One of the two stabbed someone at a gas station - I recognized them from the news article (they had security footage), and they've been turned in to the police (the police have all their info, but haven't acted on it yet).

Can the police help do a well-being check? 

Police pay & re-cementing after removal).

I have a buddy who I went through the police academy with that was stationed at Fort Hood. 

He's telling you to wait a week because you're going to go look at cars in person, or put your contact info on some website, to "think about it" a week earlier than whatever he tells you (this is 100% true, and as a lender I will not believe you if you tell me otherwise... sorry :P ), and the second you walk onto that car lot a bunch of car salesmen are going to descend upon you, deploying various lines of BS as a pretext to run your credit ("it's a soft pull" or "we just need your SSN to verify you aren't a terrorist, we aren't going to run your credit") and close you on a car that very day, and there is greater than a 0% chance you will believe what they tell you and screw everything up.The rule is that whatever you tell homebuyers not to do, some non-trivial percentage of them are going to push it one notch farther than you tell them.

It's not as slanted as they make you think it is.Screening tenants should include a current or most recent landlord reference and a confidentiality release for the state police social worker. 

I came across a couple properties that I thought were worth a little more of a deep dive but I didn't get much info from the clerk I talked to at the Police Department so I figured I'd reach out to the BP community instead of just relying on Trulia's crime maps.

So i went to the local police station and one of the policeman said he would go over there and talk with her.

Police, doctors, nurses, teachers have their own special loan forgiveness after 5 years, social workers, public defenders.... basically anyone that is doing something good for their community.

He went back into the unit on July 4th and set off fireworks outside and inside, had a noisy party, vandalized extensively, got arrested by the police, and made the local news.