POLICE WEEK 2015: TOP COPS
A salute to cops
Vice President Biden comes to Top Cops Awards with praise and more
n BY MITCHELL KRUGEL
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aw enforcement officers needed to hear these words, so Vice
President Joe Biden came to the Tops Cops Awards Banquet on
May 12 in Washington D.C. to pay his respect, make a rousing
speech that was equal parts tribute and pep talk and remind you
that somebody up there in federal government has your back.
The Vice President usually extends his personal message to the
Top Cops, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO)
honors each year in the Rose Garden at White House. He has met
the Top Cops, so honored for their best-of-the-best responses the
past year, in 21 of the 22 years the awards have been given, going
back to his days as a local elected official in Delaware.
But because this year has been no bed of r