Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48Helping the survivors grieve, heal Concerns of Police Survivors is critical now more than ever The only things more dangerous than loose lips are public records by Dianne Bernhard Each year, an average of between 140 to 160 law enforcement officers lose their lives in the line of duty. With each loss, there is a family who is left behind to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives as well as the co-workers who have to Order your own MONTHLY subscription today. Call 1-800-234-0056 or go to www.apbweb.com T H E V O I C E O F T H E N A T I O N ’ S L A W E N F O R C E M E N T C O M M U N I T Y MAY 2016 VOLUME XXIII NO. 4 ➤ PRICE $4.95 ➤ www.APBweb.com 31 10 Top Ten List 16 Opinion/Editorial 34 In the Line of Duty Inside News You Can Use TRAINING The upcoming Republican National Convention will be a high-stakes training opportunity for cops from out of state. PLUS . . . 22 MOW MY LAWN! There are good bosses and then there are the kind that make you pick up their dry cleaning. 09 AS EXPECTED Many law enforcement agencies are putting religious stickers on official vehicles. And the lawsuits are just starting to be filed. Numbers and narratives by Jose Torres Sometimes you just get the feeling that the bad guy’s never going to face the music. Unless you’ve been living under a rock in Iraq, you might have heard something about the water in Flint, Michigan and elsewhere. Emergency “managers” switched the source of Flint’s water supply to a toxic river and the fallout is still unfolding. Now a bunch of very powerful people, primarily national laughing stock Governor Rick Snyder, could be in big trouble. But just days before the federal government opened an investigation into the Flint water crisis, someone broke into City Hall and stole many of the documents related to the scan- dal. Inside job Continued on page 30 Continued on page 18 Continued on page 26 Officers leave the scene in Chino, California, after a man holed up inside a home exchanged gunfire with police, before the house went up in flames. A sheriff’s deputy went to the home to serve an eviction notice and the man fired at him. Authorities deployed a chemical agent into the home, but Olden said she did not know if that caused the fire. Will Lester/The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via AP) Someone or some people are poisoning bald eagles in alarming numbers on the east coast. by Nick Selby The Black Lives Matter movement and the recent focus in the media on how police interact with citizens of different races has helped engage Americans in an important conver- sation about how law enforcement works. Study after study has found that black drivers are more likely to be stopped and arrested than whites. But a closer look at some statistics shows that the problem is not nec- essarily an issue of racist cops, and that means fixing the criminal justice system isn’t just an issue of address- ing racism in uniform. Some racial disparities in treat- ment by authorities actually appear to be the result of state laws intended to crack down on offenses like drunk