Frontpage’s 2014 Person of the Year: The American Police Officer

nypd2As we sit here in our homes with our families and loved ones around us, tens of thousands of children wonder if their parents will come home tonight.

Their fathers and mothers aren’t stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan. They’re on duty in places like Englewood in Chicago where there are 2 violent crimes for every 1,000 people in one month, Columbus Square in St. Louis or Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York City where two police officers were just murdered.

The men and women of law enforcement are on the front lines of the war at home. From the mugger on the block to the terrorist on the hijacked plane, they are the first ones there.

41 law enforcement officers were shot and killed in 2014. That’s in line with the number of Americans killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan. There’s a reason that Chicago has been nicknamed Chiraq. Some parts of the country are a war zone and after the latest shooting of two police officers in New York City, a statement circulating among cops states that the NYPD has become a “wartime police department.”

The war at home has been going on for a long time and by some accounts has claimed the lives of 20,000 law enforcement officers. Since 2001, more than 700 officers have been killed by gunfire. During the Gulf War, more officers were killed on the streets of American cities than in combat against Saddam.

Even as the murders of NYPD cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu fill the news, Officer Charlie Kondek has been shot while pursuing a suspect in Tarpon Springs, Florida.

Officer Kondek had been a former member of the NYPD. He leaves behind five children. His killer, Marco Antonio Parilla Jr, had been repeatedly arrested for the possession and sale of cocaine before being released just this August. Officer Kondek and his children paid the ultimate price for his release.

All three police officers were casualties in the war against human evil that never ends. It’s an even dirtier and more unglamorous war than Iraq or Afghanistan. And police officers are hated in a way that it’s still socially unacceptable to hate soldiers. Ramos and Liu were the latest casualties of that hatred.

The police officer is the handyman of the welfare state. His job is to put his life on the line to plug the social leaks that the sociologists, consultants and social planners who made this mess had not foreseen. It’s his job to be there for a domestic violence complaint in a Florida motel at two in the morning or a failure of multiculturalism between two warring gangs in Oakland. He goes to places that the politicians don’t like to think about and deals with issues that the welfare state created and walked away from.

Progressives don’t believe in evil. It’s the beat cop who has to believe in it and clean it up.

The planners and politicians who allocate funds for new housing projects don’t have to patrol them at night. They don’t have to walk down a narrow concrete block hallway lined with dirty doors any of which can open at any minute with a gun behind it. The drug sentencing reformers have never had to carry a deranged screaming figure through the rusting doors of an emergency room. They have never had to get their soft shoes dirty walking through puddles of blood in an alleyway.

When liberalism fails, it’s the cop who gets the call. And when he does get the call, it’s the liberals who will be the first to call for his head.

It’s not enough that the cop has to clean up for the welfare state. He also has to be its scapegoat.

The chants of “Black lives matter” aren’t aimed at the gangs and drug dealers who rack up an astronomical number of black deaths; it’s aimed at the cops who put their lives on the line saving black lives. It’s the very people whose messes they clean up who hate them the most.

The police officer has come to embody America, abroad and at home, the nation that risks its lives to free peoples only to be despised for it, the nation that extends every benefit and privilege to its own criminals only to be shot and stabbed, raped and robbed for its endless generosity.

The American police officer was never supposed to be venturing into neighborhoods where no one speaks English and the locals see him as a member of an occupying army or patrolling in communities where gang members number in the thousands and could take down the entire local police force.

He was never supposed to be a social worker, a mediator, a medic and the commander of an invading army negotiating truces and treaties with the local tribes. And yet he is expected to be all these things and more. Every time he goes out he knows that he may face a choice between his life and his career.

If cops seem touchy, isolated or out of control it’s because they have been left hanging by a system that uses them to dam up the breakdown of a society without ever acknowledging that this is their job. Many urban police officers operate in environments where crime is not an aberration, but the norm. Like the American soldier, the police officer is better trained and more effective than ever before, but like the soldier he is also haunted by the sense that his work and his sacrifices are futile and unappreciated.

The police officer isn’t spending years in Iraq or Afghanistan; he’s spending decades in Chiraq. When his time ends, there will be no victory parades. Just the knowledge that he tried to make a difference and that unlike many brother officers, at least he made it to retirement.

Officer Daryl Pierson was shot and killed leaving behind a wife and two young children. Pierson had been an experienced officer. His killer, Thomas Johnson III, had been paroled after serving three years for an attempted armed robbery.

Officer Justin Winebrenner tried to get Kenan Ivery to leave a bar. Ivery drew a gun and shot and killed him. Officer Winebrenner was a second generation police officer. He left behind a 4-year-old daughter.

Officer Perry Renn responded to shots being fired and encountered Major Davis Jr. who was carrying a semi-automatic rifle. Davis Jr. had an extensive criminal record. He fired killing Officer Renn who had survived twenty-two years on the force.

Patrolman Jeffery Westerfield responded to a fight between Carl Le’Ellis Blount Jr. and his girlfriend. He never even got a chance to draw his gun or leave his squad car before Blount shot him in the head.

Deputy Sheriff Allen Bares was off duty when he saw a gold Lexus crash into a ditch. He approached the vehicle and was shot and killed. The two men inside, Quintylan Richard and Baylon Taylor, stole his truck and took off.

The police officers in all these cases were white. Their killers were black. But the police officers in many of these cases were trying to protect black people and black communities.

The killings all took place in a matter of months in 2014. And their numbers will only continue to grow.

While the wars abroad expand or contract, this is the war that will go on. Its soldiers will serve their tours of duty for decades on the streets of our own cities without having anywhere else to go home to. And when their time is up, they will never receive the thanks that they deserve because most of us will never understand the difference that they made.

When the left took over, it was the police officer who kept everything from going under in our major cities. It was not the politician or the planner, the sociologist or the social worker who kept the crime and chaos from sweeping everything away. It was the man in blue who did what had to be done.

Under Obama, when the criminal is king and the progressive planners are changing the country in ways unprecedented since the seventies, it’s still the lonely figure in the squad car that does his duty and holds the line in a thousand dark and dirty neighborhoods where gunshots and screams sound in the night. The American police officer has become the soldier of civilization fighting to keep it alive.

And somewhere a family wonders if their father or mother will come home tonight.

