman had served with the Philadelphia Police Department for 6-1/2 years, assigned to 

the 25th District. He is survived by his wife and children. 

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HONORING OUR 

CORPORAL BRANDON SCHREIBER 

NEWTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT, INDIANA 

END OF WATCH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 

AGE: 32 TOUR: 5 YEARS BADGE: 56-6 

Corporal Brandon Schreiber succumbed to gunshot wounds he received after a vehicle pursuit on 

September 1, 2024. Corporal Schreiber joined a pursuit initiated by the Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office 

(Illinois) when the driver, who was armed, fled into Indiana. The pursuit returned to Illinois, where the suspect 

crashed his vehicle in Sheldon. He fired at responding officers while still inside his car, and gunfire 

was exchanged. Corporal Schreiber was struck and transported to Iroquois Memorial Hospital in critical 

condition. Corporal Schreiber was later transferred to the Carle Trauma Center, where he remained on 

life support until his organs could be donated. Corporal Schreiber had served with the Newton County 

Sheriff’s Department for five years. He is survived by his wife and two young children. 

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FALLEN HEROES 

TROOPER ENRIQUE DELGADO-GARCIA 

MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE, MASSACHUSETTS 

END OF WATCH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 

AGE: 25 TOUR: 1 DAY BADGE: N/A 

Trooper Enrique Delgado-Garcia succumbed to injuries he received while training at the State 

Police Academy at 340 West Brookfield Road in New Braintree. On September 12, 2024, Trooper 

Delgado-Garcia was knocked out during a boxing exercise. The medical team provided life-saving 

measures and transported him to the UMass Memorial Medical Center. The following day, he 

passed away. 

Trooper Delgado-Garcia served with the Massachusetts State Police for one day. He was a member 

of the 90th Recruit Training Troop. He is survived by his mother and father. 

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HONORING OUR 

MOTOR CARRIER OFFICER DANIEL KERSTETTER 

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MICHIGAN STATE POLICE, MICHIGAN 

END OF WATCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 

AGE: 45 TOUR: 2 YEARS BADGE: N/A 

Motor Carrier Officer Dan Kerstetter succumbed to injuries he received when he was struck by a vehicle 

on Interstate 75 on September 13, 2024. At 8:30 a.m., Officer Kerstetter was conducting a traffic stop 

on northbound Interstate 75 near Dix Road in Lincoln Park. While sitting in his patrol car, a truck crashed 

into the back of his vehicle, pushing it into the rear of the semi-truck. He was removed from his vehicle 

using the jaws of life and transported to the Detroit Receiving Hospital. He remained on life support until 

his organs could be donated. The driver of the truck was killed in the crash. The semi-truck driver was not 

injured. 

Officer Kerstetter had served with the Michigan State Police for over a year. He is survived by his wife 

and three children.

FALLEN HEROES 

DEPUTY SHERIFF JOSH PHIPPS 

RUSSELL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, KENTUCKY 

END OF WATCH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024 

AGE: N/A TOUR: 3 YEARS BADGE: N/A 

Deputy Sheriff Josh Phipps was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect on Bluebird 

Drive in Russell Springs. Deputy Phipps was assisting the Kentucky State Police in apprehending 

a suspect who had fled on foot. During the encounter with the suspect at 5:27 p.m., 

gunfire was exchanged. Deputy Phipps was transported to the Russell County Hospital where 

he succumbed to his wounds. The suspect died from his wounds at the hospital. 

Deputy Phipps had served with the Russell County Sheriff’s Office for three years and previously 

served with the Louisville Metro Police Department. He is survived by his parents. 

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HONORING OUR 

POLICE OFFICER DAVID LEE 

ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPT., MISSOURI 

END OF WATCH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2024 

AGE: 44 TOUR: 18 YEARS BADGE: 457 

Police Officer David Lee was struck and killed by a vehicle while assisting at an accident scene on 

eastbound I-70, just east of the Adelaide Avenue exit, shortly after 8:45 am. He was setting out flares 

when an approaching vehicle struck him. He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to 

injuries. 

Officer Lee had served with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for 18 years. 

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FALLEN HEROES 

DEPUTY SHERIFF CAILEE CAMPBELL 

OSWEGO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, NEW YORK 

END OF WATCH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 

AGE: 33 TOUR: 61/2 YEARS BADGE: 3142 

Deputy Sheriff Cailee Campbell was killed in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 176 and 

Rowlee Road in Volney. While en route to a call at 6:42 a.m., her patrol vehicle flipped at the intersection, 

and she was trapped inside. Deputy Campbell was transported to Oswego Hospital where she was 

pronounced deceased. The other driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries. 

Deputy Campbell had served with the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office for 17 months and previously 

served with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office. 

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WAR STORIES FROM X 

GIVE US A HAND, PLEASE? 

I was a police officer in South 

Africa for 20 years and this is 

one of the many funny stories 

that happened during my time in 

the force. This story happened in 

1989 while I was stationed at the 

Supreme Court in Cape Town as 

a court orderly. 

Our primary job was to maintain 

order in the court and to 

handle any evidence that was to 

be presented to the court. If the 

accused was in custody, then it 

was also our job to make sure 

that he/she was present for the 

hearing. 

The court building had two 

entrances: the main entrance 

which is where you would go in 

to attend the court and the second 

back entrance on the opposite 

side of the building was for 

the admin offices. This is the entrance 

that was used to obtain 

transcripts of court cases. 

The court had its own security, 

but it is important to know 

that security guards have no 

powers of arrest, so every day, 

one of us cops would do duty 

with a security guard at one of 

the entrances just in case things 

go south and a cop is needed to 

perform an arrest. This was way 

past boring to do, therefore we 

made turns among ourselves to 

do this duty. On this day, I was 

on duty at the entrance to the 

admin section. 

I had just opened the door 

for the public to enter when, 

Mr. Peters, which was the head 

of security (not his real name) 

showed up to talk to the guard 

stationed with me. Mr. Peters 

was in his late fifties, and he 

had a prosthetic arm and hand. 

Everybody who worked in the 

court know about his disability 

and I do mean everybody. He 

was a very likable person; quick 

witted and always ready to crack 

a joke or make fun of someone. 

A few minutes later, one of the 

judge’s secretaries walked in the 

door. She was carrying a large 

pile of books in her hands and 

when she saw him, she instantly 

said: “Mr. Peters, would you give 

us a hand, please?” He answered: 

“Sure”. He walked up to her, 

unhook his prosthetic hand and 

placed in on top of the pile of 

books! 

Seeing the hand, the poor 

women fainted! We caught her 

just before she could hit her 

head on the floor. Needless to 

say, he was in a heap of trouble 

for pulling a stunt like that. 

Now before you go and crucify 

the poor man, just remember 

that this was the 80’s and life 

was a lot different than it is now. 

The term “politically correct” did 

not exist and if you wanted to 

call somebody stupid or dumb, 

you could do it without fear. 

Back then a stunt like this was 

seen as naughtiness and you 

were usually just given a very 

stern warning. Try that now and 

you will not have a job to speak 

about anymore! 

Sometimes I really miss the 

good old days! 

••• 

A WINDY AFFAIR 

I was a police officer in South 

Africa for 20 years and this is 

one of the many funny stories 

that happened during my time in 

the force. This story happened in 

1990 while I was stationed at the 

Cape Town Supreme Court as a 

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court orderly. 

Everyone who works in Cape 

Town, know about the South 

Easter. It is when the wind blows 

from a South Easterly direction 

over the Cape Flats, and it can 

easily reach speeds of 35 knots 

plus. Some of the newer buildings 

in Cape Town have been 

designed without compensating 

for the effect of the wind. This 

in itself is strange as one would 

expect progress to be made 

through the years, but apparently 

this is not always true. 

The Cape Town Civic Centre 

is a great example of this. The 

building is open underneath with 

a road for traffic to pass underneath. 

When the South Easter 

blows, the flow of the wind is 

forced through the opening for 

the traffic and that causes people 

to be blown off their feet 

and even buses to topple over in 

extreme circumstances. 

On the one side of the Supreme 

Court is the building for the Cape 

Town Provincial Administration. 

It was built flush with the Supreme 

Court to form an L shaped 

building. It also has a marble 

arch thoroughfare for people to 

walk through underneath the 

building. When the South Easter 

starts blowing, the wind gets 

trapped by the building and it 

is then funneled through the 

archway. This causes the wind 

to reach tornado strength going 

through the arch way and if you 

are not wakeup, it can cause all 

kinds of funny things to happen! 

