Be Courageous

"I don't know if you know or not, but I was part of 9/11. My department was the owner of the World Trade Center. The psychological effects of that were tremendous. For 18 months, nobody had even one day off at all, except if you had to go to a doctor and show a note. Everybody had to work, and there were no exceptions. The psychological aspects of being a police officer, plus my job wasn't the conventional neighborhood officer. As a police officer in New York at the airport, you're working at the gateway to the United States, where people from around the world come, so you have to have the mindset of being able to work with all nationalities, all different beliefs."