Posted on 06/13/2020 6:33:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
As the country sees the spectacle of anti-cop rants and total disrespect for the badge, I am reminded of the 1925 piece by William Faulkner titled "The Cop." It is way past due to hearken back to the time when, as a young lad, he would desire to
... be a patrolman; in a blue coat and swinging a casual stick and with a silver shield on my breast, I would pace the streets away with the measured beat of my footsteps. What to compare with this grandeur? To be the idol and fear of the lads, to be looked upon with respect by even grown people; to be the personification of bravery and the despair of criminals.
What a different time and place. Almost a century ago, most folks understood the danger that police faced and had a respect for the thin blue line that protected them from criminals and murderers.
Fast-forward, and can we really be surprised at the anger and dismay expressed by New York police boss Michael O'Meara as he declares, "Nobody talks about all the police officers that were killed in the last week in the United States of America and there were a number of them."
O'Meara also cites the 375 million interactions between officers and the public that were "overwhelmingly positive."
We roundly reject what happened in Minneapolis. Our legislators abandoned us. The press is vilifying us. Stop treating us like animals and thugs and start treating us with some respect.
When he says the media praise violent left-wing rioters, looters, and arsonists while denigrating police officers who are putting their lives on the line every day, he is absolutely correct. Here is a sampling of what Americans are seeing on a daily basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I have nephews and a cousin in law enforcement. Good, honorable, hard working men. Not saying this because they are my kin, but because they are. I support the police. I always have even before they became cops. I was in the Army 20 years serving this country. I was spit on and called a baby killer when I came back from Vietnam. I was a target because of the VERY SAME TYPES back in the 1970s. It took years to rebuild the military after Vietnam. This nation had better get its collective minds reset and get right or they will pay with their lives as these communist thugs take over our towns and cities. I know one thing, you cannot buy magazines for your guns in my town. Guns are flying off the shelves. Ammo is scarce. Every day the gun shops are packed, parking lots full all day, people parking elsewhere and walking down to the shops. People leave the shops with full bags of ammo or new guns. We went to the gun range the other day and it was packed with people waiting for a line to shoot on. People are getting ready here in Alabama to protect ourselves, our families and homes. We ain’t gonna take this crap lying down.
This I believe, but unfortunately, that's not enough.
There has to be an end to the no-knock raids where the wrong house is raided and innocents are injured or killed (see Houston), end to the "civil asset forfeitures", end to the sealed disciplinary records, end to the good cops protecting the bad cops, end to civil immunity, and end to investigatory cover-ups.
“We went to the gun range “
why not shoot in your back yard like we do?
Oh that’s right, YOUR TOWN BANS IT!
The problem with bad cops, is the BAD COPS. The good guys need to clean up their ranks. They know who the problem cops are, they work side by side with them every day. They see the trouble. They know the issues. They know the solution: get rid of the bad actors.
But the unions protect them at every turn.
Because I was unable to get the statistic anywhere else I did the math on my own. An individual police officer has 29 times the probability of being murdered by blacks as an unarmed black has of being killed by a cop. I might add just because they are unarmed does not mean they are not a threat. Michael Brown got killed trying to take the gun from a cop.
In blue? I haven’t seen a cop in anything but a black uniform in 20 years. And I think this is a symptom of the problems.
I don’t live in town asswipe. I live out in the country. And, if I started shooting in the back, I would hit the guy across from me.
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