Metro-Dade Police Department, Florida
End of Watch Wednesday, May 16, 1979
Reflections for Police Officer William Coleman Cook
The amount of effort given extraordinary. Your whole life and career of heroic virtue, honor humbly blessed and fortified by integrity, character and dignity rescued Dade County, its folks and your loyal and esteemed colleagues, Officer Cook, from more calamity and evil. A man on a mission of goodwill, faith and dedication all angelic, true and trusted. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 9, 2025
The toil of your sweat and blood, Officer Cook, was meant to serve and to preserve the integrity, dignity and honor of Dade County's residents. When excellent character and true commitment and conviction are taken abruptly we must take notice and remember the young man of virtue so gallant and bold. Just remember trails and paths blazed with the scents of literally that common sense which you had, Officer Cook and no one will forget you and you'll be saluted for intuition, loyalty and treasured esteem as your family's heroic angel of acumen and accentuated blessings and unselfish compassion. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 8, 2025
Desire and fierce determination allowed you, Officer Cook, to make a heroically humble impact on society and in Dade County your beloved community where you grew up, got married to your beloved Karen and protected mankind with extra sweet, precious and loyal devotion to everything that comes with becoming a truly trustworthy public service professional. In dignity we locate dedication. In integrity we find instrumental care, unselfish heart and soul that worked beyond the calls and responsibilities where virtue, sanctity and goodwill continue climbing higher each moment as your angelic spirit hovers above looking down on your family that keeps your character, commitment and outstanding convictions in their pursuits as your heroic legend shines brightly. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 8, 2025
Distinct and succinct, clarity, vision and sanctity directed your life and career endeavors, Officer Cook, as you were a very heroic, loyal and esteemed gentleman of alacrity and wisdom, virtue beyond your years serving Dade County and its residents. Our security, safety and serenity all because you cared and were completely unselfish and unwavering in your compassion to mankind and humanity which has missed you as much as your family has. You were a welcome relief to all of us and surely a man of dignity, character and integrity that shielded the public with a humbly blessed perseverance and patience. A gentle soul with an angelic heart that rests forever in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. True faith and allegiance were diligence and vigilance fortuitously combined.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 7, 2025
You were a very unique and heroic young man, Officer Cook, so why did God need your sweet and precious heart and soul with Him in heaven? The answers are hidden from us as only Our Creator knows them. And yet with honor, dignity and integrity you patrolled Dade County with clarity, alacrity and virtue. A hero forever etched in your family's minds and hearts as their sacred journeys and missions of faithfulness, truth and trust continue with "Uncle Bo" always watching over them. An angel of character, commitment and conviction that rests in peace with you my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 6, 2025
Whatever it takes whenever that happens and wherever one soul is needed to provide a comforting lift there you were, Officer Cook. to implant fairness, justice and the peaceful pursuits of blessed and humanely humble happiness to mankind and to the devoted citizens of Dade County, your serene home where you heroic heart lived and toiled feverishly for more than adequate protection and safe trails for all. A man of loyalty, esteem and honesty who gave his life and spirit for everything to occur naturally sadly on May 16,1979 your dignity, integrity and outstanding character and staunch commitments to excel were taken back home to eternity where the angel inside of a dedicated young man rests in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. True and trustworthy patriotism was exhibited everyday that you patrolled the streets, roads and corners where your humble name is saluted for virtue and sacred journeys all remain with Officer William C. Cook Street on NW 17th Avenue and NW 75th street. It's for your family, friends and most noble comrades to see and respect with unselfish affection, adoring blessing and for others following in your footsteps to inspect and to take diligent notice of. Conviction, faithfulness and determination all forevermore revered and always vigilant.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 5, 2025
A gentleman of humility with a serenely sensitive heart and soul, blessed with fortitude and heroism. They shall never leave your spirit of which God watches over for eternity, Officer Cook. Dade County was your esteemed and beloved community where loyalty and yearning successfully battled evil. A warrior of welcome honor, integrity and dignity, character and commitment so demarcated. You'll always be the apple of your family's eyes. We salute you for coming to aid the citizens and your fellow officers caught in the hairs of a heinous man without reverence, morals and scruples. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. God bless you, Officer Cook, your esteemed family and faithfully diligent and vigilant comrades in arms of virtue, vision and sacred missions of goodwill put forth earnestly.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 4, 2025
Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero, Officer Cook, your sacred and solemn life and career serving Dade County shall forevermore be saluted for virtue, honesty, integrity, dignity and true and trustworthy character. These traits have been augmented, accentuated and documented for those who have your watch to observe and to be careful. Unselfish and humbly blessed and intuitive.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 3, 2025
