Re: Cops 6: The More You Pay, The Faster We'll Come!
Yeah, let's trash the people that are serving and protecting:
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...nP3xD93FgUNVaEBkuESIT4Uf8fnT8FxWwF7Pe_vzDKa3M
Kudos to the officers showing restraint.
No innocent person deserves the treatment some of these cops got. People going about their jobs do not need to be tormented. But the politicians are not to blame, the cops themselves are. Maybe not these particular ones, but its the overwhelming number of bad ones that have caused people (like me) to have very little respect for the profession -- and as a result, for most of the people who are choosing it.
The problem with these cops and others all over the country, and most of the local unions that represent them, is that anything other than blind allegiance and genuflecting before all things law enforcement is equivalent to "utter disregard for law enforcement."
Mayor Pete goes to a community event and listens to the community and that equates to "utter disregard for law enforcement." A Chicago cop is convicted of murder for putting a dozen bullets into a retreating person and that equates to "utter disregard for law enforcement." A South Carolina cop plants a weapon on an unarmed man he just shot and charges against him are "utter disregard for law enforcement." The cops then whine and moan and generally act like petulant little 3rd graders (or petulant fat presidents) and say they are going to take their ball and go home. They threaten to quit doing their jobs. The head of the South Bend FOP has said morale is so low that as many as 10 or 12 cops might quit or retire at year's end, all because the mayor suggested independent inquiries into the latest white cop killing a black man under questionable circumstances. I am supposed to reflexively defend this kind of behavior? No thanks, I think I'll look more critically at the situation.
They don't prevent crime (studies and statistics bare this out), they don't solve most crimes committed (again, the statistics prove this), the return on our investment in law enforcement in this country is criminally low, and we are bombarded on a daily basis with cops in every corner of the country doing terrible things. The amount of money we sink into law enforcement for our 18,000+ separate agencies is appalling. For law enforcement level money we managed to get to the moon and back a half dozen times. We succeeded.
The money we sink into law enforcement is ill-spent and evidence shows how poorly the cops perform all over America. A South Bend cop with two years on the force and no promotions other than time-in-grade can make $62,000 a year (before overtime, of which many earn in the 5 figures) and retire at 53 with a pension that pays 75% of his or her salary (the last few years when it is likely at its highest) for the rest of their lives. The vast majority of 21 years olds will not see a retirement benefit like that, and the average hourly wage in Indiana (according the the Bureau of Labor Statistics) was a little under $18 an hour in 2018. Yet most murders go unsolved and even fewer property crimes are closed out with even an arrest. It's no wonder people trash them.
There is a reason used car salespeople have long gotten a bad rap. They sell a lot of lemons, often to people who cannot afford the burden of buying a lemon. Go figure people have been making jokes at their expense and bad mouthing them for decades. If the cops were truly heroes and acted with integrity and honor in more circumstances, people like me would respect the profession and reflexively
defend cops. People love their local librarian, they love their nurses and the love their firefighters. It's because they have no reason
not to. It would be nice to live in a country where there was no reason for so many to feel so differently about law enforcement and the police. For that to change, the police are going to have to change.