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  • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

    And the crime of the Century? Prohibition. You might want to read the Declaration of Independence to find out what policing of contraband does to police. Or study Alcohol Prohibition.

    One example:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders
    which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    Sound familiar? Grand Juries are secret affairs.

    You can’t police contraband without the shredding of the 4th Amendment. And surprise: the Reagan administration set out to shred it. And they succeeded.

    Don’t be surprised at an insurrection this summer. Probably not successful. But it will be disruptive.

    End Prohibition you Fools.

    • The March Hare

      Criminals are criminals and if it isn’t drugs it would be something else. It is not so much the drugs as what the culture has become.

      • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

        Then police criminal acts. When you declare something contraband everyone is a potential criminal and the police act accordingly.

        That leads to the sort of police attitude described by this white girl (about 3 minutes).

        http://classicalvalues.com/2014/12/the-kids-are-starting-to-notice-the-police-state/

        It took the police twenty years to recover from Alcohol Prohibition. This Prohibition will be no different. Might as well start at once.

        BTW the culture is also Police Culture. It should be “Peace Officer” not “Them vs Us”. Because that gets reflected back as “Us vs Them”.

        You really should study what Alcohol Prohibition did to policing.

        • The March Hare

          Did. It’s still the culture.

          • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

            Police Culture could be changed by ending Prohibition. It worked once….

          • The March Hare

            Culture, not police culture. Ending drug laws won’t change much. Gangs will still do criminal activities to earn money. Gang rivalries will still go on. Not all turf wars are about drugs, most are about power. On and on and on. Culture has to change and it will take generations to do that. People learn their culture from their parents, elders and previous generations. We have multiple generations of warped culture. People have to be inspired to want to be like others. Where are those examples going to come from? Those that are good examples are in mortal danger going around or into those areas, are vastly outnumbered when they do and get ridiculed when there. When a parent is good and living in a poor area, it is easy for the kids to be surrounded by bad influences and lured by the gang culture, especially if they want peer acceptance. Going the other way is tough. A child of a gang parent usually only has bad influences surrounding it. Hope is bleak. An entire nation has to get fed up with the culture and a national dialog about morals has to happen. As it is now, anyone expressing thoughts about morals is ridiculed about it. They are taunted about “their morals” as if “your morals shouldn’t be foisted upon others”. Well, just whose morals should we put out there as goals? Anybody who does is cut down by the left as “right wing extremists”. That is the problem with multiculturalism. Each sub culture either resents, or is told to resent, the morals of others and it becomes tribalism or balkanizing. That is the left’s “divide and conquer” plan and it has devastated us.

          • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

            Evidently you are unaware of how Alcohol Prohibition destroyed Police Culture.

            Evidently you are unaware of the origins of the 4th Amendment.

            Evidently you are unaware of how making everyone in society a suspect is a bad idea.

            Evidently there is no hope you will learn any of this any time soon. My condolences.

            I fully expect the Democrats will exploit your ignorance in 2016 as they did in 1932. Happy New Year!

          • The March Hare

            Drugs are just a part of it and without addressing the entirety of the problem it will not go away. Quit being so myopic and only looking at one facet of it. I am 76 and have been watching the communists get more and more entrenched into our society and government every year. It is they, the left, the Marxists, that have created this culture in order to take over. Just dealing with the drug aspect of it isn’t going to change it. You argue like a communist. Fixate on one problem and bash the police as a culture across the board. Smearing all the police as “Police Culture” only helps to turn the population against the police. I sure wouldn’t want to live in a society without them. You must be an anarchist to be against police in general. I would rather be dead than to be a democrat.

          • mtmla

            It’s interesting, the politicians, who create all these destructive laws that are undermining the society, have security protection 24/7, live in gated communities, travel on their own private jets, go around in bullet proof cars, don’t mingle with the common people once they are elected, they become part of the previledged ones, while the public suffer the consequences of their folly. They don’thave to experience the results of their decisions. The public takes the bombings, beheadings, the shootings, the lax revolving judicial system which puts hardened criminals back on the streets to cause more victims. Nobody is held accountable but the public. Politicians and judges are never held accountable when innocent people are killed due to the former’s decisions and laws. Why the police don’t have bullet proof cars and windows when they are in direct line of fire but politicians do?These two policemen shouldn’t have been assassinated while seating in their police car. Its a shame the politicians have better protection than the police who are taking the bullets for them. And then the Obamas and Sharptons types invite the public against the ones who are protecting them from thugs, the Michael Browns of society. The stupid sheeple are out destroying their own neighborhoods and killing each other while Obama and Michelle, the instigators of racial hate, are having a good time, ON OUR DIME, in Hawaii with family and friends, hobnobbing with the rich and famous. When does the Obamas really go around the poor neighborhood and try to do anything positive on their
            behalf? Never. Maybe before ellection, but even then, its among the rich that can pay at least $32.000 a plate to
            have dinner with them. What would this country be without
            the police to keep law and order? Another wild west or
            Syria and Iraq , worse than what we have now. The irony is
            that the United States for years was involved in fighting
            communism in other parts of the world while it was
            growing and festering right in its own backyard, and we have the results of this decay in the elected leaders and certain segments of the society.

          • dwayne roberson

            Yes mtmla, the ruling class does exempt themselves from the failed policies they create. They also do not acknowledge the failed public education system, because they would never place their children in it.

          • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

            Well March,

            Why don’t you do me a favor. Find “Detective Howard Wooldrige” on the ‘net and ask him to tell you what has gone wrong with the culture. Esp police culture. Tell him I sent you. He and I have been ‘net buddies for years. And he likes to talk culture.

            As to living without police? If everyone was armed I think we could do rather well without the vast majority of them.

            ===============

            In any case we can fix police culture near instantly – they follow orders. The wider culture will follow about 20 years later. We have seen it already once in our history.

            ==============

            But no way I would name the police as something to look up to or depend on as currently constituted. You can’t have a war on the people without the people responding. King George if you recall your history found that out. And of course the first to act on it were the disturbed and deranged. Isolated incidents. Mentally disturbed. Until wide swaths of the population join in.

          • truebearing

            Do us all, favor and stop posting such nonsense.

          • truebearing

            What “police culture?”

          • Bobloblaw67

            Ending drug laws will end the militarization of police.

