PHOTO: Chicago Police Detective Mike Dooley (right) joins Barbara Johnson (left), H.R. Richardson and Heather Johnson at the unveiling of a new tombstone for Cornelius Wilson on April 29, 2003, in Campbellsville, Ky. Wilson, the first African- American Chicago Police officer killed in the line of duty, was killed in a shootout with robbery suspects in 1919. | AP file photo
It wasn’t right, Mike Dooley thought. There were Chicago police officers, killed in the line of duty, who were buried in unmarked graves, “lying in complete anonymity, in mud,” he told a friend.
So Mr. Dooley, a detective with the youth division of the Chicago Police Department, made it his mission to see that they received headstones or that their broken headstones were replaced. He helped collect funds and drummed up interest in the cause.
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