Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

I don't say it too often, but, I hope and pray your colleagues that day, Officers DiGenova and Edgerton are doing well these days. They worked alongside of you, Officer Cook and experienced a gentleman and a hero through and true. Your parents and sister would be proud of you. You had class, decency and character to back your honesty, integrity and dignity. Dade County and its citizens have seen their enhancements grow larger all because of your unwavering sacrifice. Your smile and genuinely upbeat personality is surely missed everyday. You'll remain treasured, revered and admired. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Manners and politeness are supposed to run side by side of honor, pride and conviction when resolve and resolution are on the line. All a part of your legacy of courage and valor.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 21, 2016

Simplicity and sincerity. Certain situations call for these two words. And yet, we demand that all police officers be honest, have both dignity and integrity while risking their lives bravely to keep us peaceful and safe. You were, Officer Cook, the quintessential professional who always went over and beyond the calls of duty. A cherished man with a big caring heart, your family, comrades and friends pay homage to your memory each day. Your legacy exactly as your life and career, the embodiment of hope, goodwill and character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Police work takes every ounce of both moral and physical strength, the fabrics meshed together to produce the desired results. Dade County and its residents witnessed this achievement for six years, it's a shame some officers do go awry and don't perform according to department rules and regulations.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 21, 2016

Consideration and concern requires the utmost compassion and at the very same time you need an honest and dignified public servant to be able to properly carry out his or her roles professionally speaking. Officer Cook, you personified what we expect from a police officer. Ability to think and react. Able to handle the rigors of stress. Intelligent and articulate, a good communicator, one whose humility does not cause them to fall over themselves. No wonder other officers clamored to work alongside of you. You were a common sense and decent gentleman whose character, commitment and conviction matched your valor and courage. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Legacies of all heroes start somewhere, your home was open always to those who visited and partook of your wisdom and keen vision, its clarity as wonderful as your soul. Somewhere we feel its rays of love and esteem beaming down on us.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 20, 2016

A message to the world. Be careful. The lives of our beloved public servants matter. You cared, Officer Cook, you reached out to assist anyone in trouble. Your honesty, integrity and dignity was that life preserver so to speak. You were bold, bravery and diligent. No one can forget your life, career and humbleness. At least you were a calming influence throughout your patrols in and around Dade County brokering peace and hope. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You delivered what the people needed and God took you back to watch over those who too have aspirations to protect others. Your legacy will remain cherished and very special.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 20, 2016

I just don't understand, Officer Cook, why? A Kansas City police captain was killed a few hours ago. Bloodshed and its ugly violence must cease one day. We know families lose their honorable and brave loved ones to this wanton evil. It must stop. Lives of all Americans and foreigners matter. We send professional servants into dangerous areas to serve and to protect us, it;s just not right nor fair. Dignity and integrity have been a part of our constitution for over two-hundred years now. We must have faith in God and trust in Him as you did, Officer Cook. You were a master of intuition and ingenuity. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You gave your life, your heroism is stamped firmly into your humble legacy.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 20, 2016

Humility to all humanity leads to actions of righteousness. And it is in these heroes and heroines, past and present who bravely pursue peace and unity in the name of God for all our sake. Your willingness and diligence, Officer Cook, spearheaded not only enhancements, but a revitalization for all Dade County, it has humbly sealed your legacy with outstanding character, commitment and convictions to the professional tasks that were placed squarely on your shoulders to burden. An awesome responsibility, you carried out assignments to the letter of the law fairly and with leadership and vision that was proper and prudent. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You'll be cherished, saluted and so honored forever. God has a vitality loving and proud heroic angel now serving Him. Help keep us safe and sound, Officer Cook. God bless your wonderful family, esteemed colleagues and close personal friends. Chief Jacobs, let us all pray for all officers and their safety. I remember all too well back in 1979 and in 1980, those riots, tension and unrest, you did your job, a shame your friend paid the ultimate price, he was and will forever be a loving hero and gentleman to all mankind. If you met Mr. and Mrs. Cook, two of the nicest people you could have known. I received a nice warm and sentimental letter from Mrs. Cook, though I never met her. She lives today in San Diego, California at age one-hundred. God bless you Mrs. Cook.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 19, 2016

