Julie_Kim's Blog

In the relatively short year and half I have been in Philadelphia, I have covered the murders of three Philadelphia Police Officers. It feels like a lot. Officer Cassidy, Sgt. Liczbinski and now Officer Nazario. For all three officers, I play catch up, trying to gain insight into who they were, what made them tick and why they loved the job so much, they'd risk their lives every day for it.

Today, I covered Officer Nazario's vigil on the corner where her police cruiser was rammed. It was touching and I think it helped her family and friends to go there and see that so many people care.  I ask why she became a police officer.

She loved to help people, she loved what she did, friends and family told me.

I ask my friends who are police officers, I ask Commissioner Ramsey, how do you guys do what you do. The only answer that seems to fully explain it, they are heroes.