Officers Recently Killed In the Line of Duty...

[McLite]

After seeing the video a few posts below, I realize that a lot of the press that most citizens get exposed to about law enforcement is usually negative. Often videos of believed excessive force or police misconduct circulate the news/internet for weeks. Meanwhile stories of brave young men/women who give their life just trying to make a small difference are lost in the shuffle after only a few days.

These three officers all gave their lives within the past few weeks. All three left behind a wife and two children.

http://odmp.org/officer.php?oid=18998

http://odmp.org/officer.php?oid=19001

http://odmp.org/officer.php?oid=19003

So far 134 officers have given their life while on duty this year, with 55 of those being killed by gunfire. May God bless not only their lives, but the lives of the loved ones they leave behind.

"Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets.
You've done your time in Hell."

[cjonesfan921]

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It's a tough job. I have all the respect for you and everyone who is a cop. My cousin is on his way to becoming one. Cops catch a lot of heat, but this world would be so much worse then it already is if we had no law enforcement.

[CMH]

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I definitely feel for those families.

Being in that line of work can be dangerous and I applaud the Academy for working hard to train officers on how to avoid being caught in the line of fire. Obviously, it's not entirely avoidable.

The media should take their time to express their feelings on officers that have lost their lives being heroes but we already know that news is geared toward the negative and it'll always be that way.

[Lintyfresh85]

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if it bleeds, it leads... that's why I'm getting out of the news field... just being a reporter for the last six months has made me hate the media... I can't stand most if not all in my field as they're all nearly slime and none that I have met care about writing stories about good people, they only care about what can get them more Pub... Sadly I caught myself doing the same the other day when I realized my assignment for the week was to interview a cancer patient. I wasn't sad, I was happy because I thought I'd get a better page number for the week. Right then and there I knew I had to get out or I'd become one of the lost souls of the media world.

As for Cops, I respect them so much. My friend who gets out of the Marines tomorrow told me he's going to be a Cop soon, I was so happy for him. God bless the civil servants that protect us.

[Trevytrev11]

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I played junior college my freshman year with a guy who's dream was to become a cop. I lost contact with him after that season only to find out on the local news a few years later that he was killed by a drunk driver while on duty directing traffic around another accident. Ironically, he had just won a local award/medal for his achievements in fighting drunk driving. It's the only funeral for a fallen officer that I have ever been to, and it was absolutely amazing. There were thousands of members of the local community as well as hundreds and hundreds of other officers (police, highway patroll, sheriffs, fire, etc.) from all over Norther California. It really helped me understand the kind of brotherhood these guys share with eachother and how important they really are to the local community.

Like the OP said, it would be great if the local media could help shed a more positive light on these guys instead of constantly looking only for the bad.

[youvalss]

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It's time people start saying THANK YOU to cops. They're just doing their job and their job is far more important than most other jobs.

[Boltman]

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Wow, very moving. Great read and thank you for posting this Matt.