Police

Now that I'm all caught up on my blogging, I'm going to talk to you about something that I find to be rather important..... the planned assault on police officers that seems to be taking place.  This isn't about black lives matter or white lives matter or latino lives matter or anything else.  I do believe that all lives matter.  I do believe that there are a whole lot of televised/youtubed videos that don't show the whole story.  This is all a topic for another, much longer discussion.

What I'm talking about today is planned assaults on police officers.  It is NEVER okay.  Do I believe there are probably "bad" police officers?  Yes.  I believe that there are "bad" people in nearly every profession on the planet.  There are "bad" priests that assault children but the majority of priests are good men.  There are "bad" teachers that assault children but the majority of teachers are good people.  There are "bad" businessmen, trash men, waiters, managers, doctors, dentists, nannies, veterinarians, celebrities, athletes and everything else on the planet but the MAJORITY are not bad people.  The myth that all police officers are bad is misleading and just plain wrong.

If you had any clue what most of these officers dealt with on a daily basis, you'd be amazed at how much they can endure.  If you understood what they dealt with, you'd know that it is in their training and experience to be extremely cautious.  The vast majority of times (and you can google REAL statistics to see this), if you simply follow what an officer says to do, nothing out of the ordinary will take place.  I cannot stress enough the importance of the first part of that, though..... follow what the officer says.  Police men and women deal with some truly terrible people.  You may not mean anything by reaching for your pocket but they  may have had someone an hour before that "innocently" reach for their pocket and draw a weapon.  You see, what you think is nothing can often be a very big "something."  Listen to their directions.  It's that simple.

If you are one of the people planning an assault on an officer, I'd like to ask you the following: why?  Are you basing your anger on lies?  Are you truly looking at the situations or are you just feeding into the media hype?  I say this all the time and I will say it again:  educate yourself.  Truly read from all sources and learn.  Don't just read from one site or one book; read from an abundance of sources and perspectives.  You'll learn that the media is just there for ratings.

To the police men and women out there, I'd like to say the following: Thank you.  Thank you for your service to our community.  Thank you for shielding victims.  Thank you for running toward danger when the rest of us are running away.  Thank you for being at the car accident.  Thank you for helping that abuse victim.  Thank you for everything that you do to keep our community safe.