Thank You for your service. You take a job where you hope to do the right thing and the minute you put on those blues half the population already thinks of you as a "pig" who doesn't have their best interests at heart. Some people are taught from infancy to fear you. How so many of you, despite being treated that way, DON'T become corrupt, is a miracle. A true testament to your inner strength.
I have seen people thanking military men and women for years now, they even send their tiny children off to tell people in uniform 'thanks.' Currently, culture is making heroes out of people for just doing their jobs. Meanwhile, as usual, the very people who protect them, police, are all being treated worse than the soldiers returning from Vietnam. Just like firemen and women, just like people in the military, your life is about running towards the things everyone else runs away from but unlike them you run to help a public that largely disdains you or is taught from youth to be afraid of or angry at you.
My own father fought and died in Vietnam. Had he come home he would have been spat on, people would have thrown things at him, called him "baby-killer," and worse. He would have been unable to get work and he would have been treated like evil incarnate, for being a soldier. Amazing how public opinion can change over time, or over what's trending.
There are bad apples in every bin, show me one group of people, one organization, movement or even one family that doesn't have a few bad apples. Look at yourself, are you perfect? I appreciate men and women in all branches of service and I thank the police, who are mostly just people trying to do the right thing. They've been done dirty. If only more people, police or not, were just trying to do the right thing rather than spending so much time pointing their fingers at people they assume aren't.
Consider this, the way people treat others is a direct reflection of the way they are treated. So, how do you treat the police? I have listened to and seen the disrespect that has run rampant in today's youth with regard to people in positions of authority and it's embarrassing, it certainly is not humane. Most interestingly, is that in most of the exchanges I see, it's the police acting humanely while the entitled, woke people are acting the fools.
I have seen people thanking military men and women for years now, they even send their tiny children off to tell people in uniform 'thanks.' Currently, culture is making heroes out of people for just doing their jobs. Meanwhile, as usual, the very people who protect them, police, are all being treated worse than the soldiers returning from Vietnam. Just like firemen and women, just like people in the military, your life is about running towards the things everyone else runs away from but unlike them you run to help a public that largely disdains you or is taught from youth to be afraid of or angry at you.
My own father fought and died in Vietnam. Had he come home he would have been spat on, people would have thrown things at him, called him "baby-killer," and worse. He would have been unable to get work and he would have been treated like evil incarnate, for being a soldier. Amazing how public opinion can change over time, or over what's trending.
There are bad apples in every bin, show me one group of people, one organization, movement or even one family that doesn't have a few bad apples. Look at yourself, are you perfect? I appreciate men and women in all branches of service and I thank the police, who are mostly just people trying to do the right thing. They've been done dirty. If only more people, police or not, were just trying to do the right thing rather than spending so much time pointing their fingers at people they assume aren't.
Consider this, the way people treat others is a direct reflection of the way they are treated. So, how do you treat the police? I have listened to and seen the disrespect that has run rampant in today's youth with regard to people in positions of authority and it's embarrassing, it certainly is not humane. Most interestingly, is that in most of the exchanges I see, it's the police acting humanely while the entitled, woke people are acting the fools.