Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Happy Father's Day Dad. By me being a father, really made me realize how great a dad I had. I'll love you always !!!

Michael Williams
Son

June 16, 2024

Juusst wanted to say out loud..
but in a safe, quiet space...
something that l say alllll the time in my HEART, MIND and PRAYERS...

"I LOVE YOU DAD... I Pray that you SMIIILE down upon your imperfect son as YOU continue to Bless my life with empathetic passion that still lives within me and your prodigy".

To many who may view this, it will be 46 years since you were slain...

to me..

it's 16,802 days and counting...

"To all of those who continue to PROTECT AND SERVE, pleeeaaase BE TRUE TO YOUR OATHS... for your actions reflect upon the legacies of those gave their lives in service, leaving the footprints in which you hopefully now so PROUDLY trod...

and THANK YOU ALL not just for your service but most especially, for families like mine to continue to have a little safe space...

to juuussst openly reflect.

Ra'Him Williams...

the PROUD, broken hearted SON of a TRUE HERO

March 2, 2024

It's been 46 years since your EOW. That's longer than you were on this earth. I still feel the pain of that day. I love you dad, and I miss you. I pray for those who serve, and protect, and for all those families who's gone through what ours have gone through.

Michael Williams
Son

March 1, 2024

Just wanted to come here today, and say Happy Birthday dad. You are still missed, and loved. As always I pray for those who protect, and serve.

Michael Williams
Son

December 3, 2023

As the 45th holiday session...

approaches since I lost you Dad 16,701 days ago...

since then, eeveryyy holiday season seems to bring with it a deeeep depression...

yet, I tryyy to just SMIIILE while standing PROUDLY and carry on...

but in my HEART crying loudy...

because YOU are gone..

most will advise...

that I just move on and continue to strive...

and I do...

juusst like I did...

when I was a kid...

while you were alive...

"I focus on the well-being of our family and community" using YOUR LIFE as a lesson...

PRAYING that I can inspire another of the broken hearted...

through heartfelt reflection

Ra'Him Williams...

the PROUD, broken hearted SON of a TRUE HERO

November 20, 2023

I was having 'one of those days'...

although it's been 45 years it stillll seems like only yesterday...

I reeaally DO missss you Dad but I want you to KNOW that YOU are embedded within your prodigy...

my students honor me the same way our neighborhood honors YOU...

and the grandkids that you never got to meet are allll standouts among their peers...

our lives are works in progress and I just PRAY that YOU are in HEAVEN SMIIILE'N...

as PROUD OF US...
as we shall FOREVERRR be...

of Y-O-U

PROUD, broken hearted SON of a TRUE HERO

August 13, 2023

It's Father's Day, and my thoughts are on you, and I of course needed to come here to be with you, before my daughter gets up to celebrate with me. I still miss you, and I love you. Until I see you again. May God continue to bless those who protect, and serve, and their families.

Michael Williams
Son

June 18, 2023

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DAD

April 29th will be the 67th Anniversary of you and Mom's marriage and the beginning of our family.
Alllways KNOW that your legacy continues in your sons, grand-sons, grand-daughters, nieces, nephews, god-sons, god-daughters and the countless others within the community that you inspired throughout you life as well as those who continue to protect and serve with HONOR, EMPATHY AND COMPASSION.

"As long as WE live while adhering to the IDEALS within the footprint that you established...

then dad...

YOU live on as well"

WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU MORE THAN WORDS CAN EVER EXPRESS

Ra'Him C Williams
Son

April 28, 2023

NEVER FORGET

I alllways hear that in regards to Fallen Heroes...

My Dad, was killed 16,485 days ago...
the bullet that took his life also began the slow painful demise of my mom (his wife) and my grandmother (his mom)..

Today, it is seemingly impossible for me to imagine what my life would be like now had he not been killed because I have been without him, for much longer than I was BLESSED to have had my BIGGEST FAN, the ROCK OF MY WORLD, physically with me.

