Worthy Effort

Copied from a Facebook Posting.

Mills Police Department

May 22 at 11:31am · 

To all law enforcement agencies and officers:

A neighboring department to us had tragedy strike recently, and our chief has asked for your help.

As many of you know, two officers from the Casper Police Department were recently involved in a shooting, which left the suspect deceased, and one officer fighting for his life, after being shot five times. Officer Carlson is still in intensive care trying to recover from these life threatening wounds.

The outpouring of support from the public has been tremendous, and makes me proud to live in the State of Wyoming. The outpouring of support I have seen from the law enforcement community make me even prouder to be in this profession.

My chief had an idea, and has tasked me with getting some help from all of you. The idea is to present the officer with as many challenge coins, and patches as we can get, when he is released from the hospital. We do not know when he will be released, but it sounds like he will have a long road ahead of him.

If you, or your department would be willing to send a coin, patch or other department token to this injured brother, please send them to Chief Preciado or Detective Good at the following address:

Mills Police Department
4800 W. Yellowstone Hwy
Mills, Wyoming 82604

Also, please share this with as many departments as you can. We would like to overload him with as many coins and patches as we can.

As I said, we do not know when Officer Carlson will be release, but would like to have these soon. Thank you for all of your support, and please keep Officer Carlson in your thoughts and prayers.

I've passed this on to all my LEO relatives and friends. Perhaps you can do the same?

h/t KM-L

Feel Good Story

https://www.facebook.com/ilike9news/videos/10153134484376077/?fref=nf

ADDENDUM

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/05/19/man-who-gave-son-of-fallen-deputy-his-dads-car-always-felt-the-need-to-give-back/

A Puke and His Family

This is a blog I didn’t intend to write. The subject keeps bothering me.

Briefly, a young puke, long history of lawlessness, got chased down by multiple police agencies. In the struggle to arrest him, one officer lost his weapon to the puke who was able to fire three shots. The officer died. Another officer then shot the puke. Puke later died in the hospital.

The puke’s family now wants to be paid and/or apologized to, and they want the officers involved fired. My anger knows no bounds.

Here are links, mainly to the Greeley Tribune:

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/2010101129991

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/2010712219987

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/2011702089938

http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/2011702109987

http://www.fortmorgantimes.com/ci_16742839?IADID=Search-www.fortmorgantimes.com-www.fortmorgantimes.com

What a slap in the face to all the LEO’s involved. I hope somebody goes after the family of this puke. I do understand their mindset. I have shirttail relatives that are criminals. I only see them at funerals. They thinks if they don’t get caught, what they do is ok. If they do get caught, the police are picking on them.