Fantastic post ...
I'm not certain this is necessarily a case where a bunch of MPD cops decided "well, if I can't be a thug, why bother being a cop." There has even been some suggestion that many recent departures have come from the ranks of "good cops," although I'm not really sure how that is determined.
Who would want to be a cop right now? I certainly wouldn't, and I wouldn't encourage anyone I know to take that job. I'm sure there are a lot of those guys who have been good public servants who decided that now would be a good time to retire, rather than be associated with a group pilloried in the media and public on a daily basis.
That's the thing. If the public and media want to take the position that cops are all racist thugs, that's who you're going to end up with serving on your force. Everyone else will quit, or will never join.
Congrats.
But slappy thinks this is "trolling". Let's review what slappy said to provoke such a "troll" ...
The defections and low morale occurred because the public finally had enough and started demanding that the MPD stop being thugs and do what they're supposed to do - serve and protect. Instead of stepping up and proving public perception to be wrong they showed to be cowards and walked away. You can't possibly blame that on a vote that's never once been enacted. Unless you're a blithering idiot looking to airways excuse bad behavior by authoritarians. Are you going to even try one here to post something logical, honest and sincere?
So let's walk you through a comparable scenario, slappy. I don't know what (if anything?) you do for work, but for today's example, let's make believe you're a mall cop/security guard at the Mall of America. You've been doing it for 10 years, and you're one of the senior guys on the MOA force. You've done a very good job, never had a major incident, received all the appropriate commendations, regular pay raises, and have earned a slew of promotions from starter assignments to more prominent ones deserving of your expertise.
But one day, at the opposite end of the Mall, some young kid new to the force encounters someone who has shoplifted while blasted out of his mind on Fentanyl. Despite his/her best efforts, the suspect ignores their attempts to control the situation, and eventually the unthinkable happens. And not only is it the top story locally, but the incident goes viral worldwide.
You come to work the next day, and folks are "protesting" the previous night's incident by trashing your Segway, burning storefronts near the Food Court, and threatening to take over your lunch room. Your colleague - who you don't even know and have never met - has his name all over the Internet, and not only are the locals "protesting", but now some out of town thugs from Portland, Seattle, etc. are adding to the mix. You fervently hope that the MOA management and its tenants - one of whom reported the initial shoplifting incident - will have your back personally, despite the fact that they've thrown your inexperienced colleague under the bus, and he is now facing capital murder charges. But that support isn't happening, and your perfect service record for the company and the MOA now means as much as the final goal in a 7-1 blowout loss, with "protesting" customers looking to peg frozen water bottles off your head for kicks and giggles.
You'd have to have a huge issue with self-esteem (self-loathing?) to continue to subject yourself willingly to that situation, which you know you 100% have nothing to do with. You have skills and experience that can continue to do this kind of work in another setting where your efforts might once again be appreciated. You know you really can't trust your current client fully anymore, since you now know they do not have your back when things get tough.
Your morale would be in the dumpster too, and you'd look for a way out. You don't deserve this crap.
So, now it's your turn. Feel free to provide a "logical, honest and sincere" counterpoint.
And no, dismissing this as "trolling" (like you did with SJHovey) isn't any of those ...
