Twenty-five years have passed since the morning the towers fell.
On that clear September day in 2001, California peace officers stood where they always stand — on the streets of their cities and towns, answering the calls that came and, in between calls, watching the news with the rest of the nation while feeling the same sharp recognition that something fundamental had shifted. Some left their posts to travel east and help New York at Ground Zero. Many more stayed home and prepared for whatever might come next. In the weeks that followed, a generation of men and women looked at the profession and decided the risk was worth the duty. They signed on. They trained. They put on the badge knowing that the world had changed and the line they would hold would be tested in ways their predecessors could not fully imagine. Read More
