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2014-12-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

Wisconsin Police Lieutenant’s Powerful Lament: Today I Stopped Caring

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Posted by Groter Sholump7876 2014-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Hang in there. The people will stop this Obama regime business of tearing down America in due time.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-13 00:42|| 2014-12-13 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Just read some of the comments. Disgusting and blaming everyone the police. They prove his points.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-12-13 00:59|| 2014-12-13 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I read this a couple days ago. He is wrong about the conservatives' point, or at least my perspective about giving hell to the tacticool officers @ day 1 Fergy.

First of all, nobody knew the BLM had a SWAT team until they swooped on some cowboy with back taxes. Second, as a firefighter I get having the right equipment and going home that night, my issue was how and quickly they were deployed. Both situations are leadership issues, not individual LEOs.

So I ask this: what if you had to use the equipment you deploy with? Presenting a show of force as such, eventually there will be a response. What then? Especially with the leadership seeming to want to provoke a response.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-13 11:05|| 2014-12-13 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 LEO duty is a tough, usually thankless job which involves dealing with people on the worst day of their life. So I'd like to share a story.

I was driving home one day. I was crossing a bridge when my tire disintegrated - good times, tickled a little. On the shoulder of the interstate I was attempting a tire change, on the horizen was a tornado producing cell heading my way. A hi-po pulled over to assist, my jack was not working in the situation, he let me use his. My spare was low, he let me go on to the turnaround, flashed lights, and escorted me back to the nearest exit with a service station.

Saved my butt he did. Thank You Kansas Highway Patrol.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-13 11:15|| 2014-12-13 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 A thousand 'attaboys' are wiped out by one awe sh!t.

The media focuses on the rare and unusual, not the common everyday environment. They need to sell - air time, page column, their political narratives.

Given that, the officers do themselves no good allowing the really dangerous, destructive, trigger happy, et al to work among them. That makes the media's game so much easier. See the first sentence.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-13 11:44|| 2014-12-13 11:44|| Front Page Top

#6 I got to go along with the Lieutenant. However, I hope he doesn't stop caring. IMO there are a lot more good people out there than bad people. If you are looking at crooks, criminals, drug dealers, and domestic dispute situations, one probably begins to think everyone is bad. I've a buddy who was on a SWAT team involved in high-risk entries and a some justified shootings, I think he has had signs of PTSD for years.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-13 12:21|| 2014-12-13 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 ..probably yes. The bean counters from pol to voter want to pay the least they have to for them. That seldom included R&R off time (not vacation) to decompress cause then you need 110%+ manning (think long term pension/medical in that). So they work them to the edge and beyond. Even our military recognizes you can't keep them on the line for an extended period of time, although they're gaming it trying to figure out what the NLT time is.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-13 13:07|| 2014-12-13 13:07|| Front Page Top

#8 well f man, today's standards I have pts and comparitively I ain't seen nothin,. I think part of that problem is the inability to actually talk about it with peers "you are ruining my coffee with gore" they seem to think help comes from a vending machine and not some duud who just had a kid listening in on a vehicle rollover with missing toddler for ten minutes onto work.

And I'm lucky a goodly portion of family is at the least familiar 'no app for shit happens'.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-13 14:00|| 2014-12-13 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't feel sorry for this guy. He is acting butt hurt and needs to man up. Guess what, a large and vocal population in our society hate all of the defenders. Leo's, soldiers, DA's, CIA, Contractors on the battlefield, and on and on, they despise those that stand up for the rights of others. If you think you will sway them your wrong. They hate cops, until they need them, then they bitch about how long it takes for them to get there or why did they not get the scum off the street sooner. You cant win, so stop trying! This guy needs to look in the mirror and ask himself why he became a cop in the first place. He has a point on everything he is saying, but his feelings are misplaced. My mother would have slapped him on the back of his head and told him to get over himself.

He needs to remember, like most here at RB get so clearly that sheep hate the sheepdog. If you want to be loved, go be a sheep. Then you can hug you way through life blind to the evil that lurks. But I believe this guy gets it, or at least did before losing his religion so to speak. I for one hope he finds his way back to the pack and stops listening to those that want to destroy our democracy.

On a second note there has been a lot of the pity me crap from the Wisconsin police. Tell me? There were over 50 organizations coordinating the riots, 50! Revcomusa was leading, as were a number of other communist orgs. Then there was anarchy groups, too damn many to name, but they all have names and leaders. Then the SEIU was there. They coordinated riots across America. Why doesn't the local Sherriff department investigate these groups and their leaders. They clearly incited criminal behavior across state lines. I do believe they could prosecute the leaders under the RICO act. Get after it, build the case, you wont get any help from the top cop in this nation, he is a card carrying member of the black panthers. But you can build irrefutable evidence and then they will have to act, or act after an admin change.

Remember when the enemy has you surrounded, stop whining, you are living in a target rich environment so get after it!

Posted by 49 Pan. 2014-12-13 16:33|| 2014-12-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

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