The Officers (you can browse excerpts from the book here)
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Detective Paul Takemoto
“I always knew I could do this. My primary concern when I considered going into the Homicide Unit was that the cases I couldn’t solve would be the cases that would bother me the most.”
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Officer Kevin Clay and Officer Matt Chase
“Our objective in foot patrol is to be out and be visible. We get to feel a part of the community. We talk to business owners. We talk daily with all the homeless people. We know them by name and check on them.”
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Sgt. Cindy Granard
“One of the roughest times was a day that I had back-to-back domestic violence (DV) calls. I responded to the first call and found children curled up on the floor, huddled in fetal positions because they had been attacked by their father. Their mother had been savagely beaten.”
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Officer Britt Sweeney (R) pictured with Officer Ben Kelly
“Initially, I didn’t know about Tim [Brenton]. I radioed in the car that shots had been fired. I got out of the car. I was looking through the V watching him [the shooter] drive off. I returned fire…I looked into the vehicle. I don’t know if my memory won’t let me keep the visual, but I knew he was dead at that point.”
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Captain Neil Low
“I got shot at while I was a police cadet in 1968…I had about a month on the department at the time, and the lieutenant told me it could be a harbinger of things to come, or it could never happen again. ‘This is your moment to decide if you want to make police work your career or not.'”
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Officer John Abraham
“I got run over in 1991. A call went out for a vehicle in a Key Bank drive-thru with a couple trying to pass a bad check. I responded on motorcycle. I roll into the drive-thru and the chase is on.”