carrying out this attack against the two officers on friday. we re learning a little bit more about jason rivera, too. in this case it s penned in his own words in a letter that he wrote his commanding officer when attending police academy in 2020 and basically saying what inspired him to become the first person in his family to become a police officer. he wrote about his firsthand experience with the controversial stop and frisk policy that initially is what propelled to to join the force. rivera entered the police academy in 2020 according to a source with knowledge of the officer s records wrote in that letter and i want to share a, po of that, officer rivera writing, as time went on i saw the nypd pushing hard on changing the relationship between the police and the community. this is when i realized i wanted to be part of the men in blue. better the relationship between the community and the police. so what we saw yesterday was mayor eric adams honoring the life of officer rivera a