To Protect and to Serve II

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This past Saturday, we lost a dispatcher in a horrific vehicle accident. She was on her way home after her 12-hour shift. I got called out to help cover calls, as re-routing traffic took more people than we had available. I never went to the scene; I knew better.

I knew her, and I know her Dad, who is a DNR Ranger. He and I sort of grew up together starting back in 2000 with me as a new Deputy, and him as a new Ranger. We worked together a lot, and he and I were and remain good friends. Broke my heart to see him lose his daughter.

There are a lot of "Crooked / Stupid / Overzealous Cop" posts in this thread, and I'm okay with that. Where corruption exists, it should be exposed, rooted up, and burned...just like any other invasive weed. This is not really the "To Protect and Serve" thread, it's the "Those Who Fail to Protect and Serve" thread, and I'm okay with that as well, for the most part.

But here's a headline you didn't see this past weekend: "Crusty Old Part-time Deputy Drives Around Answering Calls for Six Hours With Tears in His Eyes".

Saturday sucked.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
This past Saturday, we lost a dispatcher in a horrific vehicle accident. She was on her way home after her 12-hour shift. I got called out to help cover calls, as re-routing traffic took more people than we had available. I never went to the scene; I knew better.

I knew her, and I know her Dad, who is a DNR Ranger. He and I sort of grew up together starting back in 2000 with me as a new Deputy, and him as a new Ranger. We worked together a lot, and he and I were and remain good friends. Broke my heart to see him lose his daughter.

There are a lot of "Crooked / Stupid / Overzealous Cop" posts in this thread, and I'm okay with that. Where corruption exists, it should be exposed, rooted up, and burned...just like any other invasive weed. This is not really the "To Protect and Serve" thread, it's the "Those Who Fail to Protect and Serve" thread, and I'm okay with that as well, for the most part.

But here's a headline you didn't see this past weekend: "Crusty Old Part-time Deputy Drives Around Answering Calls for Six Hours With Tears in His Eyes".

Saturday sucked.
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The funeral is really going to suck.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
This past Saturday, we lost a dispatcher in a horrific vehicle accident. She was on her way home after her 12-hour shift. I got called out to help cover calls, as re-routing traffic took more people than we had available. I never went to the scene; I knew better.

I knew her, and I know her Dad, who is a DNR Ranger. He and I sort of grew up together starting back in 2000 with me as a new Deputy, and him as a new Ranger. We worked together a lot, and he and I were and remain good friends. Broke my heart to see him lose his daughter.

There are a lot of "Crooked / Stupid / Overzealous Cop" posts in this thread, and I'm okay with that. Where corruption exists, it should be exposed, rooted up, and burned...just like any other invasive weed. This is not really the "To Protect and Serve" thread, it's the "Those Who Fail to Protect and Serve" thread, and I'm okay with that as well, for the most part.

But here's a headline you didn't see this past weekend: "Crusty Old Part-time Deputy Drives Around Answering Calls for Six Hours With Tears in His Eyes".

Saturday sucked.
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I hate to hear that. Years ago I was with my best friend when the police pulled up to his house to inform him and his father that his younger sister had died in an accident. To think about it today is still upsetting
 
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37L1 said:
The funeral is really going to suck.
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It was held Thursday. The procession was a good one. We had to stay in the parking lot during the service. Due to COVID restrictions, only immediately family were allowed in the church. The church streamed the service so we could watch it outside in our vehicles.

This is my 4th LODD and related. One of out Sgt's was shot and killed back in 2000; we lost two deputies within the last 4 years to cancer, one of them only 44 years old; and now this.

It doesn't get any easier.

All Lives Matter.
 
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