Behind the Badge is a weekly series to introduce people to the men and women dedicated to serving the community. It will appear in the weekend edition of the Journal-Courier and online at myjournalcourier.com.<\/p>\n
This week, meet Patrolman Chad Brady Brown.<\/p>\n
The White Hall native graduated from Western Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. He joined Jacksonville Police Department in January 2024.<\/p>\n
Tell us what you enjoy most about the job you do.<\/p>\n
“The brotherhood dynamic and the opportunity to act as a positive role model for those in need.”<\/p>\n
Describe what inspired you to choose this profession.<\/p>\n
“The camaraderie and team dynamic, and it’s a non-desk job, where the daily task\/goals are always changing, avoiding monotony.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behind the Badge is a weekly series to introduce people to the men and women dedicated to serving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,115,105313,278],"class_list":["post-236733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-onebig","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}