“Dear PoPville,
I work on Connecticut Ave near Farragut North and there have been literally endless, back to back motorcades. Any idea what’s going on? Seems to be motorcycle-heavy with big busses, like an athletic team might travel on.”
This week is Police Week. Tonight is the 38th Annual Candlelight Vigil:
“Each year, hundreds of names of officers killed in the line of duty are engraved on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC. The NLEOMF’s 38th Annual Candlelight Vigil will take place Wednesday, May 13th on the National Mall in Washington, DC. to memorialize those who sacrificed all for their communities.”
You can see the full schedule here.
Last year a reader wrote in:
“The motorcades carry the families of police officers who have died in the line of duty. Part of police week includes visiting the National Law Enforcement Officer’s memorial, where family members go to see their officer’s names newly engraved.
In addition,
please note that an extremely large percentage of the folks on those buses are families of NYPD officers whose line of duty death was cancer (receiving the diagnosis as a result of working in lower manhattan during the clean up from the mass terror attack on September 11th, 2001).
I was on one of those buses last year.”