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Aurora Police Officer: ‘I Am Leaving Colorado For … Less Communism’
CBS 4 ^ | May 21,2021

Posted on 05/21/2021 4:22:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk

An Aurora police officer, Daniel Bertelson, sent a department-wide email this month as he announced his retirement, offering some barbs and harsh assessments of the current climate for law enforcement.

“I am leaving Colorado for palm trees and less communism,” wrote Bertelson, who spent 16 years with the Aurora Police Department.

“Try to ignore the politicians and media,” he wrote to his colleagues. “They know nothing of this profession or honor; they’re self-serving con artists, well-dressed pimps and prostitutes at best.”

The number of officers leaving APD has been increasing in recent years, jumping more than 60% from 2019 to 2020. That comes as the city is also seeing rising crime rates, a trend seen in other Colorado cities and across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...


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KEYWORDS: aurora; colorado; communism; crimerates; denver; police; resig; resigns; waroncops
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1 posted on 05/21/2021 4:22:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Watch. The leftists will try and poison-pill his new job.


2 posted on 05/21/2021 4:25:08 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke

Portland has a lot of openings


3 posted on 05/21/2021 4:28:35 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Hojczyk

Hmm...rising crime and departing officers, eh? They should try raising taxes, defunding the police, and hiring more social workers. And raising welfare so the poor oppressed masses won’t have to steal liquor and cigarettes to feed their kiddies.


4 posted on 05/21/2021 4:29:00 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Hojczyk; george76

All you can say is that Aurora isn’t as bad as denver, yet.
‘pub mayor.


5 posted on 05/21/2021 4:31:46 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: KC Burke

He’s retiring.


6 posted on 05/21/2021 4:33:29 PM PDT by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: Hojczyk

“Try to ignore the politicians and media.”

Good advice. Difficult to do when working in a communist state. Rosaries are the best weapon against selfish, childish communists who have zero respect for the Bible, the Bill of Rights and free markets.


7 posted on 05/21/2021 4:34:40 PM PDT by Falconspeed (A"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Billthedrill

The plan is to force all the good police to quit so they can hire new, young, cheaper woke police that will do as they are told.


8 posted on 05/21/2021 4:34:46 PM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: Hojczyk

It’s really the same with the military. Those in the military are now working/fighting for liars, cheats, criminals and Communist.


9 posted on 05/21/2021 4:35:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Paperpusher

Or federalize all PD.

No pesky local control then.


10 posted on 05/21/2021 4:35:57 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Hojczyk

Seems like got his government pension then walked. That is always the easiest way, and why not much changes. I suspect it’s a nice pension and he was part of a union. He dislikes commies though.


11 posted on 05/21/2021 4:36:06 PM PDT by Theoria
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Glad it didn’t turn him bitter like I am.


12 posted on 05/21/2021 4:37:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Theoria

I don’t understand/don’t countenance your disparagement of this truth telling officer.


13 posted on 05/21/2021 4:45:47 PM PDT by A strike (Were there rainbows before the Flood ?)
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To: Hojczyk; skip2myloo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltReJnyHOo0

h/t


14 posted on 05/21/2021 4:55:18 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Theoria

There is no pension. Just an inadequately funded 401. And he was part of a union, but in Colorado they’re essentially relegated to weak attempts to make departments follow due process on discipline. He retired, but thats just a status withe the department (one step up from resigned). I’m sure he’s moving on to a better industry. I have no doubt he will have to work at least another 10-15 years.


15 posted on 05/21/2021 5:00:35 PM PDT by dwilkins
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To: Theoria

So this officer would have been more virtuous if he had walked away six months before retirement ?
I’m SURE you would sacrifice as much, right?

(”I got my two cents worth in, but I lost my pension, so I won. “ ) right?


16 posted on 05/21/2021 5:01:14 PM PDT by A strike (Were there rainbows before the Flood ?)
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To: Hojczyk

He’s just mad about the legal weed.


17 posted on 05/21/2021 5:13:25 PM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: mewzilla

Mmhmm. Just a few people controlling all the law enforcement in the country. What could be simpler or more efficient. It should work great. /s


18 posted on 05/21/2021 5:15:16 PM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: Paperpusher

And all wear the same uniform. And all get their paychecks from Washington DC, 20001.


19 posted on 05/21/2021 5:17:10 PM PDT by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
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To: Theoria

“Seems like got his government pension then walked. That is always the easiest way, and why not much changes. I suspect it’s a nice pension and he was part of a union. He dislikes commies though.”

The union was there first. Perhaps he should never have become a cop since there was a union? Now all cops in cities with unions are no good under you fanciful purity ideas.


20 posted on 05/21/2021 5:17:42 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Any comment might be sarcasm, or not. It depends. Often I'm not sure either.)
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