We have the freedom to do good and the liberty to pursue our very aspirations and dreams in our daily lives. So true and so too did you, Officer Cook, make the sacred journeys to become a recognized officer in your department. Faithful, abundantly unselfish and unwavering in all your commitments, convictions and the outstanding and dignified character that must be authentic and clearly above the normal. That is how you'll forever be heroically remembered and saluted for serving Dade County and its citizens. Loyalty, diligence, respect and resourcefulness all truthful and trustworthy. Battle tested, succinct and filled with humbly blessed acumen and virtue. A proud man protecting us with heart, soul and all your might as your family's golden angel. May you rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. A badge and uniform worn with fairness, firmness and ferocity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 2, 2025
Truly trusted with protection and service, your vehicles of virtue, vision and versatility, Officer Cook, were so attuned and so affixed on Dade County and its people of whom those still here today have never forgotten the heroic heart and soul so honored and so humbly blessed with excellence and dignity. It certainly was your unwavering, unselfish and unrelenting character, commitment and convictions that assisted in stemming the tides of terror and violence. Our lives and peace were brokered by you and surely the loyalty and esteem of a humane warrior fighting with every reservoir of energy and acumen until you gave your life and professional career for serenity, security and safety to walk down the paths and trails in which goodwill, faithfulness and resiliency go hand in hand with endeavor, efficiency and nothing but reverence, diligence and vigilance from a most gallant gentleman of first class, determination, devotion and steadfast dedication from an angel now walking his heavenly beat above. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
June 1, 2025
A man so humble, brave and esteemed. Officer Cook, you will never need superlatives to describe you, your life and professional career serving Dade County and its folks. Devoted, loyal and forever saluted and treasured by family, friends and comrades who invested their time working and enjoying the quiet times together. Our very safety and security were brought about through honesty, dignity and the integrity of your virtue, character and commitment to excel through true trustworthiness. Badge#1664 was well trained, well prepared as the very best and diligence, vigilance and reverence was first class and unselfish. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and angelic hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 31, 2025
Angels watch over us as you have been doing, Officer Cook, over your loved ones all these decades after you gave your life and career for Dade County to live peacefully. Everything from honor, dignity and integrity was used in an orchestrated manner to enhance humanity. A man of devout faith, truth and trust putting the brakes on violence and will be saluted for heroic virtue, vision and sacred versatility. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 31, 2025
Everyday is a blessing as I'm very sure, Officer Cook, you did not take life nor your career for granted. It was hoist upon your humbly heroic shoulders to serve and to protect Dade County's own. You must be resourceful, devoted and highly motivated in matters of honesty, character, dignity and integrity otherwise your sacred journeys may not go according to plan. You gave your life of esteem, loyalty and cherished enhancement to broaden humanity's horizons of faith, trust and truth to be saluted and solemnly remembered. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel whose legacy shines brighter each moment as you watch over your family, colleagues and friends.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 30, 2025
All bright character, charm, charisma and commitment, your convictions, Officer Cook, were all sincere and heroically honorable. Dade County had your due diligence, vigilance and the virtue of a man geared to find evil and weed it out from us. Loyalty, dignity and integrity all stationed right at your badge, uniform and vest to be saluted and never forgotten. An angel in heaven patrolling God's golden streets. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero of faith, truth and trustworthiness.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 29, 2025
Blessings and character are not be be taken lightly and surely not granted. Police have to work dangerously under these umbrellas of understanding and hope in order for their goodwill, resourcefulness and faithfulness to be recognized and realized. You put yourself in harm's way, Officer Cook, to make Dade County safer and more securer. You did an excellent and outstanding job with creating peace, security and the safety so that our trails and paths could continue smoothly. A badge of distinction wore superbly as was your honesty, integrity and dignity on your badge of heroic virtue, sanctity and the pyramids of perseverance, diligence and vigilance surrounding your family and friends at all times. As an angel in heaven your cherished, esteemed and loyal soul, heart and spirit can watch over your entire community. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 28, 2025
Wish you were here on this earth, Officer Cook, so we could meet and greet one another and have a humbly blessed conversation about life and this community where you grew up, North Miami Beach, Florida. Forty-six years later your beloved family has been robbed of your effervescent presence. A young man girded in hope, faith and resilient devotion as you patrolled with clear honor, integrity and dignity all born from your loyal, esteemed and heroic character, commitment and the convictions of ideal truth and trust from a man wiser than his years. If we took your vision, versatility and virtue and added them together the sum of all these traits would make you the right public servant geared to handle all duties regardless of the dangers as your sacred affirmation was to serve and protect the peace and safety of Dade County as one of Our Creator's angels and your family who carries your unselfish and unwavering legend of respect, ferocious diligence and advanced vigilance forward as you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 27, 2025