As the birthday his now 60+ year old, youngest son (me) now approaches...

I am once again that brokenhearted 16 year old teen... in the hospital after an injury in a High School basketball game had crushed my spirits, thinking that alll the years of hard athletic and scholastic work that my MY DAD had inspired, encouraged and supported me through had been quashed...
then into that hospital room walked my Dad...

he told me, "Don't worry about it...
WHATEVER we have to do to get you back on you feet, we'll do... YOU are much more than just a star athlete..."
HE... gave me MY LIFE BACK in that moment... then, as he was leaving that hospital room, he stopped in the doorway, looked back and said, "I LOVE YOU MAN and I AM SO PROUD OF YOU"...

now I alllways KNEW that my Dad loved me but t'was not the way that men of his generation generally expressed themselves back then...
I replied, 'I love you too Dad'...

THOSE WERE THE LAST WORDS THAT WE'D SPEAK TO EACH OTHER

He was killed that night...

A little more than a year later, that broken young kid, me, led a team from the crime plagued urban High School from NEWARK, NJ to a State Championship... was named First-Team All-State... and went on to attend a distinguished Ivy League Institution, The Wharton Business School of The University of Pennsylvania...

but during my FIRST SEMESTER at University of Penn, that day again haunted me when I was told that my home had been burglarized... my mom now lived there alone...

so I, at 18 years old left school to go home...

that traumatized teenaged scholar transfered but was never reeaally ever the same and sadly didn't complete my my degree...

BUT...

I now teach "at-risk" students within that SAME CRIME PLAGUED CITY...
as a POSITIVE MALE FIGURE in an environment wherein such are MUCH NEEDED.... juuussst as MY DAD was...

LITERALLY.... on the SAME BLVD where my Dad was killed...

helping THEM, to achieve the degrees that I still yearn for...

one young lady told me, "YOU are MY HERO"

JUST AS MY DAD, The Late, NEWARK POLICE OFFICER, ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS was...

you see, we lived in and he worked in, THE SAME CITY, THE DISTRICT, THE SAME SECTOR in which he was killed.

I share this solely to encourage those who read this to...

NEVER FORGET....

that the litte bit of EXTRA LOVE that YOU (especially those who Protect and Serve) can give to those who are "at-risk"... can make such a positive, lasting difference...

and lastly...

ESPECIALLY...

"NEVER FORGET the families of your fallen brethren"

for you see....

THEY...

REEEEAAAALLY CANNOT....

EVERRR FORGET.

**sorry, know it's a bit long-winded but...

***Just neeeeded to reflect on my Dad's Legacy.... and ONLY YOU GUYS could truly understand


BE BLESSED and STAY SAFE

Love You Guys

Ra'Him C. Williams
Son

April 19, 2023

Here I am again dad. Just loving you, and still missing you on another anniversary of your EOW. Just talked to my brother, and I could hear in his voice, he was struggling a little today. He misses you too. Dad thank you for the values you instilled in us, in the very short time God gave you to do it. We're both the better for it. If you're a child of someone who protects, and serves, let them know you love them every time they walk out the door to go to work. Prayerfully you won't be here on this page every year like I am. I love you dad. Blessings to you who protect and serve.

Michael Williams
Son

March 1, 2023

Remembering you dad on your birthday. Gone but never forgotten. May God continue to bless those who protect, and serve, and the families of those who do.

Michael Williams
Son

December 3, 2022

Another Father's Day that I'm here to honor my dad. Still missed, still loved. I was blessed to have you for as long as God allowed me to. Happy Father's Day to all that serve and protect.

Michael Williams
Son

June 19, 2022

I'll never forget this day, in 1978. You are still missed, and loved. A teenage soldier, who found out his Hero was killed on that awful day. God willing I'll be 65 yrs old this year. Where has the time gone ? So many years without you being here. So many tears because you were not here, but never far from my thoughts. Prayers for all who protect, and serve.

