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 AUGUST 2017 VOLUME XXIV NO. 8 • PRICE $4.95 • www.APBweb.com 33 10 Top Ten List 16 Opinion/Editorial 34 In the Line of Duty Inside News You Can Use Unofficial For a variety of reasons, law enforcement officers are avoiding posting comments to official agency Facebook pages. PLUS . . . 24 No respect The head of Immigration and CustomsEnforcementsayspeople adore police and hate ICE. 04 Cool dudes When an old veteran’s A/C died, these cops went the extra mile and helped the guy out. People were blown away. by Jose Torres There’s a guy named David Beckham that’s been trying to build a soccer stadium in the Miami area for years now. He finally got approval from local officials to build the thing, but now there are questions about who will be handling security and emergency medical services. Here’s the deal. There is a provi- sion in the agreement to sell Beck- ham the land to build the stadium that would require the stadium to hire and use county police officers and paramedics. But Miami City Attorney Victo- ria Méndez wrote that the county’s hiring requirement was likely an “unenforceable” provision in Miami-Dade’s agreement to sell Beckham and investors a three- acre parcel in Overtown for $9 million. Police lose out on stadium Continued on page 18 Continued on page 24 Must be the genes Father and son make saves 30 years apart on the exact same day by Cynthia Brown Sometimes it just seems like fate, chance or providence. What are the odds that a cop’s kid, who is also now a cop, would save a life 30 years to the day after his Dad did the same thing? Virginia Police Officer Ross Stolle and fellow Virginia Beach Officer Michael Weeks were re- cently honored for the bravery they showed in the line of duty. Officers Stolle and Weeks were on patrol when they heard a call about a man in distress in the water. They arrived and found the victim lying facedown and bobbing against the rocks about 25 yards from shore. This was last January and it was freezing. Foot patrol? What is this, the 50’s? Camden County Police Department Officers Vidal Rivera, Louis Sanchez and Jose Delvallein are seen on foot patrol on a New Jersey street. In 2013 the City of Camden dissolved its police force, replacing it with a new county-run department. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) Another officer ambushed Sheriff Ken Stolle and Officer Ross Stolle have some stories to tell. by Mark Nichols In New York City on the Fourth of July, an individual named Alex- ander Bonds walked up to the an R.V.-style police command post in the Bronx and fired a .38-caliber revolver through a window. NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia was hit in the head and died at the scene. Continued on page 31