Fox 2 Now – by Chris HayesFERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – Wives and children of many police officers are in virtual hiding, as some face assault and death threats.
Fox Files investigator Chris Hayes talked with the wife of a Ferguson officer who said she`s not leaving town, because she fears people aren`t hearing the whole truth about her husband`s Department.
During the spring of 2014, the City of Ferguson commissioned a study to find out what residents thought about City services, including the Ferguson Police Department. It’s data that some fear could be met with threats of violence, at a time when police families are already telling their sons and daughters, ‘Don`t tell anyone you’re the child of a police officer.’
The police wife said, ‘We don`t have answers for them’ as she broke down. Then she continued, ‘It`s very frightening. Most people who have a family member who`s a police officer are very proud of what they do.’
She remains proud, in hiding. We protected her identity for her safety. She continued, ‘This is real and people actually do know how to find us and they do want to harm us.’
She’s received many strange calls, including this message, just before I met her, (Unknown caller) ‘Would you rather hear me coming out, coming out and robbing your house? And it would be like, it’d just be like silence man, you couldn’t hear nothing.”
She talked about looking over her shoulder, ‘Did they follow me here? Did I do a good enough job after work today of taking different routes, on my way home. Just letting my younger daughter leave the house…’
She says some families are leaving town. She says she`s decided to stay for Ferguson Police officers, but also for Ferguson residents, who ranked the police department as one of the best city services.
It’s in a survey no one’s talked about, headed by a Professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis. It’s from May of 2014, before any unrest, when the City of Ferguson wanted to know what residents thought about annexing an area north of 270.
Researchers asked registered voters and 61% of them said they believed Ferguson was “moving in the right direction.” Then citizens ranked city services, putting police third after the fire department and trash service (above six other departments like “code enforcement” and “streets,” at the bottom).
When you break it down by ward, even the area surrounding Canfield where Michael Brown died, 69% of those residents rated Ferguson Police good or excellent. Only 4% scored Ferguson police as poor.
The police wife fears the public is not hearing everything. When people complained about militarization of police, she said it wasn’t Ferguson police with the heavy gear. She said, ‘They didn`t have the equipment they needed.’ Not even helmets, until families pooled their money to buy them. Now she wonders if the
Department of Justice also only hears those screaming loudest. She added, ‘Well, it appears the DOJ made up their mind before they ever got started.’ She continued, ‘I`m very worried about what`s going to happen to the citizens and what`s going to happen to the businesses and what`s going to happen to the police officers. This is a good community with a long history and they love their community.’
Ferguson mayor James Knowles said the Department of Justice is aware of the UMSL study. He said he’s open to any help his town can get with reforms. The council has already eliminated the ‘tow release fee,’ which we exposed in a recent Fox Files investigation. Ferguson eliminated the fee September 25th. Some towns add a fee of $500.
Ferguson Police families continue raising money for police helmets, through an organization called Helmets for Heroes.
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“The police wife fears the public is not hearing everything. ”
She’s damn lucky the public isn’t hearing everything, or she wouldn’t be alive to complain about it.
“She remains proud, in hiding.”
If this bitch is proud of what her husband does, she better forget about hiding and start running. There’s a commie country somewhere that will accept her and her pig of a husband with open arms, but there’s no place for the commie pig family here in America.
@Jolly
Re: “She’s damn lucky the public isn’t hearing everything, or she wouldn’t be alive to complain about it.”
Dead accurate!
Oh cry me a river. If that bitch was smart enough, she’d leave and never have anything to do with the Fascist police because these bastards are starting to turn on their own and she’ll be next.
The police wife fears the public is not hearing everything. When people complained about militarization of police, she said it wasn’t Ferguson police with the heavy gear. She said, ‘They didn`t have the equipment they needed.’ Not even helmets, until families pooled their money to buy them.
HA! Right, sure. My local PD has ALL those goodies and then some with a smaller population. I know they have HRT, SWAT, APC’s, assault weapons and full armor to accompany it and this broad is telling us they don’t even have helmets?!
She’s either lying or this is total bs. Either way it’s bs, actually.
Exactly! Wonder how much she got paid.
Considering she’s anonymous, my guess is this one was a freebie for tptb. All they had to do was provide the script to FOX?!
I wanted to stop reading more than once but then this treasure was waiting.
” Helmets for Heroes”
lol
I dont even feel like articulating how retarded that is.
Hahahaha!
“Wives and children of many police officers are in virtual hiding, as some face assault and death threats.”
This needs to go national…
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago