October 22, 2022Dear editor; What a crock of baloney! I am surprised you published this anti- police hatchet job (John and Nisha Whitehead’s column in the October 20, 2022 edition of The Voice). Police have enough problems keeping the public trust and support. This is totally false crap! I know...
School Resource Officer Skyy Calice-McDowell was inspired to join the profession of her father, who is a police officer. During her teenage years, she witnessed distrust for the police among her peers due to their personal or familial experiences, which often left her wondering what role she could play in...
October 20, 2022Dear editor: In their column October 18 in The Voice, “Drivers Must Know Their Rights When Stopped By Police.” John and Nisha Whitehead called this country, “the America police state.” Although they began by saying that they were not “disrespecting…lawful police officers,” they proceeded to characterize our entire...
Lisle Police Sgt. Jim Dexter, a SWAT team specialist, is a speaker at an active shooter response training program at Lisle High School Monday, Oct. 17.
Neighbors throughout Aurora are coming together to celebrate National Night Out Tuesday, Aug. 2. Aurora’s National Night Out events will be held in 25 neighborhood sites throughout the 10 wards. National Night Out culminates annually on the first Tuesday in August to enhance the relationship among neighbors, public safety officials,...
In conjunction with fire departments that service Montgomery residents, the Village of Montgomery Police Department will visit seven locations throughout the community Tuesday, Aug. 2, between 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Residents are welcome to join the officers to view police cars and fire trucks, participate in activities! The Montgomery...
Aurora police officers J. Martinez, left, and T. Coleman, are speakers at an April 20 information meeting sponsored by West Aurora Concerned Citizens, a Fifth Ward neighborhood group.
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Someone or an army of someones has crashed through your front door. The...
Commander Mike Eckburg, right, Roosevelt-Aurora American Legion Post 84, presents checks for $1,000 each to Sheriffs Dwight Baird, left, Kendall County, and Ron Hain, Kane County, at a recent Post 84 meeting.
The Kane County Chiefs of Police Association, in partnership with the Batavia Moose Lodge #682, announce the winners of the Louis Spuhler Award for outstanding police work in 2021. The co-winners are Aurora Police detective Christopher Cox, and Elgin Police K-9 senior patrolman Justin Brown. The following is a summary...
Police cars from Aurora and many other communities line up outside of Our Savior Lutheran Church on Downer Place in Aurora and near Healy Chapel Thursday, Jan. 27 for the funeral procession of the late Ken Thurman, 51, an Aurora Police sergeant who died of COVID-19 Wednesday, Jan. 19.
It is with a very heavy heart that the Aurora Illinois Police Department (APD) announced the death of Sergeant Ken Thurman. Sergeant Thurman passed away Wednesday, Jan. 19 at the age of 51. He died from complications related to his contracting COVID-19 while serving the Aurora community. He was sworn...
Police cars lead the funeral procession in honor of the late Aurora Police Officer Brian Shields, Tuesday, Jan. 18, from his funeral at Harvest New Beginnings Church in Oswego to his final resting place in a cemetery nearby.
With holiday festivities rapidly approaching, the Oswego Police Department announced that it will participate in a statewide impaired driving awareness campaign from December 17 through January 3, 2022. “Driving impaired, whether under the influence of alcohol or drugs, can have catastrophic consequences and is illegal in every state,” said Public...
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead We are a Nation on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Undeniably, the blowback from COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates continues to reverberate around the country, impacting the Nation’s struggling workplaces, choking the economy and justifying all manner of authoritarian tyrannies being inflicted on...
Plano Police Officer Mason Brant was one of many police officers who met with community members on Halloween and handed out candy.
The City of Naperville government announced this week that Jason Arres, who serves as a deputy chief of the Naperville Police Department, has been named Naperville’s new police chief. The announcement is made following a three-month process involving a national search led by the public management consulting firm GovHR and...
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish, the ones enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize...
When news broke that two Chicago police officers were involved in a shooting in the Englewood community, it jolted the City. The shooting that took the life of Ella French, a 29-year-old Chicago Police Department (CPD) veteran officer, and the severe wounding of her partner by brothers, Emonte and Eric...
