Jan 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 1

AROUND THE COUNTRY

AROUND THE COUNTRY COMING SUMMER 2022 NEW YEARS EVE 20% of NYPD, Out With COVID STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 20% of the New York Police Department was out sick Thursday December 30th due to coronavirus (COVID-19), according to the NY Post. On Friday morning, New Year’s Eve, NYPD received 7,270 sick calls — the most for any day in 2021 and similar to the amounts seen at the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020, sources told FOREWORD the Post. To those that wore it, no explanation is necessary. For life behind the badge is like no other. It is a line that once Nearly 2,600 members of the you cross, you can never go back. The line between right and wrong, happiness and sadness, and finally life and NYPD have tested positive for death. It isn't for everyone, nor should it be. God created it, not for those who chose it, but for those that are chosen. It coronavirus this month, sources is these brave souls who trade their happiness, their security, their fears, their love, and even their life for you. said. When life itself is in question they must answer. When death is imminent, they must stand tall. In the face of The Post reported that the danger, they must endure. When all is said and done, there really isn't much that separates us from them, but a thin NYPD is requiring officers who blue line. had regularly scheduled days off ••• Being a cop meant everything to me. It was something I dreamed of as a kid. No, my parents weren’t cops but to work over the holiday weekend. The same scenario played out ment, healthcare and airlines. I remember the day the notice came in the mail that said I'd been accepted into the Police Academy. It was provide testing for COVID-19. ment but all branches of govern- my grandfather was. He was my hero and someday I wanted to walk in his footsteps. On Wednesday, Dec. 29th, the at police departments all across It’s like the summer of 2020 all the happiest day of my life or so I thought. Now that I look back, I'm sure it was definitely the day my life changed Daily News reported that 30% of the country. Agency after agency over again. and changed in a way that would never be the same. Once that badge is pinned on, life itself is suddenly different. the city’s EMS members and 17% reported dozens of officers calling in with COVID. It starts out as euphoric, on top of the world and invincible. Later it becomes one of disgust, then mistrust, finally resentment. Your entire perspective changes and never again is life and death seen in the same light. You see how of its firefighters were out sick. precious life is and how fast it can be taken and by those who have little or no respect for it. Life behind the badge FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the reduced workforce Department as well as several of probably heard that life as a cop, is hours and hours of boredom interrupted by seconds of sheer terror. It’s more In Harris County, the Sheriff’s is many things to many people. All are affected by it. Some good, some bad, some you just never know. You’ve has “stressed” the department’s the area constables’ offices, had like years of boredom, interrupted by hours of terror. At one time or another we all remember being scared. Really ranks. deputies working overtime to fill scared, so scared you're literally in suspended animation awaiting what surely must be the end of life as you know it. When it comes, it comes in slow motion almost surreal. What seems like hours happens in seconds and lasts for This came as the FDNY shared in for the nearly 28% that were years. They say fear is good, but true fear the kind that hangs in the air like the smell of ozone after a lightning strike messages on Twitter asking out with COVID. is anything but healthy. residents to only call 911 if they The latest Omicron variant is But those who live without fear aren't really living. They've accepted their own demise and are simply waiting for are experiencing a medical need, sweeping across the country and FREE SUBSCRIPTION the bus to take them home. And that's one bus you don't want to get on. adding that ambulances do not affecting not only law enforce- CLICK HERE ••• The following chapters take you through a cop’s world. A world of pimps and whores, lovers and killers, robbers 12 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE and rapists, muggers and burglars, and just plain thieves. But be forewarned. The What BLUES maybe POLICE be erotic MAGAZINE one minute 13 can be deadly the next. For see in their world, life is just as long as the turn of the next page.