The Daily Caller – by Kerry Picket
Law enforcement officers at Washington, D.C.’s annual Police Week tell The Daily Caller that the anti-police climate is taking its toll on the men and women in uniform and that morale is low in departments across the country.
One source told TheDC Monday night that officers have stepped back from engaging in proactive policing, because they often see the same violent criminals they arrest immediately released on to the streets.
President of the Fraternal Order of Police Chuck Canterbury told TheDC that he believes that a shortage of cops is the reason. “For the last six or eight years, proactive law enforcement has come to a stop because of shortage of personnel.”
Additionally, cops say that the fear of legal and political backlash, similar to what was seen in Ferguson, New York City and Baltimore, is hurting morale. One source at Police Week who also does part-time security work for private companies was astounded at how young some of the violent individuals were during the Baltimore riots.
Another law enforcement source described how objects like bottles are often thrown at the police cruiser she drives.
One recently retired police officer told TheDC that people do not seem to understand that cops do not get up in the morning thinking about who they want to hurt that day.
“Morale is low because we don’t have the public’s backing,” she said, noting that the same people who verbally or even physically attack police officers are the same ones who call them for help. “I pulled a guy over, recently. He was a drunk driver. He said, ‘Fuck you, I hate cops.’”
Sources attending Police Week seem doubtful that the officers in Baltimore will be found guilty of the charges that Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby slapped on six officers for the death of 25-year old Freddie Gray.
Gray’s death set off violent riots last month in Baltimore, and some at Police Week warned riots could happen again if the officers are not fully convicted.
Baltimore police officers are reportedly feeling dejected since the Freddie Gray riots and the indictments of their fellow officers, The Baltimore Sun reports.
“I’m hearing it from guys who were go-getters, who would go out here and get the guns and the bad guys and drugs. They’re hands-off now,” a shift commander told the Sun. “I’ve never seen so many dejected faces.”
A law enforcement source told TheDC that some attendees are threatening to turn their backs on President Barack Obama at the annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the Capitol, where Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks. Obama made comments in the past that many in the police community found offensive.
But Canterbury says he does not think most police officers in attendance will turn their backs on Obama and AG Loretta Lynch at the service.
“This event is not to honor the president of the United States. It’s to honor the officers who have been slain in the line of duty,” he said. “And I think the vast majority of police officers in attendance understand that the National Police Officers Memorial Service is to honor those in our brotherhood that have passed away and that have paid the ultimate sacrifice. No, we don’t anticipate that happening.”
http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/12/police-officers-morale-is-low-in-departments-across-the-country/
This is the result of a police state having formed into an urban warfare military victimizing those it was sworn to protect and serve. Freddie Gray’s death was not an accident. And I’m a white guy telling you that I’d convict the officers, if I were on a jury.
How many presidents back must one go that has lived up to their oath?
Aww poor butt hurt gestapo
I feel no pitty , you reap what you sew
We didn’t start this , they own it all
And the issue of recidivism, their buddies the judges and prosecutors own that and have sold out their own , but they are from the same team
So when it’s wolf eat wolf and they realize it’s their own games that have created this environment it will be too dam late , we the able will have zero need for them
Just like that story where the man went and killed his family members abductor
There is no confidence anymore with the thin blue thug line
This is theirs to own
But they never take responsibility and the justce system hasent made them take responsibility
That’s why it is the way it is
And why we the people really don’t need them
They are just waking up to the fact their jobs are also just as vulnerable as everyone else’s
“One recently retired police officer told TheDC that people do not seem to understand that cops do not get up in the morning thinking about who they want to hurt that day.”
No, they pick them out randomly.
“… the anti-police climate is taking its toll on the men and women in uniform and that morale is low in departments across the country.”
Must be that shroud of death hanging over their heads from all those innocent people they’ve murdered.
The ones w/ foresight & self-awareness are filtered out thru the cop acceptance test.
Boohoo
I know some cops and they all are dirtbags.
Most of them will say if people know what they did and do they would be the ones in jail.
This is why they are upset people are starting to see they for what they are.
Dirtbags with a gun and badge.
Hope them all the worst.
So those Hyenas are now upset because we don’t like them praying on us? Of all the unmitigated Gaul!!!! The way they’ve been provoking the American Population they are all lucky we haven’t started hunting them all down like the low down parasites that they are.
To sum up they are unhappy because we don’t lick their boots and worship them as if they were gods with power of life and death over us.If that is the case they are trying to provoke the largest best armed force in the world outnumbering all the armies and police agencies of the world several times over. Doing what they are doing is SUICIDAL!! That is a mental illness. So I have to conclude that police are all mentally ill with the “DEATH WISH” they seem to be perusing. If they weren’t so damned evil and destructive I’d feel sorry for them. In stead I will feel relief when the american people shed that nice nature of theirs and start taking out the trash. I won’t shed one tear when they start getting picked off in the war they start.
Sound a bout right?
-MARTIN NIEMÖLLER
Awwwwwwww…. poor, widdle po-wicemans are sad cause we don’t wike them. You Effin pigs brought it on yourselves. With every captured video that shows cops abusing people and killing folks and animals because the cop felt “threatened”, my disdain for that group known as cops grows. I feel no empathy/sympathy when one of their numbers is diminished. I feel about as much emotion as taking out the trash. To top it off they are obviously to stupid to figure all this out.
with an IQ of a ham sandwich what can be expected..yeah they just dont get it do they?
With apologies to ham sandwiches everywhere!
F… them. They deserve our hate. And much more. Feel no pity when a cop dies. He probably deserved it. They need to through the same background checks we do when we want a gun. But then there would be no cops cause they’re all a bunch psychos on a power trip. There are a few decent ones here and there. But for the most part they treat us like a bunch of criminals. Eat shi. you fu….. pigs. We’ll see how ready you are to die for your joo pigs that train you in that stolen land called israhell. Judgment cometh mofos!!!!!!!!!
“President of the Fraternal Order of Police Chuck Canterbury told The DC that he believes that a shortage of cops is the reason. “For the last six or eight years, proactive law enforcement has come to a stop because of shortage of personnel.””
WOW!! This idiot is so out of touch with reality it is breathtaking! Not enough oinkers? WTF over?
I can picture Digger Dan looking down and flipping those distraught officers two middle fingers! 😀
“I’m hearing it from guys who were go-getters, who would go out here and get the guns and the bad guys and drugs. They’re hands-off now,” a shift commander told the Sun. “I’ve never seen so many dejected faces”
get the guns? this is the kind of thinking that gets cops killed
“Another law enforcement source described how objects like bottles are often thrown at the police cruiser she drives.”
And she didn’t tase and arrest this person or group of people? I’m shocked. That’s assaulting a police officer and destruction of police property. Can’t have that now, can we? Why didn’t she call her wolf pack? If I did that, I would never see the light of day. I find this part bullshit. Do that to Round Rock police and you’ll be lucky to come out alive.