Everyone who works at the 

Supreme Court know about the 

wind, so when you are walking 

to work using this thoroughfare 

and you feel the wind building, 

then you know it is time to take 

off your cap, pinch it under your 

arm and grab the nearest pole! It 

is a well-known spot known by 

us cops for woman’s dresses to 

be blown over the heads, jackets 

to be ripped open and handbags 

to be blown away. 

On this day, two Volkswagen 

“Combi” delivery vans arrived 

at the archway. Very soon there 

was a model posing with different 

sets of clothes and a photographer 

photographing her. They 

were using the marble facade of 

the archway as a backdrop for 

the photo shoot. Naturally all of 

us cops who worked at the court 

went outside to watch the photo 

shoot. Every now and then the 

model would disappear into one 

of the vans and then came out a 

minute to two later with a different 

set of clothes on. Perhaps 

I should add that the model was 

quite soothing on the eyes as 

well which was all the incentive, 

we needed to keep on watching 

the spectacle unfold! 

The wind started blowing 

lightly... The photographer was 

ecstatic because the wind created 

just the right image he 

wanted to capture. The model 

disappeared into the van again 

and this time got out with a thick 

heavy winter coat. She went 

back to her spot at the marble 

archway and the photographer 

started taking pictures of her 

again. 

Suddenly the wind started 

building up speed rapidly and 

we all knew what was coming… 

The poor girl was caught com- 

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pletely off guard as the wind 

forced its way through the archway. 

The wind ripped the coat 

she was wearing open and no 

matter how hard she tried, she 

could not get the front of the 

coat to close again! The whole 

affair would have been nothing, 

except that the girl was wearing 

nothing but her panties under 

the coat! 

The photographer just kept on 

taking pictures as if noting was 

happening. We all stood there 

smiling like the sweet little boy 

from next door, while we watch 

the girl show her boobs to the 

world! 

Needless to say; sometimes 

you just have to be in the wrong 

place at the right time! 

••• 

TONY ROMO AND THE LIZARD 

KING 

My first few years in Law Enforcement 

I worked at a sheriff’s 

office in Florida, with about 350 

sworn deputies. We had a mixture 

of rural and urban areas, 

and a large city police department 

that was around the same 

size as us, as well as several 

20-man city departments for 

the smaller towns in the county. 

I was also in a college town 

so occasionally we had some 

fucked up calls with those idiots. 

I’m working patrol one night 

and it’s the usual fare for a Saturday; 

domestics, shots fired, and 

traffic problems/street racing. 

My shift had a ritual, when it got 

to around 0430 or so a few of us 

who weren’t tied up would go to 

this 24-hour breakfast joint and 

do our reports at a table in the 

back room and shoot the shit. 

This night I had a trainee who 

was pretty legit, he was doing 

well, was in 4th phase which 

is essentially the “I’m here for 

backup handle your shit” phase. 

As soon as I ordered my chocolate 

chip pancakes, we hear the 

dreaded BEEP BEEP BEEP tone 

that means either something 

serious is happening, or a citizen 

heard a possum outside and 

called in that they were being 

burgled. My trainee jumps out of 

his seat and hauls ass towards 

the car so I’m like, well I guess 

we’re going to this one whatever 

it is. 

Callers reported a man running 

northbound in the southbound 

lanes of a major highway. 

There’s several more calls 

asking us to step it up because 

there’s already one single vehicle 

crash. We get on scene and I’m 

looking around, and everything 

seems pretty normal at first, until 

I catch some movement in my 

peripheral vision in the bushes 

by the Howard Johnson. I shine 

my flashlight across the road, 

and I see a flash of skin. I start 

carefully making my way across 

the road and I see a head poking 

out of the bushes. I challenge 

him, and my trainee pulls his 

taser and starts shrieking in a 

high-pitched voice for him to get 

out of the bushes. The guy says 

“I can’t. Because Tony Romo.” I 

get closer and now can see he’s 

sitting Indian style in the bushes. 

He’s also very very naked, and 

sweaty. 

We try to coax him out of the 

bushes, and he jumps up and 

yells “I AM THE LIZARD KING” 

and starts sprinting down the 

sidewalk, and into the highway 

again. He takes off, wearing 

nothing but tennis shoes, and not 

a stitch else. My trainee looks at 

me like SHIT and I’m like “go get 

him, he’s gonna get killed!” So, 

he chases the guy down with me 

behind him and tackles the dude 

in the median and cuffs him up. 

By this time the entire shift is 

there because they heard there 

was a naked dude, even the supervisors. 

It’s also 5am now and 

we get off at 6am so I’m pissed. 

We sit the dude down in the median 

cuffed in the front because 

he’s obviously not dangerous 

after interacting with him, and 

he’s picking things off the ground 

and eating them, and talking 

about how Tony Romo is one of 

the Illuminati and how he’s one 

of the lizard overlords. He wasn’t 

just sweaty either he was covered 

in some sort of lubricant 

and smelled like solvent. 

I talk to the LT, and I’m like “this 

dude ain’t gonna be accepted in 

the jail the nurse will laugh us 

out of the place” he’s like yeah, 

what do you think? I’m like, 

“hospital, 100%, let them deal 

with this.” Put him in the back 

of my car, and we take him to 

the ER. Security is glaring at us 

as we bring in this naked dude 

wearing a blanket we keep for 

people in shock. Place him on a 

72-hour mental health hold and 

take off. My trainee looks hollow 

eyed like he’s seen a ghost I’m 

like dude, first naked guy. He’s 

like, yep hopefully last naked 

guy. 

Naked dude gets admitted, and 

I’m only 45 minutes late getting 

off. Turns out he was on mushrooms 

and ketamine and had 

covered himself in a mixture of 

gasoline and KY jelly. Not the 

strangest call I had that week, 

that story is for another time. 

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The Blues - October August ‘24 113

WORDS BY ROBERT FAUSTI 

In Memorium to Darren Wilson 

a True Hero and to all those who do their job and are unjustly castigated. 

Mark 13:13 the World will hate 

you because of Me. No greater 

love, than this…that a man lay 

down his life for his friends. 

You are a police officer. It is 

what you always wanted to be 

and you are good at it. There are 

many reasons why you wanted to 

do this job. But the main reason 

is you wanted to help people. 

You wanted to contribute. Most 

of your days are very routine. 

Not much happens and it can be 

boring. Some days can be very 

stressful and the things you see 

are tragic. One of your main 

worries is guarding your soul. 

Because you have seen many of 

your brothers in uniform turn 

into cynics. Everyone is suspect, 

everyone has a story. It is hard to 

keep the faith that most people 

are good, which you have always 

believed. At the academy and 

while working you were taught 

that you will make many critical 

decisions. And one day you may 

have to make a decision that will 

affect you for the rest of your 

life. You have already met some 

who have had to do this. But you 

accept this as part of the job. 

It is mid-morning on a bright 

summers day and you are on 

patrol. It has been quiet so far 

and getting near lunch. You have 

just helped a family with a child 

that was choking. Thank God it 

turned out ok. You are back in 

the car and you get a call from 

Dispatch. 

There has been a petty theft at 

a store near you, so you go to the 

area to look around. There are 

two individuals walking down 

the middle of the street and they 

fit a possible description. One 

is a big bulky guy and the other 

small and thin. You drive by 

them and ask them to move out 

of the middle of the street. The 

big guy’s response is to curse you. 

So, you pull the car up about 10 

ft and stop. You open the vehicle 

door, about to get out of the car, 

when the big guy pushes the car 

door shut and begins to punch 

you thru the open window. 

He is beating you hard in the 

head. Your thoughts are racing 

and you realize that you are in 

trouble. The fear is real. You 

struggle, you try to get your taser 

or baton, you can’t. It is all happening 

so fast. In desperation, 

you reach for your pistol. The big 

guy is relentless. He is hitting you 

and your head is in horrible pain, 

you realize there is now something 

wrong with your eyes as 

your vision is all wrong. You get 

the pistol out. The big guy tries 

to take the weapon away from 

you. In desperation you fire the 

weapon after warning him you 

will shoot. You fire twice and he 

runs away. 

Now comes the moment of 

truth. Your head is hurting, you 

are possibly blind in one eye. You 

can stay in the car. But the honor 

and duty that binds you, makes 

the choice. This guy is dangerous. 

For no reason he attacked a 

police officer. What would he do 

to the average person? You know 

what you have to do, you do 

not want to do it, but you must. 

Serve and Protect. It is the force 

of duty to which you cannot put 

aside. You get out of the car. 

You cannot see well. Your ears 

are ringing from the gunshots 

114 The The Blues - October - ‘24

from inside of the car. You feel 

sick and hurt like crazy. You are 

now operating on sheer guts. 

