A 29-year-old Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer and mom was shot dead on Chicago’s streets. Officer Ella French had recently returned to patrol duty from maternity leave. On Saturday night August 7th, Officer French and her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez Jr., stopped a car for a minor traffic violation—expired license plates. Officer French contacted the […]

Ambushed! Early Wednesday morning, on July 7th, a Chicago Police Department (CPD) undercover officer and two federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents were ambushed shortly after leaving the CPD’s Morgan Park District station. The officer and agents were fired upon while en route to a joint investigation. Two of the three law enforcement officers (LEOs) […]

Two juveniles (a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl) ran away from a group home on June 1st in central Florida. The staff at the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home reported to law enforcement that the girl assaulted a staff member with a stick just before the duo fled. The girl was at the facility because […]

Pastor Dave Coleman checked his phone and then interrupted the Thursday morning staff meeting at Watersprings Church, “Pastor Ty and Tim, did you hear there’s a reported shooting at a Rigby school?” We had not. Rigby is a small community in Jefferson County, ID, the adjacent county north of Bonneville, where the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy […]

On November 27, 2015, at 11:30 am, 57-year-old Robert Dear Jr., armed with an SKS 7.62mm rifle, went to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO, and started shooting. The clinic staff heard the shots and called 911 as Dear made his way through the building shooting at random targets. Officers responded and a […]

Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) across America are hurting. Many are overwhelmed by a sense of hopelessness. This reality recently hit the Chicago Police Department (CPD) when two officers in the span of five days died by suicide. This comes after another CPD officer killed himself in January. Following the third suicide, Police Superintendent David Brown […]