So many people no longer respect any authority figures but especially police that I wonder that any truly qualified men and women still want the job. And I imagine that no amount of training can cover some of the situations they find themselves in.
Don't you wonder how those communities that seem to detest them so much would like it if they just all took a even a week off the job to see what life would be like without them? Besides being law enforcement officers, most of our police are certified first responders and they all have a horrible, thankless job to do that ends in mounds of paperwork before they can go home, don't get paid nearly enough, have constantly worried families and now have the obvious hatred of so many the country over. No wonder they are over-stressed at times.
Have you all read that the Detroit mayor has told his citizens to arm themselves as their police force is so understaffed now that they cannot properly respond to emergency calls when crimes are being committed against Detroit citizens? And with the possibility that every time they shoot to kill someone they might need to face state and federal murder charges, it could be even less young people will want to become police. It's a very scary situation as more cities are on the verge of bankruptcy and cutting back and less and less police candidates joining the force that with another financial crisis, this country be without adequate police coverage and we have to fend for ourselves when someone breaks into our home in the middle of the night, stalks our daughters/beats up our sons, steals our cars or begins to shoot up the neighborhood.
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