EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) - If you’re driving in eastern Illinois today, you might see about two dozen police officers riding bicycles. They're riding from here to Washington D.C., with the hope of raising $1 million for the C.O.P.S. Kids Camp, which supports families and especially children, who's parents are killed in the line of duty.
But they won't be riding straight through, as LEU's national president Wallace Chadwick explained.
"These LEU riders will average 115 miles each day on their 11 day journey and host over three dozen memorial services at various sheriff and police departments on their route to honor those officers who died in the line of duty," Chadwick says.