DPD Officer William McDuff was killed in 1896 in a targeted shooting on Christmas Day. He was not only the first Black ...

Walter Coe moved to Grand Rapids in 1916 from Nashville and became the city's first Black police officer in 1922.

After serving his country in Vietnam, Chief Brown became the first African American police officer in the New River Valley in 1970. He rose through the police department ranks and was appointed ...

HISTORIC MOMENT from the FMPD! Officer Yvette Dominique has made history as the first African American female officer to be ...

Brown became an officer for the Blacksburg Police Department in 1970, was appointed as Chief of Police in 1994, and served as chief until 2006. He was both the first Black officer, and the first ...