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.
After being sentenced to death, he killed his two guards and escaped in 1881. He was hunted down and shot dead by Sheriff Patrick Garrett on July 14, 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Shortly after the shooting, Sheriff Garrett wrote a biography of McCarty, the hugely sensationalized The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid.