Well let’s not brand and lump all police officers into the hated dog killers column. Some police are excellent people and others are scum of the earth.
How am I supposed to tell the good ones from the bad ones? The good ones won't shoot my dog?
It would be nice if there was some way to tell which kind you got when he arrives— size and shape of the badge, maybe.
Know why I lump them all together?
Because when this crap happens, the good cops say nothing.
Whenever there’s some scandal inside law enforcement agencies, the vast majority of the cops clam up. They play the “us vs. them” game, where the “them” is the taxpaying public.
There’s clearly been a change in LEO tactics in the last five years, and their new tactic is to shoot first, never second guess a dog issue.
The other thing that really annoys me about LEO’s is the sanctimonious whining about how “dangerous” their jobs are. They carp and bellyache about how many of them die on the job every year.
What they don’t tell the public is where LEO deaths on the job rank vs. other jobs in the US. Commercial fishermen, loggers, farmers/ranchers, high steel construction, roofers, etc all have a higher rate of deaths/100,000 people on the job than LEO’s.
You don’t hear farmers and ranchers (for example) crying about how dangerous their jobs are and how you should be paying big bucks for their pensions and health care as a result, do you? Nor do we hear whining from commercial fishermen or loggers. They just do their job. Death is a bad thing, but these occupations know their work environment is dangerous, and the men and women in those occupations just suck it up and do it.
But none of these other occupations has the power to kill innocent citizens, or break down their doors with malice of forethought and incompetence, and then hide behind sovereign immunity and have the taxpayers pay for their defense. This is what really, really frosts me. There’s no natural limiting factor forcing LEO’s to exhibit some measure of competence, because they don’t have to pay for their own defense in court should someone finally bring justifiable legal action against incompetent or corrupt LEO’s.
When the “good” cops tolerate the bad cops, there are no good cops.
The 98% of bad cops give the other 2% a bad name.
“Well let’s not brand and lump all police officers into the hated dog killers column. Some police are excellent people and others are scum of the earth.”
Yeah, so when you call them, how do you discern the “excellent” ones from the “scum?” In large measure, they are union thugs who have been given guns and they have an attitude that no matter what, they are going to “go home!” We have had two calls to 911 for medical problems that we subsequently cancelled. In each instance, the cops showed up and refused to leave. Eff them all. They are not good people and cannot be trusted with your safety!