You gotta love our Sept. 23 story about Officers Amy Spiller and Marlana Caprara who collared a man who is accused of stabbing his 56-year-old live-in girlfriend to death. The two veteran South Task Force officers were cruising their beat on a Friday night in Point Breeze when they saw what they initially thought was a man helping a drunken woman into the house. They could have easily and justifiably dismissed it and kept riding. But they followed their instincts, and as any cop worth his or her weight will tell you, instinct is more than 50 percent of the job.
When they knocked on the door in the 900 block of S. 16th Street, James Lake, 50, covered in blood, answered, according to police. His girlfriend, Mary, lay lifeless on the floor nearby. Lake was immediately arrested and later charged with murder.
Not only were they praised by their supervisor, but in an unprecedented turn of events, Homicide Sgt. Bob Wilkins, (who has never been generous with compliments), praised the two "girls in blue" on a job well done.
You go, girls!