In July of 2021, the Caputo family, the NYPD, the Elmont (NY) community and Brothers Before Others lost a beloved husband, father, brother and Trustee, retired NYPD Police Officer Lenny Caputo. While our members were keenly aware of how involved in his community Lenny was, especially as the President of the Sewanhaka Athletic Booster Club, it wasn’t until we all witnessed the overwhelming turnout from the local high school students at his memorial services that […]

If you are looking to read the transcript from President Biden’s heartfelt tribute to the soldiers who bravely stormed the beaches of Normandy on Tuesday, June 6th, 1944 aka ‘D-Day’, for the second consecutive year, your search would come up empty. The Commander in Chief, once again, failed to recognize the largest seaborn military invasion in history that claimed thousands of Allied lives, short of a one line token acknowledgement at nearly 2100hrs EST – […]

Brothers Before Others. To those looking to defame law enforcement and this charity, our name often serves as the proverbial low hanging fruit. “See! All those cops care about are themselves and they think they are better than us”. When, in reality, a few minutes spent researching this charity and the work that has been done since 2014 would tell you everything you need to know. (Ret) Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has always said […]

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On December 10, 2005, off-duty NYPD Police Officer Daniel Enchautegui, after finishing his scheduled tour of duty, returned home and noticed that his neighbors home was being burglarized. He immediately donned his shield, drew his weapon and called 911 in order to get uniformed NYPD police officers to the scene. While waiting for those police officers to arrive, the two men who had been burglarizing the home emerged, only to be met by Police Officer […]

I realize that most open letters usually have a specific target. Maybe the target of this is you, the civilian population of the United States. Maybe the target of this is you, the American police officer, both active and retired. Maybe the target of this is you, the elected officials entrusted with actually caring about the well being of those they represent. Or perhaps, just perhaps, the target of this is all of the above […]

After serving the town of Fair Lawn, NJ, for 18 years as their first female police officer, Police Officer Mary Ann Collura, was killed in the line of duty on April 17th, 2003. Officer Collura was assisting Clifton Police Department in a vehicle pursuit which came to an end in her jurisdiction when she was shot four times by one of the suspects involved. Not only was Officer Collura Fair Lawn’s first female officer, she […]

Most adults remember that pointed speech given by the fictional Colonel Jessup, portrayed by Jack Nicholson, in ‘A Few Good Men’. While, in that specific fictional scenario, one could clearly argue that the Colonel’s moral compass may have been slightly off, there were a lot of truths spoken during his lecture; many, as he pointed out, the unsworn and unenlisted could never comprehend nor relate to. More than that, these are truths that the American […]

*Submitted by BBO member and active police officer, ‘The Sarge’* It goes without saying that 2020 was a bad year for everyone; but this is arguably more true for those of us in law enforcement than just about anyone.  Unlike Covid and all the problems that came with it though, there is no vaccine or stimulus that we can look forward to.  Veteran cops seem to uniformly agree that these are some of the worst […]