Campbell County, TN – An Anderson County sheriff’s deputy remains hospitalized in intensive care after he and his deputy wife were struck by a speeding pickup truck driven by a deputy from another county while they were trying to fix a motorcycle on the side of a residential roadway.
The driver behind the wheel of the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado that struck the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputies has been identified as Campbell County Sheriff’s Deputy Raymond Surber, who was also off-duty at the time of the horrific collision, WVLT reported.
Anderson County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) Deputy Lucas Shoffner and his wife, ACSO Deputy Nicole Shoffner, were both off-duty the night of Aug. 1 when they stopped on Clover Circle to fix the chain that had slipped off of their miniature motorbike, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP).
RICHMOND — UPDATE @ 9:07 p.m. (Aug. 11): Richmond Police Officer Seara Burton, shot and wounded during a traffic stop Wednesday night, remains in critical condition and is “showing slight signs of responsiveness,” Richmond Police Chief Michael Britt said in an update posted to social media Thursday night.
Officer Burton has not regained consciousness following surgery, the chief said, noting the officer was shot in the head.
Security, CO – El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO) Deputy Andrew Peery was murdered in the line of duty while responding to a report of shots fired at a residence on Sunday evening. Full Story below;
Police honor guards salute as the Star Spangled is played during the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, May 15, 2022, honoring the law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Suicide has quietly become an epidemic among the nation’s police, ranking as the No. 1 cause of officer deaths this year. Frustrated police advocates and mental health experts warn that President Biden has not only ignored the crisis but also exacerbated it with anti-police rhetoric.
Once a loyal ally to law enforcement during his more than 30 years in the Senate, Mr. Biden has tread a fine line when it comes to policing. He has pushed back against the left’s defund-the-police movement but has made few public comments supporting the police, fearful of crossing the Democratic Party’s progressive base and Black voters.
“The administration is not addressing police suicides, but in many ways, they are contributing to the stress, uncertainty and mental health issues that a lot of American law enforcement officers feel,” said Betsy Brantner Smith, a spokeswoman for the National Police Association.
As president, Mr. Biden has signed legislation to reduce and prevent suicide among frontline health care workers, launched a military and veteran suicide prevention strategy, and advocated mental health services for transgender teens.
But administration officials have remained largely mum on law enforcement suicides outside of mourning the deaths of the four officers who died by suicide after responding to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
At a May event urging cities to invest more funds in local police, Mr. Biden discussed the need for mental health services for offenders reentering society, but not officers.
A Justice Department spokesperson disputed that the administration has been silent on law enforcement suicides, saying Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed the issue at the International Association of Chiefs of Police symposium in March.
During his remarks, Mr. Garland noted that the Justice Department’s COPS Office this year will issue $7 million in grants to prevent suicide and expand mental health services for law enforcement. However, most of the money had been allocated under the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act, a 2018 measure signed into law by then-President Trump.
The spokesperson said the department has not increased the level of funding for fiscal 2023, but it has expanded the training and technical assistance it provides to law enforcement for mental wellness. This year the department added a consolidated list of officer safety and wellness resources to its website.
Mr. Garland also touted a $2 million grant to convene a national consortium on preventing law enforcement suicides. Those funds were approved by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance in 2019.
SALEM, Ore. — Salem police shot and killed a juvenile shooting suspect they were trying to arrest Wednesday evening and during an exchange of gunfire with the suspect, one officer was wounded, the Salem Police Department said.
The officer was taken to Salem Health and was expected to make a full recovery, police said.
Police were trying to arrest the suspect in a March 18 shooting near the Salem Center Mall. In that shooting, a teenage boy was shot and wounded. The shooting that day brought a lot of police to the mall and the surrounding area.
On Wednesday, around 5 p.m., police said they were trying to arrest the shooting suspect, who they only identified as a juvenile male, in the 4900 block of Oak Park Drive NE. Officers had found him in a parked car and when they tried to contact him, police said he drew a gun. An exchange of gunfire occurred and the suspect died at the scene, police said.
The Salem Police Department identified the officers involved in the shooting as Brian Frazzini, Erick Hernandez, Ryan Morris, and Adam Waite.
The officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure for police shootings.
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