Retired Buffalo Police officer Juan Phillips reflects on 40-plus years of service

BUFFALO, N.Y. — After more than four decades in uniform, retired Buffalo Police Officer Juan Phillips is looking back on a career he calls “a perfect fit.”

Phillips, who joined the Buffalo Police Department in 1983, says his path into law enforcement began with a simple conversation.

“I had a good friend … Inspector John Robert Battle,” Phillips said in an interview with Channel 2’s Claudine Ewing. “He said, ‘We need good officers. What are you going to do?’ That Monday, he took me to City Hall — and I never looked back.”…

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