You tell him to stop. He does. He 

turns around and faces you. And 

then the most insane thing happens. 

This nut case, who is 6 ft 

4 and weighs about 280 pounds 

charges you at a full run. You tell 

him to stop or you will shoot. He 

does not. You have to shoot him 

six times to stop him. He falls 

dead on the street in front of you. 

Later on, you are investigated 

three times for your actions that 

day. The FBI investigates you, the 

local department investigates 

you and so does the State. A 

Grand Jury finds you innocent of 

any wrong doing. 

But because the individual was 

a different color than you, and 

some witnesses lied about what 

they saw, there are riots in the 

streets. Politicians at the National 

level get involved. In the 

end, your life as you knew it, and 

your career as a police officer are 

over. 

What can we say about you as 

an Officer? You did everything 

right. You were hurt and physically 

beaten. Yet you had the 

courage to do your duty. You got 

out of that car. And what was 

your reward for such a courageous 

act, for fulfilling your duty 

as you were sworn to do? You 

become an outcast. You and your 

family receive death threats and 

are harassed for your actions. 

You are forced to quit your job 

and will never work as a policeman 

again. Your name is Darren 

Wilson. 

It has been six years since 

Michael Brown attacked Officer 

Wilson on Aug 9th 2014. Since 

that time, we have seen the lie of 

“Hands up don’t shoot” passed 

around the Nation. And that legacy 

lives on. Today Police and law 

enforcement are under political 

attack from all directions. In 

many cases they are stuck between 

a rock and a hard place. 

They are dammed if they do and 

dammed if they don’t. 

This Memorial Day I was honored 

to walk with the Officers 

of Antigo and Langlade County 

Law Enforcement in the Memorial 

Day parade. Sherriff Weston and 

the other members of our police 

force do not have to do this. But 

out of a sense of honor, duty, and 

respect for the fallen, they do. 

For my part, their dedication, 

valor and service are deeply appreciated. 

As for me, on a personal 

note, I am a Veteran of our 

Country’s wars. I am out of the 

fight now. So, you need not thank 

me for my service. That time is 

long past. But instead, when you 

see them, thank our policemen 

and policewomen. They are now 

the ones in harms way. Look to 

them as fellow guardians in a 

war against the forces that would 

destroy us as a Nation and a people. 

Their sacrifices should never 

be forgotten. 

This was written in 2020 and 

never published. 

The The Blues - October - ‘24 ‘24115 

115

A BADGE OF HONOR 

healing our heroes 

Heroes Memorial Park 

First Responder Community of Remembrance 

Post Traumatic Stress plays many 

different roles in the lives of our 

first responders. Those who have 

been impacted directly from the 

initial Trauma, those who live with 

those impacted by the Trauma and 

those left behind from the Trauma. 

Today, we will talk about those 

who were left behind. PTS is a 

direct injury to our Mental Health 

from a job we selfishly perform 

every day. When PTS takes one of 

us, our families and friends remain 

behind to grieve alone. There is No 

Inspectors Funeral, 

No Honor 

Guard Service, 

No folded flag to 

present, No 

Bagpipes, No 

taps. The family 

is left to grieve 

and heal among 

a small circle of 

friends. These 

Heroes served 

our Cities, States 

and Country 

with Honor, but 

because of the 

Mental Health 

STIGMA, the families are left to bury 

our Heroes alone. NO remembrance 

Wall to engrave their name on for 

the ultimate sacrifice they made. 

Because many do not see PTS as a 

Line of Duty Injury. 

In the month of May, hundreds 

of families gather in Washington, 

DC for National Police Week to 

remember the lives lost, some to 

GSW, some to MVAs many to COVID 

all rightfully deserved, but none to 

Post Trauma Stress. Those families 

are left to grieve in silence. 

Nowhere to place a teddy bear or 

etch a name on a piece of paper, 

No other first responder families 

to stand beside to share a story or 

heal with. 

They say you die twice, once 

when your body passes on, then 

again when your name is forgotten. 

We will not let our Heroes die 

Twice. WE WILL NOT FORGET. 

The First Help Organization, supported 

by many other Foundations, 

Organizations, Politicians, Motorcycle 

Clubs, Families, and friends 

traveled a 5-year Journey to bring 

this Nation the very first and only 

Memorial Monument to Honor and 

Remember those who have lost the 

battle to PTS. A place for family and 

friends to come reflect and remember 

their loved ones in the manner 

in which they lived, and not in the 

SAMANTHA HORWITZ & 

JOHN SALERNO 

manner they died. This past week 

over 300 families from around the 

Country arrived in Rockwall, Texas 

to witness the unveiling and begin 

the healing process they have been 

denied for so 

long. 

This Monument 

and park 

will help in the 

healing process 

for all those 

impacted by 

PTS. 

The Stigma 

on Suicide is 

beginning to 

crumble. As 

we all hope 

to never have 

to add further 

names on the 

wall moving forward, we will continue 

to help support Mental Health, 

raise awareness, and offer resources 

for those in battle. Let’s save lives 

together, but NEVER FORGET THE 

ONES WE LOST. 

Heroes Memorial Park, located 

in Rockwall Texas, has begun to 

smash that Stigma. 

The Monument which sits on the 

banks of Lake Ray Hubbard, fea- 


tures members from all branches 

of Services etched on beautiful 

black marble with surrounding 

stone. Walls bearing the names of 

the fallen surround the Monument. 

Families can now have a place to 

lay a Teddy bear, a love note, trace 

their loved one’s names, and hold 

it near to them or just kneel down 

and pray as many others who pass 

through will read their names and 

remember them for their services. 

Two marble benches are positioned 

perfectly for viewing and 

remembrance, with more to be 

installed later. 

The Park is open to all and is still 

at the beginning stages with much 

more to be added in the next few 

months and years. 

More stone panels will be delivered 

memorializing another 1000 

fallen First responders in the next 

few months. 

Parking and visiting are always 

free. 

Donations are always welcome 

to further the parks expansion with 

more benches and stone panels. 

Please visit - 1sthelp.org. 


DARYL LOTT 

daryl’s deliberations 

Was It Political Maneuvering, 

Incompetence, or Treason?? 

Every day, governmental agencies 

release documents for public 

viewing. Most of the time 

the releases go without notice. 

Normally, a set passage of time 

triggers a release such as census 

reports that are released after 72 

years. Sometimes documents are 

released after principal characters 

have passed away. At other 

instances they are released 

to scholars and the public after 

secret aspects are declassified. 

Scholars often publish papers 

based on newly released documents, 

but the public no longer 

cares about whatever the issue 

was. The passage of time “heals 

all wounds.” 

When documents were released 

about espionage within our own 

borders, it shook the foundation of 

historical understanding of exactly 

what happened in Hawaii on 

December 7, 1941. Newly released 

documents reveal treason in high 

places and, at the very least, gross 

incompetence in our own government. 

The sources of this essay 

are listed at the end for “further 

reading.” 

If you are one who believes 

that the FBI is above politics and 

never bungles an investigation on 

such a scale that thousands die 

as a result, stop reading now — 

this essay is not for you. If, on the 

other hand, you have an inquisitive 

nature, read on. 

In 1921 the Japanese launched 

the first aircraft carrier that was 

built from the keel up to be an 

aircraft carrier. Unfortunately 

for them, they didn’t have pilots 

trained to take off and land on 

ships. The British had a guy who 

could do it. Frederick Rutland was 

a decorated Royal Navy pilot who 

was approached by the Japanese 

about the possibility of teaching 

them the art of flying from a ship. 

He was happy to help (for cash). 

By the 1930’s the Japanese were 

buying aircraft and reverse engineering 

them for their own use. 

Rutland was employed by Mitsubishi 

Aircraft, but that was a 

cover. His actual employer was 

the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) 

where he was utilized as a spy. He 

had already trained them in naval 

aviation and now the IJN purchased 

an expensive home for him 

to use as a base for espionage in 

Los Angeles. His new home was 

overlooking Long Beach, the USN 

Pacific Fleet base. 

A Navy Department historian, 

Pedro Loureiro, stumbled across 

10,000 pages of newly declassified 

documents as he was studying 

espionage and the IJN as part of 

his job. This is a treasure trove 

of what historians call “primary 

sources.” It revealed a spy ring 

along our west coast that was 

operated by an IJN commander 

named Otaru Tachibana. Fred 

DARYL LOTT 

Rutland was an integral part of 

the ring. 

The FBI was aware that all Japanese 

consulates were spy hubs, 

so they observed and investigated 

them. FBI agents and U.S.N. Intelligence 

were actively engaged in 

discovering the extent of the ring. 

