In 2019, Kunkle and his wife revealed that he was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, which is a type of Alzheimer's. He was 72 years old.
Kunkle passed peacefully at about 10 a.m. Friday morning after a many years battle with a form of dementia.
Kunkle took to the streets of Dallas as chief of police in 2004. He worked as a Dallas police officer for ten years, climbing to the rank of major before moving to Grand Prairie and Arlington."He was just so brilliant that I knew I had to hire him because he was smart enough to do it," he said. "And also having worked in Dallas, he knew our culture."
"He is hired, and we go on a six-seven year run of reductions in overall crime violent crime homicides," Brown said. "And he mentored me, groomed me and let me see let me see the job up close." Former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle was honored Friday with part of a memorial for veterans and first responders named after him.
Former Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson said Kunkle was "a mentor and modeled the characteristics for professional police chiefs to serve the entire community."
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