Re: swat team DESTROYS Iraq vets home over guns....
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fpdsniper</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's threads like this that have caused me to not visit this forum nearly as much as I used to. The amount of cop bashing that goes on here is appalling. I guess us low life police snipers are not welcome. It seems a lot of you believe that police officers want nothing more than to violate your rights, use unnecessary force, commit crimes while on duty, etc. You listen to ONE side of the story, and believe it's the truth, then bash every hard working cop I know. We get ZERO credit for all the good we do, and get torn apart by stories like this. Most of you have never done this job, yet think you know how we should do it. I'm not saying there aren't bad cops out there. But I will say they are the vast minority, yet their actions apparently mean we are all like them. No one hates a bad cop more than the good cops. We undergo intensive screens to keep the bad ones out, but nothing is fool proof. What about your job? Is everyone that does your job perfect at it? Should the "not so perfect" ones reflect on you and subject you to repeated verbal and printed abuse? How would you feel about that? I'm not even going to voice my opinion on this particular incident. I'd just be accused of having some "agenda", so I'll save my breath. I should have been a fireman. Everybody loves them. Even the very few "bad" ones out there.
Donnie </div></div>
Read this to the end.
Getting your home torn apart because someone thought you were a suicide risk constitutes abuse. My friend's family getting run over by a federal SWAT team for legally distributing raw milk constitutes abuse.
Criticism is not abuse.
If you are tired of hearing about these incidents, maybe it is because the public is tired of getting subjected to them. It is a self induced problem, but that being said it has many contributing factors that are not individual officer fault.
Of course not all cops are bad. There are sufficient numbers of them with either poor judgment or the lack of ability to stand up to poor judgments by their department leadership, that you are getting a lot of pushback from incidents like this and others.
You are subjected to a lot of scrutiny because you are the face of government force. The more corrupt our government becomes, the less people trust it and you by extension. You probably should get used to it because I don't see a more trust coming down the road very soon.
For whatever reason, we have entrusted the most serious responsibility, that of government force against its own citizens, to a group we don't pay enough, screen enough or recruit heavily enough, or train enough. Predictably bad stuff happens and the people get pissed. Worse, the moron politicians blame you for crime rates so they may get re-elected, inducing your leadership to bend rules and press the limits to catch more bad guys when what you should be doing is following the letter and intent of the law and let the chips fall where they may. The crime rate is not the fault of the police, but the criminal. The catch 22 here is that if you let that frustration carry over into your work then you will become part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
I hope it is some consolation that your work, done correctly, is one of the most noble callings there is because you are doing good for others despite little recognition and material reward. It think it would be better for everyone if our nation re-evaluated our police forces and invested in them the kind of time and energy military officers get...because in my opinion the average beat cop's job performance has a greater chance to affect my liberty than the average military officer, and thus deserves at least as much consideration. Godspeed sir.