No officer must let their temper get the best of them. What must head off any possibility of doing wrong has got to be staying honorable, dignified and carrying their badges of integrity. You comported yourself, Officer Cook, with the proper morals and ethics in order to make the most of your career. Securing the necessary relief for Dade County was your job. It was your humility that God placed within your soul to see your missions until their completion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Hot days are ahead of us. The very light of your soul, Officer Cook, as heroic as you were will keep things in heir proper perspective. A legacy of valor, bravery and courage meant to fight against the sheer forces of evil. People who harm police, their characters need to be looked at more closely, something has got to be fixed and in a hurry. All lives matter. Not just one race. All lives!

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 19, 2016

You are greatly missed, Officer Cook. It was in your humble honor, dignity and integrity that you left behind a profound legacy of devotion, faith and resolve. No one will ever forget your positive influence you carried about yourself and neither will Dade County and its residents forget your smile and service to them. Keeping peace and unity bordered together. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 19, 2016

Humanity guides those who actions are of a clear and concise direction. The precision of their honesty and decency is the force by which all police officers operate under. Your heroism, Officer Cook, helped you greatly navigate around Dade County streets keeping peace and unity together as one element. You bravely had your agenda focused on the tasks at hand. No one can ever question your devotion, determination or character. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Courage, desire and faith can take a person down the path of intelligence and intuition. Your life and career, Officer Cook, was brought about through good manners and proper guidance.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 18, 2016

Yesterday, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Officer Cook, three more officers were taken from their families senselessly. We don't understand why? I still don't comprehend why you were taken. You were honest and dignified, intelligent and carried yourself with integrity. Certainly, Dade County can never forget a humble hero of humanity whose sole purpose was to protect and to save lives. Leaving a legacy of distinction and devotion behind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. You'll remain respected and revered forever. Legend, Legacy, Alexis and Skyler would have loved and adored their very special great-uncle Bo. You are missed.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 18, 2016

Tardiness and being absent-minded have no parts in the protection of mankind. What does need to be present is dignity, honesty and integrity displayed by all police professionals. It is mandatory they exemplify these characteristics at all times in order for citizens to feel safe and secure. Your nature, Officer Cook, was to be courteous and loyal, brave and valiant. Your comrades of the past have saluted and honored a life of righteousness and reverence to all. Your legacy of humility speaks volumes of your concern, care and kind heart of peace and liberty for all. The umbrella is kept open as wide as your bright smile. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A mission fulfilled. A job doing only one way, that was to be outstanding in service and in aiding your fellow officers and those citizens on May 16, 1979 who relied upon your God given skills.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 17, 2016

We rise each day, a testimony of the actions of our beloved and heroic law enforcement officers. Your honorable and dignified ways, Officer Cook, assured the residents of Dade County that peace and unity would never be undermined nor abandoned. Integrity and ingenuity are the building blocks of any successful officer's life and professional career. We cherish and respect your resolve, faithfulness and influence of goodwill and hope for all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 17, 2016

Families do sacrifice by giving us their brave and honorable relatives to patrol, protect and preserve our freedoms. Your family, Officer Cook, was so giving, so fiercely loyal to your occupation, a profession that challenges most and yet provides relief for all people. Dade County and its residents have been living freely precisely by your integrity, dignity and watchful eyes. You will always remain cherished and respected as our brave and courageous warrior. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your charisma, concern and compassion have been the imprints by which the realization of prosperity has stayed within our lives. Enhancement continues its loving march forward by a humble servant's consideration to justice and fairness.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

We'll let dignity and honor help to keep peace and unity properly anchored to its base. Your assignments, Officer Cook, were to stay the course and while your honesty was always present deliver positive vibrations to all Dade County residents. Always the consummate officer. Always the gentleman of friendly persuasion whose calming influence patrolled the streets where peace and vitality were together as one. You will be so remembered for your professional instincts, intellect and intuition. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A hero's legacy that will stay forever etched in our thoughts, hearts and prayers.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

