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Some might measure the effectiveness of police officers by how many tickets they write, how many arrests they make or how many "bad guys" they get off the streets.
What's harder to measure is their impact on the neighborhoods they serve, through simple acts of kindness, involvement in the lives of residents and how many "good guys" they keep from becoming bad.
By those measures, the impact former Milwaukee Police Officer Mark Dudenhoefer had on the neighborhoods he served on the city's south side is immeasurable, those who knew him say.
"Here's a guy who never made any huge arrests, never shot anybody," Milwaukee Ald. Bob Donovan said. "But he served as an example of the impact an officer can have on people's lives."
Funeral services will be Saturday for Dudenhoefer, 58, the longtime Milwaukee Police Department community liaison officer for District 6 who died Monday of an apparent heart attack.
"Mark had a genuine love for people, especially people in need," Assistant Milwaukee Police Chief James Harpole said.
"There was the love for what he was doing and the love for the people he felt he was serving, not policing."
He was born Mark Thomas Dudenhoefer Oct. 30, 1956, in Colville, Wash., to parents Thomas and Marilyn.
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