BROOKLYN – On Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, God placed a double rainbow over the skies of Green County to open the gateway for Karen to return to her Heavenly Father. How appropriate that was. Karen couldnâ??t read road maps, but she could read the beauty and see the “from here to eternity” qualities of a rainbow. She worked for 28 years as a policewoman/ detective for the University of Wisconsin Police Department, devoting much of her efforts to crime prevention, especially sexual assault awareness, and was the operational link between the campus administration and the law enforcement community. Frankly, she blazed the way for many women who now call law enforcement their chosen profession and she helped change the attitudes of many men in the then male dominated profession.
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