Defending the Blue

 

Defending the Blue

When you call 911 with an emergency, the police are sent no matter what the situation may entail. Whether your house is on fire, you were involved in an accident, someone is having a medical emergency, or if someone breaks into your house, the police are going to be there. The police are part of our daily lives more than you think. 

The police are our brothers & sisters, our friends, neighbors, or even someone you never met before in your life. But their job is to protect the citizens and do their absolute best to keep us safe. There are over 18,000 different law enforcement agencies across the United States whose soul purpose is to protect & serve their communities and municipalities. Police across the United States is a necessity so that there remains a law-and-order standard in this great country.

 

RECOVERY: A common refrain among police officers is that they're at their best when everyone else is at their worst, Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, said recently. For months after the Sept. 11 attacks, respite was nearly non-existent for his members, he said. Above, NYPD officers near ground zero. Photo courtesy of the PBA

The image of the police sometimes gets perceived the wrong way because of the select few bad officers. The bad officers are often publicized more because of the things that they are doing, when the good officers could do something tremendous towards the community and the media won’t even bat an eye over it.

The media and leftist lawmakers & organizations have recently been calling for a defunding of police agencies across the country. They use bad and distasteful images to describe the police to the public trying to get them to their sides.

Protesters in Washington painted the phrase “defund the police” onto 16th Street on Saturday night. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

One of the major organizations that have been calling for defunding the police is the “Civil Rights” group Black Lives Matter. Hoang and Benjamin state “These results suggest that even if cities with Democrat mayors are initially responsive to the concerns of BLM protesters, this responsiveness may not be sustained over the long term.” They are using mathematically proven statistics to show that even with the police budget being cut like BLM and left-wing media wants, in the long run the budgets will have to be increased to sustain law and order to the public.

Movements and protests usually begin to flare up when there is a death resulting of force by the police. The death could be ruled a justified killing after extensive investigation by the Internal Affairs agency within the police department, but there will still be people unhappy with the outcome.

Just like the death of the young man in Chicago in recent headlines. Per Fox 32 Chicago, He was pulled over by police for a traffic violation, and while failing to obey police orders, he used a handgun to open fire on police, striking one of the officers. Multiple officers returned fire with their service weapons, fatally striking the individual. The officer is in stable condition.

Protestors in Chicago and media sources are defending the young individual saying that he was a good boy and that it was the police officers’ fault by pulling him over for the traffic violation. Without the courage and sacrifices that these Chicago Police Officers made, there could’ve been harm done to community members and more police officers could’ve been injured.

The police officers in the small rural areas across the United States do not need to purchase new vehicles every single year. They could be saving tax dollars by replacing the vehicles when they need them instead of only getting 4-5 years out of a car that should get 10 years in its life. But people tend to forget that police officers are in those cars for almost the entirety of their shift. The cruisers that they use are their offices. Some cars may have breakfast, lunch, and dinner eaten in them every day because the officer doesn’t know when the next call for service will come in.

Without funded police departments in the United States, the foundation that our founding fathers built our great nation upon, would be gone. We would not have law-and-order. Our streets would not be safe enough for our kids to ride their bikes. Most importantly, we would not have the community interaction that allows us to grow and succeed as individuals that we have today.