As architect of record Oglesby•Greene brought together multiple entities; the Foundation, the City, the designers, the contractor and his craftsmen to realize a significant built memorial. Oglesby•Greene participated in design development with designers Ed Baum and John Maruszczak and executed the contract documents and construction administration.

On a two-acre triangle of park land overlooking City Hall Plaza, a memorial has been built to recall the Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.

A stainless steel construction emerges from the site like a figurative officer's shield and carries the badge numbers and names of police killed in the line of duty. One plane floats as an overhead bar while another follows the incline of the earth. The plane above casts a rectangular shadow across the broad asphalt steps, recalling the mourning bar worn on police badges when an officer is lost. Within this shadow the badge numbers of fallen officers are illuminated, projected by the rays of the sun. The removed stainless numerals, like reversed stencils. are mounted and given to the officers' families. The lower plane-borne by the earth and pavement fragments cut from Dallas streets carries the names and dates of the fallen officers, where they may be read and touched at close hand.

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