“So why get in this business If this is how it ends? You sign on because you know that you’re making a difference and it would be chaos without you.” On Saturday March 26, 2016, Chief Dana Wingert looked out the window of his office in the Des Moines police station, one of the worst days in the department’s history. He stared at the police car parked across from the station. A black shroud with a blue sash through the center stretched across the cruiser’s windshield. Fellow officers put the car there as a memorial to fellow officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales. A tribute to the two officers who had died in a fiery head-on crash on Interstate 80 near Waukee shortly after 12:30 a.m. Throughout the day, people came and laid flowers on the hood of the car and planted signs and wreaths in the ground in front of the vehicle’s wheels and bumper. A soft rain fell. At one point, Wingert saw a man kneeling in prayer by the car. The man, a stranger to Wingert, prayed for 40 minutes in the rain. “With the rain on my window, he couldn’t see the tears when he walked away,” Wingert said. “A lot of people are hurting. Not just us. “ There was no foggy glass to hide Wingert’s grief as he delivered the first of two eulogies for his fallen officers that following Wednesday at Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines. Sadness shook his body. He shifted anxiously on his feet as he spoke for nearly 10 minutes at the memorial service for Farrell. His voice quivered at times. But in the midst of that pain, Wingert rose to the occasion. Near the end of the talk, Wingert asked everyone in attendance who serve in public safety to stand. 38 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE 39 38 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE 39
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