I was just reading this article in the Union Leader about my local police department’s upper management forming a union. I was reading the comment section and came across this:
“For your information, I am a Law Enforcement Officer with a Municipal Department. I am a Union Steward, Councilor and Vice President of my Chapter. I make just above $14.00 an hour and have been employed in this position for 3 years. I put MY life on the line so YOU can sleep at night. I also spend hundreds of hours per year fighting for the rights of my fellow coworkers. Managment is trying to again pass me over for a pay increase all while raising our healthcare. And for the record, we pay for everything we have. Keep your insolate, derrogatory, and blatantly disrespectful comments about Union activities to yourself. Unless YOU are going to walk the fine line, and put your life in harms way, so others can be blinded by the very safety I PROVIDE.”
After vomiting, I provided the following response:
“Unless YOU are going to walk the fine line, and put your life in harms way, so others can be blinded by the very safety I PROVIDE.”
^^– That is a bunch of BS. I was a police officer for eleven years in this state and the police do far more to HURT people than they do to HELP.
You are not providing safety when you are attacking people for victimless-crimes.
Get off your high horse. Law enforcement is NOT that dangerous of a job.
Can anyone argue that the private sector is far more efficient at things than the public? The government is the only organization that gets more money when it FAILS. If the private sector fails, it goes out of business.
Policing should be privatized. It would be far more efficient, less corrupt, wouldn’t be attacking people for breaking victimless “crimes,” and would actually be accountable.
It is impossible to hold police departments accountable. What are you going to do, stop paying taxes? The police department will come to throw you out of YOUR house and will kill you if you defend yourself.
Don’t know if the UL will publish it.
