This week is National Police Week and May 15th is National Peace Officers Memorial Day. Families across this country have received a folded flag that once rested on a law enforcement officer’s casket. I imagine they each go through a variety of...
Some have said, “it wasn’t your fault, it was the choice that he made.” But are they really sure? I may not have pulled the trigger, but I know somewhere I had to be the one that pushed him. I was the one that forced him to see the doctor. I made him seek help. Maybe...
When began my law enforcement career in 1994, I had no idea the toll daily exposure to traumatic events would cause. At that time, mental health was never talked about nor was it mentioned in the police academy; the attitude was to “suck it up”. The first...
It’s been three and a half years since Steve died by suicide. Thanksgiving week is always hard for me because it’s the halfway mark- Halfway through another year without him. Halfway through another year as a widow (I still hate that word and don’t think I’ll ever...