When the FBI discovered Rutland 

was the Anglo face of the Japanese 

Navy, they were asked to 

back off by our Naval Intelligence. 

No reason was given. The papers 

that actually answer why the FBI 

allowed Rutland to operate are 

still classified presumably. The 

IJN commander that ran the spy 

ring was deported back to Japan. 

However, Rutland was actually 

moved from California to Oahu 

so that he could record and map 

all U.S. military activities on the 

island. 

Commander Tachibana’s hotel 

room safe (the Olympic Hotel, Los 

Angeles) was broken into by Naval 

Intelligence using a safe cracker 

that was taken out of a Cali- 


fornia prison for 

that purpose. The 

extensive contact 

list of possible IJN 

operatives was in 

the safe. It contained 

the names 

and addresses of 

over 3000 Japanese 

Americans 

the IJN hoped to 

use. However, once 

translations were 

done, the information 

revealed 

that the Japanese 

Americans were 

loyal citizens of 

the United States 

and would not 

help the IJN. This 

information would 

become important 

later. 

In August 1941 

with the rest of the world at war, 

a German agent was sent to New 

York City. His name was Dusko 

Popov. Popov becomes the key to 

actually seeing what the Japanese 

were up to. He was a lawyer 

who actually hated the Nazis. He 

was quick witted and resourceful. 

He spoke five languages and was 

known as a dashing playboy. He 

was single, wore formal wear, and 

he was known as a ladies’ man. 

Popov was given the two part 

assignment by the Abwehr (Nazi 

Intelligence) of going to New York 

and setting up a spy ring and then 

to address a long list of questions 

about Pearl Harbor. Popov 

stopped in London first and turned 

himself into British Intelligence 

to be used as a double agent. His 

British handler sent him on to New 

York and told him to contact the 

FBI once in the city. 

Popov was a very colorful character. 

He stood out in any room 

because he had a very cool way 

about him. He met with the FBI for 

three hours. He showed them how 

the Abwehr passed documents. 

An ingenious invention called 

the “micro dot” allowed maps, 

drawings, handwriting, typed 

documents, etc to be reduced to 

microscopic sizes. A full page of 

information could be on a period 

sized dot in a newspaper article. 

This technology is still used today. 

Popov showed the micro dot 

system to the FBI along with the 

documents that comprised his 

assignment on Pearl Harbor. The 

questionnaire the Germans wanted 

answered left no doubt that 

they were acting as agents for 

their Japanese allies. They wanted 

to know about everything on 

Oahu, but specifically they were 

wanting any info on torpedo nets 

around the fleet. 

Earlier in the war, the British 

launched the first aerial attack on 

a naval base in history. It occurred 

in Taranto, Italy. The Brits used 

torpedoes to sink Italian battleships 

in a harbor very much like 

Pearl Harbor. Popov told the FBI 

that the IJN sent officers there to 

study Taranto and they came away 

believing they could repeat the 

British success at Pearl Harbor. 

Popov handed everything over 

to the FBI telling them that the 

Japanese would launch a naval 

aviation attack using bombs and 

torpedoes against the American 

navy in Pearl Harbor. He said the 

American aircraft would be destroyed 

on the ground first. He said 

that the attack would occur before 

the new year. The interview was in 

August 1941. 

J. Edgar Hoover was personally 

brought into the case because 

of the specific credible threat to 

Pearl Harbor. Hoover passed the 

information on the micro dot invention 

to President Roosevelt. He 

did NOT reveal the contents of the 

micro dot documents! Unbeliev- 


able! After the loss of thousands of 

American lives, Hoover classified 

the documents and kept his foreknowledge 

of the looming attack 

secret. 

Admiral H. Kimmel and General 

W. Short were relieved of their 

commands as a response to the 

disaster. Most of their colleagues 

believe that they were convenient 

scapegoats for the losses. Therefore, 

after the war there were 

eight official investigations into 

the intelligence failures that led to 

the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. 

During the main congressional 

investigation in April 1946, J Edgar 

Hoover published an article in 

Reader’s Digest as a way to communicate 

directly with the public. 

In that article, he touted the FBI’s 

uncovering of a Nazi invention 

called the micro dot. Again, he 

made NO mention of the information 

on the micro dot that was still 

“classified.” There were eight official 

investigations where Hoover 

would not reveal that he kept vital 

information from the president. At 

the very moment honorable officers 

were being scapegoated once 

again in congressional hearings, 

he published lies to the American 

people in the Reader’s Digest. 

Remember the list of Japanese 

Americans in the safe? Hoover 

and Naval Intelligence allowed 

the misinformation to spread that 

it was Japanese Americans spying 

for the IJN — not Fred Rutland 

and others who betrayed their 

countries for money. President 

Roosevelt’s decision to intern loyal 

American citizens may have never 

happened if he had known about 

the safe in the Olympic Hotel and 

its contents. 

It has been theorized that the 

reason Popov’s information was 

not passed to President Roosevelt 

is because Hoover didn’t like Popov 

and his playboy lifestyle. Popov 

was everything Hoover was not. 

If one wants to know how Popov 

stood in contrast to Hoover, look 

no further than popular spy movies. 

Popov’s British handler was 

Ian Fleming, the author of James 

Bond, 007. 

One may say that this occurred 

a long time ago and is no longer 

relevant. I would respond that 

there are still pages of documents 

under government lock and 

key that could further implicate 

Hoover in the cover up. One may 

say that the modern FBI would 

not conceal information or act in 

a biased manner against anyone 

due to their lifestyles or political 

beliefs. History does not support 

that position. 

During my last trip to Washington, 

I visited the Congressional 

Cemetery (pictured). It is older 

than Arlington and has noteworthy 

Americans resting there. J Edgar 

Hoover rests in that cemetery near 

the grave of John Philip Sousa 

(pictured), the great patriotic 

matching band musician. 

I am currently “revising” my 

understanding of Hoover. What 

was it that kept him from passing 

along vital information to his 

commander in chief? After all, 

wasn’t that ultimately his only 

job? Was it political maneuvering? 

Was it incompetence? Was it 

criminally negligent dereliction of 

duty? Was it a case of his personal 

bias overwhelming common 

sense? Was it, like the Rutland 

case, treason? Perhaps the ongoing 

release of relevant documents 

will help us understand the 

motives of the FBI Director in his 

preeminent and most catastrophic 

failure. 

I also visited Arlington when 

I was last in Washington (pic- 


tured). I observed a new grave 

there. The headstone revealed that 

Fireman 3rd Class John Herbert 

Lindsley, United States Navy, was 

recently interred in that hallowed 

ground (pictured). Although the 

internment was recent, the sailor’s 

date of death was December 

7, 1941. The headstone revealed he 

was on the U.S.S. Oklahoma when 

Japanese naval aviators attacked 

the ship with Type 91 torpedoes 

using maps, photos, and other 

intelligence gathered at Taranto, 

Los Angeles, and Oahu to deal a 

mortal blow to F3 Lindsley and 

2,402 other brave Americans. Of 

course, Japan’s crippling of our 

Pacific Fleet caused a devastating 

cascade of failures that gave the 

Japanese control of the Pacific 

and Asia. It directly resulted in the 

deaths of hundreds of thousands 

of men, women, and children. 

It was intelligence that J Edgar 

Hoover painstakingly took to his 

grave in 1972. 

FURTHER READING: 

Pedro Loureiro, “The Loureiro 

(Pedro) Papers”, Online Archive of 

California. 

Martin K. A. Morgan, “A Message 

From Author/Historian Martin K.A. 

Morgan on the 80th Anniversary of 

Pearl Harbor”, YouTube 

“Was This British WW1 Hero A 

Spy For Japan In WW2?”, www. 

historynet.com 

Larry Loftis, “Into the Lion’s 

Mouth: The True Story of Dusko 

Popov: World War 2 Spy, Patriot, 

and the Real Life Inspiration for 

James Bond.” 

Larry Getlin, “The Traitor of Pearl 

Harbor” May 27, 2012, New York Post 

J Edgar Hoover, “The Enemy’s 

Masterpiece of Espionage,” April, 

1946, Reader’s Digest, p. 1 

Claire Cullerton, “Extorting Henry 

Holt & Co.: J. Edgar Hoover and 

the Publishing Industry.” 


DR. TINA JAECKLE 

blue mental health 

Give Yourself the Gift of Hope 

Many of our nation’s law 

enforcement officers have 

had a challenging year in 

countless ways. The 2023- 

2024 statistics for line-ofduty 

deaths (especially by 

gunfire) and suicides in this 

field are staggering and can 

be overwhelming. The impending 

holidays are also 

often a difficult time for LEO 

families due to work schedules, 

family conflict, financial 

constraints, and at times, a 

sense of helplessness due 

to depression and lack of 

hope. We also live in a world 

in which the comparison of 

our lives to others is commonplace 

and frequently 

perpetuated by social media 

and high expectations for the 

“perfect” holiday experience. 

