Today I stopped Caring….

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

Today, I stopped caring about my fellow man. I stopped caring about my community, my neighbors, and those I serve. I stopped caring today because a once noble profession has become despised, hated, distrusted, and mostly unwanted.

I stopped caring today because parents refuse to teach their kids right from wrong and blame us when they are caught breaking the law. I stopped caring today because parents tell their little kids to be good or “the police will take you away” embedding a fear from year one. Moms hate us in their schools because we frighten them and remind them of the evil that lurks in the world.

They would rather we stay unseen, but close by if needed, but readily available to “fix their kid.” I stopped caring today because we work to keep our streets safe from mayhem in the form of reckless, drunk, high, or speeding drivers, only to be hated for it, yet hated even more because we didn’t catch the drunk before he killed someone they may know.

Nevertheless, we are just another tool used by government to generate “revenue.” I stopped caring today because Liberals hate the police as we carry guns, scare kids, and take away their drugs. We always kill innocent people with unjust violence. We are called bullies for using a Taser during a fight, but are condemned further for not first tasing the guy who pulls a gun on us.

And if we do have to shoot, we are asked “why didn’t you just shoot the gun out of their hand?” And when one of us is killed by the countless attacks that do happen (but are rarely reported in the mainstream media) the haters say, “Its just part of the job.” I stopped caring today because Conservatives hate us as we are “the Government.” We try to take away their guns, freedoms, and liberty at every turn.

We represent a “Police State” where “jackbooted badge-wearing thugs” randomly attack innocent people without cause or concern for constitutional rights. We are Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Rodney King all rolled into one lone police officer stopping to help change an old lady’s tire. I stopped caring today as no one wants us around, but instantly demands answers, results, arrests, when a crime takes place.

If a crime isn’t solved within the allocated 60 minutes it takes CSI on television, we are inept, incompetent, or covering something up. If we do get “lucky” it was just that and everyone with a Facebook account can post wonderful comments of how “they” would solve the case and how “we” are not nearly as clever.

I stopped caring today because a video of a cop six states away, from a department that you never heard of, screws up and forgets his oath of honor, thus firing up an internet lynch-mob of cop haters even though 99% of us work twice as hard not to end up in the news and to still be “the good guys.” We are “militarized” because we wear body armor and kevlar helmets when shots are fired or rocks thrown at us and carry scary looking rifles even though everyone knows that they are easier to shoot and are more accurate than a handgun or a shotgun.

I stopped caring today because the culture of today’s instantly connected youth is only there to take and never give back. To never accept responsibility for ones actions, but to blame everyone else instead of themselves. To ask “what is in it for me?” versus “what can I do for you?”

To idolize gangsters, thugs, sexually promiscuous behavior, and criminals over hard work, dedication, and achievement. To argue that getting stoned should be a right, yet getting a job or an education is a hassle. To steal verus earn. To hate versus help. Yes, I stopped caring today. But tomorrow, I will put my uniform back on and I will care again.

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[LibCampFireClub 635]

A very sad by-product that anyone with common sense can see. It continues to be created in our inner cities and is denied by the very same people who could help fix it.

[GandD 5,966]

I wonder how soldiers in the middle east feel..........

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The public need to be able to trust the police. If they don't it's not unreasonable to ask why. After all, they pay their wages.

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Warm up the electric chair and clean up the gene pool.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Why would a mod post something like this?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Warm up the electric chair and clean up the gene pool.

Worked for Hitler. Oh... Wait. Hang on...

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I wonder how soldiers in the middle east feel..........

Very carefully.

[Póg mo 1,749]

The public need to be able to trust the police. If they don't it's not unreasonable to ask why. After all, they pay their wages.

Shouldn't that be the rich? Screw the poor. They don't pay taxes, so they don't count. The main thing is that as long as rich neighborhoods have police, to keep the plebs inline, then who cares? Out of sight, out of mind.

[X Factor 1,112]

Society has been on a downward slide for a considerable time. It's not evolution but devolution heading to a revolution.

[Darnell 8,479]

Society has been on a downward slide for a considerable time. It's not evolution but devolution heading to a revolution.

Nothing like moral decay, here in 'Murica, keepin' it real, y'all !

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Nothing like moral decay, here in 'Murica, keepin' it real, y'all !

I would like to post the real answer, but the VJ censor won't let me. Let us just say, gender identification is no longer reinforced in the US education system.

[Darnell 8,479]

that seems a piece of it, but there are other pieces.

[iMO]

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Society has been on a downward slide for a considerable time. It's not evolution but devolution heading to a revolution.

I'd say that's more about your own perception than external reality.

[GandD 5,966]

Me too.