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Police officers are and always have been under a spot light. In the recent years however they are even more under the lights. You have people out there now who are calling in fake crimes to ambush the police. You have people following the police just to get video of them doing their jobs. This makes it harder on everyone and putting your life at risk if you are trying to get a video.
Talking to police officers I can tell you that they are getting to the point that they will not respond to calls because of the people who believe it is a good thing to kill a police officer. Or to try to set them up to make them look bad on a video. It is not worth it to them.
How would any of you like people following you around videoing your every move to see you do one small thing wrong and to see it spread around on the internet as if this is what you do all the time? I can tell you I would not like that.
But what Nivarum said is correct about elections being where you get better people in who do not let power go to their heads.
Judges have to stop rewarding the behavior and then it will stop. Additionally, if it continues police may only respond to certain areas leading to the further division of people by class or race.
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I can assure you that a lot of policemen and their families will be voting for Trump. I think many of them have been plagued with unjust scrutiny because of the actions of a few bad ones on the force.
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Yes I talk to many police officers on a daily basis. It is a whole new world out there for a police officer. Imagine if you would going about your job and almost every person you talk to or interact with has their camera phone and has it in your face in hopes that some little thing you do is posted all over the internet. How can anyone do their job effectively with every detail of what you do, every action you take and everything you say twisted against you. Plus it seems that you have a target on that many people seem to want to kill you just because of the uniform. I am just glad I am no longer a police officer. I am sure the stress of the job nowadays is a lot more than it was in my day.
Under a Trump administration I think we will see the rate at which police have violent encounters will rise significantly. People are already chanting hate that will entice some police to fall into that trend.
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The police do not want violent encounters and if the trend of people ambushing police officers keeps occurring we will soon see the police no longer patrolling the streets. Who wants to go out and get shot? I know I do not want that, I bet you do not want that. So why should we expect our police officers to want that?
Within the past 3 days there have been four murderers of police officers with the latest being killed while he was in his squad car just outside the police station! That happened in Texas and there is a manhunt underway. Does anyone connect this with the results of the elections? This is going to make police officers even more jumpy.
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