It can place a great deal of 

unnecessary pressure on an 

LE family during an already 

stressful time of the year. 

Instead of this month’s 

article focusing solely on 

the negative, I want to offer 

the gift of hope through 

some basic approaches that 

are designed to reduce psychological 

stressors and 

increase hope for the holiday 

season. Amy Morgan (Police1, 

DR. TINA JAECKLE 

2019) offered the following 

excellent suggestions, and 

I encourage you to practice 

these often. 

1. STOP COMPARING. If you 

find yourself comparing your 

holiday with others, stop 

and focus on what matters 

to you, and then let that be 

enough. Be content with 

where you are, who you are, 

and what you have. If you 

are financially stressed, don’t 

worsen the situation by giving 

gifts to try to match the 

actions of others. Instead, 

give of yourself and work 

with what you have, but 

don’t deplete yourself in the 

process or let comparisons 

make you feel unworthy. 

2. SET REALISTIC EXPEC- 

TATIONS. All the hype around 

the holidays makes us feel 

like we should ramp up our 

energy, our home décor, our 

financial ability, our time 

with friends and family, and 

even our level of happiness. 

Instead, set your expectations 

in line with the reality of your 

little piece of the world. If 

you aren’t a cook, don’t expect 

to present your family 

with a golden holiday turkey 

and all the fixings. Set realistic 

expectations about how 

your own holiday will and 

should look for your own life. 

3. LET GO OF REGRET. 

Maybe this wasn’t your best 

year. If something in your life 

you wish was different, and 

you still can change it, start 

working on it. But if you can’t 

change something, try letting 

go of the feeling of regret 

that’s eating away at you. 

If you need to apologize to 

someone, do it genuinely and 

sincerely. If you need to forgive 

someone, do it, for your 

own sense of peace. And 

then move on. Let go of the 

regrets so you can start new 

free of stress and anxiety. 

4. ACCEPT YOUR STRUG- 

GLES. Life is hard sometimes, 

and nobody is getting 

through it as easily as they 

may make it seem. Things 


may be hard for you for 

many reasons – it is okay 

to admit that things aren’t 

great. Accept that we all 

struggle at different points 

in life with different things. 

Don’t let the season make 

you focus on the struggles – 

remember that this season 

and its challenges will pass. 

5. TAKE THE TIME TO EX- 

ERCISE. You do not have to 

jump right into CrossFit if 

you have not exercised regularly, 

but get out for at 

least a brisk walk and break 

a sweat. You will feel and 

think better. You can also do 

this three times a week and 

invite your spouse, partner, 

and/or children to walk with 

you to enjoy family time. 

6. GIVE BACK TO OTHERS. 

A local FOP hosts an “adopt 

a LE retiree or survivor” 

each holiday and encourages 

others to take them to 

lunch, provide a gift card, or 

give the gift of “presence.” 

There are numerous charities 

and opportunities available 

this time of year, including 

for children. Giving to others 

allows a mental shift of 

perspective away from our 

struggles toward better understanding 

and connecting 

with others. Remember, we 

rise by lifting others. Most 

importantly, practice hope, 

even a little every day. It 

makes a greater difference 

than you might believe. 

If you or someone you know is struggling with mental 

health, there are several options for help including calling 

one of the FIRST RESPONDER HELP LINES above, Call 

or text 988 or Chat at: 988lifeline.org. 


NOT SO BRIGHT AWARD 

Light Bulb Award 

Biden-Harris rolled out the welcome mat to one of the most 

violent gangs in the world...and we are paying the price 

By Noah Webster, 

Law Enforcement Today 

In a sane country, the current 

“border czar,” Kamala Harris, would 

be 20 points behind former President 

Donald Trump in the upcoming 

election. However, tens of millions 

of Americans have decided 

to embrace the insanity of keeping 

the same person who has overseen 

an invasion at our southern border 

around for an encore. What’s 

the definition of insanity? “Doing 

the same thing over and over and 

expecting different results.” Plus, 

“orange man bad.” 

If not for many of the country’s 

larger police departments no 

longer reporting crime data to the 

FBI, Americans would be getting 

an accurate picture of just how 

bad things have gotten under the 

Biden-Harris administration. 

The biggest beneficiaries of the 

Biden-Harris open border have been 

criminal illegal aliens. Among the 

estimated ten million illegals who 

have crossed our border unabated, 

even guessing that a low percentage 

of them are criminals still means 

that hundreds of thousands of criminals 

have crossed into our country. 

And we are paying the price. 

According to NBC News, law 

enforcement agencies nationwide 

are investigating over 100 serious 

crimes committed by only one 

group of violent illegals, members 

of the Venezuelan gang Tren de 

Aragua. 

U.S. law enforcement and immigration 

officials have launched more 

than 100 investigations of crimes 

tied to suspected members of a 

violent Venezuelan gang, including 

sex trafficking in Louisiana and the 

point-blank shooting of two New 

York City police officers, according 

to two Department of Homeland 

Security officials. 

The cases involving the Tren de 

Aragua gang show how hard it is for 

U.S. border agents to vet the criminal 

backgrounds of migrants from 

countries like Venezuela that won’t 

give the U.S. any help. 

More than 330,000 Venezuelans 

crossed the U.S. border last year, 

according to Customs and Border 

Protection data, and Venezuela, 

like Cuba, China, and a handful of 

other countries, doesn’t provide any 

criminal history information to U.S. 

officials. 

It is estimated that gang members 

are crossing into the country 

in large numbers, and in a majority 

of cases, there are no means to 

track them once they do. They are 

free to go anywhere in the country, 

and when they do show up, violent 

crime seems to follow. 

Two members of Tren de Aragua 

are facing the death penalty for 

murdering a former police officer in 

South Florida last year: 

Two alleged members of the dangerous 

Venezuelan ‘Tren de Aragua’ 

gang face the death penalty for the 

2023 kidnapping and murder of 

a man in the city of Doral, in Miami-Dade 

County, whose apartment 

was ransacked by armed men. 

Julio Cesar Hernandez Montero, 27 

years old, and Yurwin Salzar Maita, 

23, appeared by court order in 

county court Tuesday, where prosecutors 

charged them with first-degree 

murder charges for allegedly 

killing 43-year-old Jose Luis Sanchez 

Valera. 

In addition to these charges, Assistant 

State Attorney Gabriela Alfaro 

told Judge Laura Cruz that the state 

will prosecute the co-defendants 

for robbery, home invasion, vehicle 

theft, kidnapping, and burglary. 


While the mainstream media focuses 

on alleged cat-eating Haitians 

in Springfield, Ohio, crime is running 

rampant throughout the U.S. 

Meanwhile, in New York City, CNN 

reported a member of Tren de Aragua 

in the country illegally shot two 

NYPD officers: 

In New York, police say Bernardo 

Raul Castro-Mata, a 19-year-old 

from Venezuela, shot two police 

officers last week. Castro-Mata 

entered the country illegally last 

July, a member of Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement told CNN. 

The Venezuelan has tattoos associated 

with Tren de Aragua–which 

court documents for a suspected 

gang member in Georgia describe 

as five-pointed crowns, five-pointed 

stars, and teardrops–the New York 

Police Department told CNN. 

So, as crime in the United States 

grows, it is dropping in Venezuela, 

due in no small part to Tren de 

Aragua and other criminal gangs 

relocating north. 

The crime issues have also found 

their way west, where Tren de Aragua 

has given its members a “green 

light” to attack police officers. 

At the same time, the gang has 

reportedly established a significant 

presence in parts of Colorado, Fox 

News reported. They were reportedly 

given a “green light” to fire on or 

attack law enforcement in Denver. 

There have also been reports of 

the gang taking over at least two 

apartment buildings in Aurora. 

As many Republicans and others 

have warned, the criminal gangs are 

involved in more nefarious crimes, 

such as child prostitution, the Daily 

Mail reported. 

A bombshell report details the 

criminal organization’s complete 

control over the Whispering Pine 

Apartments in a Denver suburb. 

Vacant units had reportedly been 

used to host “parties” where the 

gang provided “drug and child prostitution,” 

according to the apartments’ 

manager, who added that the 

gangster said “minors are a good 

source of money.” 

