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Officer Hoffa, fulfilling the dreams of his 6-year-old self, serves with a you-first mentality
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Chubbuck Police Officer Tyler Hoffa sits in his police cruiser on Friday, April 2, 2021. Hoffa has been working the weekend night shift since he was hired as a Chubbuck patrol officer in 2019. | Kalama Hines, EastIdahoNews.com
CHUBBUCK Officer Tyler Hoffa takes great joy in serving on the Chubbuck Police Department’s weekend night shift and not just because he is especially susceptible to the harshness of the sun.
“Batman worked nights it kind of has that vibe to it,” he told EastIdahoNews.com. “Plus, I get sunburned easily, so I try to stay in the dark as much as I can.”
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Kathleen Bils in her home in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego, California on May 1, 2021. May 1st is exactly one year since Bils son Nicholas Nicky was shot and killed by a San Diego County Sheriff s Deputy after escaping a park ranger truck in handcuffs outside the county jail. Nicky was mentally ill, Bils said that her son was afraid of the police. He was 36 years old when he died.
Cases in San Diego and San Leandro will test the stricter standards on when officers can shoot to kill. Training of officers on the new law is inconsistent.
On opposite ends of California, two women who have never met are united by grief and purpose.
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On opposite ends of California, two women who have never met are united by grief and purpose.
This month, Kathleen Bils laid a memorial stone in a flower bed on the San Diego street where a sheriff’s deputy shot her son one year earlier. Some 500 miles north, at a marina on the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay, Addie Kitchen recently held a memorial in the city where a police officer killed her grandson.
“I want people to understand that our children are important to us and that we want justice,” said Kitchen, a retired prison guard. “We want the officers to be held accountable.”
Police Turn to Virtual Reality for Field Training Exercises
Virtual reality training can now allow police officers to apply techniques such as implicit bias, cultural competency, de-escalation and peer intervention to real-life encounters in practice scenarios.
May 10, 2021 •
Shutterstock (TNS) Two Virginia police officers in December pulled over a Black and Latino U.S. Army officer for a missing license plate before they pointed guns at 2nd Lt. Caron Nazario, pepper sprayed him and pushed him to the ground, according to videos of the incident.
A week later, Lt. Zachary Bales and his training division team at the Sacramento Police Department were analyzing the video of that controversial police encounter to learn how to teach officers and new recruits what not to do.