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"We listened to our courageous heroes in law enforcement and we took action. We rely on these men and women every day to keep us safe. ... “Its our job as Iowa legislators to minimize that risk (to police officers) as much as possible so that more law enforcement officers can make it back home to their families safely." Dear Rep. Klein, Like you, I want police officers to get home safely. Certainly their jobs involve risks. The shooting death of Sgt. Jim Smith, a 27-year veteran of the Iowa S...

Officer says holstered gun saved him after being shot in ambush     DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times) — The sensation of a hot poker going through his leg told Davenport Police Sgt. Scott Lansing he’d been hit. It wasn’t until he got to the emergency room and began to undress that he realized how close he’d come to taking more than one bullet. “I was handing over my holster and gun, and they saw my holster,” Lansing said. “The bullet hit the holster, then the metal slide on ...

Davenport police officer involved in ambush says Condition of the State recognition was an honor Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register Gov. Reynolds will introduce a bill to protect law enforcement and ban racial profiling Replay Video UP NEXT As she laid out a criminal justice proposal that includes harsher penalties for attacking police, Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday used the ambush of three Davenport officers last summer as an example of the violence she wants to discourage....

Gov. Kim Reynolds publicly recognized the three Davenport police officers involved in the incident, all of whom attended her address in person.

For the first time, a Davenport police officer is speaking about what he experienced in early June, after he and two other offers were ambushed while on patrol.