Today I speak with Rob O’Donnell, a PipeHitter Board member who has decades of experience as a police officer in the New York Police Department, beginning in 1991 as a NYC Transit Police Officer before merging into the NYPD in 1995. He was promoted to Police Officer Special Assignment in 97, and then to Detective in 2000 before retiring out of one of the department’s Homicide task forces in 2004. On this 20th anniversary of 9/11, Rob shares his experience running in to the city after the planes hit and recounts the days and weeks that followed, and what this upcoming anniversary means for him and his family. We also have the opportunity to talk about the state of policing in the America and what is missing from the current conversation about the police and those who serve.