Michael Williams
Son

March 1, 2022

Hey Dad I just stop by to say Happy Heavenly Birthday. I just wanted to say you're still loved, and missed. Gone, but not forgotten.

Michael Williams
Son

December 3, 2021

Another Father's Day has come, and gone, and I still miss my dad. My brother, and I both miss and love you so much. We comfort each other. We have finally gotten to the point when we can talk to each other on Father's Day, without hearing the pain in each others voice, but we know it's still there. We're ok dad, You and mom left us each other. We both have someone, that knows the pain, of a child, of a Fallen Officer. Be safe those of you who Serve, and Protect, and God bless your families.

Michael Williams
Son

June 21, 2021

IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS

When your life was taken, I (your son) was just a 16 year old boy. Part of me became a man at the moment I was told that you had passed away, but another part of me shall forever remain that 16 year old boy, now just residing in the body of this 60 year old man.

Since that terrible day I have been honored to receive numerous awards. The most prominent among them FOR ME were these two:

(1) The evening that I was inducted into the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame, a good friend of yours hugged me and said, "Your dad is so proud of you".

(2) One day I took my twin sons, who were about 10 years old at the time, past the home we once shared and also the place where you were murdered. A little olé woman from the neighborhood somehow recognized me and lovingly stopped so we could just hug one another. When I introduced your grandsons to her she remarked, "...this neighborhood has never been the same since your grandfather was killed... he was a Great Man..".

The turmoil these days surrounding police and policing too often negates and/or minimizes the TRUE ESSENCE of the legacy of those who have and continue to embrace the IDEAL (not just the idea) of "To Protect and Serve".

I (and so many others) shall forever trod proudly in your footprints P.O. Arthur L. Williams a.k.a. : Art; Sonny and DAD...
as we live in the shadow of a life well lived...
while alllways saluting Y-O-U...
for a job well done.

In Memory of:
The Late ARTHUR L. Williams
an admirable example of a MAN who lived as a TRUE Public Servant.


Ra'Him Craig Williams
(SO PROUD to be YOUR SON)

Ra'Him Craig Williams
Son

April 22, 2021

Here I am again dad. On this the anniversary of your EOW. Someone might ask, why do I continue to come here. It's simple, because I still have breathe in my body, and you, and my mother gave me life. That bullet may have ended your life dad, but not my love for you. I pray for all those who serve, and protect, and the families they leave at home every day, hoping they make it back home safe.

Michael Williams
Son

March 1, 2021

I didn't make it here yesterday on your birthday. But you were in my thoughts. My brother and I talked about you, sharing memories of you. You were not forgotten. Then to top it off, your niece Nene's grandson was born yesterday on your birthday. She called me at 9:00 last night just to tell me that. No dad you are not forgotten, and are still loved. I pray that God send a special blessing to those who serve, and protect.

Michael Williams
Son

December 4, 2020

Thank you for your service and please know that your sacrifice will never be forgotten by your law enforcement brethren. Rest in peace always.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

July 27, 2020

I could not let Father's Day go by without coming here to say I love, and miss you dad. Thank you for molding me to be the man I am today.

Michael Williams

June 21, 2020

Rest In Peace

Mark Mottola

March 28, 2020

On this day 42 years ago God called you home. Dad I just want you to know you are not forgotten, and are still loved. I pray that God be with all those who protect, and serve.

Michael Williams
Son

March 1, 2020

Michael Williams, it's now 42 years since losing your father. What a man he must have been. Reading you're posts gives testimony to your father but they also reflect on the wonderful job he did in raising you. What a privilege to read your messages of unabashed love.

Judy Campbell
the daughter of a police officer

March 1, 2020

Dad I just wanted to come here to wish you a Happy Birthday, in Heaven. I love you , and miss you. To all who protect, and serve, Be Safe.

Michael Williams
Son

December 3, 2019

God Bless. It’s painful to see the hurt your family is feeling after so many years. Thank you for your service.

Psp

Cpl Callahan
Psp

August 25, 2019