Common Sense: Remembering Detective Steven McDonald
Over the years, I have had a couple of opportunities to be in the presence of Detective Steven McDonald and his wife Patti. Despite his severe injuries, he got around and certainly touched the lives of not just police officers and their families, but of all New Yorkers.
On occasion, I would see Patti and Detective McDonald in Albany pushing for some common-sense measure that they thought would better protect police officers and/or their families. Patti McDonald was also for several years the mayor of their Nassau County Village of Malvern, so she could have additional reasons to be in Albany lobbying.
Her presence was always a significant event as a result of the high profile nature of the tragedy Stephen went through, but in my opinion more as a result of his good works in the years following.