          • truebearing

            I was waiting for you to out yourself as a looney libertarian. You didn’t disappoint, but you are now a confirmed liar. You said you were a conservative. Conservatives don’t support allowing dangerous drugs to be legalized.

          • Bobloblaw67

            The constitution is so loony isn’t it.

          • truebearing

            The constitution doesn’t prohibit outlawing dangerous substances.

          • Bobloblaw67

            You mean like alcohol?

          • truebearing

            Alcohol has been a part of our culture for thousands of years. It is nowhere near as destructive as crack or heroin.

          • truebearing

            Immorality and seditious ideology are what lead to police states, not having laws that protect people from the inevitable societal degeneracy of drug addiction. You have a childishly simplistic view of both the effects of drug use on a society, and the origins of a police state. You have confused the cause with the effect.

          • Bobloblaw67

            The root cause is Asset Forfeiture Laws where police departments have a financial incentive to seize property they suspect is involved in the drug trade. Whether it isle not is irrelevant. What is rekevant is $$$ departments get so they can buy military toys.

          • truebearing

            No, that is a political effect. You’re still confused. Try again.

          • Bobloblaw67

            So end Asset Forfeiture Laws and No Knock Warrants.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            Your meth supplier will thank you.

          • Jared Arrevois

            That idiot girl sounds barely literate.

          • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

            None the less her report is what it is. And it is the same as what we hear from other less favored segments of the population.

            We no longer have “Peace Officers” guarding us. We have enforcers guarding power.

          • truebearing

            Better the representative power than the racist, totalitarian power they have in mind.

          • Bobloblaw67

            That’s a nonsequitur. Do the illiterate deserve to be brutalized by police.

          • truebearing

            Sometimes. Are you still beating your black wife?

          • Bobloblaw67

            I’m still humping yours.

          • truebearing

            That’s not possible, but thank you for displaying your utter lack of intelligence, decency, and wit. I appreciate your honesty, inadvertent though it was.

          • truebearing

            iI changed nothing in Colorado, or British Columbia. Perhaps your synapses are to large to have caught up with the latest evidence to know that.

        • truebearing

          Look what murder has done to “police culture.” They can’t seem to stop it, so I guess we should legalize it.

          What a moronic argument.

    • http://tinatrent.com/ Tina Trent

      Somebody saw a PBS docudrama posing as history and got a big head about it. Go hang out with the Reason magazine anti-police obsessives who want to start a police-free utopia in Honduras, the murder capital of the world. Heck, I’ll chip in for the tickets for you fantacists to go experience a slice of reality for a change.

      Police are being lynching in this country, and you’re busy pulling up your cheerleading tights.

      • Bobloblaw67

        I want the police to obey the law. They often don’t.

        • truebearing

          Do you always obey the law?

          • Bobloblaw67

            Yup. But more importantly i don’t take an oath to uphold the law then violate it.

          • truebearing

            And you never used illegal drugs…or exceeded the speed limit…or or or or….

            Then how did you become so daft?

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          I want socialists to obey the law. They often don’t

    • Pete

      I think the should be able to sell GHB outside of grade schools.
      That is where you end prohibition is leading.

  • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

    Black Cops Racially Profiled by other officers. How does that square with our vaunted persons of the year?

    • BlackCoffee07

      Don’t hold your breath waiting for this one-sided site to respond to that. Look at policestateusa.com. There are many, many good cops. However, to imply, as Mr. Greenfield’s article above does, that all cops are the good guys and gals and everyone they go up against is a villain is overly simplistic and does not match reality.

      • Bobloblaw67

        It’s funny. Just a few months ago, conservatives were lamenting the police state. Now they celebrate it.

        • truebearing

          Wrong.

          I guess you changed your political affiliation already. You never were a conservative, but we knew that.

    • nomoretraitors

      Uh, when you have 5-6% of the population committing 1/3 to 1/2 of the crime, it is reasonable to expect they will be the focus of heightened law enforcement scrutiny. The first black police chief of Los Angeles understood this.

      • BlackCoffee07

        The vast majority of serial murderers have been white men. The serial snipers in Washington, DC 2002 astonished everyone because they were black. So why doesn’t LE profile all white men as potential serial murderers? I have no problem with profiling based on behavior, but to profile based on skin color or ethnicity? Come on now – society needs to evolve past that.

        • objectivefactsmatter

          “So why doesn’t LE profile all white men as potential serial murderers?”

          Because there are not that many serial murderers to hunt. But whites >are< profiled when cases are being investigated.

          That's what profiling means. You think it's just a "tool of oppression" because you're a moronic communist dupe.

          • truebearing

            Or just a moron in general.

        • http://batman-news.com UrKiddingRite

          Coffee…you see any behavior in the inner city that should be profiled? If you do could you state who is causing it? Don’t say why they are causing it because the police don’t/can’t fix the why they only fix the crime by dealing with who is committing it. So who is making our inner cities war zones? Tell me who the police should be focusing on?

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          Most murders are NOT committed by serial killers.

          The random shooting, stabbing, knockout games, rapes ar not committed by cops.

          Watch the news on TV when they show surveillance video and of the perpetrators of crimes.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          The Atlanta child murders were committed by a black serial killer.

          • Debbie G

            Anthony Sowell in Cleveland too.

  • cree

    Got the following yesterday. Thought it an appropriate place to apply it to Daniel’s piece, as it does fit also to all our law and order guys and gals who offer and sacrifice in line of duty.
    It is from:
    Scott and Vicki Behenna

    http://www.defendmichael.com

    As you consider all that you have to be thankful for this holiday season, please say a prayer for the men and women of our armed forces whose service protects our freedom to worship as we choose.

    Here is a video and a poem that a few of Michael’s supporters shared with us:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8D-OL-KQOt4

    A Different Christmas Poem

    The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
    I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
    My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
    My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
    Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
    Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
    The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
    Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

    My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
    Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
    In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
    So slumbered I, perhaps I started to dream.

    The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
    But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
    Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know,

    Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
    My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
    And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
    Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
    A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

    A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
    Perhaps a Trooper, huddled here in the cold.

    Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
    Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
    “What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
    “Come in this moment. It’s freezing out here!

    Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
    You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!”

    For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
    Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.

    To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
    Then he sighed and he said, “It’s really all right,
    I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”

    “It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
    That separates you from the darkest of times.
    No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
    I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
    My Gramps died in Europe on a day in December,”
    Then he said,”That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”
    I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
    But my wife sends me pictures. He’s sure got her smile.

    Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
    The red, white, and Blue American Flag.
    I can live through the cold and the being alone,
    Away from my family, my house and my home.
    I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
    I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
    I can carry the weight of killing another,
    Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.

    Who stand at the front against any and all,
    To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.”

    “So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
    Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
    “But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
    “Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
    It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
    For being away from your wife and your son.”
    Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
    “Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

    To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
    To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
    For when we come home, either standing or dead,
    To know you remember we fought and we bled.
    Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
    That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”

    • Bobloblaw67

      I support our troops. Not the cops.

      • truebearing

        You support your own deranged view of life in America.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        Who are your “troops”? al qada, isis, hamass, boko haram, taliban???

      • Pete

        Troops and cops are one if the same. Many people with good conduct diacharges become cops.

        So to say that you are for the troops and anti-cop is confused thinking or sophistry.

        Are you engaged in sophistry?

        Some one who leaves the service after 4 years of service and is 22 is not going to change their values.

        I met an LA police officer. He was from my old unit. If anything he was better than he was before.

      • AnneM040359

        ….You say that until you need their help.

    • AnneM040359

      God Bless those who serve in both the military and in law enforcement.

  • dwayne roberson

    Burn a blue light.

  • Elisheva

    Great article by a brilliant author!!!!

    • DowntotheBone

      Yes.

  • halevi

    I’m white and I was almost killed by a white cop in a car accident that was due to his carelessness and his taking advantage of being in a cop car. His buddy cops came to the scene and gave ME a ticket! So should I protest against cops? I don’t because I know that the cops protect all of us. There is police corruption and I hope our elected leaders will do everything they can do root it out. Our government leaders, Obama, DeBlasio, Holder, should be speaking out against crime and criminals, not fanning the flames against the cops. Without crime, we wouldn’t need police and there would be less police corruption.

    • Harry Black

      You’ve so demonized Obama, DeBlasio, and Holder that you fail to notice they have been speaking out against crime all along. Are they wrong also to speak out against cops who commit crimes?

      • truebearing

        They are committing crimes, constantly. When they speak out against crime it is with a wink and a nod. This is the most criminal administration in US history.

        Is Eric Holder’s meeting and scheming with radicals who endorse killing cops you’re idea of fighting crime?

        Are Obama’s myriad violations of the nation’s laws your idea of upholding the law?

        Is demonizing all cops because some have been forced to kill criminals, some of whom happen to be black, the right way to rid the ranks of police forces of corruption? How exactly are liars and criminals going to lessen the corruption?

        The Left owes its existence to corruption and corruption is a way of life among the morally depraved nitwits who are protesting the police.

    • Bobloblaw67

      No our elected officials do not do everything to root our cop corruption. You’re naive if you think that.

      • truebearing

        We prefer imperfect cops to the slime that would replace them.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        We never see regressive progressives work to root out drug dealers, known by the community, in “urban” communities.

        Why is that?

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      There ARE some bad cops – who need to be weeded out too,

      The Eric Garner video shows 4/5 cops and 1/2 EMTs who didn’t do their jobs properly. There will be a Civil suit against NYC.

      Negligent homicide.

      The assassination of two cops in their patrol car was a Crime.

    • Pete

      This have is the 1st wrong thing that I disagreed with.
      There are bad cops or who break the law but not maliciously.
      I would not fire the cop but I would certainly discipline him.
      If your whole family had died would you have sat there and took it?

  • Lanna

    I am in full support of law enforcement, their jobs are never easy and they are under stressful conditions and attacks…..I know several I would like to give a Bonus, and a Big Kiss!

    • Bobloblaw67

      Are you in full support of cops who throw grenades at babies

      • Sheik Yerbouti

        Probably more so than people who shield their drug business by putting the baby’s crib in front of the door. Dumbasss

        • Bobloblaw67

          No drugs were found. Cops as usual relied on a lying informant and conducted yet another no knock swat raid on an innocent family.

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            Innocent? Or complicit on multiple occasions? See, just because you aren’t holding NOW, when you are accustomed to holding on a regular basis, doesn’t make you “innocent” at all.

          • Bobloblaw67

            Dumb shiit . They went to the wrong house. Also you seem to have no respect for the US Constitution. Totalitarian police states have legal codes that target people who aren’t comitting a crime on the idea that they might have in the past

          • Sheik Yerbouti

            Ah, finally. The implication was that the cops burned a baby with intent and malice. Now you confirm that it was a mistake. Many thanks!

          • Bobloblaw67

            At that moment it does. But that is not what happened in this case.

          • truebearing

            More of your unhinged viewpoint.

      • Lanna

        You are full of it….more lies and propaganda….its the muslims and anarchists that throw grenades at babies, burn down churches, behead people, execute cops, and act like Barbarians, not the police, and you radicals are trying to destroy the people’s protection….and they know it…that’s why gun sales are through the roof because people are getting ready for invaders and terrorists!

        • Bobloblaw67

          Throwing a grenade at a baby in GA isn’t protecting anyone. You also double completely unhinged.

          • truebearing

            “You also double completely unhinged.”

            Well stated.

      • Pete

        Come out againt or for FLASH BANG GRENADES.

        Do not use the ambiguous term grenade. There are many different types.

        Take the position of any and all police raids of people known to have dangerous weapons can safely be taken into custody without using flash bang grenades.

        Either you have confused think or you are engaged in sophistry.

      • Lanna

        You’re lieing, the police are doing no such thing, they have been protecting innocent people, not destroying them like Isis, communists, and anarchists.

  • http://www.clarespark.com/ Clare Spark

    It is telling that the Mayor of NYC has not enforced existing statutes that would forbid incitement or fighting words against police. See http://clarespark.com/2014/12/24/blood-on-their-hands/. “Blood on their hands”?

  • gman213

    Amen!

  • ARETHEYNUTS

    Bravo, God bless our men in blue.

    • BS77

      RIP officers Ramos and Liu

    • Lanna

      Amen…Many people who are out there are going to spy on what Obama’s anarchists are doing, the Police have a lot of support!

  • mtnhikerdude

    BRAVO

  • Peter Castle

    Here, here! It’s time to combat this deadly propaganda.

