We are well on our way to anarchy...with the lawless POTUS in Chief...it will not end well for the Republic
Freegards
LEX
he’s got a point
The deal with the police is that they stopped acting like “friends” of the community a long time ago.
Individual police officers are fine. You get more than two of them together, and they start acting like you are a “civilian” and could not possibly understand any situation they are dealing with.
The police stop people for no apparent reason. They stand by the window of your car with their hands on their weapons long after than threat has been dismissed.
They ask you where you are going and what you are doing without any probable cause. They make veiled threats to people without any probably cause.
I have seen these things happen. I have had them happen to me repeatedly. The primary reason they happen is that as a person who works late nights in “bad areas” causes me to be driving at 2-3 AM.
If the police want to know why a lot of people do not trust them, its because they have separated themselves from the people they are supposed to be serving.
I have a future son in law who is applying for a State Police Trooper position because he is looking for the same “brotherhood” that he had in the Army. When the local police become militarized in mindset and equipment, we are in trouble.
After Obama gets done with his remaking of police forces with new guidelines and oversight to make sure that they are ineffective, a lot more police are going to stop caring and stop responding to incidents and calls in major parts of towns. Areas will become no go zones and any order will be meted out by the residents themselves or the gangs.
Words matter, especially every word and syllable coming from you, Mr. President. Now, six years later, everything that happens to blacks, is somehow the cops fault.
Mr. President, you may think the American people are stupid too but it appears the stupid one is the one calling us and the police names.
Maybe you should boot the bad apples off the force, instead of looking the other way, covering for them with phony “internal investigations” or transferring them to a different agency or city.
I used to be a big supporter, now I tend to assume the worst until proven otherwise.
“”Despised, hated, distrusted”
Reading the first paragraph made think he was a reporter.
I don’t blame this fellow at all. Our entire culture has become so anti-authority (yet so entitled to perfect safety and comfort) that we must seem too repulsive to bother protecting.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Yes I do hate having police in the government schools. They are not in my child’s private school. And if the police did a better job stopping crime and fostering an organized environment instead of shooting dogs and acting like bullies with a badge, maybe, LT, things wouldn’t be where they are.
But the cops take no responsibility for this issue whatsoever. So LT, you’d best resign, because if you don’t care, you’re toast.
This guy is way behind the curve. Cops around here haven’t given a damn in years. Maybe they just sense the feeling is mutual.
not always--but yes, sometimes you do... sometimes you reveal to us that you know not one thing about the Constitution... sometimes you step on the rights of those you are to protect and serve... get over yourself... don't act like every single law enforcement officer is good... you know there are some who are guilty of the very things you have written about... some people do have good reason to be afraid of some of you...
You guys made this bed for yourselves. Deal with it. Perhaps obeying the laws you enforce on us yourselves would be a good start
thx..
When police stop seizing property with out due process, when they stop giving tickets for BS infractions simply because they can’t find anything serious, when they stop hassleing law abiding citizens for merely excersizing thier rights, I will start caring about you LT.
It isn’t just a few cops, it is ingrained in your training. The cops who don’t do it, need to stand up and stop the a-hole cops who do.
When you stop the US vs THEM mentality. I will care.
It isn’t the citizens. It is the courts and politicians who make it more difficult for you to do your job. Yet you take it out on the citizens.
Luckily, where I live, you cannot come busting down doors without a warrant. You cannot come seize property without due process. But that is just a signature away unless we stay alert.
So LT if you took an oath and want to stand by your oath, then stand up and stop your fellows from breaking theirs.
Trying to remember my last positive experience with police... Still trying... Still trying...
Nope. I can’t recall one. I have never been arrested or convicted of a crime and haven’t had a traffic ticket since 1982, but I haven’t run into a pleasant police officer in recent memory. They all seem to have an us against them attitude.
We expect more than police can reasonably deliver.
Realistically, how much crime do police actually prevent from happening? I think not much. This makes sense because they cannot be everywhere at once.
So they mostly show up after a crime or other problem has already happened.
People need to be aware that they are more on their own than they realize. The police are not your personal bodyguards and they cannot change the culture of the area you live in if you live in a bad area. That is your job, should you decide to accept it.
I never stop caring because I understand what Satan wants.
And for that, along with this well written testament, I thank you.
Because, no matter which LEO I next encounter, whenever that next time occurs, in my mind that LEO will be you and I will treat him or her accordingly.
(And please don't shoot my dog)
Dear Peace Officers:
Police yourselves, or you will BE policed. And you won’t like it. Clean up your act. Remember that you are public servants, and act like it. Remember that the law applies to you, as well as to the citizens who are your masters and employers, and obey it.
You have voluntarily accepted an exceptional amount of power granted to you by your citizen masters whom you serve. With that power comes the exceptional responsibility not to abuse it. The first step is for you, yourself, personally, to behave honorably. The second step, more important, is for you to expel from your ranks those who behave dishonorably. “Thin Blue Lines” and “professional courtesies” are forms of corruption. Shun them. You, personally, are no more honorable than the worst petty tyrant among you. Your position is voluntary. Clean up your act, clean up your ranks, or find something else to do with your lives.
Reminds me of an old but appropriate piece of poetry:
You're paid to stop a bullet
It's a soldier's job, they say
So you stop the bullet
Then they stop your pay.