Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in peace brother.

Placer County Sheriff's Dept.

July 27, 2005

REST IN PEACE, MY FRIEND. I SALUTE YOU. MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COWORKERS. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. A TRUE HERO INDEED.

James Sweeney
A POLICE OFFICERS FRIEND

July 27, 2005

To the Family of Officer Nemi;
It is with upmost sadness that I write this note. I know words can not ease your pain, grief, loss and sorrow at this time. I can only offer you that I will continue to keep Officer Niemi, his wife and children in my thoughts and prayers. I know that heaven has a special place for fallen officers. Please know that you are not alone in your grief, the entire community has also sufferred a loss. Sincerely, L. Ferrante, sister-in-law of Officier Larry Lasater, PPD, EOW 4/24/05

L.Ferrante

July 27, 2005

I offer the Niemi family and San Leandro Police Department my condolences.

Deputy Steve Fisher
Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

July 27, 2005

There is a line
the color of the sky
on a clear afternoon

There is a line
the hue of the ocean
on a bright sunny day

There is a line
the purest shade of a newborn's eyes
awakening for the first time

There is a line
that protects us from harm
in all we do
whether day or night

There is a line
no one can penetrate
no one can alleviate

There is a line
made of those who choose
to follow a calling many do not hear
and still more do not comprehend

They choose to walk
the path of fear, hate, and mistrust
taken by so few
but marked by so many

And when one leaves this line
they leave a legacy
but the line does not break
for the remaining must still protect

There may be emptiness
a loss, or sadness
but never a hole
not in this line

This line that holds
the ghosts of the souls who have gone
and the souls of the ghosts who will be
The Thin Blue Line

Ofc Dan Bailey (Ret)
Norristown Police, Pa.

July 27, 2005

Rest in peace brother. My prayers go out to you, your family and the entire San Leandro Police Department.

Special Agent
FBI-SF

July 27, 2005

God speed, you forever will be remembered as a hero. We will forever honor your memory. Thank you for your commitment and your courage. God bless.

Police Officer M. LaFramboise
Independence Mo. Police Department

July 27, 2005

My hearts and prayers are with you and your family. My heart aches but I take comfort in knowing you are truly in a better, safer place!
Thanks for watching out for the citizens of San Leandro and making sure our streets are safe..........

Selina Zapien

July 27, 2005

Dan, I drove as fast as I could that night but it was not fast enough. I am sorry I was too late to help stop your killer. We tracked him down with the help of so many brother and sister officers. You can rest in peace now brother, your watch is over. You will not be forgotten. I will miss you....

Sgt. Randy Hudson
San Leandro PD

July 27, 2005

GOD WILL PUNISH THOSE WHO TOOK YOUR LIFE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND DEDICATION. GOD BE WITH YOU.

J.CISNEROS
LOS ANGELES SCHOOL POLICE

July 27, 2005

Rest, brother.

Cpl Steve Headley
Mishawaka, IN Police

July 27, 2005

God Bless You Police Officer Niemi, My thoughts and prayers are sent to your wife, children, family, friends, and to the San Leandro Police Department. God Be With You ALL!!!!

Tonya Stephenson
Private Citizen, PA

July 27, 2005

MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO MOURN THE LOSS OF OFFICER NIEMI. HE IS A HERO FOR SURE. MAY YOU ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. YOU HAVE SERVED WELL, NOW REST IN PEACE MY BROTHER. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

CHIEF RONNIE WATFORD-RET.
JEFFERSON POLICE DEPT.S.C.

July 27, 2005

Brother, you will NEVER be forgotten. In a profession where we get little to no thanks....THANK YOU.
My sincere condolences are extended to the family, friends, and brothers of Officer Niemi. You are all in my prayers.

Corporal John Halligan
Philadelphia Police Department

July 27, 2005

rest in peace..

skip roberson

July 27, 2005

I pray your family and friends will find strength and comfort in these refelctions. May your spirit have a joyous homcoming and may you rest peacefully "High on the mountian"

D/Sgt. Vencent Woods
State of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

July 27, 2005

Our thoughts and prayers go out to This Officer, as well as the Family, Friends, Department and Community.

This is a loss that will never be forgotten. Hours will turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks into months and months into years but, the difference that these officers have made will last forever.

We lost Our Deputy Morris Taylor on September 14, 2002. When he joined the other Angels in Blue.

God Bless Our Law Enforcement Officers and Those Who Love Them.

Jack & Tracy Van Dolah
Former LEO/U.S.M.C. & Wife in Sutherlin, Oregon

July 27, 2005

On behalf of the men and women of the Town of Camillus Police Department, our deepest sympathys to the family, friends and co-workers of Officer Nels Niemi. Rest in Peace Brother, we now have the watch.

PBA
Town Of Camillus Police Department, NY

July 27, 2005

Our family offers our deepest condolences to the family, friends and fellow officers of Officer Niemi. He has made the supreme sacrifice, and no words can make this time any easier. We know your grief, and our hearts and prayers are with you during this time.

Mary Fisher

Mother, Deputy Kevin Sherwwood
Clare County, MI EOW 10/9 03

July 27, 2005

You gave your life protecting your fellow man, God has selected you to help your fellow police officers

Sgt Pat Swindells
Queensland Police Service (Australia)

July 27, 2005

The Florida Police Chiefs Association would like to express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Officer Dan Niemi, and the San Leandro P.D. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this time of great sadness. Please take comfort in knowing that your extended law enforcement family grieves with you. Officer Niemi, we thank you for your service. You will not be forgotten.

Members and Staff
Florida Police Chiefs Association

July 27, 2005

“When God made Peace Officers….”

When the lord was creating Peace Officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”

And the Lord said, Have you read the spec on this order? A Peace Officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn’t touch, and not wrinkle their uniform.

They have to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half- eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hands….No Way.”

“It’s not the hands that are causing me the problems,” said the Lord, “It’s the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have.”

That’s on the standard model? asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, “May I see what’s in there sir?” (When they already know and wishes they had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of their head for their partners’ safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, “ You’ll be alright ma’am, when they know it isn’t so.”

“Lord,” said the angel, touching his sleeve,” rest and work tomorrow.”

“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on civil service paycheck.”

The angel circled the model of the Peace Officer very slowly, “Can it think?” she asked.

“You bet,” said the Lord, “It can tell you elements of a hundred crimes, recite Miranda warnings in it’s sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five judges to debate the legality of the stop…and still it keeps it’s sense of humor.

This officer also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with crime scenes painted in HELL, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim’s family’ and then read in the daily paper how Law Enforcement isn’t sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Peace Officer. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.”

“That’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”

“What’s the tear for?” asked the angel.

“It’s for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice.”

“You’re a genius,” said the angel.

The Lord looked sober. “I didn’t put it there,” he said.


Anonymous

Senior Instructor
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

July 27, 2005

God bless you Sir for your dedication and sacrifice. May you rest in peace and may God confort your family in this difficult time.

Kevin Cannon
Brother of Keith Cannon EOW 5/4/05

July 27, 2005

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Officer Niemi. God bless you. We will take the watch here now.
Ours is not a chosen profession but a higher calling.
Matthew 5:9

Patrolman Ed Kraft
Grove Police Department Oklahoma

July 27, 2005

Officer Niemi, you have served your state and your community with honor and dignity, we will carry on from here. To the family of Officer Niemi you all are in our thoughts and prayers. Remember that you are now part of a much larger family. To the men and women of the San Leandro Police Department hold your heads high as you carry on. Be careful and watch each others backs. Rest in Peace..Brother..

Detective First Grade Robert F. Jackson
Metropolitan Police Department/Homicide Branch

July 27, 2005