Posted on 07/06/2013 9:42:54 AM PDT by Q-ManRN
In my first post, I mentioned that I grew up in a staunchly liberal family in the northeast reading comic books. I thought of the police as comic book superheroes that kept me safe and secure under the rule of law. Since we had these superheroes enforcing the rule of law, we were safe and secure with no need to have a gun.
As an adult, my dad was getting older and he was living alone. Like many retired adults today, he was living on a fixed income and he was having trouble making ends meet; so, I moved in with him to assist him and make sure that he was alright.
We live in a home that my father helped his grandfather build. When they built our house, the neighborhood was a nice area. Now, it is a ghetto. Like many similar neighborhoods around the nation in the 20th century it succumbed to a populace that believes that society owes them.
These people do not feel shame in taking other peoples money or property because they feel entitled to do so. They are users of other people and other peoples money and property. Therefore, they do not see a problem with resorting to violence when they are not given what they believe they are entitled to take.
There is an empty lot a short distance up the road from our home. Late one night, a gun battle erupted in that lot. I do not know who was shooting or why they were shooting.
The police were urgently summoned via 9-1-1, but the unthinkable happened- the police did not appear for nearly 40 minutes. And then only one police officer showed up initially. Eventually, more police officers did show up, but the gun battle had only lasted a few minutes.
The police searched the vacant lot to make sure that the criminals were gone; however, they missed an important piece of evidence in their search of the property- a dead body!
My dad and I were not harmed and neither were our neighbors (Thank God!). Nevertheless, I was left with some daunting questions that challenged my belief that the police were superheroes.
I will discuss those questions and explore the answers with you in my next posts.
911 call(no gun)=48 minutes= dead
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/16/grace.coldcase.zimmerman/
911 call(with gun)=90 minutes= alive
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Slow-Response-By-Dallas-Police-Angers-Robbery-Victim-206317351.html
Good thing the 'dead body' wasn't me!!! altho sometimes it feels a little like it... ;-) Howdy!
Let’s make your first post a link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3039507/posts
URLs auto-link in most posts, as long as there is no HTML. This does not work in the original post, for some reason. Pro tip on FR workings.
Hello Marcella, I can obviously relate to your sentiments. I see the situation as more of a regression than a progression. If regressives have their way, we will all be living in areas that are like Detroit and Chicago.
The laws make it increasingly difficult to defend yourself while criminals run armed and unchecked.
Good for you for taking personal responsibility for protecting yourself and your family. It is great that you realize that there is no one that can better protect you than you.
Thank you. I need all of the free tips that I can get! :)
Excellent! I sometimes wonder if we are in the Great Tribulation... perhaps it has never been worse than it is now... certainly not in this country!
Like chumming for sharks!
bfl
So when you post Part 3, after you make your post, reply to your post #1 with something like:
Part 1
[put the URL for Part 1 here]
Part 2
[put the URL for Part 2 here]
and the URLs will automagically turn into links.
Ultimately individual police officers would prefer to go home at the end of their shifts. People should keep that in mind.
I mean no disrespect to any LEO’s who might be on this thread.
Thank you again. I like processes that work automagically a lot!
And a few officers, like other human beings, can have rough spots in their private life that cause some acting out in their professional life. It happens in ALL professions.
For many current police, it's just another civil service job. They are in it for the benefits and the retirement package, and have no interest in taking any risks. (Note, I said "many" not "all"). Also, police depts with tight budgets cannot afford the medical and disability costs of having an injured cop, so police management tends to emphasize a policy of "officer safety above all", even when individual cops would want to go after the bad guys.
LEO’s are human like the rest of us.
“I sometimes wonder if we are in the Great Tribulation.”
Me, too - I think we are there.
” LEOs are human like the rest of us.”
Precisely!
Reading this, and having grown up in a area where the most impressive estate around was "The Sicilian Club", the following explanation occurred to me.
The business of the Mafia was to make money providing contraband goods and illegal services to a larger society demanding both and willing to pay. Unshackled by legal niceties and equipped with a medieval willingness to inflict punishment on opponents anything which interfered with the conduct and profitability of that business was brutally and summarily dealt with.
The police, on the other hand, are low paid government functionaries more concerned with making it home to their families than anything else. And there's no blame or shame in that. But they lack the means and the motivation to do anything more than catalog the carnage around them, go home to their families, and collect their steady albeit meager pay.
Living in the home neighborhoods of the old time Mafia was akin to living within the walls of a robber baron's castle. As long as he wasn't robbing you, and assuming you didn't have the means to live in a Wayne Manor of your very own, it was one of the safest places where one could possibly reside.
Nice job. I’d like to read the rest of them.
Please ping me when you post them.
Thank you and stay tuned.
Good post! Thanks for sharing it.
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