I don't want to bunch up any panties nor be disrespectful and I do understand the Thin Blue Line and The Brotherhood, I have a Son in LE also.
Yesterday they had an old traditional Catholic Mass in Latin in downtown Denver for the man and the streets were lined with people and a procession of Cop cars that went for a couple of miles, hundreds of them, to take him to the next staging area for the Memorial Service today.
This morning they had a rather large number of LE vehicles for escort from wherever they had him, up I-25 to Hwy.7 then West on Hwy.7 to the church.
On Hwy.7 the procession gained about 400-500 LE patrol cars and other vehicles, lights going, covered by footage from Helos or some type of aircraft from local News channels and it is impressive with the Fire Trucks and Flags and all of the people along the streets and Highways in support of him, to say the least. As repoted on the News these vehicles came from ALL States around us and as far away as Ohio, and New Jersey with a trailer of stuff for the Widow.
My hat is off to the man as he had the balls to take who he had with him at the time and go in, and I really think that if there was no one else there , he was going in anyway as he heard shots being fired. and it was minutes from the time the call came in, but, he was going in to shut this bullshit down instead of waiting for someone else to do his job, and he was not alone, I think 3 others went with him.
Obviously it did not end well for him, but he DAMN SURE was doing what he thought best at the time and could hear shots going off inside and waited for NO ONE, unlike the Columbine incident, where the only Brave person was driving a FireTruck with LE huddled behind it. We really lost a HERO here.
My question is how do you LEOs, that do these nice things, cover your expenses? Is it from your Unions or Fraternal organizations that pay the bills for fuel, housing etc.? Do you take personal time off to do this or is it paid by the Dept. and who is on watch when you are gone and out of the lineup? Those vehicles cost a lot to run from Ohio and New Jersey to here and those are obviously LE vehicles,- where is the money coming from to pay for this?
Here in Sterling I am sure there is a car or 2 with locals and CSP also in the procession, but, I also see them out on the street today taking care of buisness too, so not everybody is doing the Parade thing.
So again, I ask how you do such a nice thing for a Fallen Brother, and I respect that, but who pays for that to come all the way from New Jersey or Ohio in a marked car with all of the lights and such and knowing how the vehicle is marked it is not a POV? Some taxpayer is paying for that. How does that work out?
Regards. FM
Yesterday they had an old traditional Catholic Mass in Latin in downtown Denver for the man and the streets were lined with people and a procession of Cop cars that went for a couple of miles, hundreds of them, to take him to the next staging area for the Memorial Service today.
This morning they had a rather large number of LE vehicles for escort from wherever they had him, up I-25 to Hwy.7 then West on Hwy.7 to the church.
On Hwy.7 the procession gained about 400-500 LE patrol cars and other vehicles, lights going, covered by footage from Helos or some type of aircraft from local News channels and it is impressive with the Fire Trucks and Flags and all of the people along the streets and Highways in support of him, to say the least. As repoted on the News these vehicles came from ALL States around us and as far away as Ohio, and New Jersey with a trailer of stuff for the Widow.
My hat is off to the man as he had the balls to take who he had with him at the time and go in, and I really think that if there was no one else there , he was going in anyway as he heard shots being fired. and it was minutes from the time the call came in, but, he was going in to shut this bullshit down instead of waiting for someone else to do his job, and he was not alone, I think 3 others went with him.
Obviously it did not end well for him, but he DAMN SURE was doing what he thought best at the time and could hear shots going off inside and waited for NO ONE, unlike the Columbine incident, where the only Brave person was driving a FireTruck with LE huddled behind it. We really lost a HERO here.
My question is how do you LEOs, that do these nice things, cover your expenses? Is it from your Unions or Fraternal organizations that pay the bills for fuel, housing etc.? Do you take personal time off to do this or is it paid by the Dept. and who is on watch when you are gone and out of the lineup? Those vehicles cost a lot to run from Ohio and New Jersey to here and those are obviously LE vehicles,- where is the money coming from to pay for this?
Here in Sterling I am sure there is a car or 2 with locals and CSP also in the procession, but, I also see them out on the street today taking care of buisness too, so not everybody is doing the Parade thing.
So again, I ask how you do such a nice thing for a Fallen Brother, and I respect that, but who pays for that to come all the way from New Jersey or Ohio in a marked car with all of the lights and such and knowing how the vehicle is marked it is not a POV? Some taxpayer is paying for that. How does that work out?
Regards. FM