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WTF? Now a work shift is a "tour"?

Hilarious.

If I were a cop I'd want the front of my shirt to be the color of donut glaze

When I was growing up I was taught that the police were your friend in need and should be respected, not with deference, just as a person doing a job.

good article TLee


but one thing stood out to me in his treatise is this statement in his closing paragraph

"Maybe we as officers are to blame, or maybe people look at the current president and believe local LEO is the first phalanx in his war against them, their gun rights and their civil rights."


I do believe that's a large part of the problem with today's LEO, there are abuses by LEO and often it seems those abuses go not only unpunished, but defended by their fellow officers.

same with politicians, reasonable folks know a certain percentage of incidents will be foul

but when those entrusted to make certain we are "protected" end up protecting mainly their own, well public perception drops rapidly


we have some great LEO on this site, and here in my local community. I feel bad for them that the actions of some LEO end up putting those folks in a negative light to those they ultimately choose to serve.

If it were up to me the uniform would be cowboy boots, blue jeans, a brown shirt with badge and a patch on the shoulder. I just described our game wardens. Very practicable and not very intimating but it gets the job done.

Gunner, most folks that have never done a job, any job, have no practical sense of what it entails or the concerns. I have done a few different things in my life from farming as a kid to wearing our country's uniform then a Sheriff's Deputy uniform and even a Volly FF and Paramedic one, then driving most every type of truck there is. That does not make me and expert on any other type of work nor hold opinions on them. It does give me a rich experience base to make many judgements on those I am familiar with however.

Yep, easy pickins for the nuts , kooks and serious haters. Just surprised it don't happen more than it does with the attitudes of many.

When I was growing up I was taught that the police were your friend in need and should be respected, not with deference, just as a person doing a job.

WTF? Now a work shift is a "tour"?

Hilarious.

When I was growing up I was taught that the police were your friend in need and should be respected, not with deference, just as a person doing a job.

I guess that some of us never outgrow our kindergarten coloring books and develop a mature an realistic world view.

I guess that I also understand the appeal of such a fantasy to both the blissfully ignorant and to police that greatly benefit from it.

You surely are an ignoramus...or just delusional and off your meds.....

I'm guessing there's at least one Forum member who's a guy living alone, with a police officer's uniform hanging in his closet, with a badge, an equipment belt, handcuffs, flex-cuffs, baton, radio, hat, shiny shoes and a pistol in a duty holster. All of it (except the pistol) bought off the internet.

Just for those special moments of alone-time in front of a mirror after a long, hard day's work.

Don't know who. Wouldn't even like to guess. But I'll bet he's here, somewhere. Lurking around these threads.

Damn straight! A decent person, when seeing police in action, would keep remembering that book published by police no matter what it was they were actually seeing.

Cop Caught on Dash Cam: 'I don't do dogs...I'll shoot the [bleep] thing.' He did.

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/9030841/1

Cop shoots old guy with cane, wife looks on in horror.

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/8678765/1

I guess then that these could not have happened, since no incidents like these are in these DoJ funded and police agency produced coloring books.



Don't be too sad Sherp, at least Eric Holder agrees with you.