Behind the Badge
2018 was year of challenges and headlines for first responders
Looking back on 2018, here are some of the significant issues and events that made headlines, as well as speculation…
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BTBuzz: Officers bring gifts to child, game hard, and save man suffering heart attack
Officer Nikki Hotz from the Marion Police Department in Iowa was not supposed to be working Thursday, Nov. 1. However,…
From the archives of the Anaheim Police Department, the ‘White Christmas’ of 1989
Follow us on social media: At this time of year, I always have fond memories of the…
BTBuzz: Officers bring gifts to 6-year-old’s birthday party, deliver a baby, and give a mother a gift she won’t forget
Follow us on social media: In West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, officers from departments around the area plus a…
Holidays the perfect time for ‘package of poop on the porch’
Follow us on social media: It’s the holiday season and it’s the time of year for festivities,…
BTBuzz: Trauma surgeon joins LAPD, Fresno PD holds Operation Christmas Presence, and Truckee Police save bear cub from trash dumpster
Follow us on social media: Trauma Surgeon Kenji Inaba takes his responsibility to safeguard lives seriously. After…
This Thanksgiving, we should remember the tens of thousands of first responders who keep us safe
It’s the time of year where we take a day to reflect on all we have to be thankful for…
‘We’re making entry,’ the officers said as they entered the Borderline Bar & Grill
Seems I’ve written a lot about mass shootings in the United States over the last few years, and it’s getting…
Vast majority of sexual assaults are never reported, but fear of police shouldn’t be why
In the midst of all the hoopla in Washington over the accusations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett…
Evil is real and it reared its ugly face again this week in a synagogue in Pittsburgh
Police officers encounter bad guys, crooks and law breakers every day. But there is that rare group police encounter that…