Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters.

James Peters, the Scottsdale police officer who made headlines in February for shooting and killing the sixth person of his 12-year stint with the department, is applying for retirement.

According to a meeting agenda for Scottsdale's police board for the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, Peters has submitted an "accidental disability retirement application," which is scheduled to be discussed by the board on Thursday.

Peters' most recent shooting was on February 14, when he shot and killed 50-year-old John Loxas, who happened to be holding a baby at the time.

Police responded to Peters' place after neighbors reported that he'd pointed a gun at them, but after Loxas was shot on his doorstep, police found two guns near him, inside the home.

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Miller may have been a fine law officer, but we'll always remember him as the guy who tried to goad us into getting arrested during a little squabble over public records last summer at Phoenix City Hall.

After being told by sheriff's officials we could not touch papers in a box of public records that did not belong to the Sheriff's Office, Miller decided to test us, waving some documents at us and sneering, "Take these papers from my hand!" Sometimes we wonder what would have happened had we done just that, but only Miller knows for sure.

Miller then made our year with an amusing memo he later typed up for his superiors that backed up our story -- though from his own, pompous point of view:

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