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May 2012
Issue No. 26

The U.S. Attorney's Report to the District

           Fifty years ago this month, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which it falls National Police Week. Numerous events during mid-May pay special tribute to those law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

On May 7, I attended the California Peace Officers' Memorial Ceremony in Sacramento, when the names of officers who died in the line of duty are added to the state peace officers' memorial monument. The names of eight officers killed in 2011, and those of several others who died in prior years, were added to the memorial. For me, the most moving part of the ceremony was watching grieving spouses and children approach the monument to lay roses over the names of the fallen officers. One of those to whom we paid homage was Officer James L. Capoot of the Vallejo Police Department, shot and killed November 17, 2011, during a foot pursuit of armed bank robbery suspects. Officer Capoot, a 19-year veteran of the Vallejo Police Department, leaves behind a wife and three daughters.

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