Blood and Brotherhood

I went to a reunion of the NCY Transit Police in Cocoa Beach FL last week. It’s an annual reunion of retired NYC Transit Police Officers. But for me it was also the fiftieth anniversary of my becoming a Transit Cop in 1966.

There were 225 of us present and there were 225 stories to tell about "time on job".

But there was one story I have to tell to all who will listen. It’s about standing up to danger, grave danger, (Is there any other kind, Jack Nicholson might say).

But it also shows how sometime the most routine of events can become horrendous life or death struggles for survival. Cops face "situations" every day. Usually these are routine, unremarkable events. Sometime they turn not so-routine.

Some of you might hold a dark view on cops these days with much bad press available. But some of you may see cops and what they do in a very different light when stories like these are reported:

https://wherethesundontshine.net/2016/06/22/blood-and-brotherhood/

Be well,

Lee,

shedding a little light wherethesundontshine