Protect And Serve?

Why take that risk in 2021?

In Minnesota the other day, when a Black city manager came out and said a White (female) cop deserved due process, and was promptly fired for his efforts, the chill that firing sent out across police forces and local jurisdictions across the U.S. was quite real. And intentional.

If you have watched the news for the past ten months, you know that the Democrats have done everything in their power to put police in the crosshairs. Whether physically attacking police, prosecuting them in ways unrelated to the facts, or defunding them, Democrat-run communities are making it extraordinarily difficult for police, not just to do their job, but to stay alive and out of prison. So one has to ask those in the force or contemplating joining the force: why take that risk in 2021?

No matter what your political persuasion, I think the sheer logic behind this question would force anyone to admit it’s a risk not worth taking. If you are a Caucasian (or Hispanic — think George Zimmerman), why would you ever take the personal risk of becoming a police officer in one of our major cities?

If you are in a situation where it appears a suspect “of color” might be about to shoot you (and that determination may necessitate a less than 1.5-second decision), you have two interesting choices: 1) take the bullet and provide a nice pension for your spouse and kids; 2) fire first, possibly thereby saving your or your partner’s life, but possibly ending your career, facing interminable legal actions that will impoverish your family, making your family a target for our benighted woke warriors in black masks, and possibly going to prison.

It’s a tough choice. And we routinely see in videos of police interactions with those resisting arrest or directly attacking them, you may have less than two seconds to make it.

So why exactly would any Caucasian or Hispanic wish to put on a badge in any U.S. city? To protect and serve? To borrow a famous phrase of an NFL player of some years back, “For whom, for what?”

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See Also:

(1) Duante Wright: A Death Sentence?

(2) Minn. cop will be charged in Daunte Wright shooting

(3) Far Left Goons Leak Home Address of Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter’s Home Online — Police Forced to Erect Fence Around Home

(4) Violent BLM Mob Breaks Into Columbus, Ohio Police Station — Pepper Spray Police Officer!

(5) Forensic Pathologist: If We Found George Floyd at Home with That Amount of Fentanyl and Meth, It Would Be an Overdose

(6) Do black Americans commit more crime?

(7) People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2017-2020

(8) The warrant that Daunte Wright tried to flee was pretty damn serious, not a ‘victimless crime’

(9) How not to get killed when stopped by a cop

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