Officer Down
Deputy R.J. Leonard drove into the Tennessee River with Tabitha Smith in the back seat, causing both to drown; Smith’s family alleges Leonard was not properly trained in suspect transport and was not familiar with his patrol area
Officers Ella French and Carlos Yanez Jr. were shot, and French was killed while performing an August 2021 traffic stop
Officer Jonah Hernandez was attacked by a knife-wielding suspect and stabbed to death; a bystander then shot and killed the suspect
Elise Ybarra was driving an unmarked detective’s vehicle when she entered a line of slow-moving traffic. Minutes later, a pickup collided with the officer’s vehicle
The vehicle stopped was registered to Ian McCarthy and he is considered a person of interest in the killing
Speakers discussed ways Lt. Aaron Allan went above and beyond to help others, such as spending his own money to buy a new car battery for a stranded woman
Jason Fann was responding to a crash when he lost control of his patrol unit, rolling the vehicle
Stephen Tyler Holman wrote that “putting stop sticks out to stop a car going over 100 mph is extremely negligent… It ended up costing one of their own”
Reliability isn’t the only thing getting in the way of the technology
Raymond Durham was accused Thursday of shooting Collin Rose in the head on Nov. 22
K-9 Cain ran into the woods to detain the suspect, but when he emerged he had multiple stab wounds to his chest
Sheriff Mike Cash said the K-9 suffered a ruptured diaphragm and that a necropsy revealed that the cause of death was blunt force trauma
Senior Deputy Derek Fish, who was known as “Nemo” in the department, joined the agency in May 2011