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Jack Hibbert - a beat cop just four months into the job - was hit in both the head and the shoulder but continued to help festival attendees until he physically couldn't, his family said.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

His first decade was spent as a beat cop in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Fort Greene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Before he was a police chief, he used to be a beat cop.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2023

“We don’t see a single beat cop embrace Haywood’s ideas wholeheartedly and with clear understanding. We see a range from naïve support with unexamined privilege to cynicism to outright hostility.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

A beat cop from the neighborhood strolls in.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz


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