SWAT

I got to watch our SWAT team in action the other day. I must say it is even more impressive than I thought in person. What was really cool was seeing everyone in the neighborhood where it went down, outside looking at our caravan. We had 3 SWAT trucks, like 8 unmarked police cars, 4 marked police cars, and 2 ambulances (is it ambuli?) The size was mainly due to the fact that we had 2 different department agencies involved in the same search warrant. The swiftness and efficiency that they work with is something to see. I was scared watching them from a vantage point, I can't imagine being in the house.

Death

The loss of a local police officer makes brings to the front what this job is. Being there to enter when others won't, to respond to the needs of others regardless of what can happen. Most of the time I feel that we take this for granted that it is our duty to do so, until a moment like this brings it all back into the forefront of your mind. Though it is a tragedy and they will be missed, it is a moment that I feel pride in my job, these two men that were there did their job as they were supposed too and did not back down in the sight of danger or fear.