NBC News reported that sex 

trafficking is one of Tren de Aragua’s 

primary means of bringing in 

money. In Louisiana, women who 

were victimized and trafficked by 

the gang said they were forced “to 

have sex with four men a day”: 

In a federal affidavit, two of the 

women described how they were 

trafficked by three alleged gang 

members who had entered the 

U.S. within the past year. All three 

suspects had been intercepted by 

Border Patrol after they entered 

Texas illegally but then had been 

released into the U.S. 

The women say the alleged gang 

members arranged for them to 

fly from El Paso, Texas, to Baton 

Rouge, Louisiana. Once they were 

in Baton Rouge, the women were 

taken to a Ross retail clothing store 

to buy clothes. They were then 

taken to an apartment building, 

where they were allegedly forced 

to have sex with four men a day. 

Tren de Aragua also operates 

so-called “stash houses” in several 

other states, CNN reported in June: 

Officials arrested two suspects– 

both Venezuelan nationals–at the 

location, Albert Herrera Machado, 

23, and Osleidy Vanesa Chouria-Diaz, 

26. Agents later arrested 

another Venezuelan, Josmar Jesus 

Zambrano Chirinos, 23, identified 

in the complaint as a leader of 

the sex trafficking operation being 

conducted by the Tren de Aragua 

in the U.S. Zabrano was “operating 

stash houses” used for human trafficking 

in Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, 

New Jersey, and Florida, according 

to the criminal complaint reviewed 

by CNN. 

While most Democrats, including 

Biden and Harris, deny there 

is a problem with criminal gangs 

coming into the country unabated, 

Republicans have taken notice, including 

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX). 

He has repeatedly warned about 

the dangers posed by Tren de Aragua, 

noting they have “been known to rape 

children.” 

“For months, I have sounded the 

alarm about Tren de Aragua and the 

threat this gang poses to Americans,” 

Gonzales said in a statement to the 

Washington Examiner. “It’s graphic, 

but this gang has been known to rape 

children, murder, and commit nearly 

every other crime under the sun. 

We know that Tren de Aragua has 

expanded operations in Mexico, and 

some gang members have made their 

way into the United States.” 

One would think that in a normal 

country, our leaders would attempt 

to put a stop to the scourge of illegals 

entering the country. Instead, the 

Biden-Harris administration is doubling 

down on putting out the welcome 

mat, Breitbart News reported 

earlier in September. 

The administration and the Mexican 

government agreed to a plan to provide 

buses for illegals to travel from 

two southern Mexico cities to the U.S. 

border. They will receive meals and 

security during travel from those cities 

to a destination in the U.S. where 

they have made appointments for 

“asylum” under the CBP-One app. The 

buses will depart from Villahermosa 

and Tapachula and travel to the U.S. 

Now, all violent gang members 

from Central and South America only 

need to get to one of those Mexican 

cities, and they will be provided free 

transportation courtesy of the U.S. 

and Mexican governments to come to 

the United States to commit crime at 

will. 

Gangs like Tren de Araguala, MS- 

13, and others have been given carte 

blanche to enter the United States, 

and Americans are paying the price. 

Meanwhile, the “border czar,” Kamala 

Harris, could possibly get elected 

president. That should send a chill 

down the spine of every American 

who cares about the safety and security 

of their family, especially their 

children. 

Reprinted from Law Enforcement Today 


RUSTY B 

off duty & outdoors 

“OK, 

Fall 

I like 

Backyard 

it, Picasso” 

Fall is a great time of year for 

all my favorite outdoor activities 

like hunting, fishing, camping, 

and hiking but it also a great 

time to enjoy our own backyard 

cookouts. I am writing this story 

specifically about an addition to 

our backyard that we absolutely 

love, and I am going to encourage 

more people to include these 

into their backyard plans. I am 

talking about a wood fired pizza 

oven. We added this unique 

backyard cooking feature to 

complement our new pool and 

grill area to create one of our 

top outdoor spaces in our new 

retirement home. 

This is actually the second 

time we added this pizza oven 

to our back yard, so combined 

I probably have now over 10 

years’ experience cooking pizzas 

in my own wood fired pizza 

ovens. Having said this, I highly 

recommend Chicago Brick Oven 

( www.chicagobrickoven.com) 

for your complete DIY oven kits. 

They offer different sizes of ovens 

that can shipped directly to 

you for easily installation by any 

brick or tile contractor. I personally 

like the CBO 750 model 

for about $3,600, but they have 

smaller and larger ovens as well, 

depending on your budgets and 

needs. That may seem like a lot 

of money compared to a gas 

grill, especially with added 


ARRON 

Cooking 


RUSTY B 

off duty & outdoors 

cost 

“OK, 

for installation, but these 

I like it, Picasso” 

additions become a permanent 

feature of your home and I am 

convinced add additional value 

as well. 

So let me paint a picture of 

what a backyard pizza party 

looks like with your own oven. 

First, like any good BBQ, it does 

take a little preparation before 

your entire family shows 

up with plates in hand. I build 

a small fire in a Grill Chimney 

out of hardwood lump coal. 

While the small fire is burning, 

I build a small teepee of either 

oak, pecan, or mesquite wood 

in the middle of my pizza oven. 

Then I add the burning coals to 

the middle of the wood teepee 

in the oven and blow some air 

onto the wood/coal mixture 

to get the wood burning like a 

small campfire. I then continue 

to add wood to this small fire 

in the oven for about 1.5 hours 

until the roof of the oven turns 

white from the heat of the fire. 

Then with fire tools, I push the 

fire and coals to the back and 

sides of the pizza oven. With the 

steel brush provided with the 

oven kit, I brush the pizza stone 

surface the fire has been burning 

on. At this point, the oven is 

ready to wow your guests with 

pizza after pizza creation for the 

next two hours. It takes practice 

creating pizzas with just the 

right blend of toppings that your 

family will be forever calling 

their favorite pizza. 

One tip is to sprinkle the pizza 

peel with plenty of rice flour 

before you place the dough on 


the peel and that will enable it 

to slide off the peel easier while 

placing in the oven. Another 

tip is to buy a BBQ pigtail that 

are made for turning steaks but 

works great for grabbing the side 

of the cooking pizza and keep 

them rotating in the oven. 

So, if you are thinking of upgrading 

your backyard kitchen, 

I highly encourage you to look 

into a wood fired pizza oven.

ARRON 



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Intermediate $2,000 annually 

Benefits including: 

Family Time/Leave 

Most weekends off 

Thanksgiving break 

Christmas break 

Spring and Summer breaks 

Teacher Retirement System 

Insurance & Benefits 

Many Overtime Opportunities 

Generous Training Opportunities 

Take home vehicle program 

Apply at 

www.alvinisd.net/careers 


ALDINE ISD 


JOIN OUR TEAMAPPLY AT 

EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS 


• Paid Vacation 

• Paid Holidays 

• Personal Days 

• Teacher Retirement System 

TCOLE CERTIFICATION INCENTIVE 

• Intermediate PO: $2,400 

• Advanced PO: $4,800 

• Master PO: $7,200 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be 21 Years Of Age 

• Must Hold an Active Tcole Peace Officer License 

• Must Complete the Following: 

• Pass Physical Agility Test 

• Background Investigation 

• Psychological Evaluation 

• Drug Screening 

ALDINEISD.ORG 

STARTING SALARY $55,000 WITH NO EXPERIENCE 

UP TO $85,000 DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE 

ALDINE ISD PD OFFERS 

DEPARTMENT BENEFITS 

• Uniforms Provided, Including Duty Weapon 

• Department Provided Training 

• Starting Pay Depends on 

Qualifications / Experience 

• TCOLE Certification / Education Pay 

• Most Officers work Day Shift with Weekends Off 

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

FIREARM INSTRUCTORS.) 

FOR MORE INFO CONTACT 

SGT. HALL AT 281.442.4923 

OR VISIT ALDINEISD.ORG 

SPECIALIZED DIVISIONS 

• Criminal Investigations 

• Emergency Response Team 

• Honor Guard 

• Gang Task Force 

• Community Outreach Division 

• K-9 Division 

• Firearm Instructor 

$1,000 SIGNING BONUS 






NOW 

HIRING 

BIG SPRING PD IS NOW HIRING POLICE OFFICERS 

• 100% PAID ACADEMY TRAINING FOR 

NON-CERTIFIED CADETS 

• EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS ARE PROVIDED 

INCLUDING TAKE HOME VEHICLES 

• TMRS RETIREMENT (2:1 CITY MATCH) 

• 100% EMPLOYEE MEDICAL AND LIFE 

INSURANCE PREMIUM PAID BY THE CITY 

• PAID VACATION AND HOLIDAYS 

• PAID SICK LEAVE 


• LONGEVITY PAY FOR YEARS OF SERVICE 

• EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM 

• PROGRESSIVE ANNUAL IN-SERVICE 

TRAINING AND EXTERNAL TRAINING 

OPPORTUNITIES. 

• OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIVERSE 

EXPERIENCE IN ASSIGNMENTS SUCH AS 

SWAT, NARCOTICS, TRAFFIC, AND CRIMINAL 

INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION 

• $1500 ACADEMY REIMBURSEMENT AND 

$2400 RELOCATION PAY FOR CERTIFIED 

OFFICERS 

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

ENTRY LEVEL TESTING ON AUGUST 1, 2023 

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JULY 26, 2023 

APPLY NOW AT WWW.MYBIGSPRING.COM 

THE CITY OF BIG SPRING IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER


Hiring 

Police Officers 

Annual Salary $57,592 - $62,899 range + Benefits | Certification Pay | Longevity Pay | Bilingual 

Certification by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) 

Pay 12 Hour Shift Schedule - Alternating weekends off and good life/work balance 

All equipment/uniform provided | Take home patrol car program | Visible tattoo & beard policy 

Benefits at NO COST TO EMPLOYEE: 

• Education Reimbursement Program 

• 80 hours of Vacation (accrued annually) 

• 96 hours of sick leave annually (accrued annually) 

• 14 Paid Holidays 

• Life Insurance 2x annual base salary 

• Employee Assistance Program 

• Paid Training Opportunities 

Additional Benefits 

• TMRS retirement system - 5% employee 

contribution - City matches 2:1 at retirement 

• Medical Insurance: - United Health Care 

† Ask about our Lateral Transfer Program 

requirements 

Questions? Contact Lt. Kelvin Raven at kraven@cityofbrenham.org | 979-337-7363 

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DALLAS POLICE department 

WE aRE HIRING 

Lateral Entry Police officers 

INCENTIVE PAYS 

Education Pay Up to $2,880/yearly 

Bachelor’s Degree $3,600/yearly 

Intermediate Cert. $600/yearly 

Advanced Cert. $4,800/yearly 

Master Peace Officer $7,200/yearly 

Shift Differential 3.5% - 6.5% 

FTO Pay 

$1,200/yearly 

Language Pay Up to $1,800/yearly 

3 years experience 

$80,431 


$82,736 


$85,109 

BENEFITS 

Assistance with state licensing 

endorsement 

15 paid vacation days/year (does 

not expire) 

Relocation assistance 

No residency requirement 

Wellness Unit and Peer Support 

6 Weeks maternity/paternity leave 

Health/Vision/Dental/Life 

Insurance 

Load Bearing Vests 

All Equipment provided at no cost 

Minimum Qualifications: 

Subject to same hiring process as all other police officer applicants 

Will have college credit hours substituted 

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

Must not have any pending disciplinary actions or investigations 

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

academy 

DALLAS POLICE RECRUITING 

Apply now at 

1400 Botham Jean Blvd., Dallas, TX 75215 

164 www.dallaspolice.gov 

The Blues - October ‘24(214) 671-4409

Hiring 

Police Officers 

Annual Salary $57,592 - $62,899 range + Benefits | Certification Pay | Longevity Pay | Bilingual 

Certification by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) 

Pay 12 Hour Shift Schedule - Alternating weekends off and good life/work balance 

All equipment/uniform provided | Take home patrol car program | Visible tattoo & beard policy 

Benefits at NO COST TO EMPLOYEE: 

• Education Reimbursement Program 

• 80 hours of Vacation (accrued annually) 

• 96 hours of sick leave annually (accrued annually) 

• 14 Paid Holidays 

• Life Insurance 2x annual base salary 

• Employee Assistance Program 

• Paid Training Opportunities 

Additional Benefits 

• TMRS retirement system - 5% employee 

contribution - City matches 2:1 at retirement 

• Medical Insurance: - United Health Care 

† Ask about our Lateral Transfer Program 

requirements 

Questions? Contact Lt. Kelvin Raven at kraven@cityofbrenham.org | 979-337-7363 

jobs.cityofbrenham.org 






GALVESTON 

COUNTY 

SHERIFF’S OFFICE 

Seeking Individuals Who Are Interested in a Rewarding Career in Corrections 

Begin Your Career Today! 

GALVESTON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT OF ELIGIBILITY 

Position: Corrections Deputy I 

Bureau/Division: Corrections/Jail 

Title/Rank: Corrections Deputy/Deputy I 

Reports to: Sergeant - Corrections 

Starting Salary: $51,250.00 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

Maintains the security of the facility by conducting security checks, settling disputes, and performing cell searches and 

inspections; conducts outside perimeter checks. 

Preparation and proper completion in the documentation of inmate records. 

Issues inmate meals, clothing, linens, and personal items. 

Supervise inmate programs (recreational, legal, health care, visitation and religious services) 

Prepares reports on jail and inmate activities, enforce inmate handbook rules. 

Supervises inmates performing such assignments as cleaning and maintaining the jail facility and continuously observe 

locations and activities of inmates. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• High School / GED Certificate and must be at least 18 years of age. 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and resident of the contiguous United States for a period of time sufficient to conduct a 

background investigation. 

• Must be able to work days, nights, weekends, holidays and mandatory shifts when needed. 

• Must be able to work during natural disasters and or under declarations. 

• Must possess a valid Texas driver's license and an acceptable driving record as determined by the Galveston County 

Sheriff's Office in effect at the time of application. 

• Must have favorable employment history. All information given regarding past employment will be thoroughly checked. 

• Must have a stable credit history. 

• Must possess good computer skills and demonstrate comprehensive reading and comprehension skills. 

• No conviction above a Class B Misdemeanor or a Class B misdemeanor within the last 10 years nor have been on or 

currently on court-ordered community supervision or probation for any criminal offense and no Family Violence 

convictions of any level. 

• Applicant must pass all phases of the required testing. 

• Must be eligible for licensing by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) for the position applied for, if not 

presently licensed. 

TO APPLY 

An applicant interested in any of GCSO position shall first download, complete and return 

the Application Packet, per the instructions on the downloadable form. 

The Application Packet can be found at SHERIFF.GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV 

JOIN US 

VISIT SHERIFF.GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV TO APPLY! 


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

CONTACT US 

409.763.7585 : SO.EMPLOYMENT@GALVESTONCOUNTYTX.GOV



GOOSE CREEK CISD PD 

NOW RECRUITING 

POLICE OFFICERS ! 

POSITION DETAILS: 

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

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

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

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240 or 202 Duty Day Schedule 

Competitive Salary - MTD9* Starting 

Stipends available for Intermediate, Advanced and Master TCOLE License 

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

REQUIREMENTS: 

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Current TCOLE Peace Officer License 

Ability to pass comprehensive background 

Ability to pass medical, drug and psychological 

exams 

HIRING PROCESS: 

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Online Application 

Complete preliminary interview 

Complete background investigation 

Complete Oral Board Interview 

Conditional Job Offer 

Complete Medical, Psychological and Drug Screen 

PREFERRED: 

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Intermediate TCOLE Peace Officer License 

Bilingual 

Previous ISD PD experience 

Background in law enforcement 

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

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


ARE WE 

HIRING 

Criminal Background 

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proficiently 

Type 

Nights, Weekends & Holidays 

Work 

Speaking Preferred 

Spanish 

11th Street 

1015 

Texas 

Hempstead, 

Hour work schedule 

12- 

every other weekend 

off 

THE CITY OF 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DIVISION 

HEMPSTEAD POLICE DEPARTMENT 

Dispatchers 

QUALIFICATIONS 

18 years of age 

Minimum 

Starting Salary: $41,600 

B E N E F I T S 

BlueCross Blue Shield 

Vision & Dental Insurance 

Longevity Pay > 1 year 

Certificate Pay 

Uniform Shirts Provided 

77445 


www.hempsteadcitytx.gov (job opportunities)

JOIN OUR TEAM 

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BECOME entire A HEMPSTEAD year, only $20 a POLICE month. OFFICER 

Hempstead's Finest 

Starting Salary: $57,750 

- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD 

- VISION & DENTAL INS 

- CERTIFICATE PAY 

- WEAPONS ISSUED 

- OFF EVERY OTHER WEEKEND 

- CONTINUING TRAINING 

NOW HIRING 3 POLICE OFFICERS 

HPD BOASTS: 

- Training Provider 

- Canine Program 

- Narcotics Investigation 

- Crash Investigators 

- Telecommunications 

Division 

1015 11th St Hempstead, TX 

hpdrecruing@hempsteadcitytx.gov 

Or call us at: (979) 826-3332 



LATERAL DEPUTY 


WE ARE 

HIRING! 

