A group of residents have launched a new Rifle Police Foundation, according to a news release from the organization. The newly established foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding the RPD through donations.
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Newly hired Rifle Police Officer Kalob Foreman refers to the feeling as getting “Monday-morning quarterbacked to death.”
Throughout late 2020 and early into 2021, the Rifle Police Department was short four officers. Foreman, a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who joined Rifle’s squad in early June, said this is part of the reason why.
Say an officer makes a split decision on the street that perhaps leads to an unfavorable outcome, and public and political scrutiny ensues.
“Now you’ve got to figure that several attorneys and judges and the community are going to look at that,” he said. “They’re going to spend the next year wondering if you did the right thing in something that you had an eighth of a second time to make that decision.”