Monday, February 24, 2020

COPS Walk Southwest 2020

 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
https://www.odmp.org/officer/13366-patrol-officer-david-j-tolsma

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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