On the night of October 29, 1946, Pensacola Police Officers Ed Lawhorn, W. E. Dickson and Louis Champa responded to an illegal gambling game complaint. Such complaints were not uncommon […]
From the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon. Law and Order. That’s what it is called – for a reason. Historically, communities had often taken matters into their own hands
From the book “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon. 54 years ago today… On the front page of the June 10, 1951 edition of the Pensacola News-Journal was the story entitled
From Pensacola’s Finest, available on Amazon The only unsolved murder of a Pensacola Police Officer occurred 114 years ago yesterday… On the evening of March 17, 1906, the weather was
March 14, 1932: Finally! After four years as a firefighter, Frank was at last a motorcycle officer again. He had been a motorcycle officer in the town of Palm Beach,
An excerpt from Mike Simmons’ book “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon Nothing lets the wind out of the sails of a department like the death of one of its own.
When a police officer dies, the whole community feels the effect. When an officer is killed in the line a duty, a strange phenomenon occurs. The citizens in the
