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As the wife of a retired career NYPD officer. Married 17 years. One child.
The general public sees police officers as superheroes. They are not supposed to have emotion, they are not supposed to have an independant thought. They are just supposed to perform to the specifications of the public and all their rules, every second of every day.
That is not the reality. Your police officers are REAL human beings.
The "suspect" or perp, does NOT care who they mow down, run over, maim, dismember, or just kill. To them, it is just a game, story, badge of honor or simply something to do. Regardless of their reason, they have no feeling nor sympathy for the victims or their families.
There is a reason we give Police Officers weapons. They are not always in the form of a gun.
We need order.
We need protection.
We need to be protected from those who will find joy in doing us harm.
We need Police Officers. Do you risk your life everyday when you go to work?
The Officer did the unsavory, but correct human reacion. Get over it.
Law and Order is not a TV show, it's real life, on the streets of America.
Thank who ever you deem, that this didn't happen in your town, to you're family, to you're friends.
If it did, you might feel different.
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