LATERAL DEPUTY 

REQUIREMENTS 

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

Law Enforcement (TCOLE) in good standing 

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

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

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

Peace Office at any one agency 

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

• Meet HCSO firearms qualification standard 

• Must pass a thorough background investigation (criminal 

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

required by TCOLE 

• Must pass a physical and psychological evaluation as required by 

TCOLE 

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

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

peripheral vision 

• Correctable normal audible range in both ears 

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

eligible to transfer to other Bureaus 

For additional information contact 

Harris County Sheriff’s Office 

Recruitment Unit 

(713) 877-5250 


TO APPLY 

www.harriscountyso.org | www.hcsojobs.com 

SCAN 

THIS CODE Harris County 

@HCSOTexas 

Sheriff’s Office 

HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas

WE ARE 

HIRING! 

DEPUTY CADET 

REQUIREMENTS 

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

experience with an honorable discharge 

• At least 21 years of age (by start date) 

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

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

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

peripheral vision 



background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) 

• Must pass a medical and psychological evaluation as required by 

TCOLE 

• Must pass all required testing 

YOUR LAW ENFORCEMENT CAREER 

STARTS HERE, JOIN OUR ACADEMY! 

• Must pass all required testing upon completion of the Basic 

Peace Officer Course (BPOC), sworn Deputies must successfully 

complete the Field Training Program (FTP) before receiving a 

Patrol assignment 

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

eligible for other Bureaus 




(713) 877-5250 

TO APPLY 


SCAN 


@HCSOTexas 


HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas 


WE ARE 

HIRING! 

DETENTION OFFICER 

REQUIREMENTS 

Ask About Our Hiring Incentive 

• High School Diploma or G.E.D 

• U.S. Citizen 

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

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

and peripheral vision 


• Must pass all pre-employment testing 


background check, fingerprinting, personal interview, etc.) 

as required by TCOLE 

• Must pass a medical and psychological evaluation as required 

by TCOLE 

Lateral Detention Officer: 

If you have verifiable experience as a correctional officer or a 

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

years for your experience. 




(713) 877-5250 


TO APPLY 


SCAN 


@HCSOTexas 


HCSOTexas HCSOTexas @HCSOTexas




THE KILLEEN POLICE DEPARTMENT 

IS NOW 

Hiring 

FOR THE POSITION OF 

Police Officer 

Online Applications 

will open: 

July 31, 2023 

Application Deadline: 

September 15, 2023 

Civil Service Exam will 

be: 

September 24, 2023 

To apply, go to: 

www.killeentexas.gov/16 

8/Job-Opportunities 

Wear The Badge, 

Make a Difference 

D 

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th 

a 

Officer De'Vonte Johnson 

Recruiter 

254-200-7987 

DJohnson@killeentexas.gov 

The Killeen Police Department is an 

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Starting pay - $57,889 

Paid: Vacation, Holiday & Sick Leave 

$15K Sign-on incentive for TCOLE 

certified Peace Officers 

College Degree pay incentive 

7% retirement plan through TMRS 

with a 2:1 match ratio 

Comprehensive Benefits Package 

Opportunity to work in various 

specialized units 

The Killeen Police 

epartment is dedicated to 

uilding a partnership with 

e community to fight crime 

nd improve every citizen's 

quality of life. 

Follow us at: 

KilleenPD 

KilleenPolice 

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Patrol Officer 

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

division. 

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

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

corridor approximately 4 miles South of the City of Houston. 

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

on experience and certification levels. 

Requirements: 

High school diploma or GED 

Valid Texas Driver’s License 

with good driving record 

TCOLE certified OR currently 

enrolled in Academy 

program 

Preference for LE experience 

Hiring Process Includes : 

Written test 

Oral board interview 

Physical agility test 

Thorough background 

investigation 

Accelerated Field Training 

Program for experienced officers 

One year probationary period 

Pay and Benefits: 

Competitive pay with an employment 

improvement step program 

TMRS retirement up to 7% with 2:1 match 

by city 

Retirement vested after 5 years of service 

Medical Insurance covered 100% for 

employees and 100% paid for employees 

and dependent by the city after 3 years 

12 hour shifts (DuPont Schedule) 

Personal time off - Vacation and Holiday 

accruals 

Paid sick time 

Lateral transfers 

For more information you can contact 

The City of Manvel Police Department at 

281-489-1212 

Rochelle Carr-Lacy 

rcarrlacy@manvelpd.org 


WE’RE HIRING 

Join our team and receive: 

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance 

• Paid vacation, employee days, well days, 

sick days and holidays 

• Competitive pay (including bilingual pay incentive) 

AND MUCH MORE! 

APPLY NOW 

Scan here or visit 

RideMETRO.org/Careers 

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

for additional information. 


METRO I S AN EQU A L O PPOR TUNIT Y E M P L O YER.






MAKE A 

DIFFERENCE 

IN YOUR 

COMMUNITY 

We are looking for outstanding individuals to 

join our team! As a Pearland Police Officer your 

mission will be to prevent crime and disorder, build 

partnerships within the community, and positively 

impact the quality of life for all our residents. 

CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS 

• Competitive Salary • Outstanding Training 

• Career Advancement • Exceptional Benefits 

The City of Pearland is one of the fastest growing 

communities within the region. Pearland is located 

approximately 20 minutes south of Downtown Houston 

and the current population is approximately 130,000 

residents. 

JOIN OUR TEAM 

HIRING POLICE OFFICERS AND CADETS 

$5,000 Hiring Incentive for T.C.O.L.E Certified Police 

Officers who qualify with at least 2 years of experience. 

TEST DATE: 

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 8:30 A.M. 

Register by: April 12. 

Pearland Recreation Center & Natatorium 

4141 Bailey Road, Pearland, TX 77584. 

Doors Open: 7:15 a.m. No admittance after 7:45 a.m. 

Candidates must park in the north parking lot. 

SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES WILL APPLY 

• Attendance limited to first 150 arrivals 

• Mandatory temperature checks 

• Masks required, hand sanitizer available 

• Candidates seated 6 feet apart 

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

pearlandtx.gov/PDCareers 



PORT HOUSTON 


WE ARE 

HIRING 

SIGN UP TODAY! 

www.porthouston.com/careers-2 

STARTING PAY* 

$60,000 up to $71,000 

* Salary depends on experience 

Are you looking for a career with 

meaning? Do you want to make 

a difference in a highly supportive 

community? Join our team at 

Port Houston! 

REQUIREMENTS 

• Must be 21 years old 

• Must have 2+ years of po 

experience 

• Must have valid Texas Dr 

• Must be a U.S. Citizen 

• Must have an honorable 

from the military (if applic 

• Must never have been co 

Class A Misdemeanor or 

• Not been convicted of a C 

misdemeanor within the l 

• Must have a GED or high 


BENEFITS: 

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 

eligible first day of employment 

• Wellness Program 

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

• Enrollment with Calm App for Wellbeing 

• Defined contribution plan (401a) 

– Employer Sponsored 

• Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan) 

– Employee Contributions 

• Vacation 


• Paid Holiday 12 days/year 

• Life and Accidental Death and 

Dismemberment Insurance 

• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Benefits 

• Flexible spending account (FSA) 

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 

• Pet Insurance 

• Legal and Identity Theft Protection 

• Tuition Reimbursement 

Up to the IRS annual limit and a maximum lifetime 

reimbursement of $25,000 

• Onsite Credit Union 

– Port of Houston Credit Union 

lice officer 

iver’s License 

discharge 

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nvicted of a 

above 

lass B 

ast 10 years 

school diploma 

EMPLOYMENT 

TESTING 

Employment is contingent on passing 

any post-offer pre-employment 

screening as listed below: 

• Criminal background check 

• Motor Vehicle Record check 

• Drug screening 

• Physical exam 

• Psychological exam 

• Additional as required 

SCAN 

QR CODE 

TO APPLY 






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SPRING BRANCH ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT 

WE’RE 

HIRING 

DEPARTMENT 

HIGHLIGHTS 

55 officer department 

44 square mile district 

47 schools 

35,000 population 

24/7 Patrol 

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

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

Patrol & Onsite Officers (HS/MS) 

Gang Officer 

Mental Health Officers 

Community Relations Officer 

Emergency Management 

Criminal Investigations 

K-9 programs 

Language pay 

Shift differential pay 

Intermediate, Advanced and 

Master Peace Officer 

certificate pay 

Paid time off 

Ample overtime opportunities 

*All equipment provided including duty weapon 

**Training opportunities available 

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

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