Category: Good Cops

Reported by Fox News on December 24, 2014

After a rough year spent in and out of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin for a rare, life-threatening condition, a Saukville teenager got a Christmas surprise from her dad. The big surprise wasn’t only the gift — but how he delivered it. It all started back on November 21st, when Audra Daniloff was pulled over by a Saukville police officer (see complete video below). The officer told her at the time, it was because she rolled through a stop sign. In reality, it was a set-up. ‘I got some good news and some bad news for you, okay?’ said the officer. ‘The bad news, first I am giving you two tickets. But they are not the type of tickets you think. One is a plane ticket to New York. The other is a concert ticket for your favorite band….

 

Reported by Deseret News on December 17, 2014

Emergency dispatcher Kari Bueno once wanted the person clogging up their lines with false 911 calls to get into a lot of trouble…. In less than a week, someone had made more than 4,000 calls to 911. At one point, Bueno was receiving three to four calls a minute — all of them from the same number, which traced back to a disconnected cellphone…. About three weeks ago, West Jordan police finally tracked down the person making those calls…. The person making the calls was 30-year-old David VanBibber, who has a mental disability. His family says he functions on the level of an 8-year-old…. David VanBibber had an old cellphone that he used as an iPod to listen to music. The phone was disconnected and unable to make calls. But even disconnected cellphones are still able to call 911, which he was accidentally doing while trying to access his music. Bueno and other dispatchers didn’t intend for VanBibber to have his music taken away. But they couldn’t have him continually dial 911, either. The day the cellphone was taken away, Bueno came up with the idea of raising money among the dispatch center employees to buy an iPod Nano and a $100 iTunes gift certificate for him. On Wednesday, VanBibber and his family were invited to Valley Emergency Communications Center and were presented with the gifts….

Reported by Fox News on December 12, 2014

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper’s vehicle was struck after the trooper pulled an elderly woman over, but rather than cite her the man worked with other troopers to get the woman to a hospital so she could be with her gravely ill son she believed to be dying… The woman was traveling from Panaca, Nevada to visit her son, who she thought was in a hospital in Salt Lake City. After the trooper issued the woman a warning, she put the car in reverse and backed into Jones’ patrol car. After the collision, she told the trooper she had very bad eyesight and could hardly see as she drove. Jones told the woman it wasn’t safe for her to be behind the wheel, but rather than go about his business he decided to help….

Reported by CBS News on December 12, 2014

Earlier this month, in Kansas City, Missouri, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department was out looking for people. And when they spotted a subject, they went after them, in a sting operation the likes of which this country has never seen. What made this operation especially unusual was the man behind it: a fellow in a red hat — known to these men only as ‘Secret Santa.’ Every year this anonymous, wealthy businessman gives out about a hundred thousand dollars worth of hundred dollar bills to random strangers. But this year, instead of doing it all himself, he deputized these deputies to give away much of it….