    See “Propaganda Kills” at http://wp.me/p4scHf-6n.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Sadly the author shot his own tribute in the foot with the race baiting.

    For balance read here about 3 policemen shot by right wing caucasians,
    and the right wing media decision to ignore caucasian cop killers.,

    http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/22/fox-news-double-standard-for-right-wing-cop-kil/201978

    • PeteRFNY

      Correction: no one ignored these stores. More Media Matters fairy tales. These are not national headlines because when criminals commit crimes, it’s abnormal to make them into victims.

      • MrUniteUs1

        You are correct to acknowledge that caucasian cop killers and the cops they kill don’t make the national headlines. This is especially true for right wing cop killers. Now if you can show us where right wing media outlets reported on these stories.

        • Erudite Mavin

          see my post above

        • objectivefactsmatter

          They were not “right wing” you silly moron. Anti-government since 2006? You think anarchists are right wing? The left has statists and anarchists. Anarchists are not “right wing” merely because they want the opposite of the statists.

          TEA party is NOT anarchist!

          Leftists are such Idiots!

          • MrUniteUs1

            “Don’t tread on me. ” Tea Party supporters. Motivated by Fox News to show up armed and ready to kill for Cliven Bundy. That;s right wing.

          • objectivefactsmatter

            You’e kook reading tea leaves like an ignorant pagan.

    • Erudite Mavin

      You need to move off of MSNBC and watch FOX .
      FOX reports on wingnuts who kill police except you believe
      your left wing propaganda
      http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/31/eric-frein-suspect-in-pennsylvania-trooper-ambush-taken-into-custody/
      This was on FOX News several times over the days this happened

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        BSNBC.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      The article you cited is a joke. Grow up.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Much praise to the on duty cops that sprang to action when a woman went into labor on a subway on Christmas Day!
    Video

    http://theroottv.theroot.com/video/Watch-Woman-goes-into-labor-on

  • Martin Preib
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  • EamonnDublin

    Great Stuff, Mr. Greenfield!!!
    Once again, right bang on the button. No words of praise are nearly good enough for your article. You have done it once again, as you do time after time after time!!! Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

    • VoiceInDesert

      Amen! Greetings to you again, Eamonn! Daniel Greenfield does have an excellent article.

      Have kept track of some of the assaults on police and others who are trying to protect us. One of the best is a radio talk host (Sean Hannity) who comes on at 3:00 PM EST weekdays on our local station. Voice.

      • EamonnDublin

        Hi “VoiceInDesert”. Nice to see you again also! I actually watch Seán Hannity almost every night on Fox. I am in bed when he is on, but I record it and watch it whilst having breakfast. He really is excellent. Thank you, Éamonn.

  • Scar

    Great article, Mr. Greenfield. As a retired law enforcement officer, as well as the son and great-grandson of retired law enforcement officers, I send thanks from all of us.

    • truebearing

      Right on. And thank you for serving to maintain this nation’s law and order, without which we would have chaos and rampant injustice.

      • Scar

        Thank you, Truebearing. And might I say that I always look forward to your articulate, intelligent and well-reasoned comments. You’re a patriot and a freedom fighter. Keep it up…things look grim, but it’s a battle worth fighting.

        • truebearing

          Many thanks.

          It is looking grim, but I don’t hear the fat lady singing, and I’d probably ignore her anyway. We’re coming to a point in this world where we die, or fight and maybe die. Not fighting won’t save anyone.

      • Bobloblaw67

        We have rampant injustice now.

        • truebearing

          Yes, according to your bizarre point of view.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          socialism = rampant injustice for all – unless you’re a member of the elite governing class – like in socialist cuba.

  • johnnywood

    Hear, hear! Three cheers for the cops as they try to keep the lid on the pressure cooker.

  • lyndaaquarius

    Absolutely nobody has written a more powerful piece on the Progressives War on our Police than Daniel Greenfield.His work is slowly changing America.

    • Bobloblaw67

      How about the police’s war on citizens?

      • truebearing

        Which ones? The criminals or the law abiding? We want them to declare war on the criminals, but there are some groups who have an inordinate number of criminals in their sub-culture, and they are now pretending that they are the victims when it is the people they prey upon that are the real victims, and the reason we need so many police.

        Brown had it coming. Garner resisted arrest. That isn’t the fault of the police.

        • Bobloblaw67

          So anyone resisting arrest should be killed. Remember that next time Clive Bundy refuses to vacate land he illegally occupies or next time a prolifer blocks an abortion clinic and had to be carried away.

          • truebearing

            Ahhh…a non sequitur. Weren’t you just throwing that term around?

            For you to conclude that I was advocating killing anyone for resisting arrest is both ridiculous and a testimonial to your inablility to read and comprehend.

            Resisting arrest rarely ends in a killing. Garner died because he had sleep apnea, diabetes, was way overweight — all key contributors to heart disease — and had a bad heart. His death was the result of a foolish decision on his part, and his poor health.

            I watched the video many times. The officer didn’t have the neck hold on him for more that 8 seconds. It takes a lot more than 8 seconds to kill someone with a choke hold, and that wasn’t even a true choke hold.

            Garner put himself in a situation where conflict with the police was inevitable. The Communist mayor of New York wanted the illegal sales of cigarrettes stopped, Garner kept doing it, he resisted arrest, and died because of his decisions to let himself become so unhealthy.

            You may have heard of personal responsibility before, but just didn’t understand it. This was exactly what happens when one doesn’t act responsibly and the consequences of a number of irresonsible decisions intersect. Next you’ll want to ban bad decisions, or perhaps consequences.

          • Bobloblaw67

            What got Gardner murdered was NYC insatiable demand for tax revunues. Garder was a threat to the state by selling cigs.

          • truebearing

            Blame the leftists for Garner’s death, if you are so intent on finding blame, but even if you blame the Left, it still wasn’t murder. Stopbeing so hysterical.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            Stick it to “the man” by not smoking.

            The 4/5 cops looked like Lilliputians swarming EG.

          • Lanna

            Those people were sent by Harry Reid to intimidate a rancher and abuse his cattle and his rights as a set up to see how free people react to anarchy, (If they could take over through intimidation of rights, and you found out the people are not going to put up with dictators.

          • Bobloblaw67

            He was grazing on land he wasn’t suppose to be on. He is a criminal. More so than Eric Gardner.

