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ld or the cop himself dying of cancer if it s not cancer it s a police officer having a heart attack or falling from a roof and dying or blowing his brains out in the parking lot it s just one awful thing after another maybe part of the problem is that police officers don t take just the local deaths to heart many of us feel it when another police officer is killed or dies tragically anywhere in the country and for some maybe the world we mourn for strangers we call brothers and sisters in a way that i don t think other professionals do maybe it s not healthy but family is family when i posted last i used a picture of a young lady who was shot and killed while responding to a mundane traffic accident call she was a police officer in california she was young and appeared happy and had a bright future ahead of her until she was gunned down by a lunatic for reasons i still don t think we know for certain davis ca police officer natalie corona i remember being taken aback a little bit by the picture of this young lady because she reminded me of one of my favorite st louis police officers po katlyn alix po katlyn alix eow 1 24 19 if you told me they were sisters i d have no reason to call you a liar last night officer alix was shot and killed while she was off duty in what is currently being called an accident i suspect that s the best term for it an accident i have zero clue what happened at this point i have no details about the shooting and i don t want to dwell on that or what i think the fallout might or should be depending on what happened instead this is just a post about my friend to help me move on i met officer alix when i was teaching law at the police academy back then she was recruit alix i was her class s supervisor which meant that i would basically help guide them begrudgingly at times for all of us through their thirty weeks of training until they graduated into police officers she was one of thirty nine in her class on that first day in june 2016 i recall she was quiet and shy or at least she acted that way back then i think she wanted to fly under the radar and just get through unnoticed that s how the good ones get through the academy quiet and unassuming i had other ideas however she was or acted almost too bashful so i appointed her the assistant class president along with another young lady who served as president i chose recruit alix because i knew she d been in the military so she wasn t soft she would stand up to the other recruits on my behalf and put her foot in their rear ends were that necessary there was something about her that told me she was a good egg and that she would be a good recruit we have to compile all of the recruits personal information when they start so i knew she was also a pisces like me i only remember that because she was born on the same date as a grade school friend of mine mark martinez march 12th i remember mark s birthday because we shared our class parties during our time in grade school together he was born on the 12th and another girl jeanie the 31st she also shared in the march party oddly mark also died way too young he was shot and killed when he was just seventeen in the old mcree town neighborhood which would later be the first area i would patrol as a brand new police officer recruit alix sailed through the academy with little problem she was athletic and smart she was inquisitive and asked good questions she stood out in a final recruit class of twenty six very good recruits at graduation i knew that she was going to be a special police officer po alix front and center with her 2016 02 class officer alix wanted to go where the action was and got her wish when she was assigned to the sixth district if you ve read this blog for any time you ll know that the sixth district is where i patrolled for a few years and where most of my terrible stories come from on duty officer alix was assertive yet compassionate she understood early on really the human aspect of this job and she empathized with people she saw everyday who were struggling to survive let alone live she d mentioned to me a few times that she didn t understand it the blight and despair but she wanted so badly to help she once posted a picture on facebook of herself in uniform she was holding a baby in her arms and wrote a long post about the baby s mother s struggle with heroin i don t remember the details but i remember i was in my patrol car when i read it and was so moved by it that i texted her right away to tell her how proud i was of her she was made to remove that post by her commander because god forbid a young officer show any heart or compassion about this job on social media she was told her post violated hipaa which is complete garbage as police officers aren t subject to hipaa please tell me if i m wrong about that anyway it was so moving and just showed the sort of person she was even in uniform in spite of the oftentimes depressing surroundings officer alix knew how to have fun with the job which is important if you want to do it for any extended time always having fun she also loved her dog who i suddenly feel terribly sorry for as i type this right now because nobody will ever be able to love that puppy like she did no matter how hard they might try she loved him like only those people who are just so goddam good hearted and sweet can love an animal you know the type they re just special human beings once before she graduated from the academy she came to me and asked rather sheepishly if i knew anybody who wanted a dog it was a weird question under normal circumstances but even weirder then because my mom had literally told me less than a week earlier that my dad wanted a dog he wanted a little dog i think maybe it was another midlife thing anyway her mom had found this dog on the side of a roadway all matted lost and confused but they couldn t keep it because her mom had a dog already and get this monkeys they had monkeys in their house when recruit alix first told me that she had a brother and sister who were monkeys i didn t know what to make of that info so i let it go it turns out that they re literally monkeys sort of like ross from the show friends had anyway they couldn t keep the dog and my parents couldn t have been anymore interested so we made a match i drove a ways to get the dog and got to meet katlyn s mom she was a sweet woman and of course mentioned that she worried about her daughter s safety i never assure anybody that their son or daughter will be fine because with this job you never know we talked a bit about how katlyn had the tools to be better than most officers and i think we parted ways with her feeling better about her daughter s future venture into north st louis the dog has made my folks imminently happier for whatever reason and i ll be forever grateful to katlyn for that i would send her a pic of the dog from time to time because i knew it made her happy to see tennessee whiskey hangover tenny for short doing well officer alix was a friend to many she was a daughter a wife a sister and a super proud aunt to a handsome little guy she loved with all her might she served her country in the army and the st louis community as a police officer she squeezed more into her twenty four years than many of us will into our whole lives her death really sucks this one stings perhaps maybe more than any other in my twenty years of slmpd deaths i used to only jokingly call my recruits my babies but