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and find something.”
He wrote hundreds of tickets each month, led the department
in DUI and drug possession arrests and most, if not all, of those
tickets and arrests turned out to be good.
‘If you were a dispatcher when Chris was on duty, you had your
hands full,” Zuzeck said. “He just really enjoyed being a road cop.”
Word on the streets of Waldwick was that non-residents driving through town that Goodell stopped never caught a break. The
residents, however, might get pulled over and wind up getting a
lecture from Goodell about violations he found.
“They really learned from him,” McBain observed. “And most
of all, they knew he was protecting them.”
‘Over-the-top happy’
So they all lined up on Franklin Turnpike the morning of July
22, not worried about the 90-degree, sun-soaked backdrop, to get
a last view of Chris as his casket was wheeled south past the
school to the cemetery. Three marines joined the entire Waldwick
Police Department, a Hackensack PD honor guard, cops from
across Bergen County and family and friends in a processional
seemed to stretch forever. Rows of cops from across New Jersey,
New York and Pennsylvania stood 10 rows deep at attention,
holding a salute for what seemed like forever.
“Coming around the corner and seeing that was almost surreal,” Zuzeck noted.
Can you imagine what those close to Goodell were thinking
as he made his way to his final resting place?
“I was thinking of (his fiancée) Jillian, and how over-the-top
happ