Behind the Badge
Best of BTB: Tustin PD’s Officer of the Year: Influencing police perception from Compton to Tustin
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from February 5, 2016. February is Black History Month. “I don’t know if you really believe me, but I don’t think I should have been Officer of the Year.” You believe him because it’s impossible not to. Tustin Police Officer Robert Nelson III is sitting at an empty table in a police department interview room on a recent Friday, searching for reasons his peers picked him. In at least 25 years, nobody at Tustin PD can…
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Aimee Rivera wants to serve her hometown as a police officer, and the recent college graduate hopes her law enforcement…
The Code 7 Cafe in the basement of the Santa Ana Police Department has what could be called an institutional…
Hundreds of creatively costumed children collected treats at the Santa Ana Police Department’s Trunk-or-Treat event, while, at the same time,…