My father.
Yeah right.
you`re own ignorance is on display because any
halfwit knows there is no Constitutional right to
police protection. Why in the world would I call 911
to wait for a cop to finish his donut and not protect
myself first.
Indeed, the myth that cops are pure as the driven snow is
a fallacy that must be rid of, as well as ignorance of the
“right” that police are Constitutional required to protect
you.
I`ll leave you to your ‘ my opinion is reality’ life. I`ll
stick to the facts.
cops rarely ever arrive in time to save anything except forensics.
it is naive to thnk that a cop is going to arrive in time to save someone. Thats why we have the 2nd Amendment.
Cops rarely deterr people from breaking the law. Their reaction is secondary. The law has already been broken and they are the arm of the prosecutor.
More likely (if in St Louis) that your life is in jeopardy due to the criminal cops, not due to bad guys. Its because we now know who the bad guys are....the cops.
Shocking.
Deductive knowledge that most police officers are good guys and their authority is the barrier between your safe, middle class neighborhood and the nearest slum is one thing.
Reconciling that with empirical observations that largely consist of capricious revenue traffic stops and news articles reporting “Cop threatens to invent charges”, “Cop tazes 85 year old woman”, “Cop stomps family pet”, “Cops invade wrong home and murder grandmother”, etc. is tough.
I don’t blame cop haters for making an obvious if incorrect conclusion, I blame police departments like the one in this article for making that conclusion the obvious one. That this thug with a badge still has a badge says it all.
Don't count on it. In my nearly 60 years I have had to call the police twice in life-threatening situations.
They were late arriving, lazy, unwilling to assist me or take any risks whatsoever.
In one instance in 2002, the deputy refused to even knock on an apartment door where two smash-and-grab thieves had just run inside after stealing over $350 from my cash register. The reason? They could be armed and they didn't steal enough to be charged with a felony anyway. "Here's your case number - call your insurer."
Thanks for "protecting and serving me, officer."
The second occasion forced me to hold a convicted stalker of my girlfriend at gunpoint after disarming him during his mid-afternoon attack on my girlfriend's home. He was already on probation and had a restraining order against him when this happened. When the police arrived, they threatened to arrest me for "taking the law into my own hands" before finally hauling the guy away. (In an interesting sidenote, my girlfriend ended up marrying the prosecuting attorney who was responsible for putting her stalker ex-boyfriend in prison.)
In these two experiences, the police (Sacramento County Sherrifs Dept.) were useless.
If I hadn't handled things myself, at least in the second example given, I could easily be dead.
I still have great respect for law enforcement in general, but I think there are a substantial amount of bad apple-bully-lazy cops out there and that if you rely on the belief that they will be there to protect and serve you, you do so at your own peril.
I hope your life depends on a cop showing up to save your sorry @ss someday. You’ll be whistling a different tune.
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Wow you’re really out of touch ,, cops do not come riding to the rescue as you imply , they show up after an event has happened and write a report, if they do happen upon a dangerous situation the last thing they do is lend aid , they sit tight and call for backup while they hope the perp escapes...