My last blog entry (below this one) touched on the fact that master instructors at an international police conference predicted \u201cMumbai in America,\u201d and the important part played by good (and sometimes armed) citizens in mass murder situations was mentioned. For some reason, it drew \u201cwe don\u2019t trust the cops\u201d sentiments from roughly half of those who posted comments. Twenty-some comments into it, I remarked, \u201cMy goodness, the cop-haters are out in force tonight.\u201d That seems to have had the same effect as kerosene on a campfire. Many (including, oddly enough, some who\u2019ve never posted here before) have their panties in a wad because I called some of the critics \u201ccop-haters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, unless English is not your first language, don\u2019t tell me it isn\u2019t hate-speak when people write that cops \u201c\u2026have proven themselves to be an occupying army.\u201d Or, \u201cI am not proud of the police officers we have today.\u201d Or, \u201c\u2026the stazi, sorry I mean cops.\u201d<\/p>\n
First, thanks to those who\u2019ve been voices of reason on the blog commentary here. I hope they return.\u00a0 And, as for the rest:<\/p>\n
No one was happier than the cops when the drunk, off-duty Chicago officer who brutally beat up a female bartender was convicted, and no one more incensed when he only got probation. I don\u2019t know any cop who was saddened when Police Superintendent Eddie Compass resigned under a cloud a few weeks after his infamous statement that he would allow only police to have guns during the Hurricane Katrina debacle.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s generally accepted that there are 800,000 cops in this country. In any community that size, some will go bad. That\u2019s why there are police departments, and that\u2019s why police departments have internal affairs bureaus. No one deplores the tiny minority of bad cops more than the vast majority of good ones.<\/p>\n
But, read<\/em> some of the commentary that followed that last blog! Because the politician appointed to head Homeland Security hints that gun owners might be suspect, you should hate the police officer who patrols your neighborhood? Because there\u2019s an anti-cop website that treats every lawsuit allegation, including the most bogus, as if it was proof positive a crime has been committed, no cop should be trusted? Because some people are too stupid to see what\u2019s happening on a YouTube video, they assume it\u2019s police brutality because whoever posted the video said it was?<\/p>\n Not long ago, the Brady Campaign came up with a relative handful of cases where people with carry permits did bad things with their guns, and argued that none of you should be allowed to carry guns because you\u2019d do the same. We both know that\u2019s ridiculous.\u00a0 So, what possesses otherwise thinking, logical people to apply that same false standard to police, and assume that because a few have done bad things (and some have been falsely accused of doing bad things), no cop can be trusted? The hypocrisy is revoltingly blatant.<\/p>\n Critical comments are welcome here, people, but let\u2019s bring critical thinking to our criticism.<\/p>\n Leave the broad brush of stereotyping in the hands of the ignorant, where it fits so naturally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My last blog entry (below this one) touched on the fact that master instructors at an international police conference predicted \u201cMumbai in America,\u201d and the important part played by good (and sometimes armed) citizens in mass murder situations was mentioned. For some reason, it drew \u201cwe don\u2019t trust the cops\u201d sentiments from roughly half of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}