Last year, the department redeployed its ever-popular senior lead officers, ignoring the expressed desires of the communities they serve. It's time to put the senior lead officers back on a fast track, for they are one of our most powerful antidotes to the crisis of confidence that threatens the department. The senior lead officers are central to the spirit of the Christopher Commission reforms.
The infamous Old West outlaw was first arrested at 16. At the age of 18, he shot and killed a man during an altercation at an army camp in Arizona. At 21, he was killed â shot by sheriff Pat Garrett â and the man forever known as Billy the Kid was laid to rest in Fort Sumner, N.M. Then again, maybe he wasnât.
Garrett Gomez. Two-time Eclipse Award winning jockey Garrett Gomez has died, according to his daughter Shelby Gomez. He was 44. Shelby Gomez declined to give details Dec. 14 on the death of her father. Garrett Gomez officially retired from riding in 2015, but rode his last race in 2013.