As a police officer everyone you meet is an opportunity. Every interaction is a chance to confirm or dispel a stereotype, and make no mistake, you are doing one or the other.
It is important, but for a police officer it is not about customer service. It is about treating everyone with respect and with dignity. Having a customer that you might be required to kill changes everything. It is not about creating a feeling, it is about serving with integrity. That raises the bar well above mere “customer service.”
An 11-year veteran of the police department, a 20-year military vet who served in Iraq, was charged with Official Misconduct and Theft. A lost career and facing prison over an alleged $250 theft. How does someone who has spent so many years in the service of country and community lose it all and how can you be sure that it will never be you?
You who would now raise your hand and take the oath to serve and protect on behalf of the masses will be faced with challenges of the conscience and the spirit that will test your mettle and will either serve to harden your resolve to stay the path of righteousness or bend you in ways large or small that will collectively diminish us as a professional body and tarnish our proverbial shield.
In a misguided attempt to make lethal force less lethal NY legislators want to change how a police officer must respond when he must use his gun to defend himself or another.
A national poll on professional honesty and ethics in the U.S. consistently ranks police officers well.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1
Lawsuits have already been filed and time will tell how the courts will rule, but there is good reason to believe that SB1070 could survive the constitutional challenge.
There is an awful lot of high emotion over this and the media is fueling the fire.
There are key differences between the local police and the federal government, those differences are the heart of the reason immigration enforcement should remain a federal responsibility.