I know lots of good cops. In my many MANY years of knowing cops, Ive encountered one... maybe two at the most... out of hundreds, that I feel should not be cops. As thorough as the process is to weed out the bad apples, some get through. Some start out good but turn bad. Eventually they get fired or arrested. They cant survive the system, after all... they work among peers who are experts in finding and locking up bad guys. From 2003 to 2012, 535 officers were killed in the line of duty in this country. Another 580,000 were injured in the line of duty. I’m afraid that policing — which is already a dangerous profession — is becoming even more so, because of anti-police rhetoric and inaccurate reporting in use of force cases. If every person contacted by officers were to remain courteous, cooperative, and compliant, there would never be a need to employ force. The reality is, however, that although most people will cooperate, some people will resist arrest. It is not easy for a lone police officer to get a resistive suspect into handcuffs. If it looks rough, that’s because it is rough. Police work is a contact sport, but for cops there is no second place. If someone in the public sees a cop struggling with a suspect and decides not to give him/her a hand, they should at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Cops are not asking for citizens to get into the arena with them — they would just like the audience to stop cheering for the other team. youtu.be/aQfMZH6_lj4?t=48s
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:23:09 +0000
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