My recommendation to cops in NY City - do things “by the book.”
Black kids walking in the street with stolen property? just drive on by.
Someone selling illegal cigarettes on a street corner who has been arrested 30 times already - tell the locals, sorry, we don’t have the manpower.
Drug dealers working openly on a corner? Not my business.
The police act as societies human garbage collectors. Bashing them is not helping morale.
I stopped caring today because Conservatives hate us as we are “the Government.” We try to take away their guns, freedoms, and liberty at every turn.
I stopped caring today because a video of a cop six states away, from a department that you never heard of, screws up and forgets his oath of honor, thus firing up an internet lynch-mob of cop haters even though 99% of us work twice as hard not to end up in the news and to still be “the good guys.”
For a man griping about the publice judging and complaining about the police and for the police being disrespected by the public...he sure has that stereo typing and disrespect down to an art form.
Who is he happy with? Only other police...apparently not other police, either. Is he talking about Wilson 6 states away? What did Wilson do wrong? This police officer is part of the problem.
This guy sees himself as a victim of the public (you know, the ingrates who pay his salary, benefits and pension)
subtle reminders...
-He carries a guns and the weight of government behind him in all his actions. You MIGHT be lucky enough to be ALLOWED to carry a gun, and the only muscle you have on your side is a savvy attorney, if your wallet can bear the expense.
-He can shoot you in any scenario, get a paid vacation and skate back to work when the media loses interest. If you shoot him, even in self defense, your entire life history will be mangled, maligned, publicised...the media will lose interest in “your side” until your execution.
Did you know that even fatso cops who keel over from heart attacks, and crappy driving cops who crash their cruisers alone are also considered “killed in the line of duty”. Chuck Norris just said so. He got his stats & names (heroes? PLEASE!) from somewhere. Those deaths gotta be added to someone’s file or some incident - otherwise St. Hero Line Of Duty’s heirs won’t get their fair share of the taxpayer funded death pot.
-He can lie to you with impunity. If you lie to him, you will be prosecuted/punished. He can put his hands on, and IN you. This is business as usual for him. If you touch him in any way...hello, assault charges.
-He can shoot your dog, on your own private property, even if he is trespassing... merely because of his “threat perception”. If you shoot his dog, they equate it as shooting a human LEO.
-Thanks to FEDGOV benevolence, this victimized and unappreciated LEO has an MRAPS and extra SWAT buddies to deliver those pesky permit violation notices. When I want to visit my local department, I must wait, show ID and be buzzed into their highly secure fortress. And he will decide if threats/crimes on my property or to my person are worth his attention.
-If he & his crew mistakenly break down your front door, flash-bang grenade your toddler, or shoot your teenage son for holding a Wii controller...it all works out well for him. His department won’t even have to apologize. But if you shoot unidentified zero-dark thirty raiders invading your home, you could be facing the death penalty for killing a cop.
Need I go on and on about the obvious hypocrisy?
Stereotyping saves so much time, but it’s a two way street, St. Keystone.
Perhaps we lowly peasants will stop equating badged bullies with good cops when they stop assuming we are all career criminals, just waiting for the moment we can “keep them from going home safely at the end of shift”.
BTW....if this is how a “good cop” views the general public, imagine what the rest of them think of us - the great unwashed). Explains alot of itchy trigger fingers and beating deaths, hmmm?
On the plus side, it’s good to know that even those “Caring Cops” are judgemental & dangerous pr*cks.
Toldja so.
I couldn’t care less about a self aggrandizing cop.
The NYC cops are notorious criminals.
There’s no leadership at the top. This discontent among our law enforcement would never be allowed to fester in a Reagan White House.
According to this site, 37 cops died in 2013 from assault by others.
http://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2013
According to this article 317 civilians were killed by police in 2013.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/10/in-re-domestic-terrorism-39-cops-killed
I think there is a good argument that cops kill too many Americans without having to assume they committed murder in any particular case, much less that the murder was racist in motivation.
It is also noteworthy that police officers almost never have serious repercussions to them for killing civilians.
The officer’s article would have been a lot better, IMO, had he recognized these points as valid concerns.
BTW, I’m aware that both numbers may not be entirely accurate.
“To Protect and Serve”: It’s a cookbook!
Nevertheless, we are just another tool used by government to generate “revenue.” I stopped caring today because Liberals hate the police as we carry guns, scare kids, and take away their drugs.
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The biggest agitators against the police are libertarians and anarchists.
While I empathize with the original author of the sentiments, is not caring the way to go?
First of all, you can’t not care. Writing all of this betrays the opposite.
I look at the condition of things today and compare them to the late 1930’s when Churchill was the man crying out in the wilderness to do something about Hitler before it was too late. There are parallels, but we are a long way from hopeless, and the Jihadis are trying their holocaust trick again too soon from the last time folks tried that trick.
To the original author, I would say, “It’s not like you are getting off of a Higgins boat on Omaha Beach.”
The US has what it needs to not just recover, but come very close to permanently leading the planet for the next 300 years. We need someone to lead us down that path, but the path is nonetheless open to us.
You are witnessing a repudiation of nearly every aspect of the liberal platform, coalition platform (and as such antithetically contradictory though it is). The gay pendulum is about to swing back toward the right too.
Now, if you were in China, Europe, and Russia right now, I’d say you’d have a reason to sing the blues. The whole business model around energy is changing, and with it, so will regimes.
It is going to be a bloody century. As bloody as the 20th remains to be seen, but every petrostate on Earth is going to see big issues. And China, eventually, is going to be forced to open its books.
That is going to be an ugly day. The world has so far ignored the 26 completely built-out metropolises that China has that have nobody living in them. The notion was the they’d lure people out of the fields and into the cities. That didn’t work when the economy sloughed its bowels.
China and Russia are going to have some very serious internal issues in the next 24 months.
We’ll be on our island pumping oil and producing food in a relatively temperate place. This is if we can keep from bungling into a nuclear exchange of some sort.
This is written by someone with zero historical perspective on things. Opportunity abounds. We, as a country, just have to get out of people’s way.
Bm
I don’t think it would ne a bad idea for the police to do a little housekeeping themselves. From personal experience, I have been very disappointed to my local police. I was the victim of an assault and gave a statement to the police while I was still very shook up by it. I made a big mistake and signed the statement without reading it. Later when I did read it was full of lies and distortions. To say I was shocked and disappointed is an understatement. My assailant absolutely deserved to be charged for what he did to me which was not reflected in the police report at all. The entire incident really shook my trust in law enforcement.
Who made this puffed up punk anybody I should give a crap about. Stay out of my business and stay away from me.
He stopped caring, he needs a new job