| Article: | Local officers pay homage Thursday was National Peace Officers Memorial Day, coinciding with this week’s designation as National Police Week. The program included a posting of colors, Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer by police chaplain the Rev. Mark Clements, recognition of local fallen officers and an address by guest speaker La Crosse Mayor Mark Johnsrud. The La Crosse Police Department has lost three officers: one in 1900 to gunfire, one in 1916 in a motorcycle crash and one in 1937 to gunfire. |