My nephew is LAPD homicide in South Central, having spent the 10 previous years on the gang and drug task force in the same area. If it were to all go south he’s the person I know who I’d most like to have at my back. He was a typical California education system liberal growing up and I kept telling him to “dial it back some” all those years, while trying to guide him to reality through a fog of conventional PC wisdom. He grew up and decided he wanted to be a writer and to do that he needed “life experience” and where better to get that than as a cop? He joined up and chose the hardest of the hard in LA. Within two years he was quickly becoming more conservative (in a very complex and interesting way) than I am. But I still keep telling him to “dial it back some” <g>. (if you'd be interested I can provide a link to some interviews with him and press about him via FReepmail - he's written a very good (but rough) police novel that has been published and also optioned for the movies)
He’s really smart, honorable and an incredibly GOOD PERSON and he’s also got some of the best moves and “combat judgment” (so far as my untrained senses can detect) there are. Those are the folks to keep around you if it all goes south. Too bad he’s so far from here!
Maybe your nephew will be the new Joe Wambaugh,,I love his novels.
Certainly those in LE and our fine military are among the ones we want (and have) watching our back. As far as my foxhole, I want people who can discern and respect decency, won’t shrink from hard effort and will show a level of courage and steadfastness against what’s wrong and for what’s right.
Thanks for the compliment. There are many on this board I’d share holding the torch with, to be certain, and it’s fortunately the minority and I would not want to be around me in a bad spot.
BTW.......is a ma’am allowed in your foxhole?
;^)