ok gg. here’s your response:
i tend to support the police because they do a lot of good work runnign in criminals...theirs is a thankless job, and although there are some bad cops, we need to think of all the times they do te right thing for you and me.
i’ve had a lot of dealings with the police, and they have all been positive, and i’ve been caught red-footed way over the speed limit, and not been given a ticket. most have good judgement in difficult positions.
when someone hurts you or your family who do you call to deal with it?
when you come home to find that your house has been robbed, who do you call? when that drunk slams into the sid of your car, who arrests him?
imagine a world without the police?
i was pulled over in wisconsin by a local cop because i was driving a cop magnet. apparently he was havign a bad day. after a bit of a discussion, he helped me find my way (I was more than a bit lost) and we ended up shaking hands.
if i have a question about firearms carrying, i ask the cops, and i have never gotten a rude, nasty or wrong answer.
would you want his job? alternating from extreme boredom to life threratening?
you are, of course free to have your own opinion about the police, but i tend to respect the rank and file.
Thank you for replying. I know most LEO’s are good cops. I may even know that better than you do.
My son is a deputy sheriff, and has been president of his FOP, he is involved with state and national FOP. That being said, my son is every bit as ‘conservative’ as I am. And he doesn’t pull punches when dealing with ‘grievances’. He is not afraid to slap a fellow LEO when it is necessary,
I have had many encounters with LEO’s for many reasons. Most have been more than reasonable. When they aren’t, as in the case of this skyway arrest, I see them as unreasonable. I will not support the bad cops. I will support the good cops.
In Ohio the sheriff is the highest police authority in the state. The Ohio Highway Patrol gas authority on state highways and state lands (parks and such). My son, as a deputy sheriff, has authority anywhere in the state.
He has had encounters with the highway patrol, and ‘won’. They are sometimes ‘bad’ LEO’s. Some city LEO’s are also ‘bad’ LEO’s.
The majority of the LEO’s out there are good cops. But not all.
I refrain from coming down on the side of the LEO’s when I see stuff like the St Paul case.