43RD LONG BEACH POLICE AWARDS AT CARPENTER CENTER JUNE 22
By Greater Long Beach
Brave or unselfish acts of heroism and dedication to community safety during the past year will be recognized at the 43rd Long Beach Police Awards Ceremony on June 22—that’s a Wednesday—at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of Long Beach State beginning at 5 p.m., according to a press release from the Long Beach Police Foundation.
Admission to the event is free, but reservations are required. To make reservations, contact the Long Beach Police Foundation by telephone at (562) 343-5111 or on its website at http://www.lbpolicefoundation.org/.
According to the release, the ceremony honors police department employees and private citizens, and is a joint effort of the Long Beach Police Foundation (LBPF) and the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD).
The LBPF actively seeks donations from private businesses and individuals, and facilitates direct, designated donations that support our community safety mission. It is a 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit; tax ID# 33-0835185.
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Please consider attending this worthwhile (and free) event and hearing the many great stories of excellent police work and voluntary community efforts within our comunity in support of public safety.
Please also consider a tax-deductible corporate or individual donation to the Long Beach Police Foundation.
http://www.lbpolicefoundation.org/
These donations can be earmarked for specific uses. Such donations have helped to directly fund such things as patrol bicycles, SWAT dive team vests, uniform shirts for the Chief’s volunteer Medical Advisory Group (“Doc Squad”) and various professional training programs.
Because there were no funds in the shrinking police department budget for these and other items, the Police Foundation was able to step in and provide funding through the tax deductible donations it receives from within our community.
Will the Long Beach Police officers who killed unarmed Mark Zerby be recognized for their heroism?
Will the Long Beach Police officers who recently stole guns from the police property room be recognized for their heroism?
Will the Long Beach Police officers who lied under oath in court, resulting in innocent people going to jail be recognized for their heroism?
Will the Long Beach Police officers recently arrested for DUIs be recognized for their heroism?
Will the Long Beach Police officers recently arrested for statutory rape of a minor be recognized for their heroism?
Will the many Long Beach Police officers currently being sued for civil rights violations (brutality) be recognized for their heroism?
It will be a lot easier for me to support such a function when I start seeing some of these “hero” cops start enforcing the law with their own union brothers. Until then, why are they being commended for being gangmembers acting under the color of authority?
Mr. Ruehle, to my knowledge there is no award related to being “gangmembers acting under color of authority.” Nor do I believe any of the excellent police officers being honored at this ceremony could possibly be referred to in such an insulting and derrogatory fashion.
Well, except, perhaps, by people who could be considered consummately foolish and ignorant to even suggest such a despicable and disrespectful thing.
By the way, there will be many outstanding citizens being recognized and rewarded at that ceremony as well. Perhaps you might consider attending anyway and hearing about some of the impressive things they have done in the past year to contribute in a productive and constructive way to our community.
And according to the greet not one tarnished the badge of the LBPD.
Believe whatever you like, Mr wrong. Nothing I offer, however respectfully, will serve to help you change your point of view. Much like your buddy, Mr. Ruehle, you seem to never tire of your own negativity and discourtesy.
Perhaps you should attend this event with him. I think you both could learn something important…possibly even about yourselves.
Now boys we are all good Christians here and I am sure nobody would ever kill anybody unless they wanted to, mostly anybody who is not a Christian like Muslims or unarmed white men with a water hose and another Spanish man who was with his wife to be and possible gay people, right Christians?
@ Mr. Right: I think it is really great that we live in a nation that guarantees people like you a right to so publicly (and anonymously) showcase your abject ignorance. Don’t you?
Not unlike the Douglas Zerby deadly hose nozzle case, notice how the Long Beach Police have quietly covered up their near-murder of Ernest Raymond Rodriguez when he was shot THREE TIMES by Long Beach Police two summers ago in front of Legends in Belmont Shore.
It turns out all those stories told to the press about how the Long Beach Police officer shot Rodriguez THREE TIMES while defending himself from Rodriguez’s aggrevated assault with a police baton taken from the officer were fabricated. Other nearby witnesses saw it differently and the LA District Attorney ONLY charged Rodriguez with misdemeanor resisting arrest, hardly worth getting shot over.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez is suing the City of Long Beach for more of our taxpayer’s dollars due to the police department’s incompetance. Guess how many $millions that will cost?
And this is only one law suit against Jon Steinhauser, the cop who shot Rodriguez. It turns out he is involved in other pending law suits against the City and Police Department, at least one of them involving someone who was killed. But the police department doesn’t want anyone to know about that dirty laundry or the fact Jon Steinhauser is the newphew of School Superintendent Chris Steinhauser.
What surprises me is that officer Jon Steinhauser’s name wasn’t listed as one of the cops awarded with a medal for heroism.
Differing and conflicting witness accounts are common, particularly during violent and traumatic events. Prosecutors often file charges with the court that are different from those they receive from detectives. Courts often convict defendants of charges that are different from those prosecutors have originally filed with them. None of these common circumstances mean that anything has been “fabricated.” It just suits Mr. Ruehle’s typical anti-LBPD bias to assert such things.
Regardless of whether a police shooting is ultimately deemed to be justified, lawsuits will are filed in virtually every instance. This does not necessarily mean that either the officers involved or the department and community they represent have done anything wrong. That would be a question for a judge and/or jury to decide. Apparently Mr. Ruehle would prefer that were not the case.
Why are the names of Police officer’s receiving commendations made public, yet the names of police officers who kill residents are hidden in secrecy?
I wonder how may of the officers who killed Douglas Zerby for making the mistake of holding a water nozzle received commendations for their fine work?
What an utterly miserable person, Mr. Ruehle must be, to be so negative and utterly insulting all the time.