Hundreds came out to honor fallen police officers to mark the end of National Police Week at the Rockland County Courthouse in New City Saturday. The names of two NYPD officers from Rockland were added to the memorial at the courthouse facing Main Street in New City. Keynote speaker, NYPD Assistant Chief John Hart, said Sergeant William Brautigam of Stony Point and Detective Squad Sergeant Cornelius Douglas of West Nyack both died of 9/11 cancer-related illnesses…
Rockland Sheriff Lou Falco said in the last ten years in the United States, 2,842 officers have died in the line of duty, an average of one death every 31 hours…
Lou Falco “…and our entire country.” :23
Falco said last year 47 police officers were killed by gunfire in the U.S., 14 of them were from New York.