Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is from December 16, 2019. Riverside Sheriffs’ Department Deputy Kevin Brooks is known in town as “the officer with the hat.” Often this means his formal campaign hat or “Smokey” as he calls it, which is a Stetson he wore as a drill instructor for the US Marine Corps. But these days it can also mean his new white cowboy hat. For Brooks, who grew up on a steady diet of westerns and “Walker, Texas Ranger,” there is no greater beacon…