NYPD officers from the 19th Precinct were involved in a critical response to a Midtown mass shooting on July 28 that led to four deaths. Capt. Julieann Stapleton praised the officers for their bravery during a roll call, emphasizing the emotional impact of their experiences. Chief of Department John Chell expressed concern for the mental health of the officers. To support them, therapy dogs from NYPD Health and Wellness were brought in, providing comfort to the officers who were visibly uplifted by their presence.
When shots rang out inside 345 Park Ave. on July 28, Capt. Julieann Stapleton recalled, the officers of the 19th Precinct sprung into action without a second thought and without considering the mental toll the response to this emergency would inflict.
Every day we train for this, train to run into danger when everybody's running away from it. And last week, we saw you guys do exactly that, Stapleton told the officers at the Aug. 7 afternoon roll call.
We are also trained to go to a job and then move on to the next one. But unlike every other job, that is not something that we're going to be able to just move on from, we're going to take it, take a piece of that job with us for the rest of our lives.
Concerned that some members of the precinct are still dealing with the horrors of that day, canines from NYPD Health and Wellness, Puppies Behind Bars, and Chief Larry Rotta with his pooch Eddie from the Tuckahoe Police Department made a surprise visit to the stationhouse.
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