Alexandria, VA – The name of an annual event, Chicks & Cocktails For Cops, sounds like word play or a fun alliteration, but the fundraiser’s mission is positively serious.

Cathy Puskar, who hosted the 2025 fundraiser in her Alexandria home on Sept. 16, along with other members of the Alexandria Police Foundation board of directors, credited the social gathering as a key source of funding to keep up the health and welfare of the canine pack (including bulletproof canine vests). The event also supports the city’s National Night Out events held the first Tuesday of August, Shop with a Cop, a summer camp experience in the Northern Neck, and numerous community and police activities intended to build essential connections with people and cops. An apt way to express the event’s goal is “Preventi

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