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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chief Tests Positive for COVID-19
CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said he has been quarantining for several days at home after learning he had been exposed to the virus.
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CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said he has been quarantining for several days at home after learning he had been exposed to the virus.
Shop with a Cop will surely be considerably more difficult to execute in 2020 than in any previous year. In fact, in many places, the annual celebration bringing cops and kids together for Christmas has been outright canceled.
“It has been an extraordinarily difficult year, especially for the front-line responders who are serving our communities,” said Virginia Tenpenny, Starbucks vice president of global social impact. “We want to show our deep gratitude for those who support and protect us every day with a small gesture of kindness and a cup of coffee.”
Unless Pittsburgh receives at least $26 million in federal pandemic relief, city officials say they may need to cut 600 public employees, including as many as 200 police officers.
In places like Oregon, the ominous prospect of police officers entering the private homes (without a warrant, I might add) to enforce restrictions on the number of people who may gather at the Thanksgiving table should make anyone with common sense shudder.
“I don’t believe as a law enforcement officer you have a right to pick and choose what laws you will enforce,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Wednesday during an Albany-based press conference.
“The Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Police Protective League is unanimous in its belief that its members deserve every penny of compensation that our contract prescribes. Period,” league president Craig Lally wrote to the city’s head labor negotiator.
In November 2008, Darnell was seriously injured during a shootout. He spent a month in the hospital recovering after he was shot in the face by a man who had driven from Florida to a DeWitt apartment complex to kill his estranged wife.
We’ve never seen anything like 2020, and let’s hope and pray we never see it again.
5.11, Inc. announced today that it is pursuing the feasibility of incorporating antiviral fabric treatments into its Wash-And-Wear uniform offerings with the intention that the new line of products would be marketed as Wash-And-Wear Plus.