During the month of July, we remember fallen San Jose Police Sergeant Morris Van Dyck Hubbard. On July 12, 1924, 29-year-old Hubbard became of first San Jose police officer to fall in the line-of-duty. Below is the department’s official account of his story.

A group of San Jose officers are raising money to help the widow of San Jose's 15th homicide victim. He was shot to death in front of his wife after a road rage incident leaving her without any family in this country and without the only wage earner as she stays at home to care full time for their severely autistic son. The San Jose officers have set up a donation website. Please help spread the word and help this family.

Please make a donation here: YouCaring.com: San Jose 15th Homicide @ Mrs. Huynh & 2 Children Foundation

Most large metropolitan police departments categorize their calls for service into several categories.  They do this to prioritize the calls for service and more properly dispatch officers to citizen’s calls for help. In San Jose we use three primary categories. 

While Priority 1 calls are responded to almost immediately, the dark horse in the room has become our response times to Priority 2 calls.  Those calls have an average response time often exceeding twenty minutes (the Department’s goal is 11 minutes). Often these calls can be found pending for hours due to insufficient staffing and high calls for service volume.  In a city of over one million people, San Jose now has only 450 officers regularly assigned to work patrol (down from 600).  Overtime, which is often mandatory, attempts to fill the gap but with over two thousand hours of overtime being worked by patrol officers per week, fatigue is now a problem.