Sgt. Christie Wood tells of the heart-rendering service local officers perform in delivering death notices -- and the heartless approach she encountered last night with a California police department:

Probably the saddest experience for law enforcement is to do a death notification to a loved one of a deceased. It is a role we fill because we are community caretakers. We need to help people through the most difficult experience they will ever face. I have held mothers in my arms as the experience the agony and devastation of loss, and comforted elderly men who need to be informed their brother has died. It sticks with you for days, and I always call my child when my task is complete just so I can hear his voice. Most officers I know have experienced this. So imagine my surprise when we asked a police department in CA to do a death notification for us last night and they said they do not do those. Full comment here.

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