The voice of God resonates forever. He look down on us and over His sacred flock of angelic heroes and heroines who gave their ultimate sacrifice for mankind and their cherished communities to remain safe, sound and very secure. This was what you chose to become, Officer Cook, not only were you a loyal, genuinely compassion young man, you were a first class gentleman devoted to the agendas of acumen, honesty, integrity and dignity all from your outstanding and upstanding reverence, diligence and true allegiance. To perform your assignments even in peril's face of oppression speaks volumes regarding your professional demeanor and effort put forth every watch. And now those morals, ideals, values and scruples all carried forth by those who have succeeded you and may they along with your family and their loved ones stay safe and blessed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. An angel who will forever be saluted for virtue, gallantry, wisdom and unselfish strength of heart and soul. Never forgotten! Badge#1664 is respect, is congeniality and all credibility.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 27, 2025
Faith, resiliency and devotion cannot ever be confused, for if they are heaven forbid lost then dignity, integrity and honesty cannot serve their proper roles of onus when they are needed the most. Fortunately, Officer Cook, these were always on your unassuming, unselfish and unwavering character, commitments and earthly convictions that served the citizens of Dade County quite well indeed. A master motivator and leader, your life and public service career has remained well documented and respected as we salute you for bravery, virtue and taking capability further down the lines where your legacy keeps growing as you will never be forgotten. An angel whose heart, soul and spirit are in heaven looking down upon your family as you my neighbor, friend and hero rest in peace. True allegiance and the trust you garnered by being respectful and respected by your peers.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 26, 2025
Acumen that was accentuated, acumen that augmented your awesome earthly journeys. Such authentic honor, dignity and integrity, Officer Cook, was your loyal and treasured soul of heroism performing its humble and blessed patrols of Dade County. You were so humble and mankind has surely missed you as has your family and comrades. Forever an angel of unselfish trust and truth. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 26, 2025
Thoughtfulness and articulation are the dedication and heroic integrity, dignity and honesty of a warrior constructed in acumen, awareness and astuteness. Dade County was your venue, Officer Cook, your vehicles of virtue, visibility, vision and valor. Such an understanding man of humble and blessed character, courage and commitment, whose truth and trust patrolled a community where you were devoted and loyal. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend, angel and hero. You'll always be cherished by your family and friends, comrades who served the purposes by which we can live freely and safely.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 25, 2025
Faith and effort begin from the pillars of honorable and diligent perseverance which you steadfastly maintained, Officer Cook, throughout your life and heroic professional public service career with Dade County. Your protection of mankind has forever been remembered and solemnly saluted for unselfish and unwavering virtue, vigilance and the allegiance of a man dignified with character and intuitive integrity. Never forgotten for paths and trails all proper and morally righteous. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, hero and gentleman of sound commitment and convictions all true and trustworthy.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 24, 2025
Accentuated in acumen and heroic character, dignity and integrity your honesty, Officer Cook, shall stay forever implanted within the history of Dade County heroes. Our peace and pursuits are because of your patrols of evil creating the goodwill and resourceful that mankind yearns for. The trails and paths you paved were truthful and certainly trustworthy. An angel of virtue and versatility whose vehicles were loyal and most meaningful. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend an hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 23, 2025
You were such a dedicated officer, Officer Cook, faithful, brave and honorably humble. A bright star taken way too soon. Your family carries your heroic legacy forward with the very same traits of discipline, dignity, integrity and loyal character to be saluted and remembered forevermore. Rest in peace my neighbor, angel, friend and hero. Virtue belongs in the same sentence with truth and trust.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 23, 2025
Ferocity is not fear. Tenacity is truth and trustworthiness combined to form a powerful dynamic duo. Dade County is a large metropolis and you, Officer Cook, heroically, humbly and humanely loyal protected its residents with every ounce of your unselfish and unwavering heart and soul. A gem of a gentleman who gained rather received the respect and admiration of your courageous peers who teamed with you. If a man stays focused and keeps his honesty, character and dignity close to your vests of versatility, vision and virtue where commitment and convictions were succinctly clear. You never be forgotten and saluted for angelic acumen, awareness and astuteness. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 22, 2025
It's not a race to the very finish. It's the genesis of a new day and each day, Officer Cook, you achieved beyond expectations. Dade County was protected with your honesty, integrity and dignity, character, commitment and conviction all true and trusted. We salute the virtue in your angelic heart and soul, your reverent spirit is being watched over by God who keeps His flock of sacred angels together for eternity. Your unwavering and unselfish morals, values and scruples kept things flowing along with your charismatic and loyal attitude. Never more compassionate, concerned and esteemed. Rest in peace my neighbor, friend and hero. Loyalty and devotion shared their roles with responsibility and dependability. Badge#1664 was diligent and vigilant always ready to go forward. When violence and evil struck, Officer Cook, you arrived to straighten out the hornet's nest of ugliness and replaced it with peace, safety and serenity.
Rabbi Lewis S. Davis
May 21, 2025

