"It was an epiphany laid out in newspaper ink. "I said to myself, 'This is it. This is where I'm going to work,' she recalled, sitting in the muster room of the 81st Precinct stationhouse in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where she spent the first decade of her 25-year career. 'This is where I'm going to show my children that we can do it. We can do anything.'""
"But, at the time, little did she know that all four of her children would follow her into the NYPD, too. Today, Ozuna, 62, is a retired detective. Two of her children, her oldest son, Jorge Ozuna, 37, and daughter Rose Martinez, 43, are NYPD detectives. A third, also named Marilyn Ozuna, is an NYPD cop. Her youngest son, Anthony Phillips, is poised to graduate the Police Academy."
In 1994, newly separated Puerto Rican-born Marilyn Ozuna, a single mother of four, saw an NYPD recruiting ad and decided to join at age 32. She trained at the Police Academy, endured daily runs and other grueling challenges motivated by her children, and spent the first decade of her 25-year career at the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She shared arrest and helping stories at the dinner table while urging her children to have a plan and serve the community. All four children pursued NYPD careers: three are officers or detectives and one was graduating the academy. She is now a retired detective.
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