I Was a Police Officer

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Another good article from a police officer.

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your boyfriend has come home drunk and is beating you again.

Today I will not answer the radio call that your 16 year old daughter, who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home from school.pol

Today I will not answer the radio call that your store has been robbed or your house has been burglarized.

Today I will not stop a drunk driver from killing someone.

Today I will not catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief.

Today I will not answer the radio call that a man has a gun or tried to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or has been in a terrible accident.

Today I will not save your child that you locked in a car or the child you were to busy to watch who went outside and fell into the swimming pool, but that I revived.

No, today I will not do that.

Why?

Because Today I was killed by a drunk driver while I was helping push a disabled car off the highway.

Today I was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop to simply tell someone that they had a taillight out.

Today I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to help a citizen.

Today I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a known drug dealer.

Today I was killed by a man when I came by to do a welfare check because his family was to busy.

Today I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a grocery store robbery.

Today I was killed doing my job.



A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a mom and dad or a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter or husband or wife or father or mother won’t be coming home today.

The flags at many police stations were flown at half-mast today but most people won’t know why.

There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will come, a twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps will be played as I am laid to rest.

My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a building, in a city somewhere.

A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase in a home somewhere and a family will mourn.

There will be no cries for justice.

There will be no riots in the streets.

There will be no officers marching, screaming “no justice, no peace.”

No citizens will scream that something must be done.

No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones thrown, no names called.

Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be the only sign that I was cared about.

I was a police officer.

ht/ sam s.

 

[DrLeftover]

And there are those, and apparently some of them are on this board, that believe that the deceased officer got what he deserved just for being a cop.

 

[+paradox]

i hope you're not talking about me there @drleftover ...

to get you straight, i am not for cops being killed for any illegal reason...

that said, i'm not for cops killing people for being homeless, i'm not for cops abusing their powers and i'm not for police that think they are above the law and above american citizens...

police should not stoop down to the levels of harden criminals...

 

[Enter Username Here]

No one deserves to die for doing their job.

Final.

 

[Webster]

i hope you're not talking about me there @drleftover ...

to get you straight, i am not for cops being killed for any illegal reason...

that said, i'm not for cops killing people for being homeless, i'm not for cops abusing their powers and i'm not for police that think they are above the law and above american citizens...

police should not stoop down to the levels of harden criminals...

*scratches head in thought* I don't think he was referring to you, Ghost....I could be wrong of course, my friend, but I don't think he was.

 

[+paradox]

i just think it's funny how some of you think this is something new...

police were always a target for criminals...

nothing has changed but the militarized police getting out of control by abusing their powers and abusing the public...

it's not the public's fault that harden criminals go after or have a shoot out with the police, and not just the blackies, all groups, creeds, color, genders, etc. etc.!

if you say that only a small percentage of cops are bad then you must admit that only a small percentage of the public are cop-killers...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

No one is claiming cops being shot and killed is new. But having our own leaders en-citing riots against police which has caused individuals strike out and kill police is very new. And now we have more cops killed this year then 2013.






Preliminary 2014 Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities

Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2014 vs. Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2013
2014
2013 % Change
Total Fatalities 126 102 +24%
Firearms-related 50 32 +56%
Traffic-related 49 44 +11%
Other Causes 27 26 +4%
Please note: These numbers reflect total officer fatalities comparing
Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2014 vs. Jan. 1 through Dec. 30, 2013


http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/

 

[+paradox]

for one, what's "en-citing"?

a two, just because you 'think' obama enticed people to kill cops, then you should be wearing the tin-foil hat...

the real ones that need to be blamed is the media and the cops that do bad things towards the public that are making the public resent the police...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

for one, what's "en-citing"?

a two, just because you 'think' obama enticed people to kill cops, then you should be wearing the tin-foil hat...

the real ones that need to be blamed is the media and the cops that do bad things towards the public that are making the public resent the police...

I do not think I know obama, sharpton, the new york mayor and etc. have done just that.

 

[+paradox]

yeah, and i'm telling you that you don't know squat...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

yeah, and i'm telling you that you don't know squat...

I f that makes you happy more power to you.

 

[+paradox]

yeah, and i'm telling you that you don't know squat...

I f that makes you happy more power to you.

and if you think that then more power to you...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

yeah, and i'm telling you that you don't know squat...

I f that makes you happy more power to you.

and if you think that then more power to you...

More power to the both of us then.

 

[+paradox]

good, but you're still wrong...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

good, but you're still wrong...

Again if that belief makes you happy go for it.

 

[+paradox]

good, but you're still wrong...

Again if that belief makes you happy go for it.

unlike you, what i say is truth and facts, not beliefs or opinions...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

good, but you're still wrong...

Again if that belief makes you happy go for it.

unlike you, what i say is truth and facts, not beliefs or opinions...

Okay.