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…
Seventeen years ago, Letty Gali arrived at a fourplex in the community of Placentia to help a family whose son…
For the last few years, Bakersfield Police Department had to pivot when it came to their annual Halloween event held…
The May 24 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were murdered,…
Despite thunder, overnight rain, and the threat of showers, over 150 students, parents, and family members hit the pavement on…