New York – The New York Police Department is welcoming 1,123 new officers — and for three of them the job is all in the family.
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Brothers Alec, John and Stephen Favale (fah-VAHL’-ee) were among Tuesday’s graduates. And cheering them on was their dad, Deputy Inspector Anthony Favale.
Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) saluted all the cadets for joining the nation’s biggest police department. He added special thanks to the Favales for their “family tradition” of service.
Alec and John are 22-year-old twins. Stephen is 24.
They say they’re proud of their dad’s 30-year police career. But Stephen Favale adds the NYPD brothers are “just like everybody else who graduated” after working hard.
Anthony Favale says it “feels amazing” to have three sons join the police force at once.
Descendants of kimchi??
Lol lhavdil!
I was thinking they look so so alike before reading tbere r twins there
The Blues Brothers….
My wish for each and every new officer is that they come home at the end of each shift safe and sound.
I recall graduating from the academy, six months later I was assigned to serve the community Shawn Jay Z Carter raps about attempting to destroy with his 24/7 drug trade and semi-automatic ‘Mack Milli’.
This was when I learned what polite, pseudo-caring Americans term as ‘Poverty,” was in fact America’s expanding and shameful *National Epidemic of Childhood Abuse and Neglect*, aka *Poverty*, that for more than two generations has deprived untold numbers of American kids from experiencing and enjoying a fairly happy American kid childhood with *Safe Streets* to travel and play on.
*Child Abuse and Neglect* that is primarily responsible for populating our prisons and far too many American communities with depressed, angry, frustrated, undisciplined, unpredictable, sometimes suicidal teens and adults full of resentment for irresponsibly being introduced to a life of hardships and struggles.
*Early Childhood Abuse and Neglect* that often leads depressed, sometimes suicidal *(NY Times May 18, 2015 – Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers)* children to develop into depressed, angry, frustrated, unpredictable, sometimes suicidal teens and adults lacking empathy and com