DEDICATION
As this cartoon book was being printed the editor
requested I submit a Dedication page. I thought it would be nice
to honor all the great men & women I had worked with while
with the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department. I said I honored
all those who wore the star and those who are now wearing the
star.
After the first batch of books were released to
various law enforcement agencies across the country, I began getting
calls from different agencies saying these cartoons depict exactly
what happened to them as trainees and training officers.
I began to rethink my dedication that perhaps I
should dedicate the cartoon book to all the law enforcement agencies?
No matter if you wore a star, a badge or a shield,
no matter if you were a city policeman, a county sheriff , highway
patrolman, state trooper or security guard, we all become brothers
with one objective.
While I was in the Sheriff Academy back in the
stone age, the instructors gave us a problem to kill time one
afternoon. We were to assume that we were sculptors and just created
a monument to law enforcement. What inscription would you chisel
on the base?
Now I have never been a philosopher and I have
never been the brightest bulb in the marque.....But this is what
I came up with and it remains inside the front cover of my class
notebook. (Class 65...1957) I never found out what grade they
gave me, but I didn't have to do any pushups. I thought it was
pretty neat...and I still do to this day.
AS LONG AS WE HAVE A CIVILIZED SOCIETY,
WE WILL HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL
DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO ENFORCE THE LAWS
WHICH THAT SOCIETY MAKES. AND WHEN THESE
INDIVIDUALS EXIST NO MORE, THEN NEITHER
DOES OUR HUMAN RACE.
Claude Anderson
Ret. Dep. LASD
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Ret. Dep. Claude Anderson
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