On April 14th, 2022, Brazos Valley Builders Care, GBVBA's Community Service Committee, was so proud to support Operation Safe Shield's Steak Dinner benefit! We are so appreciative of our law enforcement who put their lives on the line to protect our communities! The Texas legislature recently passed SB2222 to provide bullet resistant windows for all of the Texas Department of Public Safety patrol vehicles in response to two separate incidences of officers being shot through the windows of their patrol cars. TDPS Trooper Chad Walker was shot on March 26, 2021, near Mexia, Texas and died from his injuries. He was merely stopping to assist a disabled vehicle when he was ambushed. TDPS Trooper Juan Tovar was shot through his side window on April 8, 2021, while trying to apprehend a mass shooter fleeing from Bryan, Texas. Operation Safe Shield's initiative is to provide lifesaving bullet resistant windows for all of the patrol vehicles in the Brazos Valley, starting with Brazos County.  Dr. Clifford Dorn, the founder of Backing the Badge BCS along with Kristi Schiller of K9s4Cops decided to form Operation Safe Shield as a non-profit to generate funds to further this initiative.