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Originally Posted by amexsbow
As a retired L.E.O. I feel sad for the haters. I and every other officer who served had people spit, urinate, hit, lie, cry and do whatever they could to degrade, evade or attack us while performing our job. How many of you can say the same? Yet you would denigrate each and every one of us by your ad hominem attacks on the police, all the while supporting the organized campaign to cripple law enforcement in its defense of our nation by leftists and socialists who want the destruction of our country and our way of life. Yes America has flaws, but what country can you name which has more freedoms and more opportunity to succeed by sheer will of the individual.
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Thank you for your service. I have never in my 70 years had a "BAD" incident with a law enforcement officer. I have been stopped and ticketed (professionally) and deserved both tickets I have had in total. AND, I have deserved many more. I had one incident on a major highway where my old car threw a piston right out of the engine block and I had two children with me in my car. A state trooper stopped to assist me, saw how the car was useless and offered me his advice. He said for me to take my tags off it and anything else I wanted from the car and let it be towed away to a junk yard. He then gave us a ride to a relative's home ten miles away.
Other than fiction TV, I have never seen any indication of racial bias or police brutality. I am sure that there has been racial bias in law enforcement, but if so the individuals have kept it covered by professionalism, courtesy and kindness. Something else that folks do not take into consideration, but is reality and fact that an individual can be a racist and still be a good citizen. Meaning, being biased does not have to interfere with how one performs their job. In Vietnam, I knew guys that hated the enemy, yet when the enemy was taken prisoner those same guys treated them with complete professionalism. You cannot force a change in one's likes or dislikes, but how one performs his/her job can still be performed in a manner where you would not know the difference. A doctor treats a killer's gunshot wound. He does not allow his anger or hate interfere with his performance. He does just as good a job as he would a child or a priest.