Jacocks to ride into the sunset
April 22, 2010 | Virginia News
The Virginian-Pilot
When 19-year-old Jake Jacocks joined the Virginia Beach Police Department as a desk clerk in 1971, the city didn't have a Neptune Festival or Mount Trashmore. Virginia Beach hadn't been confronted with the racial tension that led, 18 years later, to the Greekfest riots. It was simply a suburb of Norfolk on the cusp of dizzying growth, and Jacocks was along for the ride.
In the nearly four decades since - from 1973, when he was sworn in as a patrol officer, through this week, when he announced his retirement - Chief A.M. "Jake" Jacocks has kept his city safe. Of all his accomplishments - he improved training and raised police standards, increased his department's diversity and kept it free of corruption and cronyism - the most important is that he kept us safe.
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