News broke today of an officer in our area being arrested. All though I am not 100% surprised given this particular officer's misgivings, it is still very sad. Far to often the Law enforcement community is not shown in a positive light. More often than not, attention is only placed on officers that have screwed up in some way. This is something that irks me to no end. However in this particular case the attention brought to this particular officer is of his own doings.
The circumstances behind are not of issue, it's the simple fact that very seldom do officers receive good publicity. Is it simply because we as a society only want the negative? Could it possibly be that these men and women are in a profession that is so under appreciated that no one thinks that positives are worth mentioning.
I mean honestly. How often do you hear of an officer going to talk to kids at school, or holding a child who is scared or hurt. These are the things that officers do, day in and day out. More than once I have seen my husband buy a meal for someone that needs help, or go eat lunch at the school with our son so kids will see him there and know who he is if they ever need him. Not to mention the countless number of times that he has gone out of his way to make sure that someone had the help they needed. He doesn't do it for attention. No he does it because it is part of who he is.
I wish just once you could see something good.
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