LAPD Wife

LAPD, Financial Disclosure and Snowball Fights

Interesting article in the LA Times about the effect that the financial disclosure is having on special teams such as gang units, etc.

Los Angeles Times: LAPD Gang Units feel the pinch of financial disclosure rules

Also, here is LAPD author Jack Dunphy's take on the now infamous "gun at at a snowball fight" incident in his Christmas Day post:

Pajamas Media: Cops Shouldn't Bring Guns to a Snowball Fight

Great Idea for Old Cards

Just a quick note about this great option I found for recycling Christmas cards. St. Jude's Ranch for Children, an organization for abused, abandoned and neglected children takes old cards, removes the front that is unwritten upon and makes new ones from them to be sold in packets for the next season. Cards are accepted through Feb 28 and you can find more information here at St. Jude's Ranch.

Merry Christmas everyone. Much love to all! - Renee

Jack Dunphy - "A Fitting End"

From LAPD officer and writer Jack Dunphy - his latest column on the manhunt and death of cop-killer Maurice Clemmons:

And now Maurice Clemmons is dead.

Good.

It’s good because the alternative almost certainly would have been at least one more dead police officer. Despite the most intensive manhunt ever seen in the Puget Sound area, Clemmons was not tracked down by detectives or cornered by a SWAT team. It is somehow fitting that he met his end in an encounter with a lone officer on routine patrol in the middle of the night, an officer who was engaged in activity almost as mundane as that which occupied the four officers who were killed Sunday morning in Lakewood, Washington.

Read the rest here: A Fitting End for a Cop Killer 

Gifts for Guns

Deputies from the sheriff's Lennox Station are conducting a "Gift for Guns" program until 3:30 p.m. today, Friday Dec 4, where residents can safely and anonymously surrender firearms in exchange for gift cards. The event, which will be repeated from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec 5, is being held at the Food 4 Less parking lot, 11407 Western Ave. For more information, contact: Lt. Jeff Adams or Deputy Wayne Brown at (323) 242-8784.

LAPD Wife Podcast

I had a fantastic time this weekend chatting with Ken from PoliceBackground.net and Gloria, an LAPD applicant, about my experiences and outlook as the wife of a seasoned LAPD officer. What's really fun is that our conversation is now available as a podcast you can listen to at your convenience.

Check it out at the link below. I hope you like it and just remember, this wasn't rehearsed or scripted, so if I sound goofy, be kind. I have to say that I really had fun talking about a subject I am passionate about and hope that I provided words of hope, motivation, inspiration or maybe just laughter for those who find themselves in similar situations.

PoliceBackground.net / LAPD Wife Podcast