If law enforcement officers want respect they can start by deserving it and that means cutting the crap — including false claims of “outrageously dangerous” working conditions that in fact are less hazardous on a statistical basis than the guy who picks my household trash, an immediate and complete cessation of false arrests on bogus charges and full prosecution of each and every member of such an agency who is alleged to have abused someone in the line of their duties.
LATER: See also David's latest JPFO piece, A New York State of Mind
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Sheriff kowtowing to NY State Police seize guns...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/guns_confiscated_after_man_seeks_insomnia_treatment.html
Those guys became these guys when they were unionized by the thug gang called democrats.
They ceased being law enforcement peace officers to become revenuers. They stopped policing criminals, because that's high risk with little return, instead choosing to go after less risky, higher return "ticketing" of people who pad their pensions.
I want to be pro police but the fact is simple. Until they stop being revenuers and start being police- targeting actual criminals- they haven't earned respect. Indeed they destroy it the longer they continue to CHOOSE to be revenuers.
Denninger was on point (as usual) with this missive.
Thank you "anonymous" for a most perspicacious commentary on the general state of policing across america ! Unfortunately, we have only ourselves to blame. Our political leadership - and by extension the police forces they supervise - are supposed to be responsive to the community mores and morals. Not the "t'other way round" !
Support your local sheriff because he - and his department - still directly owes allegiance to the voters. >Jeff
Anybody who looks into the history of police in America (try Google, folks) soon discovers they were rotten from the start (for example, acting as the personal armies of machine politicians). There might have been a time and place when "Mayberry" existed, outside Norman Rockwell and movies sanctioned by the Ministry of Propaganda, but it was an aberration.
People for some reason think that unlike every being on Earth, cops are there for us. No. They work in their own self-interest, just like we do. They no doubt want more pay for less work, less risky work, and may also indulge in proclivities like sadism - or the job may turn a relatively normal someone into a sadist, it's hard to say.
Anyway, never forget that "Protection Implies Submission":
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2010/tle564-20100404-04.html
David mentions police deserters in NO after Katrina. Has anybody made a serious attempt at tracking down the deserters to find out how many of them were actually police officers before Katrina and how many were just criminally drawing paychecks without ever actually working for NOPD?
While I suspect that many cops cared more about themselves than their sense of duty, I also suspect hundreds of them were on the payroll and nobody noticed they never reported for duty until the disaster.
It is statistically more dangerous to have a Baltimore address than it is to be a cop anywhere.
As to "dangerous occupations", "cop" doesn't even crack the top-10.
"While I suspect that many cops cared more about themselves than their sense of duty"
Of course they did. It is unreasonable to expect them to act otherwise. They will secure their families before they go out to help the families of others. They will not risk their own skins for the benefit of strangers to any large extent either. This is human nature.
I think part of our current problem with police is our unreasonable expectation of what they are (perhaps driven by propaganda). They've oversold their benefit to us. We need to see them for what they are.
C'mon now, they just doing their jobs. Blame the legislators. /s
The biggest reason police are out of control and have turned into swat teams who do destructive, murderous illegal searches are because of our ridiculous, failed war on drugs. The anti-drug laws allow police and other law enforcement organizations to plunder and steal (confiscate) assets at the point of a gun. This is the same as armed robbery.
- Old Greybeard
Police are also irrelevant to peace.
Currently, the police aren't policing in NYC, and peace is breaking out all over: http://filmingcops.com/policing-comes-to-a-stop-in-new-york-people-get-along-peacefully-and-society-continues/
Perhaps they should do this permanently.
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