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Cops said their goodbyes to some of the veteran supervisors leaving their ranks this week.
Capt. Julie Johnson attended an emotional final Compstat weekly data-sharing meeting on Thursday, where colleagues paid tribute to her.
“You’ve been one of the foremost, if not the go to person in the department,” said Lt. Sam Brown, who went through the police academy with Johnson. I will miss your tutelage and your guidance.”
“This place has been really good to me and I know it has been good to most of you,” Johnson responded, wiping back tears. “I can tell you if you work hard every day and you put 110 percent in it every single day, and that’s what I tried to do, no matter what position I was in, no matter what I was doing, if you do that you will be rewarded.
“I’m finally the boss now,” joked Johnson’s husband Lt. Herb Johnson, who’s not retiring. “I’m finally the boss now. I’m not only the boss at home, but now I’m the boss at work.”
“That’s not what we hear,” piped in Sgt. Karl Jacobson.
To which Julie Johnson responded: “The key to a good marriage: opposite shifts, number one. And you always have to make them believe that they are the boss, and the decision that they make was theirs to begin with.”
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Meanwhile, colleagues dressed up a photo (at right) of Lt. Herb Sharp, the top Newhallville/East Rock cop who’s eaving to become Planned Parenthood’s security chief in the region, to show their affection. Read more about Sharp in this article.