Calling all police poets! Police1’s poetry column highlights some of the inspirational, moving and funny poems authored by our readers.
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While the city goes quiet and the lights burn low, officers are still out there — rolling through empty streets, listening to a crackling radio and making decisions no one will ever hear about. That work is easy to forget. Right up until the moment it isn’t.
In “Dog Watch Shift,” Chief Ramon D. Gonzalez, a Marine Corps veteran who has spent 20 years in law enforcement and now leads the La Joya (Texas) Police Department, puts words to those hollow hours after midnight. This isn’t poetry about glory or headlines. It’s about showing up. About holding the line while the rest of the world sleeps. About the responsibility officers carry, shift after shift, whether anyone notices or not.
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