Posted on 12/18/2019 11:25:59 AM PST by karpov
Serving as a cop in America is harder than ever — and it comes down to respect. A deficit of respect for the men and women in blue who daily put their lives on the line for the rest of us is hurting recruitment and retention and placing communities at risk.
This month, Sgt. Christopher Brewster of the Houston Police Department was shot and killed while responding to a domestic-violence call.
Several hours later that same day, Officer Stephen Carr of Arkansas’ Fayetteville Police Department was ambushed and executed while sitting in his patrol vehicle. Last week, Det. Joseph Seals was shot and killed by those who carried out the Jersey City massacre. Seals’ funeral is Tuesday.
There is no tougher job in the country than serving as a law-enforcement officer. Every morning, officers across the country get up, kiss their loved ones and put on their protective vests. They head out on patrol never knowing what threats and trials they will face. And their families endure restless nights, so we can sleep peacefully.
Policing is only getting harder. Police officers are now required to handle the fallout from a vast range of social pathologies that were once the domain of social workers, psychologists and family members, such as mental illness, widespread homelessness and drug abuse.
Even more demoralizing, police officers must look on as the criminals that they have risked their lives to apprehend get turned loose by “social-justice” DAs and “progressive” judges who no longer see their role as protecting the community from predators. Some DAs have even exposed police officers to greater danger by announcing that they will not prosecute those who resist police.
Increasingly, police officers find themselves the subject of physical attacks. Assaults against police jumped 20 percent from 2014 to 2017
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Barr is right of course.
Respect for the law and law enforcement are necessary for a peaceful functioning society.
That’s what is so dangerous about the plans of Democrats in Virginia to use the police as their Gestapo to enforce unconstitutional gun laws.
Whatever goodwill still exists in the community will evaporate if they start confiscating guns.
Our AG is writing articles for a newspaper? How bizarre. Seems like there’s some other things he should be working on.
I disagree. Concern for law and order is the AG’s business.
So what is the proposed solution?
Dumping Soros’ SJW DAs he bought?
Ousting crooked cops on the force and at the FBI?
Countering Obama’s 8-year message that police “are racists” and “acted stupidly”?
I’ve learned to make a big distinction between the various levels of law-enforcement - from our local police, to the many distant law-enforcement agencies of Fed.gov.
The former may have individuals who can be corrupt and brutal, but at least the community has some control of them and oversight, and their corruption or brutality is limited to the local area.
The latter, on the other hand, may also have individuals who are corrupt and brutal, but you have NO control over them, they are given to group conspiracy, have the entire power of Fed.gov at their disposal and their corruption damages the entire nation.
It would help if cops stopped sneaking into people’s houses and shooting people who are lying in bed. Or murdering some crying man who is laying face down on the floor.
We have no rule of law so why have cops?
“Cops” generally refer to local and state employees. He should be concerned about the Federal “cops”, the FBI.
Does anyone disagree about increasing disrespect for the FBI? Does anyone disagree that it isn’t largely self inflicted?
this one ...
if you can ever get the good ones to ID the bad ones ...
brotherhood and all that ya know ...
Or picking up 11 year old kids and twice slamming them to the floor as did that school cop in North Carolina...
Things like that really hurt the look on police officers, even though probably 98% are good people....
Does funding your podunk village via traffic tickets build respect?
Does lying to people build respect?
Does deliberate non-enforcement of laws for favored groups build respect?
Does armed confrontations over misdemeanors build respect?
Does asset forfeitures bypassing due process build respect?
Does dressing in tactical black and combat gear build respect?
Mr Barr knows only too well what the problem really is, Too Many BAD Cops and FBI Agents are NEVER held accountable for their actions, just like everyone else is. But he does have a chance to begin the restoration of TRUST for Government Agents, by ARRESTING AND PROSECUTING the entire bunch of quislings that engaged in this Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow The United States Government. You know, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Stroke, Page,HILLARY, the list is pretty long...
I agree. Even some of the bad guys smile when they realize they are on Live PD:)
So put down your effing bagpipes and incarcerate some dirty Fed cops or STFU, Barr.
Dead wrong.
As wrong as it is possible to be.
AOC level wrong.
Now, you make the term Mutual Disrespect then the article can become at least mostly correct.
But people who refuse to acknowledge that respect has to be mutual and there is blame on both sides well...those people are potentially violent. They want what they want and as is made clear by an analysis of their position.
Yes the citizenry needs to respect Law enforcement.
Law enforcement needs to respect the citizenry.
Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.
Yes.
Cops need to change the culture.
Cops should not enter a home WITHOUT a warrant.
No tougher job? BS! Try roofing in the summer season in humid places like Texas. In fact I believe more roofers are killed every year than cops.
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