the truth is that i did and do still care for all of them all of you since i know some of you will read this i hope if you re a police officer and you re grieving you will think about what you wished you could have said to katlyn if you had the chance and make sure you say those same sorts of things to those who are important to you that you still can say them to godspeed young lady posted in police the not meant to be funny stuff uncategorized tagged leo police police academy police work slmpd 27 comments the appreciation is appreciated posted on january 11 2019 by donofalltrades national law enforcement appreciation day is apparently a thing it s january 9th the same day as national apricot day and national static electricity day i kid you not i had several people send me thoughtful messages on national law enforcement day and i loved every single one even though i had no idea when it was it s always nice to hear that you re appreciated by people especially when the appreciation is for the job you do i oftentimes go out of my way to make sure that my kids teachers and nurses and other people who do jobs that seem so thankless yet are so important know that they are appreciated i do it because i know that in my own life just when i have myself convinced that i ve wasted a good chunk of my life doing a job that many others find so appalling somebody will say or do something so sweet and i m reminded that i matter that policing matters the people who sign up to do this job no it s not really a job this calling matter it may be a simple thank you for your service from a stranger or a meal comped by a restaurant owner or a phone call from a victim or victim s family member to tell you that they appreciate your help even though that s just doing the job it s little things that add up and mean so much and for me these messages have always come at just the right time i remember being at my lowest about being a police officer during the unrest in ferguson back in 2014 disdain for police officers and disregard for the law were at all time highs particularly in our region while the riots were going on to the north in ferguson stores here in st louis were being looted by mobs of people with total disregard for any consequences drivers were racing up and down city streets and weren t stopping at red lights as though they didn t exist at all society at least where i was in north st louis seemed to literally be crumbling right before my eyes i hated that we seemed to be losing control of a semi civilized society and i seriously wondered if i could tolerate wearing my uniform much longer but we persevered officers worked hard and did the best we could to maintain law and order until the crisis blew over at least for the time being at one point though when i was at my lowest an elderly black woman stopped me in the parking lot of a truck stop to ask if she could pray with me not for me but with me she had clearly been waiting by my parked police car for me to come outside she was adorned in a yellow dress and white gloves that went halfway up her forearms she wore a circular white hat angled on her head it had some sort of netting over her eyes and she carried a white purse that seemed too big for such a petite woman it was not unusual attire for a sunday morning in north city as many of the best people in the worst part of our city are women such as this a woman whose faith has probably carried her through a difficult life when old women talk i listen always have i agreed to the prayer and put my iced tea on the hood of my tahoe we held hands in the parking lot and she did the praying for both of us she prayed for my safety and also the safety of the community and she prayed that god would give me the wisdom and courage to use good judgement and to treat people fairly i sensed the prayer was in no small part a message to me but she was sincere in all that she asked god for and i felt blessed for the two or three minutes we spent together i left that encounter with renewed vigor for my job it s people like this old woman and others like her who need us to have their backs just as they silently have ours the helpless and vulnerable appreciate us even if they don t always get to say it every day of the year in the two days since january 9th law enforcement appreciation day two officers have been shot and killed they were both young females new to the job and they were both doing mundane and seemingly harmless activities davis california police officer natalie corona was shot and killed as she responded to a three car accident there are fewer types of calls for a police officer less perfunctory than an accident call i m sure the officer figured she d write a report for the parties involved to give to their insurance companies and be on to the next call in no time as a new cop i bet she itched for a more exciting call next time rather than this ridiculous accident call that ended her life in shreveport louisiana officer chateri payne was getting dressed in her uniform when she was shot and killed i m not aware at this point whether her death has anything to do with her being a police officer but still she was a beautiful young woman her life mattered regardless of why she was killed there was a time when the violent death of a woman was in many respects unusual particularly when the suspect was a stranger there used to be some chivalry even among gangsters and crooks when it came to women and children they were off limits there are no longer boundaries it seems and anybody young or old man or woman is fair game for thievery and violence this includes police officers as well of course locally a new class graduated from the st louis police academy last night and i wonder what they re thinking they re excited to start a new job i know that i remember that excitement myself i hope they re also fearful about the realities of the job they swore to do in front of their families and friends i hope they ve read about officer payne and officer corona and appreciate how quickly things can take a turn for the worse in this job complacency gets people hurt or killed on the streets so finding the line between being on guard and being overly paranoid with everyone they meet is something that they ll have to learn on their own it s important for officers to trust their instincts and not put themselves in obvious danger but it s just as important to understand that danger lurks even when one s radar doesn t sense it at all five officers have died in the united states in the ten days since 2019 started including the two most recent young ladies i ve mentioned it s demoralizing and frustrating for officers to deal with the deaths and assaults of other officers even officers hundreds of miles away we all take the blame when an officer does wrong and we accept that so it s only right that society understands that we all share the pain when one of us is killed senselessly we know that we can be next we ll mourn in our own ways and we ll learn tactically from their deaths while it s important for officers to remain vigilant it s also important to remember that most people are not out to get us most people appreciate us and the job we do every single day and not just on the day we share with national apricot or static electricity day posted in police police stories the not meant to be funny stuff uncategorized tagged law enforcement leo police officers police work 15 comments older posts 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