“Yesterday I went from celebrating an 11-year-old boy’s birthday party with my brothers and sisters at work to responding to the absolutely tragic death of two babies.
This is the other side.
The raw side that nobody talks about.
The side everyone who isn’t in law enforcement doesn’t realize happens to us… but believe it or not, we grieve too. We are humans. You just don’t know because once we leave that terrible, heart wrenching call, we come to you and there are no tears or anger from the last call we were at. We’re just there to take care of you.
I simply ‘file it away’ as I tell people that ask, ‘How do you deal with the things you’ve seen?’