I guess I could say thank God for modern technology, namely computers. I'm not as computer literate as you may think, Officer Cook, for it was my lovely wife, Holly, who introduced me to this age and from time to time looks at my reflections I leave for you. She calls them blogs. To me they are level headed and honest opinions most based on facts that sustained your life and career, Officer Cook. One young man's mission of dignity and integrity was your calling card and you answered all your assignments with alacrity, clarity and poignant perseverance. It took a lot, hard work, training and planning, in the end you were able to shape and make things happen in Dade County. Peace and liberty came about through your vigilance and valor. It renewed the hopes and aspirations of all. Keep observing us, Officer Cook, as you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your legacy will magnify that which we cannot see too clearly. Trust, faith and hope were some of the many foundations of your well lived life and a police career destined for more accomplishments. God directs this world. He knows what needs to be done and how to clean up after such tragic events that have rocked us. It can't keep us down. You have to pick up the pieces and continue on as you would want us to do, Officer Cook.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

The glory of God and His crown are what helps to maintain the very dignity of our lives.The expertise and honor of our beloved heroes is too what helps to sustain us. We live and cherish our lives because of the many heroes and heroines of the past. And, Officer Cook, you were this exemplary man and humane public servant. Obviously, each person deals with situations in their own way, calming and positive, cheerful and engaging were some of your many mannerisms you utilized when resolving disputes among one another. Dade County and its folks look up to the heavens by the light of the sun and the darkness of the moon at night. they see your brilliant soul aglow, giving inspiration and hope to them as you did during your six years of outstanding service to them. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Today in Nice, France terror struck again. When will this carnage, this massacre of human life end? You and the many other officers brave and sure tried their hand at wiping out this travesty. History and enhancement proves this fact. Your legacy carries this eternal approval. God has His best and finest angels of bravery and courage patrolling His sacred golden streets where nothing can ever harm you. Shine on. May your soul, Officer Cook, deliver nothing but radiance and relief to the many who are seeking it. It shelters, the poor, the downtrodden, whomever needs comfort let them enter and find peace and dignity there at the doors to greet them.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

I know, Officer Cook, if you were with us today and with your loving family, you would be appalled by this very violence that took you from our midst many years ago. You delivered peace and prosperity and gave new meaning to what go old fashioned honesty, integrity and dignity was and is all about. Diabolical and devious is what evil is about and how it lurks and can prey on others and sway them from a proper path. Each officer approaches this differently when in reality their mannerisms and and ethics carry great weight into how they can begin to solve and resolve any issues that crop up from this monster. Dade County citizens felt the blankets of trust and peace that you spread over them. Forever can they be assured of those enhancements brought about through your heroism and valor. A uniform, badge worn professionally, a message loud and straight forward. Those who carry on today do so with heavy hearts, knowing full well they too have awesome burdens to shoulder. One gentleman's mission of leadership, calm and appreciation, backed by humility and respect towards all mankind. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your talents, Officer Cook, were of a loving and treasured reverence to those who battled this force of evil with you on a daily basis. You are missed very much. Though, humanity is grateful for all your efforts.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

Hi Mrs. Cook. As I leave this reflection for your humble and most heroic son, Officer William C. Cook, my wife and I hope and will continue to pray for your good health and peace that allows you to enjoy your life out in San Diego. I'm sorry I never had the chance to meet you , but I still have that very special letter you wrote to me when I was living in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Your son was the ever present resourceful officer of dignity, honesty and integrity and for what has transpired here in the United States, especially last week in Dallas, Texas. All honest officers are to be commended for doing a job, in which a thank you, a polite courtesy is not always around the corner so to speak. Officer Cook, justly and most judiciously kept his affirmation in keeping Dade County and its residents safe and protected. Never any doubt. never wavering. Undying commitment to excellence and the pride that was worn on his uniform and badge each day to work. You can laugh. You can cry. When it came to serious business, the loyalty and heart, devotion and determination were always front and center. Now, thirty-seven years later, my neighbor, friend and hero, your life, dreams, achievements during your professional career have been so honored and saluted. Your grace, gallantry and courage have been remembered as much as your sacrifice that has kept enhancements on the front burner, as well as your legacy, the cornerstones of ethical conduct displayed at all times and the common sense and keen vision which is always a part of any officer's repertoire. Rest in peace. Maybe one day we can travel out to San Diego to meet, greet and share a cup of tea together and catch up on the times we both spent in North Miami Beach, Florida. Our families have, rather share some common bonds, as you may or may not know my dad, Owen C. Davis, may he too rest in peace along with your son, was a former New York City Police Officer for thirty-eight years. he served and preserved from the 1920's until 1966. Take care. God bless you and your wonderful family, Mrs. Cook.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

