Posted on 12/09/2014 5:51:29 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
Today, I stopped caring about my fellow man. I stopped caring about my community, my neighbors, and those I serve. I stopped caring today because a once noble profession has become despised, hated, distrusted, and mostly unwanted.
I stopped caring today because parents refuse to teach their kids right from wrong and blame us when they are caught breaking the law. I stopped caring today because parents tell their little kids to be good or “the police will take you away” embedding a fear from year one. Moms hate us in their schools because we frighten them and remind them of the evil that lurks in the world.
They would rather we stay unseen, but close by if needed, but readily available to “fix their kid.” I stopped caring today because we work to keep our streets safe from mayhem in the form of reckless, drunk, high, or speeding drivers, only to be hated for it, yet hated even more because we didn’t catch the drunk before he killed someone they may know.
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. We always kill innocent people with unjust violence. We are called bullies for using a Taser during a fight, but are condemned further for not first tasing the guy who pulls a gun on us.
And if we do have to shoot, we are asked “why didn’t you just shoot the gun out of their hand?” And when one of us is killed by the countless attacks that do happen (but are rarely reported in the mainstream media) the haters say, “Its just part of the job.” 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.
We represent a “Police State” where “jackbooted badge-wearing thugs” randomly attack innocent people without cause or concern for constitutional rights. We are Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Rodney King all rolled into one lone police officer stopping to help change an old lady’s tire. I stopped caring today as no one wants us around, but instantly demands answers, results, arrests, when a crime takes place.
If a crime isn’t solved within the allocated 60 minutes it takes CSI on television, we are inept, incompetent, or covering something up. If we do get “lucky” it was just that and everyone with a Facebook account can post wonderful comments of how “they” would solve the case and how “we” are not nearly as clever.
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.” We are “militarized” because we wear body armor and kevlar helmets when shots are fired or rocks thrown at us and carry scary looking rifles even though everyone knows that they are easier to shoot and are more accurate than a handgun or a shotgun.
I stopped caring today because the culture of today’s instantly connected youth is only there to take and never give back. To never accept responsibility for ones actions, but to blame everyone else instead of themselves. To ask “what is in it for me?” versus “what can I do for you?”
To idolize gangsters, thugs, sexually promiscuous behavior, and criminals over hard work, dedication, and achievement. To argue that getting stoned should be a right, yet getting a job or an education is a hassle. To steal versus earn. To hate versus help. Yes, I stopped caring today. But tomorrow, I will put my uniform back on and I will care again.
Send a lawyer,I don’t think he has to ID a client when asking for papers or requirements.Might save some friction with your cop friends by doing it that way.Or maybe they aready know that the chief’s a jerk.
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.
That is what is going to happen and it will be amplified by whole areas which will simply be written off. Obama will be pleased; another of his plans coming together.
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.
Maybe it's my suburban area, maybe it's the California Highway Patrol (CHP), maybe it was my respectful behavior. When pulled over for punching my Vette at the last of a toll road with no cars in sight, he asked me if there was a reason I was speeding. I said, "Not really". He said that's the first honest answer he had gotten in sometime.
Rather than a speeding ticket, he gave me a fix-it ticket for lacking a front license plate, which most Corvettes don't have. I thanked him for being "on the job" and we had a nice conversation about past military experiences.
Again, I live in south Orange County,CA which is not a crime bed. Still, I read more and more about overbearing cops who are too quick to enforce their authority. And if I read one more time where some cop shoots a harmless little doggie, I'm going to become an activist once again!
Everyone always stereotypes. It’s not fair.
When you find fair, let me know.
I couldn’t care less about a self aggrandizing cop.
The NYC cops are notorious criminals.
When getting pulled over for speeding and they ask “Do you know how fast you were going” Always add 20 mph to your answer. He will shoot back “You weren’t going that fast” That way you got him going in the right direction.
>> My town is the smallest little white bread community in Massachusetts.
You have free will, and yet you choose to live in a liberal pukehole... no sympathy from me.
My rural Texas police are NOTHING like you describe.
There’s no leadership at the top. This discontent among our law enforcement would never be allowed to fester in a Reagan White House.
I forgot the irony tag.
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.
IMHO, Obama started all of this disdain for cops when he spouted his ignorant drivel in the Gates-Cambridge police case and proclaimed, “The police acted stupidly” before he knew what the facts were.
The stereotyping in your post is no less pungent than that of the officer who wrote this piece. Thankfully most of the population appreciates what the police do to keep civil order, and most police officers do their best to serve honorably.
The police in the town nearest me don’t know the law, but instead enforce what they wish the law says. That makes it really hard/impossible to respect any of them any more.
“To Protect and Serve”: It’s a cookbook!
We are well on our way to anarcho-tyranny which is different. One example being anarchy for illegal aliens while you and the responsible middle class are still subject to laws be they idiotic or fair
Therein lies a major problem in Odumbo’s administration—the redefinition of mental disease (or the like) and then the ability to use that definition to detect some form of that mental disease in an otherwise law-abiding civilian, in order to take his gun rights away. When you have lefty Police Chief’s like that, it is a major, major problem.
Exactly my point
But a lot of people believe it is the job of police to PREVENT crimes, which is illogical if you think about it.
It is extremely rare for the police to be in there before most crime is committed and to prevent it.
Even Giuliani was espousing the view that the police prevent crime. No they don’t. Not directly. They do so indirectly by chasing down or tracking down criminals AFTER they commit a crime.
That is not a subtle difference. Most people are unaware that they are mostly on their own. Police are not going to magically appear the moment you are in some kind of trouble and need them. They are not protecting you personally.
I blame this on the anti-gun left who have promoted this idea that the police are somehow your personal bodyguards and you don’t need to take any measures whatsoever to protect yourself ... even precautionary ones.
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