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Here I am sitting in a patrol car on duty and I have to read this post of yours and wonder just what you have to be afraid of? I have worked twenty years and still can’t figure out what an honest citizen has to worry about if they do nothing wrong. There are to many fish in the sea of crime for me to devote time to an honest man. What was it my grandfather said. a guilty dog usually barks the loudest ? Just what are you afraid of? This was an excellent article and accurately describes our profession.

What are you going to do when we give up on society and turn it over to the thugs you support.. What’s that old saying? And then they came for me and who shall I turn too?

Actually a good question! I tell you that while I am a law abiding citizen, I fear that you will break my door down because of false information and put me in jail for days until I prove my innocence. This is something that I never imagined in the past. It happens (in the news) occasionally today.

I do not depend upon the police to protect me, I depend upon the police to find the folks that robbed me or otherwise caused me harm. I can not depend upon you for my own protection - you are too many minutes away. That is a fact. You are the fact finders after the fact in almost all instances.

Yes, I am afraid of you because I am a law abiding citizen and today, that does not seem to matter. Too many times I’ve read about innocent citizens arrested for anything that the officer decides to charge (most often later dropped). That has become a common occurrence these days. And yes, there is the police brotherhood that cares more about their police brothers than they do about the innocent victims.

I still think of the police as a protective force but have begun to think a bit differently, probably due to negative stories in the news. Not always accurate but the cumulative effect is a problem.

I still support you in your car (on duty) but watch you with a suspicious eye.... That was not so a few years ago.