It Looks Like Feds Threw an Unaware Cop Against a Hardened Criminal, Minutes Later Officer Executed

By Jared Harris, The Western Journal May 11, 2021   

A tragedy near the border has many furious over the details of how a lone police officer was put in a position that saw him executed on the roadside by a violent and hardened career criminal. An attorney for the officer’s family now says federal agents knew of the suspect’s past, and failed to tell the cop critical information that could have saved his life.  According to KRQE-TV, New Mexico State Police were contacted by the Department of Homeland Security requesting help with conducting a traffic stop on suspected drug dealer Omar Cueva.............a man they knew to be armed and dangerous......To Read More....

When a convicted cop-killer gets to help 're-imagine' policing

April 1, 2021  By Bob Kingsley

Ithaca, NY resident Richard Rivera sits on a committee called "Re-Imagining Public Safety," which is responsible for suggesting reforms to the Ithaca Police Department.  Mandated by New York State governor Andrew Cuomo, all 500 police agencies throughout N.Y. were tasked with holding public meetings in order to gather input about how best to operate.  The participants in the Ithaca initiative chose to basically disband the police department and replace it with a hybrid group of armed and unarmed de-escalation people who would replace the traditional way of policing.

Fifty-six-year-old Richard Rivera is alive and healthy.  He has a girlfriend and a nice job working for a non-profit in Ithaca, and he also sits on the committee called Re-Imagining Public Safety.

Robert Walsh is dead...... Walsh was a father of four.  They all grew up without their father.  This is what one daughter had to say some thirty-plus years later about her dad....... . "It's ironic that a cop can get a death sentence for being a cop, but there are no death penalties for people who kill cops" ..............The City of Ithaca, NY is Re-Imagining Public Safety with input from a convicted cop-killer............To Read More....

There's Something Seriously Wrong With Who Is Sitting On This New York Police Reform Panel

Leah Barkoukis Apr 01, 2021

If there is one place a convicted cop killer should not be, it’s on a police reform advisory panel. And yet, that’s exactly where we find Richard Rivera, the man who fatally shot NYPD police officer Robert Walsh execution style in 1981. Rivera is currently serving on an advisory group panel for Ithaca and Tompkins County, the “Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative,” which was formed after Gov. Andrew Cuomo tasked municipalities with turning in police reform plans by April 1, a move that came in the wake of George Floyd’s death............To Read More.....