On February 18, CBB Council member and Fox News contributor, Ted Williams, spoke on Fox News about the two Burnsville (MN) police officers, Matthew Ruge and Paul Elmstrand, and Burnsville firefighter/paramedic Adam Finseth, who were shot and killed responding to a domestic violence call. He said officers who run toward danger when others run away must always be on alert, never knowing if they will make it home to their families.

On February 6, Citizens Behind the Badge released their latest “Updates” newsletter featuring an op-ed on “the most glaring unintended consequence of the ‘defund the police’ movement;” an announcement of CBB’s newest member of their Law Enforcement Advisory Council; and a report on nationwide effort to collect “Declarations of Support” for law enforcement.

On February 5, Citizens Behind the Badge announced that Peter Ford, a former 32-year Special Agent of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service, has joined their Law Enforcement Advisory Council…

The Daily Signal—the news platform for the Heritage Foundation—published an op-ed written by CBB Law Enforcement Advisory Council member, Doug Scott, commenting on a crisis of trust and confidence within policing as a result of the “defund and defame the police” movement.