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So much for “Happy New Year”… an Iraq war veteran goes nuts, shoots up Seattle before murdering Mount Rainier National Park Ranger and mother of two, Margaret Anderson. The facts are somewhat sketchy, but what is known is this: A park service employee tried pulling over the alleged shooter for a routine traffic stop.  That [...]

Gratitude: the state of being grateful. Grateful: appreciative of benefits received. Christmas is a time of year, not for seeing how many presents you can get from those around you, but to be grateful for what you have, even if you have almost nothing.  It’s a time to remember all those who have sacrificed and [...]

Waterloo, Indiana Deputy Marshal Stephen Brady, 47, is a very lucky man this Christmas.  For doing what police officers do on a rainy and miserable night, helping broken-down motorists, Deputy Marshal Brady was shot in the face and left for dead. Responding to a call from a home where a man and a woman had [...]

They say the two most dangerous activities for a cop are traffic stops and domestic dispute calls.  The latter makes sense because cops are walking into a volatile and unknown situation. Handing someone a traffic ticket shouldn’t get you killed, but that’s exactly what happened to Officer Vincent Roy on Thursday, December 1, 2011. It [...]

Late in the evening on November 28, 2011 Buddy Herron stopped to help what he thought was a stranded motorist with a broken-down vehicle.  It was the last act of good will of his life. Shortly after stopping to help someone, Buddy Herron made a 9-1-1 call in the last dying moments of his life.  [...]

Today is a very sad day at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario.  Sgt. Janick Gilbert returned there today after giving his life to save a couple of strangers near Baffin Island in Canada’s Artic Region. Gilbert and two other soldiers parachuted into the frigid waters near Igloolik, Nunavut, in an effort to rescue [...]

It’s as tragic as it is horrifying… a disgruntled army soldier decides the best possible course of action is to shoot a policeman in cold blood. Unfortunately for Richmond County Sheriff’s Deputy James Paugh, he had just finished a shift and was on his way home near Augusta, Georgia, when his path crossed that of [...]

Today I’m writing to honour Walker Police Department Officer Trevor Slot, who was murdered on October 13, 2011 by a couple of scumbags who had just robbed a bank.  I’ve been writing a lot about the kind of cops we do NOT want here in British Columbia recently, so I thought I’d give an example [...]