Let me just say one other thing about public spending to protect police officers. There is no unworthy expense.
If New York had bulletproof glass in their cars there is every reason to believe two officers would be alive today.
Today, if something as simple as putting a gas pump at a municipal garage would have prevented this death no one know that.
Preventing danger to our police officers in such methods of protection is just a good investment. The public requires these people to protect them. It is the public's responsibility to make sure that happens in a way that honors the police in realizing there is significant danger in their lives.
It was a while ago when four officers were gunned down while meeting at a breakfast counter. Give these folks room to meet at their leisure. Give them ways of fulfilling those needs for comradely in safe ways.
Police officers should be involved with the community, but, not to the extent the officers are compromised in their work. Being part of the community should be defined in job reviews, such as spending time at the YMCA or visiting schools for lectures on one subject or another.
I think some structure in understanding the jobs of police officers might better help make decisions in their work, too. I am not a police woman. I have had police and state police in the family, including women. I know the fears. The family has never lost an officer performing their duty and these were officers on the street. They did the hard work. But, my family knew police were walking among people they saw at church and PTA meetings. Policing is not done in a vacuum. That is the responsibility of the community as well. The community needs to reach out to their officers as well and not simply through their elected officials.
Please be careful with these folks.
Preventing danger to our police officers in such methods of protection is just a good investment. The public requires these people to protect them. It is the public's responsibility to make sure that happens in a way that honors the police in realizing there is significant danger in their lives.
It was a while ago when four officers were gunned down while meeting at a breakfast counter. Give these folks room to meet at their leisure. Give them ways of fulfilling those needs for comradely in safe ways.
Police officers should be involved with the community, but, not to the extent the officers are compromised in their work. Being part of the community should be defined in job reviews, such as spending time at the YMCA or visiting schools for lectures on one subject or another.
I think some structure in understanding the jobs of police officers might better help make decisions in their work, too. I am not a police woman. I have had police and state police in the family, including women. I know the fears. The family has never lost an officer performing their duty and these were officers on the street. They did the hard work. But, my family knew police were walking among people they saw at church and PTA meetings. Policing is not done in a vacuum. That is the responsibility of the community as well. The community needs to reach out to their officers as well and not simply through their elected officials.
Please be careful with these folks.
