Posted on 03/16/2015 1:01:13 PM PDT by Kaslin
Over the past few years our nation has seen a fair share of controversy as it relates to Peace Officers in the United States. Whether it is a Police Officer in a major metropolitan city, or a Deputy Sheriff in a rural county area, we have all been affected by the extreme focus on our profession. We have heard the mainstream media discussing a range of topics such as how we should do our jobs, how the federal government should be involved in local policing, or the supposed large divide between Peace Officers and the citizens. There have been a slew of “experts” on either side of the argument who have been quick to give their assessment of the situation, and then provide their solutions for the perceived problem. Then we have Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder further fueling the fire with their ever so wise statements and sentiments. All of this while men and women who proudly wear the uniform, go out every day and every night to do their job of policing the streets of our country.
Of course the job has not changed much over the years. Peace Officers still deal with essentially the same crimes generation after generation, some with a new twist and some formed out of new technology. Nevertheless, most often we are facing the people who cannot seem to solve disputes, families dealing with domestic violence, predators who seek out the weak and helpless, and those who are trying to escape reality through the use some substance. If you have been in this profession long enough you have most likely dealt with several generations of a criminal element, having arrested grandpa, father and son of the same family in many cases. It is what we face, and it is what we are conditioned to. As a Peace Officer, you deal with a small percentage of society a high percentage of the time. This in turn starts to affect how you deal with people, because it has to if you like living and would like to remain that way.
While we have progressed as a nation, the fact remains that society is still society and that people are still people. This means that there are still those predators and societal problems which require Peace Officer involvement. We as Peace Officers, through our training, experience and sometimes how and where we were raised, go to work each day with no clear picture of who our potential enemy will be for that shift. This fact combined with the fact that some sections of our society feel it is acceptable behavior to confront and attack Peace Officers simply because of the job they do and uniform they wear, makes an already tough profession even tougher.
As a nation we often times suffer the fact that we have a very vocal minority whom feel very entitled. They feel entitled to break laws, to cheat, to steal, and to rob. Then when these people are held accountable by the Peace Officers, they will turn around and claim they are being picked on because of some other factor such as race or religion. This vocal minority is quick to claim being persecuted and targeted, and they do so with the hope that good people will be intimidated by their allegations rather than standing their ground and facing the ridicule for doing what is right. To those who do not know the job or who have not fell victim to a predator, the argument of this minority seems very logical and they can be quick to join in the conversations against Peace Officers.
That is why it is so important for those who have chosen this profession to stay the course and remain ever vigilant, and for the people who support them to stand up and say so. It is time to vocally support these Peace Officers who put their lives at risk day after day, shift after shift, to protect the communities which they honorably serve. It is these men and women, and those like them who hold the very fabric of this country together. You must understand that each officer swears an oath to their country and the citizens, and it is by this oath that they live and die. There is a dire need to understand that this is a partnership, and that the Peace Officers of our nation need you. We need that silent majority to step up and be heard. Because it is through our actions that we will overcome the troubles that our nation is facing, and it is our actions that our future generations depend on to ensure that they have the opportunity to enjoy the greatest country in the world.
Right on.
Bull$h!t
The chance of running up on someone like me, and that person being some kind of psycho-killer, are so small as to be as ridiculous as the stories you hear from real criminals every day...and you don't buy those, do you?
Peace Officers?
What's this guy smoking? We have Law Enforcement Officers, not Peace Officers.
Stop shooting dogs
Stop attacking old people
Stop stealing
Quit your filthy music, tattoos and language
“Stop Resisting!” (Whack)
“Stop Resisting!” (BZZZZZZZZZZT!!!)
“Stop Resisting!” (BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG)
“You have the right to remain silent.”
I don’t doubt this officer’s account of his day when he discusses his encounters with the bad guys.
It is officer behavior around obviously INNOCENT people that gets my dander up.
Folks who accidentally and barely break a rule of the road are harassed, ticketed, and demeaned. I’ve seen cops make a bunch of illegal and dangerous maneuvers just to pull over one guy going 65 MPH in a 60 MPH zone when everyone else was doing 63 - 68 MPH. WTF? People don’t need to die for his ticket quota.
Why can’t officers ever actually investigate and solve a crime against normal people? EVER. I’ve never heard of it. Break ins, car jackings, burglaries, GTA, etc. Nobody is ever arrested. Drug dealing in front of my house. I could go on and on and on. Just take the freaking clue in your face and go pick the guy up. I gave you the crooks DRIVERS LICENSE you idiot!
Apologia from officers oh-so-hard day is hard to take. What he says may very well be true. But it falls on the deaf ears of a guy who only ever sees cops pull over the innocent and let the guilty go.
Stop with the Peace Officer, already. You're making me sick.
You are a unionized and political police force.
“Revenue” officers, from another perspective.
I believe Federal/Statist influence has removed much of the ‘community’ out of what used to be referenced in ‘Protect & Serve’.
I’ll support a Sheriff Deputy or State Trooper in ‘these parts’ sooner than a municipal LEO...
Shoot a banger? I’ll be the whole trumpet section.
Bang up an innocent vet and I’ll work my hardest to make sure you’re FAMOUS.
Just because we normal citizens don’t understand the esoterica of the law industry doesn’t mean we don’t know a line of crap when we hear it.
“Slaughterhouse 5” should be required reading for every cop in this country.
Every LEO is bad until they stand up and actually honor their oath. The fact that NO LEO is arresting obola tells me not one of them understands nor cares for the oath they took to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. When they head to DC to arrest the leader of the thugs, I’ll call them good. Until then, well, I don’t think much of oath breakers.
Correction: "Mother Night" should be the required reading.
Peace Officers? 11 times.
Citizens? once.
(note the deliberate, non-use of “civilian”)
No sympathy here. Clean your own house first.
Get rid of the drug addicts, wife beaters and Pot-bellied, sunglasses wearing, shaved head, tattooed, Humungus WannaBe’s and you will go a long way to re-establishing community trust.
(Without that badge many would get a justifiable whoopin’ like they never dreamed of for the CRAP they put INNOCENT CITIZENS through on a whim!!)
Too many Cops are in the wrong “Profession”.
Union Gang members vs the community is more like it.
Ha! Bzactly.
I remember a “Peace Officer.” He walked...yes, walked around Fort Scott, Kansas, back in the early 60’s.
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I would add to your list,
Start verifying your addresses.
Stop busting down a doors in the middle of the night.
Obviously the leaders of the modern day Gestapo movement realize that the term “Law Enforcement” officer has become toxic, which is why it is not used. This is the first article I have seen in YEARS that refereed to jack booted gang bangers with badges as “Peace Officers”
I only wish it was true, Bit it aint!
Sig Heil
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