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The Independence Day holiday can increase exponentially the number of intoxicated knuckleheads you’re likely to encounter on your shift The months of June, July, August, and September tend to bring out a wee bit more of ‘the crazy’ than is typically encountered in the ‘dead of winter’ or the mild months of autumn and spring. Triple digit temps and extended daylight hours just seem to bring out the mouth-breathing nut jobs with greater regularity. The summertime heat begets bar patrons on sidewalks for miscellaneous mayhem far more frequently than you’d find in February, and we’ve all seen more than one...

The widow of Norfolk Police Officer Brian Jones talks about Father's Day without him and is launching the Brian Jones Scholarship for Law Enforcement Spouses (photo Rebekah Jones Officer Jones's Widow) Three children, ages 9, 7 and 4, will have to experience Father's Day without their dad. Bryson, Mariah and Kyler Jones's dad Brian was a Norfolk Police Officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty May 30, 2014. "Father's Day is going to be really hard," his widow Rebekah said. "Mariah still has a lot of nightmares and she has a lot of questions and she wants...

 Fairfax County Va. Police Dept says thank you to McLean High School for showing their respect and appreciation. Fairfax Co. Police are getting many positive tweets and comments on their twitter and facebook pages in regards to these high school students act of appreciation. Buy Back the Blue (SST-BTB) Sold Separately Buy Pray For Blue (SST-PFB) Sold Separately Buy Loved By An Officer (LST-PLBO) Buy Loved By A Deputy (LST-PLBD)

  Two young boys in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, spent their Sunday afternoon doing something special to show their appreciation for local law enforcement and firefighters. Aiden Best and Nathan Perry set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the police department. “I feel like you haven’t really seen anybody thanking any of them right now so this is for them,” Aiden told reporters. “We felt like the police have done so much for us and they have nothing in return,” Nathan added. “They just did it because it’s their job.” The boys used the $50 they raised to buy...

For this cop, making sure a boy felt comforted was all part of wearing the badge.  “It was just human instinct.” A photo that recently went viral on Facebook features Officer James Hurst of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department in Georgia, holding a child at a hospital.  The boy had been found without adult supervision and taken to the facility, where the child became upset during a medical examination. So the officer made sure the boy would feel safe.  “I just knew this child needed somebody to be there for him,” Hurst said of his compassionate act, according to a release from the Department. “It...