I thought you just had a kid? I'm sure you could make it onto the force, but I think your talents are better used to communicate, teach, and lead.
While helping people is very rewarding, dealing with the worse of society's problems is stressful, and can burn a person out. I think not enough is being done to protect the cops from the aspects of the job that causes so many to drink, drug, and die.
Thank you. I'm not terribly brave, but I am full of conviction. My heart goes out to hard-working police officers who are doing the right thing in a terribly tough environment. Terrible that they are so emotionally battered. I'm still checking out what I can do...
A noble position and interesting article. If you're committed to staying, at the very minimum, you need to find ways to effect public policy which has led to the dearth in police staffing. That would immediately lead us back to the comments I've made in other recent articles here; A runaway government where policy becomes detached from the consequences. You can't save the world and sometimes harsh policing is what is necessary to protect law abiding citizens. Personally I pass on the benefits, the risk, and the responsibility. I stay as far away from government as possible. Likewise we strive to stay as far away from the disastrous effects of progressive policies. When crime shows up, good people flee. That's just the way it is. There is a saying; don't clutch to mistakes just because you spent so much time and effort making them. Like many Colorado natives, we're seriously considering leaving this state now that it has become a magnet for progressive issues and illegal migrants. Crime is up. Identity confusion is out of control. We lost public schools, we lost higher educational opportunities. We're simply not diverse or indigenous enough. Literally everyone except us are identified as protected classes with special privileges. No bail policies has left us as the nations number one auto theft state. To the point police can know where stolen cars are, do nothing, and citizens face the choice of becoming criminals themselves to steal their own cars back at great personal risk. Legitimate south of the border gangsters are literally everywhere, teardrop tattoos and all. In a perfect world, if you had adequate policing authority, you'd skip all those people and move straight to the top to arrest the politicians for dereliction of duty and violating their oath to uphold the constitution. What's the point of official policing when there are no real consequences to being caught committing crime? That's why nobody shows up, they can not reconcile the issue within their personal moral peramiters, and separate the ethical implications of wanting to serve to assist in a reduced crime and safer community, while also serving the will of corrupt criminal politicians and their non profit groups whom readily circumvent all rule of law and legislative intent with their unlimited slush funds otherwise known as earmarked grant monies for non profits. You'd make more headway starting a non profit yourself, who's sole focus was to audit other non profits and get them shut down. Only at that point would voting matter again, and hopefully you could scrape by enough support to elect no politicians whom actually respected the constitution and Article 1 Section X.
Erica the Brave.
I thought you just had a kid? I'm sure you could make it onto the force, but I think your talents are better used to communicate, teach, and lead.
While helping people is very rewarding, dealing with the worse of society's problems is stressful, and can burn a person out. I think not enough is being done to protect the cops from the aspects of the job that causes so many to drink, drug, and die.
Thank you. I'm not terribly brave, but I am full of conviction. My heart goes out to hard-working police officers who are doing the right thing in a terribly tough environment. Terrible that they are so emotionally battered. I'm still checking out what I can do...
At least you know who your friends are.
A noble position and interesting article. If you're committed to staying, at the very minimum, you need to find ways to effect public policy which has led to the dearth in police staffing. That would immediately lead us back to the comments I've made in other recent articles here; A runaway government where policy becomes detached from the consequences. You can't save the world and sometimes harsh policing is what is necessary to protect law abiding citizens. Personally I pass on the benefits, the risk, and the responsibility. I stay as far away from government as possible. Likewise we strive to stay as far away from the disastrous effects of progressive policies. When crime shows up, good people flee. That's just the way it is. There is a saying; don't clutch to mistakes just because you spent so much time and effort making them. Like many Colorado natives, we're seriously considering leaving this state now that it has become a magnet for progressive issues and illegal migrants. Crime is up. Identity confusion is out of control. We lost public schools, we lost higher educational opportunities. We're simply not diverse or indigenous enough. Literally everyone except us are identified as protected classes with special privileges. No bail policies has left us as the nations number one auto theft state. To the point police can know where stolen cars are, do nothing, and citizens face the choice of becoming criminals themselves to steal their own cars back at great personal risk. Legitimate south of the border gangsters are literally everywhere, teardrop tattoos and all. In a perfect world, if you had adequate policing authority, you'd skip all those people and move straight to the top to arrest the politicians for dereliction of duty and violating their oath to uphold the constitution. What's the point of official policing when there are no real consequences to being caught committing crime? That's why nobody shows up, they can not reconcile the issue within their personal moral peramiters, and separate the ethical implications of wanting to serve to assist in a reduced crime and safer community, while also serving the will of corrupt criminal politicians and their non profit groups whom readily circumvent all rule of law and legislative intent with their unlimited slush funds otherwise known as earmarked grant monies for non profits. You'd make more headway starting a non profit yourself, who's sole focus was to audit other non profits and get them shut down. Only at that point would voting matter again, and hopefully you could scrape by enough support to elect no politicians whom actually respected the constitution and Article 1 Section X.
'to elect new politicians whom actually respected' spelling