To the Editor:
This week is National Police Week and we say thank you to those community police and liaison officers who have served our neighborhood so well. Some have retired, all have demonstrated extraordinary dedication.
Still gunshots are heard: in interior courtyards, the intersections of Payne and Wythe streets, and Queen and Fayette streets. The history is complicated.
With this letter we give a special shout out to today’s COPS officer, Public Safety Certificate of Valor Award winner Matthew O’Malley. The Chamber of Commerce Award ceremony was just two weeks ago.
Officer O’Malley saved a life. Of course, he did. That’s what Alexandria’s finest do.
Sarah Becker
Alexandria