Originally Posted by
JediGuy
Are you suggesting that police officers accept a level of risk that is reflected in the rate of pay and benefits that they receive upon accepting the position, usually negotiated in the form of a contract with the local union? I agree with this. You might get shot, it’s part of the job. That risk doesn’t provide police with a get out of jail free card that allows them to get away with crap other civilians could not.
Generally, what you have posted aligns with what I believe.
However, when pursuing this line of thinking: That risk doesn’t provide police with a get out of jail free card that allows them to get away with crap other civilians could not we need to keep in mind that in order to keep the peace, governmental entities send officers into situations that non-officers should generally avoid.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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