Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings
28 July 2020
openvallejo.org
28 July 2020
They call it, “The Badge of Honor.” For a generation, a secretive clique within the Vallejo Police Department has commemorated fatal shootings with beers, backyard barbecues, and by bending the points of their badges each time they kill in the line of duty, an investigation by Open Vallejo has found. The custom was so exclusive, some officers involved in fatal shootings were never told of its existence. But senior law enforcement and government officials say everything changed when a police captain tried to end the practice following the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Willie McCoy in February 2019. Over the next ...
Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings
The tradition is known at the highest levels of Vallejo city government and to Solano County's district attorney, sources say.
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