          • Lanna

            He has always had his cattle on that land to graze….this whole issue was about intimidation and bullying and people aren’t going to take it.

        • Bobloblaw67

          If you think cops are you friend, think again.

          • truebearing

            If you think, please provide some evidence.

          • Bobloblaw67

            Listen to ex cops themselves. A great lecture on YouTube by an excop. He says never talk to them. You can only talk yourself into trouble. You can’t talk yourself out of trouble.

          • MMSOMBFO

            I call bullshit on that last remark Bob…

            First of all, I’m sad you have such a great profile name (because I love that show), yet you run your mouth like a mean bully on this site. The real Bob Loblaw was a fun fictional (yet ridiculously absent-minded money hoarding) character in a series I love. I am kind of sad that you have taken that name in vain.. Anyhow…

            Secondly, you’re quoting a “youtube” video about a few ex cops, with one who tries to teach kids/people/ADULTS who live in bad areas of NY how to deal with police when found in “that kind of situation”.. (There are 34,000+ cops in NY by the way. fun!)

            Really? I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been in that situation?

            As Chucky says: “If you ‘stop trying to prove that you’re not the person they’re looking for’.. and you ‘know your rights’.. EVEN if they cuff you and try to harass you into submission.” …

            Seems, as long as you’re not a jackass, they will let you walk (I did just dumb down that last quoted statement, and it is much more professional on the video if anyone wants to look it up. same result though). So, in essence: don’t be a smartass, don’t act like you know more than the officer or get mad at the situation. These are all signs of guilt, DUH!

            Even “Chucky” doesn’t agree that they will take you downtown under UNresisted circumstances. You could be guilty and get away with it if you follow his plan (at this rate Dexter)!

            That is how they are trained. They are trained well, and it is a hard road to get their job. Have you ever trained to get into a law enforcement job? Did you graduate? Were you a police officer? For that matter, do you love anyone who is currently on the force? Talk all you want but you seem to care less what these people do for us, and generalizing all police is only making YOU the enemy.

            You can make fun of it, or you can respect authority.. If you disrespect them, you will be treated like a child; just like any good parent would discipline their child when they act out.

            MOST of the time (I’m not advocating violent actions), if you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time and you’re NOT trying to “MAKE A POINT” (like you preach) you’ll go home just fine.

            Why are you pushing the idea that most cops are using their authority to take advantage of civilians? That is the minority of issues. Those issues were ALWAYS HERE, and they ALWAYS WILL BE?!! Humans have faults! You will not be able to fix humans by calling out all bad police! You will create the opposite.

            It’s people like YOU that are making SHEOPLE rethink their beliefs and shift them against all law enforcement. The end result of that is WORSE THAN ALL YOUR VIDEOS PUT TOGETHER.

            Have you not realized that you are only antagonizing the idiots? People are always looking for a something fun (reality TV style) to do. Don’t make it the law enforcement’s fault, find a real purpose to fight for. Please. :-)

          • http://batman-news.com UrKiddingRite

            Blob…so your family calls the bloods or crips instead of 911 when they need help?

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            If you think socialists are your friend, think again comrade.

          • Lanna

            They all operate like Stalin, Hitler, and Lenin. The plan hasn’t changed, just the players.

          • Lanna

            I personally know many of them, and they are true blue dedicated to law enforcement and justice, they aren’t going to side with a communist government against the people….Does that stick in your craw???? Just like the military, they are not siding with Obama to come down on the people….all part of the communist manifesto to come after innocent citizens.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        How about opportunistic socialists war on America?

        No protests over the 55 year old Castro dictatorship? No Free Elections in the Workers Paradise?

  • dg barrett

    Looking at some of the comments below and things said during protests on TV, some people must believe cops are like fairy angels who only do good flitting from place to place preventing any and every bad thing from happening. They are human folks! The vast majority, forget that, 99% do a great job and what would our society be w/o them? Yes, mistakes are made, but even if one is hassled (read: inconvenienced) by a cop, you will not die if you don’t resist his efforts to question you or arrest you. If you are as innocent as you say you are, the courts will straighten it out. But pull a gun or a knife on a cop, well that’s just a good way to thin out the herd of ppl we don’t want procreating!

    • Bobloblaw67

      80% of cops make the other 20% look bad.

      • truebearing

        Everything you write makes you look bad.

      • SCREW SOCIALISM

        20% of Muslims make the other 80% look bad due to their support of Islamofascism and terrorism.

  • MrUniteUs1

    Time Magazine person of the year the Ebola Doctors.

    They are incredible.

    http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-doctors/

    • Daniel

      This thread ain’t about TIME magazine.
      Do us all a favor…….RUN….to Time magazine.

  • Daniel

    Daniel Greenfield………..wading against the Communist tide and throwing a left hook right into the ugly mug of our sanctimonious coward liberals and their revolting political correctness.
    Nobody does it better.

  • truebearing

    Bravo, Mr. Greenfield! Yet another one of your very best…a large and growing body of work.

  • Bobloblaw67

    “”Since 2001, more than 700 officers have been killed by gunfire. During the Gulf War, more officers were killed on the streets of American cities than in combat against Saddam.””

    Well there is a patently false statement.

    • truebearing

      Then prove it wrong with something other than pointless blather.

      • Bobloblaw67

        Nearly 4000 Americans died in Iraq.

        • truebearing

          He was talking about the Gulf War. It’s right in the quote you just used. Nothing gets by you…

          • Bobloblaw67

            So more cops were died between 2001-14 than soliders were killed I a 100 hour war.

  • Bobloblaw67

    Did you feature the cops who threw a grenade at a baby?

    • truebearing

      Prove it.

      • Lanna

        That’s what I say prove it…..lets see the photos, back up what the mouth is saying….they can’t back it up because its socialist lies, and a good reporter would expose the whole thing with the truth and facts.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      Are you outraged by drive-by shootings where children caught and hit in the crossfire between gangs?

    • Debbie G

      Six comments in a row. Ever hear of paragraphing in one post? Or do you just like to see your name in print?
      No one here is defending a “bad” cop. Or a bad teacher. Or a bad anything.

  • Bobloblaw67

    Amazing the about face by conservatives. Earlier in 2014, they were lamenting cops excessive use of force, shooting dogs and militarized police raids. What changed? A couple of black guys got killed. When law enforcement was trying to evict Bundy, conservatives rallied to Bundy. When a black guy gets killed for selling illegal cigs, conservatives cheer.

  • Bobloblaw67

    I’m a conservative and I hate cops.

    • truebearing

      You’re a liar and I hate liars.

      • Bobloblaw67

        Then you hate cops.

        • truebearing

          Not unless they say they are a cop and aren’t. Or lie in court. But most cops are pretty honest and provide an essential service to this nation. Without cops we’d have total chaos.

          I noticed you didn’t dispute that you are a liar. Ends justifies the means, eh Babblelaw?

          • Bobloblaw67

            Cop should serve the public not themselves. They should not be law breakers. When they do break they law, they should face more sever penalties thàn the general public.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            Politicians serve the public – and should be held to high standards too.

        • SCREW SOCIALISM

          I hate lying socialists (aren’t they all) and taqiyaa spouting islamofascists.

    • http://batman-news.com UrKiddingRite

      Blob…you may hate them but that will NEVER stop you from calling them when you need then.

      • Bobloblaw67

        I won’t call them.

        • Lanna

          Progressives……Desperate to try anything to gain control…and you are loosing, loosing, loosing on all your attempts….the people see through EVERYTHING!

        • truebearing

          Then die. I wish you the best in your decision.

        • http://batman-news.com UrKiddingRite

          That’s what all you tough guys say just before dialling 911. When it inevitably happens just remember that I’m laughing at you.

        • Debbie G

          Just wondering who you’d call for help. I’d buy a ticket to that show.

    • Lanna

      Get a Life…because you don’t have one!

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      You’re a “conservative” socialist.

  • Bobloblaw67

    “””41 law enforcement officers were shot and killed in 2014. That’s in line with the number of Americans killed by hostile fire in Afghanistan. “””

    This guy is a habitual liar.

  • Bobloblaw67

    A lot of stupid conservatives are going to get in more legal trouble than they need to because they assume cops are their friends.

  • Bobloblaw67

    Cops representate the repressive state. Conservatives should not be celebrating that. Too often cops think they are above the law and create an Us v Them mentality towards citizens.

  • Bobloblaw67

    I hope you cheer the next time cops brutalize prolifers for resisting arrest.

    • truebearing

      I hope you cheer the next time a drug-addled moron kills someone you love.

      • Bobloblaw67

        I’m more worried about crazed cops.

        • http://batman-news.com UrKiddingRite

          Blob…yeah i’ll bet you stay awake every night fearing the crazed police are going to get you. You just need to say things like that so you have something to talk about at your next staged protest. You lefties feed off each other as to who can fabricate the biggest “i’m a victim story” so you can all pretend how bad you have it. Always safe in the knowledge that should you actually be victimized by the real criminals that you can always phone the police you hate to come save you.

        • truebearing

          Then you must be a criminal. I sure hope they get you…to a proper psychiatric facility where your generalized paranoia can be clinically addressed.

        • Lanna

          You better be worried about people with concealed carry who are waiting for a terrorist, because they are going to act in defense of the police….

          • Bobloblaw67

            Do you supported law enforcement over Clive Bundy?

          • UCSPanther

            I have not heard of Bundy supporters openly calling for the murder of LE personnel, much less engaging in widespread rioting and looting…

        • Pete

          I worry more about criminals than cops.

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      I certainly will, resisting arrest is illegal. Nobody has a “right” to fight cops. It’s one of the dumbest things a person can do.

      • Bobloblaw67

        So I’m sure, just like every other conservative, you thought Clive Bundy was a criminal and not some go hero.

        • Sheik Yerbouti

          Slapping a label on me doesn’t make it true. Linking me to Bundy is childish at best. That sort of thing happens in that part of the country more often than people realize. It’s clear the issues with Bundy could have been resolved by some bureaucrat decided on the show instead. Taxpayer dollars wasted that could have shored up all those EBT cards for a few more minutes.

          • Bobloblaw67

            Eric Gardner could have been resolved by issuing a summons.

          • SCREW SOCIALISM

            What happened to Eric Garner is a tragedy.

            Thank G-d for the videos – and the video showing michael brown thuggish behavior in the Quckie Mart.

          • UCSPanther

            I have not heard of Bundy supporters openly calling for the murder of LE personnel, much less doing so, or engaging in widespread rioting and looting…

  • Bobloblaw67

    You can see the cops attitude towards the public. They refer to the public as civilians rather than citizens.

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      You can see gang bangers attitude to regular people by watching the news on TV showing videoes of perpetrators and pictures of the perpetrators.

    • 95Theses

      Why are you giving yourself the lone upvote? Don’t you know how pathetic and desperate that is?

  • Bobloblaw67

    Cops are not your friends. Never talk to them. Never agree to a search.

  • Bobloblaw67

    Conservatives now think resisting arrest is a capital crime.

  • Sheik Yerbouti

    I remember a print ad from the early 70s. It showed a crying policeman carrying an obviously dead child. The caption read something like “People will still be calling him Pig the next time he goes to work”. It has stuck with me all these years. As I think about it now I realize that the people fighting the police back then were mostly white.

    These days the only whites I see engaged in this are loony leftists who just want to be on camera or get arrested so they can pad their resume. The black protestors are a hair trigger from a real battle with the cops. I doubt it will happen in NYC. I’d wager it happens where “victory” can be assured.

    They don’t always plan the sucker punches they take in the Knockout Game. But I wager they will when they decide to sucker punch an entire police department in some sleepy bedroom community that made some obscure mistake they can amplify (with the help of the eager, race-baiting media).

    DeBlasio’s weenie attempt to placate the masses (to save his hide since his words finally went got him in deeper than he imagined) will only inflame blacks. On most of their sites they are rejecting his call for calm. They WANT a war.

  • Bobloblaw67
  • Bobloblaw67

    The worst thing cops do is refer to the citizenry as “civilians” as though, they the cops, are military. Maybe if some cops faced the same UCMJ, there would be fewer bad cops. Cops lack the honor and sense of duty that exists in the military.

  • Lanna

    That’s right…..and these creeps are the minority, the majority of this country are law abiding model citizens….some of us haven’t even received a parking ticket, we don’t go around causing trouble and attacking the police.

