Community for Cops
Law enforcement officers from Southern Texas—including contingents from the Mission Police Department, the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office, and the US Customs and Border Protection—were among a "sea of law enforcement" who attended the first football game to be played by the 13-year-old son of a Mission PD officer killed in the line of duty in June.
"Conner's Law" is named after State Trooper Kevin Conner, who was shot to death almost a year ago during a traffic stop in Columbus County, NC.
The Tennessee Titans football team honored fallen Metro Nashville Police Department Officer John Anderson by presenting his family and fellow first responders with the 12th Annual "Titan Sword of Honor."
Earlier this year, the Jack Daniels Distillery presented a specially engraved bottle of its whiskey to the family of Officer Robert Pitts of the Terre Haute Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty in May 2018.
Officers with the West Palm Beach (FL) Police Department took time on Monday to escort the son of a colleague who succumbed to cancer last year to his first day of Kindergarten.
The sister of an officer with the New York Police Department who died by suicide last week told CBS News that she repeatedly contacted the agency to warn of her brother's failing mental health.
Several deputies with the Hall County Sheriff's Office escorted the son of a fallen colleague to his first day of fourth grade on Wednesday.
The Nebraska State Patrol claimed the top spot in this year's Best Looking Cruiser contest, an annual contest voted on by the public and organized by the American Association of State Troopers (AAST).
The family of a slain Maine police officer was recently forced to remove a Thin Blue Line flag from a utility pole near their home.
The NYPD is offering a record $111,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who shot and killed off-duty Brooklyn Officer Robert Bolden at Dunne's Bar & Grille in January 1971.