Police Honor Is More Than Public Relations
* Thank you for the story on the Police Appreciation Day sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs of Glendale. However, the salute is intended for all the officers of the Glendale Police Department. If the clubs were to “recognize the good officers,” each and every one would have to be recognized.
This day is set aside to honor those police officers who have risked their own lives to protect or save the life of another person or for heroism above and beyond the call of duty.
Since the program was started in 1988 by the Gateway Kiwanis Club of Glendale, it had nothing to do with “combatting negative publicity stemming from the Rodney King beating trials” as you wrote.
RICHARD C. WONSER SR.
Glendale
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