  • Michael Pralle Jr

    This blowbob fella on this thread seems to want a lot of attention!! He must live alone!! Poor poor blowbob!! Ha ha……he must have failed out of the academy…..blowbob u can always be a fireman!!

    • SCREW SOCIALISM

      blowbob can always be a “teecher” in a public school that needs metal detectors to screen “children” for weapons.

  • Mallory Westin

    Allow me to add a few things. First, I’m not a liberal. I think criminals should be apprehended and punished. I don’t understand where the divide comes from that to be against the police you have to be liberal. LOL.

    To be firmly taking a stand against a criminal organization that is more like a corporation now is not conservative? I must have missed that. To oppose tyranny imposed by an increasingly militarized police force is not conservative? I missed that as well.

    Everybody knows this countries police force is corrupt. We knew it back in the 60s, we got it on video back 1993 with rodney king, and now well well well…EVERYBODY has a camera in their pocket with a direct plug to social media. Looks like you guys are fucked now :-)

    So what you’re seeing is a reckoning. It’s called the people standing up and fighting back. AKA your worst nightmare. Didn’t think the day would ever come, did ya? Well, thanks to technology…it’s here.

    As for this article outlining the “dangers” of being a police officer, let me bless you with some facts. In 2013, 70 police officers died on duty. Farmers, fisherman, garbage men, all have double that. A fucking farmer has more danger yet you are always complaining about going home at night. Give us a break please. Of the 70 officers that died, half of them were involved in motor accidents unrelated to a crime. 30 weren’t wearing their seatbelts.

    There’s no reason for you to fear the American public like you do. Most of you just have a lower IQ so youre more likely to just die on your way to the donut shop. And as for crying about not getting any recognition, welcome to the real world. Even at normal jobs rarely do you get a pat on the back. So shut the fuck up, treat people like you would want to be treated and you won’t be experiencing such a backlash. Jesus it’s that. damn. easy.

  • PPD K-103 Momma

    Thanks for the wonderfully written article. My son, Pontiac, IL Police Officer Casey Kohlmeier, and his K-9 partner, Draco, were killed in the line of duty by a drunk driver on October 30, 2013. He was parked on the interstate waiting for an erratic semi truck when he was struck by a pickup totally unrelated to what he was looking for. He was always the first to respond to all calls. Earlier last year he was also restrained by a driver of a van, when he finally broke free at about 45 mph where he sustained a concussion and a broken wrist. The suspect was eventually caught and later learned he had a gun in his vehicle that was tossed during the chase. This man was black. The drunk driver that killed him was white. At no time did race play a factor in any of our feelings towards either of these men. It was their actions of what they did to my son. My son put on his uniform every day like every other police officer, not knowing what he would encounter or if he would make it home from his shift. My heart aches for the family members of all of our fallen officers and those officers that have to deal with the increased scrutiny and attacks not only from society, but politicians, with every single action. For those government officials that do not stand up for and support our LEO’s, shame on them. These men and women, like my son, fight for justice no matter what it takes. They hold this nation together, keeping peace. Without them, society could not function. It’s time for the community and our so called government leaders to stand up for these heroes and say enough is enough. Verbal and physical attacks should not be tolerated and should hold more severe penalties. Our LEO’s should not fear retaliation for maintaining and promoting peace! Come on, people. Whether you are black, red, brown, yellow, white or purple, right is right and wrong is wrong. Anyone that assaults a police officer should be held accountable. These “peaceful protestors” that are threatening our police, calling them names, and throwing things at them make me sick. Our police have to stand there and take it. Why? Because they have to. If they don’t, they will be called racist pigs. If it were any other time or for any other situation, these morons would be taking a ride to jail. I say it’s time they gave the protestors what they are asking for and treat them like everyone else. Police are human. They have families. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers, like me. They are the brave ones that choose to protect us. I had to bury my son because he gave his life for the job. To protect the good, the bad, the rich, the poor, the blacks, the whites, the young, the old. Everyone. And this is the thanks they get? The thin blue line sticks together. These LEO’s are my family. And in this family, nobody fights alone.

  • 6122north

    The police are thugs. They believe they are above the law and are somehow special members of society, with the attitude that “officer safety” is more important than EVERYTHING else, including the rights of the individual. Sure, most cops are good people. But they ALL subscribe to this attitude and thus are dangerous and antithetical to a free society. The ridiculous war on drugs in particular has thoroughly corrupted the police and they are entirely instruments of the State who believe they have a sole monopoly on the use of force. “Protect and Serve” applies only to the political elite, not the masses.

  • Pete

    You left that part out. An Indian reservation is tough. That is not a cop thing but an ethnic/outgroup thing.
    No, you were entirely correct.

    • halevi

      That was an important part of the story, but even if it was a non-reservation cop and I was able to sue, I wouldn’t start public protests against the cops. Those people that do that have some other agenda.

      • Pete

        ‘ I wouldn’t start public protests against the cops”

        Agreed.

        ” Those people that do that have some other agenda.”
        Exactly

  • http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/ M. Simon

    Cheers to all the enforcers who are protecting us. Because without enforcers we would live in a state of anarchy and have to defend ourselves.

  • Martin Preib

    Great Article. Check out this article on how the leftist wrongful conviction activists conspire against police and fraudulently release killers from prison.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqSRhuKuiJI&list=UUukW9fbX4m5MpOmQ2M5isVg

  • Lanna

    God Bless the police, they also are being persecuted by their government for upholding the laws, and being committed to protecting innocent people. When you see government gone astray, and every thought being evil, you know they are trying to destroy our infrastructure.

  • Lanna

    No, It was probably the Muslim Brotherhood, Isis, Hamas, or Hezbollah who go around bombing, burning, and cutting off heads of children and American journalists.

  • EamonnDublin

    “Bobloblaw67″ – Thank you for that wonderful insight. I suggest that before you made such a profound comment, you might have looked up how to spell the man’s name correctly. When you seek to describe a person’s attributes or otherwise, it undermines your knowledge, wisdom and integrity if you cannot even spell your target’s name. (Oh, and by the way – hint – I am NOT talking about the way you spelled “Eamon”, in his case that spelling is correct.) Have a lovely New Year. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

  • DontMessWithAmerica

    I took the liberty of sending the link to this article to all the police associations that I could find online. It will make their Holidays. I urge all readers to share it with their friends.