MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Amy’s husband was out working the beat as a Memphis Police officer and didn’t realize her wife was trying to find him a new job.
“I’m hoping some great job offer is out there,” said the police wife, whose name we’re not revealing to protect her family’s safety.
Amy took to Facebook and said she was looking for a new job for her husband who was a 12-year police veteran.
She said working the beat has just become too dangerous in Memphis.
“I don’t want to turn on the news and see him on it or get a call,” she said. “It scares me every day he goes to work.”
Seeing Officer Sean Bolton killed and Officer Connor Schilling tussling in the grass over a gun helped the mother of three know it was time to have a talk with her husband and think about a change.
“It’s gotten so dangerous. It’s scary for the families,” she said.
Memphis Police Officer Marcus Tucker said it is an increasingly difficult time to be an officer.
“It’s just a reflection of what’s going on across the country. All lives matter,” he said.
Nothing is routine for officers, and the respect many people have had for police has become strained all across the country.
“We can talk about policies, different things, changing different aspect of police work, but at the end of the day citizens and officers have to work together to mend the difference between the two,” Tucker said.
Amy and her husband have to have that talk too.
Still, she said she didn’t want to wait too long.
She, like so many police families, just want their loved ones home safe.
