Nitro West Virginia Police Officer Recovering At The Shepherd Center

Please visit Officer Jimmy Lee and his family during their trying time, offer whatever assistance you can provide. This brother and his family are strangers in a strange land.

Show our fraternal spirit.

The Shepard Center is located at 2020 Peachtree Road NW Atlanta 30309.

Gwinnett PD Places Tag Readers On Marked Cars

There's some "thinking out of the box" going on in Gwinnett County. Somebody in their command staff came up with a brilliant idea of putting Tag Readers on marked police cars and putting them on the streets. At least 3 of these marked units are in 3 separate precincts with more on the way.

But here in DeKalb, our command staff has a much different philosophy. See, we have ONE marked police car with the Tag Reader for 5 precincts to share. We have 3 more on detective cars which sit in a private residence driveway 14 hours a day 3 days out of the week.

Ingenious!

Pension Board Election: Candidates for Retiree Representative

The election is January 6, 2012. These candidates are in no particular order, nor are we endorsing anyone at this time.

Click on any name to read their self described qualifications.

Chandler Bridges
William Pickens, Jr
Robert Robertson
Nathan Fowler
James Bradford Duncan
Charles Huckleberry

God Bless You All, And Have A Very Blessed Christmas

Dekalb Police Alliance Announces Fund Rasier

The DeKalb Police Alliance will host its annual fund-raiser in February to help with insurance costs for law enforcement officers.

The Hearts for Heroes Ball will be held Feb. 11 at the Thalia N. Carlos Hellenic Community Center on Clairmont Road in Atlanta. The event features a dinner, dancing and live auction.

Funds raised go to underwrite a $100,000 life insurance policy to help families of fallen sworn officers in DeKalb county and city police departments, marshals and sheriff’s office.

More information: www.dekalbpolicealliance.org or 678-362-0392

April Hunt AJC

If Only These Idiots Would Get This Excited About Police Pay and The County Budget

For Some Reason We Don't Believe Him, Or Any Of The Commissioners

Conventionally, the repayment of the 40 million dollars stolen from the Green Space Fund is left out of the budget.

Where are you Robert James?

YMCA.....Letters Of The Alphabet Only

Once upon a time, the letters YMCA stood for Young Men's Christian Association. When you read the word Christian, you think of all things good and honest.

But the YMCA of South DeKalb has chosen to "honor" the unrepentant degenerate thief and liar, Commissioner Sharon Sutton as it's 2011 Tom Wilson Impact award winner. Giving this woman an honor of any sorts is a sin within itself.

Next they'll be honoring Gene Jones and Club Obsession for it's mentoring of the youth.

Strike the YMCA off our charity list.

Click here for AJC article.

Officer Spots Theft Suspect On Channel 2 News

Good police work!

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Unimaginable

Sadly, when an officer dies in the line of duty, we act in selfish ways, first saying to ourselves "only by the grace of God, him, not me" and then we start to Monday morning quarterback. We lose sight of the family members.

We struggled with our reaction to this comment. No, we have not walked in her shoes, so we don't know and really can't imagine how she feels. But being a parent, it ills us to think of getting that knock on the door.

This mother, this family, need our prayers and comfort.

May God bless her.

"I am the mother of Det. Shane Wilson. My heart is broken. I told myself I would not read anything on the accident and listen to what others had to say. I'm barely getting out of bed once I wake to this repeating nightmare.

For the record, Shane was driving an unmarked city issued Ford Edge not equipped with emergency equipment so obviously he did not have it on. He was ripped from life by a known criminal who was sitting in the outside emergency lane decided he wanted to go east in the west bound lane so he made a u turn on I 20. He turned right into my son and killed him. No amount of money can fix that.

If you drink and drive, Stop Now.

Please. For those that don't know, Shane was home in bed and called to respond to a home invasion where both the victim and the perps were criminals. They had one suspect in custody. The victim of the home invasion was actually arrested last night for drug buys. My son died that night but he and the other officers were the only good guys. All the other players were those people out there among us all that just refuse to play by the rules. Rules Don't Apply. I'm having a tough time with that."

Gayle Hanson, retired DeKalb Police Officer

"Bah, Humbug!

DeKalb County family says thieves stole their Christmas tree.

Wrong, just wrong.

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