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.
Well, I would love to escape. But I would be leaving my elderly parents to fend for themselves. And what kind of person would I be if I did that.
Both my wife and I are paring down the household. We are preparing to go to the UHaul office after we leave the funeral home for the second time.
Trust me, I understand this is a choice. But there are issues greater than my own situation.
Isn’t that what we are supposed to do? Honor our parents?
Perhaps.
But for the ten years or so I have been on Free Republic, and we have tangled, I have never, ever seen you add anything constructive to a discussion.
All you do it call names, and make profound statements.
Since you are a one trick pony, I would hope you would take some time, sit back and read some threads and see how a conversation takes place. If you deal with your personal life the way you do in your online life, you must be pretty damned lonely at the end of the bar.
So, in the future, I will never respond to you. I hope others will take the same stance, until you are able to string together a coherent argument or contribute to a discussion.
Have a nice day.
I learned a long time ago, NEVER turn in front of a cop. They view it as disrespect.
Understood. Blessings accrue to you for being a good son: “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
And prayers for your successful escape when you have fulfilled your duty!
Uh, no. Obama didn't start this. He ha certainly thrown gasoline on the fire, but the fire was lit before he moved into the white hut. The police have earned the mistrust a lot of people feel towards them.
And he could have followed me. I would actually not care about that. I live on a “cut through.” I see the cops going up and down my street every day.
Funny story: One night at about 3 AM a cop got a flat tire in front of my house. Within ten minutes there were four cruisers (the entire force on duty) sitting in front of my house with their high beams on. They all stood around for an hour while the cop changed his tire. He had only half of the equipment to do it.
But he had enough firepower to take down the riechstag.
If I had a nickel for every “You are a good son” I’ve heard (especially from people who gleefully move a thousand miles away from their parents, or who toss them into a “home”.)
I am writing down the stories in order to write a book when this is all over. These are my sixth and seventh elderly relatives that my wife and I have lead down the final path.
I call them my “Octos.”
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.
>> If I had a nickel for every “You are a good son” I’ve heard &etc
Yep, been there. I think I did a decent job of it — but I observed others who IMO did better.
You will be repaid tenfold for your faithful kindness, if not in this realm then in the next.
I put myself through school via the customer service route; it’s REALLY bad form to publicly bash your client base.
I had a choice of jobs, and my customers had a choice. I treated them well, they rewarded my hard work enough that I graduated debt free.
HERO COP CLIENTS DON’T have a choice.
Must be nice to be able to insult nearly everyone you serve and still keep your job. And the clients keep paying OR ELSE. Nice racket.
Let me get this right - he wants his check, benefits, pension, enforce laws as he sees fit, be allowed to insult just about everyone he allegedly serves, be above professional scrutiny (because standards and public expectations aren’t fair).....
Again, who’s the victim?
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.
Customer service, like any civil service, is a two way street. There are a few fools who travel each direction and suffer the consequences.
Have to read this piece all the way to the end. This is simply a cop venting. Same thing we do here all the time.
Bm
Hurray!
Who gets fired first, a crappy employee in the private sector, or a civil servant, who generally has a union behind them?
I often wonder what I did in the LAST life!
Depends on the nature of the offense and how loud the wheel squeaks. Customer service representatives, in case you haven’t noticed, do not by virtue of their office daily put their lives on the line, being called to serve arrest warrants, take out bad characters, and deal with the results of extremely bad parenting (if any). Or is that a distinction we should not care to make?
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.
Perhaps you haven’t read the list of most dangerous jobs, per the DOJ or some equally useful government shiller.
Cops aren’t even in the top 10.
“Take out bad characters”?
Yeah, I miss Dragnet, too. That Jack Webb, whattanacta.
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