LA commuter train wreck

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by ~MS~

I can appreciate your position even if I disagree, public service personnel tend to have a 'one of our own' mentality and I would hazard a guess that of those off duty officers not one was ordered to the site but in fact drove there of their own choice.

I'll start by reiterating that this isn't a big deal to me; just something I noticed.

But, for example, we here at LoT are a very tight group as well. Had 'one of our own' been in that wreck and we had all driven to the crash site of our own volition, would we been allowed to have made a similar processional?

[~MS~]

I think we both know that the probability would be unlikely. I won't go so far as to say no way because I have no idea if any other group were notified that they lost one of their own and denied the opportunity. If she had been in street clothes I doubt they would have been able to identfy her as an off duty officer but I'm sure that one of the rescue workers found her, made a positive ID and contacted one of the Captains on site that they had a downed officer. Considering that everyone is listening to the radio transmissions the news traveled allowing the group to gather. Even so she wasn't afforded much special treatment considering they still left her on the train while they worked diligently to try and find any survivors so I'm OK with allowing the honor guard to assemble.