Sergeant Robert Lee Bittick

Hey buddy. Well brotherman, I remember it was November 1993 - a dark and stormy night in Juneau, and I was on a traffic stop with a monster of a drunken badguy at 31 mile with crappy radio service and no backup. The drunk monster decided he wasn’t going to be arrested, and I decided he was. When you showed up, the drunk monster was winning and trying to go for my gun.

I’m still here because you decided to go on a long drive out the road on a really cold and stormy night to give me a drive-by and check on the welfare of a brother officer instead of going home. After we got the drunk monster in cuffs, you stayed to do the impound for me. A week later at JPD night shift briefing , we ALL laughed about how you showed up and I was busily getting my butt handed to me.

I never thanked you then. It wasn’t necessary. It still isn’t. But I know I’m here because you were there.

Bob...I think of you often. Comrades. Buddies. Friends. I’d go through any door with you. Any where, any time, Amigo.

Sr. Det. Kenneth J. Jennings (Retired)
Juneau Police Department

September 5, 2018