The message is clear. The challenge lies near. What is expected from our public servants is that they comport themselves with integrity, dignity and honesty. Your message is quite clear, Officer Cook, to those comrades who have now assumed an arduous task, stay focused and determined, driven and devoted. Things will hopefully work out. Your bravery and convictions to boldness and influencing those who needed it won't soon be forgotten. Never shall they be forgotten. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Violence shall be defeated. Unity and peace restored forever. One man's thinking shall remain his very dear legacy of prayer, hope and goodwill.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

Neither rain nor shine kept you from your appointed rounds around Dade County, Officer Cook. Your destiny yo serve and to protect came calling along with your honesty, dignity and integrity. The grateful citizens had the best patrolling their peace and decency. Heroes are breed from loving and humble upbringings. Yours was the epitome of a first class environment. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your courage and character drove your successes in life and during your solidly professional police career.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 15, 2016

One cannot eliminate the past because of our heroes beloved and esteemed who fought with all their might to secure our values and peace of mind. You battled and battled, Officer Cook, your integrity, dignity and honor, though never questioned, was put to the ultimate challenge each and every patrol you made of Dade County and its venues. You'll remain cherished and appreciated for having the spirit to live and to serve, protect and to be available to preserve our morals and serenity. You'll always be remembered, saluted and so respected for being the consummate humanitarian. A noble public servant. More importantly a hero of humility and valor. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A righteously rich legacy that constituted conviction, intelligence and a calming concern through passion and compassion to all people.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 14, 2016

America must unite. Boldness and commitment to ideals, morals and principles must stand together in line in order for liberty to take hold. What we have been witnessing as of late is the viciousness of wanton violence. It must be stopped. In Dade County you stopped this wickedness, Officer Cook. Your honor, dignity, decency and integrity was always put to the supreme test. Nothing, sadly enough can bring you back, as you now rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero in God's good grace. You were a humble man of character, courage and fortitude. Like looking in the mirror, that is how your family, colleagues and friends must now carry on. A legacy of the certification of commitment and class personified.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 14, 2016

When honor, integrity, dignity and gallantry must be put to rest, then it is up to the many other heroes of valor and the same traits to carry on the burdens of boldness and commitment that was left behind. When you gave your life, Officer Cook, Dade County was mourning your heroism and solid humility. No finer man is one who sacrifices on behalf of the whole community. One in which a cherished and respectful gentleman, a soldier of solidarity, a leader of other comrades entrenched in a battle over an enemy that must be conquered one day. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Your legacy has stood as the epitome of exemplary morals and superior courage and character.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2016

We dwell within our environments of peace and tranquility. Why? Because of brave and honorable heroes such as yourself, Officer Cook. Men of wisdom. Leaders of humility teaming together to avert evil. Dade County was the recipient of your kindness and compassion. The Auxiliary Bishop who delivered the eulogy for you had it spot on. John Joseph Nevins stated there must be a Good Friday before Easter Sunday. There will be on account of your unselfish and unwavering courage, commitment and conviction to try to fix what still troubles our society. In Dallas. In New York. Wherever there are talented women and men of humane stature and ethical morals, we can see things through. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. The legacy of a warm and gentle spirit is going to stay with us, it won't ever depart.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2016

We allow the most civil and decent human beings the right to serve ans protect our freedoms of speech and whatever we choose to do with our lives. Officer Cook, you protected with your honor, dignity and integrity which will be forever saluted. You were reserved, yet brave and committed to the right causes for which Dade County and its people won't forget you. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A clearly humble legacy of hope, goodwill and outstanding character that has enhanced an entire community where you were respected and treasured.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

July 13, 2016