COPS Walk Southwest 2020
This event was held February 2020 in the community of Verrado in Buckeye, Arizona. We were blessed to be able to attend before all of the Coronavirus mess came about. We are also blessed to be able to participate with such awesome people as we all remember heroes who gave their all. I am sharing some of the images from the event.
I am doing something a bit different this year. As this sometimes wild ride called life goes on, I have realized all of this is about people. It is about the amazing survivors walking in memory of their heroes. It is about the awesome support staff helping those walking. It is about the heroes who were taken from us all. It is about those that make a difference in our lives. Never forgotten.
Some of those heroes walked for and remembered are listed below. A link is provided to the Officer Down Memorial Page for each of the Law Enforcement Officers who sacrificed all in the performance of their duties… in performance of their calling.
“It is not how these officers died that made them heroes, it is how they lived.”
Vivian Eney Cross, Survivor
Police Officer Stanley J. Jerlecki
Detroit Police Department, Michigan
End of Watch Friday, December 14, 1951
https://www.odmp.org/officer/7110-police-officer-stanley-j-jerlecki
Patrolman Clifton T. Miller
Rossford Police Department, Ohio
End of Watch Saturday, May 14, 1966
https://www.odmp.org/officer/9315-patrolman-clifton-t-miller
Deputy Leroy Dale Brown
Cochise County Sheriff’s Department, Arizona
End of Watch December 6, 1969, in Bowie, Arizona.
Patrol Officer David J. Tolsma
Cheektowaga Police Department, New York
End of Watch Thursday, October 20, 1977
Sergeant Stuart J. Searles
Sauk County Sheriff's Department, Wisconsin
End of Watch Sunday, June 10, 1984
Sergeant Timothy Francis Littlefield
San Bernardino Police Department, California
End of Watch Sunday, September 14, 1986
Officer Edward A. Rebel
Arizona Department of Public Safety, Arizona
End of Watch Tuesday, June 28, 1988
Patrolman Jack G. Martin
Lynden Police Department, Washington
End of Watch Tuesday, August 9, 1988
Deputy Sheriff Robert William Varner, Jr.
Navajo County Sheriff's Office, Arizona
End of Watch Monday, January 2, 1989
Sergeant John M. Blaser
Arizona Department of Public Safety, Arizona
End of Watch Friday, August 31, 1990
Police Officer Sunny Ma Lov
Dallas Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, November 4, 1990
Manuel Hurtado Tapia – Sergeant
Arizona Department of Public Safety
End of Watch – January 8, 1991
Reserve Sergeant Mark Maynard Dryer
Arizona Department of Public Safety, Arizona
End of Watch Saturday, July 3, 1993
Officer Miguel T. Soto
Oakland Police Department, California
End of Watch Wednesday, June 22, 1994
Martha Dixon Martinez – Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Government
End of Watch - November 22, 1994
Scott James Williams – Senior Officer Specialist
Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Government
End of Watch – April 3, 1997
Deputy Sheriff Mark William Brown
King County Sheriff's Office, Washington
End of Watch Saturday, February 27, 1999
Officer Floyd James "Skip" Fink, Jr.
Arizona Department of Public Safety, Arizona
End of Watch Friday, February 18, 2000
“In valor there is hope.”
Tacitus
John Lewis Burkett III – Deputy Sheriff
Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, West Virginia
End of Watch – January 31, 2001
Jason Schwartz – Deputy Sheriff
Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado
End of Watch – September 28, 2001
Eric Jason Autobee - Correctional Sergeant
Colorado Department of Corrections, Colorado
End of Watch - October 18, 2002
Deputy Sheriff Timothy David Graham
Pima County Sheriff's Department, Arizona
End of Watch Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Police Officer Robert Buckman
Macksville Police Department, Kansas
End of Watch Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Police Officer Nicki James "Nick" Erfle
Phoenix Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Erik David Hite – Police Officer
Tucson Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch – June 2, 2008
Jose Rivera – Correctional Officer
Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Government
End of Watch – June 20, 2008
Deputy Sheriff Anne Marie Jackson
Skagit County Sheriff's Office, Washington
End of Watch Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Samuel Steele Hicks – Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Government
End of Watch – November 19, 2008
Police Officer Travis Paul Murphy
Phoenix Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Corporal Matthew Lloyd Edwards
Taylor Police Department, Michigan
End of Watch Friday, July 23, 2010
Police Officer Rolando Alberto Tirado
Buckeye Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Sunday, May 1, 2011
Mary Katherine Ricard - Sergeant
Colorado Department of Corrections, Colorado
End of Watch - September 24, 2012
Eric Williams - Senior Officer Specialist
Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Government
End of Watch - February 25, 2013
Osvaldo Albarati – Lieutenant
Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Government
End of Watch - February 26, 2013
Thomas Lynn Clements - Executive Director
Colorado Department of Corrections, Colorado
End of Watch - March 19, 2013
Detective John Thomas Hobbs
Phoenix Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Monday, March 3, 2014
Police Officer David Van Glasser
Phoenix Police Department, Arizona
End of Watch Thursday, May 19, 2016
Trooper Cody James Donahue
Colorado State Patrol, Colorado
End of Watch Friday, November 25, 2016
Lisa Mauldin - Corrections Officer
Miller County Sheriff's Office, Arkansas
End of Watch - December 19, 2016
Steven Floyd - Lieutenant
Delaware Department of Correction, Delaware
End of Watch - February 2, 2017
Kent Donald Swanson – Sergeant
Shelley Police Department, Idaho
End of Watch – May 21, 2018
Sergeant Joshua Eli Voth
Colorado Department of Corrections, Colorado
EOW: Wednesday, December 4, 2019
When a police officer is killed, it's not an agency that loses an officer, it's an entire nation.”
Chris Cosgriff, ODMP Founder
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Proverbs 28:1
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