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Originally Posted by graciegirl

Oh I feel so defensive for the police. Overworked and underpaid and certainly underappreciated. They probably have been called out for a shooting...there is a new one every day and usually you can predict it will be a young man who has shot another young man....but they still are called for things like that..........not to mention the folks who get all liquored up or drugged up and beat up on each other...they ring for the law. Then of course there are the folks stealing things that others have worked hard for....they would be danged annoyed if a nice patrolman didn't show up to see what and who done it. I am a bit prejudiced....I am very old and was raised by an officer of the law who had more times then to give out speeding tickets. I will always defend our ladies and gentleman who protect and serve us. Sorry......I understand that your fears are justified but it is more the situation the world is in rather than someone NOT doing their job. I don't know anymore what is wrong with so many people.

It’s human nature and the world we live in.. Most of us want better law enforcement. I’ve lived in the place where law enforcement was great all the time and was over staffed; it was a US military installation. The real problems are the understaffing in the public sector. It fuels the pace police must operate at and response quality does suffer.

That in turn fuels the sceptic views of many citizens when they encounter law enforcement.