Posted on 09/02/2015 1:26:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Police departments face a recruiting shortage amid a growing anti-cop mood that some fear has taken the pride out of peacekeeping and put targets on the backs of the men and women in blue.
Open calls for the killing of police have been followed by assassinations, including last week's murder in Texas of a Harris County sheriff's deputy. Instead of dialing back the incendiary rhetoric, groups including "Black Lives Matter" have instead doubled down at demonstrations with chants of "Pigs in a blanket, fry me like bacon." Public safety officials fear the net effect has been to demonize police, and diminish the job.
"It's a lot harder to sell now," Jeff Roorda, business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association and former state representative, told FoxNews.com. "This is a very real phenomenon."
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"You no longer just have to worry about your life while in uniform," he said. "Now you have to be worried about the well-being of your family," he said.
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Knowing police face public scorn or career-ending legal battles even if they acted properly has convinced many prospective cops to abandon their dreams of patrolling America's streets.
"I saw all this anti-cop propaganda and I was like, 'Who needs this?'” said Antonio, a New Yorker who asked that only his first name be used. The 32-year-old had applied and been accepted into the NYPD academy, but withdrew his candidacy amid the cop-bashing climate sweeping the country.
Even top police brass understand why the shield has lost its shine.
"Right now, policing is not the most attractive occupation that they could probably get into," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told CBS.
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Damn Straight!
Them cops getting shot are getting what they deserve!
So. You gonna be at the Black Lives Matter Protest too? See ya there.
/SARC
I'm still waiting to be called a craven cowardly boot-licker, beholden to any form of authority, and unfit to post here at FR.
Biker gangs are not at all peace-loving.
Obama and Holder set the tone when they unleashed their organized red guards in the Ferguson case. It was a manufactured political movement from start to finish.
Now some of the dogs have slipped their leash and are going off in unexpected ways, but as far as Obama and his political organizers are concerned, its probably peanuts in collateral damage.
It’ll be interesting to see how PDs respond to these gaps.
Probably have to lower standards to get billets filled.
Which opens the door to infiltration of the police by people who support BLM and the assassination campaign. If I was trying to impose a totalitarian system thats how I’d do it: drive the honest and ethical police out of the force, create disincentives to them being replaced by honest and ethical candidates. Make sure that candidates who support me are there waiting to fill up the surplus slots.
Iirc thats how Marion Barry did it in DC. He wasn’t looking to impose any sort of totalitarianism, but rather a cronyist kleptocracy. It took a close to a couple decades to really correct Metro Police from that.
That’s MEAN
Obama, you did build this.
The problem here is not the police, it is their liberal local governments refusing to support them. So instead of giving up on their idea of becoming police, they need to reassess *where* they want to be police.
Most of the US supports its police. So insisting on policing where the people hate them and the government disdains them, they need to go elsewhere.
It makes sense beyond even the hatred and lack of support.
Liberal governments offer more money and lots of retirement perks, but they likely will not make good on their promises. So what is the better deal? $40k a year you actually get paid, plus a real retirement; or $80k a year that you might not get paid, plus a ridiculously big retirement you won’t ever get?
What goes around comes around. Seems the cops don’t like what they dish out.
Next time some ‘hood needs help, call a ‘bro.
I work with cops and this isn’t what they are dishing out. Get a grip and think twice. If you think cold blooded murder is what “cops . . . dish out” you’re a natural born idiot.
“If you think cold blooded murder is what “cops . . . dish out” you’re a natural born idiot.”
Obviously you are illiterate and can’t read the all too often news reports of cops killing innocent people. Suckers like you are why Trump is winning. We are tired of crap like cops getting away with cold blooded murder.
Crime rates are rising in cities where Democrats rule.
Hell, that too!
Wasn’t it Lubbock, Texas , where the cops formed a circular firing squad around a house, shot the place up, killing one of their own then arrested the homeowner claiming he did it, only to have the prosecutor refuse to drop all charges until it was proof positive that the dead cop died by a cop bullet?
The KneeGrow Wee’Know concession did say “”cops”” and “” white people”” ..... I’m going dark ...pun intended.
Stay Safe !!
Yes it was .....
No, I’m not illiterate and, yes, you are a natural born idiot.
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