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I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I heard helicopters hovering above my apartment. We're not in a high crime area, so this was unusual.
Our building is near a creek with a lot of bushes, and outside my bedroom window I saw a couple of officers cautiously walking through the back of our apartment with guns drawn, (one with a rifle) looking around etc.
Found out a little later there was a domestic situation in our apartment complex and the husband was running down the alley with a gun in hand! (He was, thank goodness, found and arrested.)
So these policemen I saw looking for this guy, were wide open and could have been shot at easily from the bushes if he were hiding out there and completely nuts! Yes, they are trained, but still... that's bravery!
Beside having courage, they encounter a lot of heartache. My first husband worked for a tech company and one of his co workers used to be a cop in L.A. He told us that he was stationed in a rough part of town and had to leave police work because he was too affected by what he saw every day. He started drinking a lot and ended up in recovery. Didn't go back to Police work and was able to retrain for the computer field.
Anyway, I was thinking about this after I saw this video a cousin of mine from Wisconsin posted on FB.
After seeing the crap they have to put up with from idiots and thugs like those rioting and looting in Ferguson...I have to say yes, many are heroes. The restraint they show is impressive.
After seeing the crap they have to put up with from idiots and thugs like those rioting and looting in Ferguson...I have to say yes, many are heroes. The restraint they show is impressive.
Blacks act like the police are an "occupying force". They think their neighborhood is a separate country that should be policed by "their own". They want to live free from the rest of the country in some "black utopia" where justice is delivered by some citizens council and most crime is excused as people just "trying to get by".
They are people. Some are dedicated, some are on a power trip. Some are honest and hard working, and some are only in it for the pension. I get what the OP means, though. We were raised to have respect for policemen and that they were on the side of honest people. As we get older, we tend to have lots of illusions shattered. Like, there are some unfair cops and not all doctors can save us, etc.
My ex DIL is a police officer, and I know she has struggled with only seeing the bad side of people, day after day, so police struggle with shattered illusions also.
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