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Just $5 gives you full access for 5 months to exclusive content from The Journal Times and journaltimes.com. The incredible deal wont last lo… The Racine Police Department has the go-ahead from the City Council to apply for a grant that will have a pedestrian and bicycle component in addition to traffic stops of vehicles, even if some local leaders are worried about the side effects. The grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation/Bureau of Transportation would be for $13,000. It wi...

May 11, 2021 6 hrs ago The name of Racine police officer John Hetland was added to a memorial marker with the names of the 17 other Racine County law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty since November 1918 in a ceremony Tuesday May 11, 2021 during national Law Enforcement Week. Hetland was killed June 17, 2019, when he tried to stop the armed robbery of a restaurant and bar he was dining at while off-duty. The ceremony was part of the countys annual Law Enf...

The name of Racine police officer John Hetland was added to a memorial marker with the names of the 17 other Racine County law enforcement officers who have been killed

Diener UNION GROVE — John Hetland and Jennifer Diener were more than just officers in the Racine Police Department. Both were also parents of students who still attend Union Grove High School. To honor the two fallen police officers — Hetland killed while trying to stop a robbery at a bar, Diener in an off-duty car crash — fellow students at Union Grove are donating $15,000 to the Racine Police Department. Members of the high schools National Honor Society collected community don...

Diener UNION GROVE — John Hetland and Jennifer Diener were more than just officers in the Racine Police Department. Both were parents of students who still attend Union Grove High School. To honor the fallen officers — Hetland was killed while trying to stop a robbery at a bar, Diener died after an off-duty car crash — students at Union Grove are donating $15,000 to the Racine Police Department. Members of the high school’s National Honor Society collected community donation...

Pre-policing days Art Howells nickname when he worked at McDonalds at 2100 Lathrop Avenue from 1978 to 1983 was literally "Chief," an omen for the official role he would later hold with the Racine Police Department. Hes shown posing in this photo, at far-left, in his McDonalds uniform next to his sisters Sindy Howell-Stewart and Vanessa Oliver. Submitted photo April 1987: Investigating Sporting a short afro typical of the times, Art Howell works with partner Dean Stanton in the e...