Posted on 06/30/2020 4:55:05 PM PDT by Rummyfan
What kind of person would become a police officer right now? Thats a question cops across the country are asking. Some say they wouldnt do it themselves if they were making the choice now. Others say theyd discourage their children from following in their footsteps. But this is about more than how police are treated; its time to wonder what this sinking morale will mean for all of the communities that rely on the police for their safety and security.
The number of new applicants at police departments across the country had been plummeting for some time but may reach crisis levels as national anti-police sentiment grows, stoked by a wave of protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
A 2019 survey by the Police Executive Research Forum found that fewer people were becoming police officers and more officers were taking early retirement. Sixty-six percent of police departments nationwide reported a drop in recruitment numbers. The study called it a crisis. A year later, it threatens to become a full-blown catastrophe.
Rory, 22, lives on Long Island and has always wanted to be a police officer. Hes exactly the kind of smart, calm-under-pressure, composed young man we all would want on the job. He has one year left of college before he planned to apply. But the last month has rattled him, and hes no longer sure of his path. Police are becoming targets, making the job more unsafe than it already is, he told me. Police had been shot at in nearby Rockaway, Queens, the day before our mid-June conversation.
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The kind if person that wants to become a police officer in this environment is the person you don’t want to have a badge. They will gleefully hit you with the baton because they know they’ll get away with it.
If the police will not enforce property crime, the people have no use for them whatsoever.
“those who they keep safe”
That’s a joke, right?
“Thats a joke, right?”
No, usually my jokes have better punchlines. Of course my safety is my own responsibility, not that of the police or any government agency.
My point is that the Mainstream media is trying to create the impression that throughout the USA cops are reviled and are being defunded by angry abused citizens. This is only true in select Democrat-destroyed hellholes. There are many communities like mine where the Police do a fine job and are appreciated and respected.
The Left’s endgame is the elimination of locally controlled law enforcement and the establishment of centrally controlled Secret Police with unlimited powers. All those ghetto youth who think they’ll be able to commit crimes with impunity under the new system are in for quite a surprise if all this succeeds.
That said, let's see what the liberal idiot's end of life will look like when the cops stand aside and the liberals attack.
Less save and secure communities, obviously. "Well, I called 911 but the PO-lice had just got his order at McDonalds so I had to wait while he ate."
Some smaller towns and cities aint so peaceful. We moved “out” to what we thought was a conservative country area. Turns out it’s a hiding area for homosexuals and liberal transplants of all kinds. They’d be agitating in our town square if they thought they could get away with it ....they can’t, for now ...but wait about 15-20 years, maybe less. If crap breaks out, I’m as worried about these traitors throughout town as I am from any city/BLM mobs.
We have a few small towns like that in Virginia too. A growing number of small, sleepy towns out in horse and farm country are slowly turning into political cesspools. The pattern is clear, the older people pass on then the families sell the property to the highest bidder. Often a leftwing familial units or homosexual “families” looking to move out of the craphole they created in the cities, infest the countryside towns like locust.
We deal with it all the time, painfully skinny and loud metrosexual types complaining about the slower lifestyle, lack of retail outlets, level of municipal services and the people they chose to move near.
Leftists ruin everything they touch.
Go where you are appreciated and respected.
You must live near me. Yep, “wine and horse country” type area. New neighborhoods pop up out of nowwhere, half full of libs who immediately want to put in a mcdonalds or pave scenic gravel roads. Many are transplants and have no appreciation for the area.
Maybe you know the main street town with the big “rainbow” flag display ....just in your face on the main drag. Some of them try to run for office, but are usually defeated.
Interestingly in our town, a homosexual individual who is conservative to the bone was recently tossed off a town function committe for being “too racist.” They will turn on each other, too ... it doesn’t take much of their righteous indignation to do so.
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