Black Cop, White Cop
I hate surveys.
A few days ago “the news" reported a survey that said 47% of
the respondents said the Ferguson PD should more representative of the
population it serves.
Hell, I’m an infidel but if you were to ask me “Should
everyone receive $100.00 for Christmas?” my response would be “Hell, yea.”
Now the trouble with surveys is that they make it easy for a
gut response with no room for an answer other than yes or a no.
I have yet to see a survey where the respondents would have
to do some thinking. For example, “How can the city of Ferguson have a more representative
police department?” No, it wouldn’t be “Hire more blacks.”
The problem is blacks don’t grow up saying “I want to be a
policeman when I grow up.” I don’t know this for a fact, but I believe those
men and women that do go into law enforcement picked up that motivation in the military.
Then, there is the preselection that goes into the mix. Some
jurisdictions require a minimum number of college hours. Now, a few years ago,
Miami decided it needed more Cubans on the police department and under citizen pressure
relaxed their standards with horrific results. Many turned out to be nothing
more than common criminals with a badge and a gun.
Many blacks that could be good police officers won’t go into
law enforcement because even though blacks may say they would like to see more
black officers will turn on them and call them all kinds of names when they
come up on the wrong side of the law. It thuf work trying to be a good
policeman; it’s even harder if the policeman is black.
If blacks want to see fewer of their people die shot by
police they need to learn respect for the police. They need to stop making
excuses for the dead beats and stop projecting them as martyrs and using
language like execution and murder.
Way too much of America needs a reality check. Real police
work is not the sanitized version projected by Hollywood. Police are not like
Shemar Moore talking perps into giving up their guns. A policeman’s job, black
or white, is to get home to their families at the end of their shift.
And, believe or not, 95% of policemen have NEVER had their
gun out of their holster other than to qualify maybe once a year. So, when a
man or woman has to draw his/her weapon for the first time the adrenalin is
running high. They may empty their weapon and have one or two hits. And, forget
about shooting to wound; a suspect can close a 20 foot gap in mere seconds so
he/she must keep shooting until the treat stops.
Some moron reporter was asking “Why can’t the police just
back away?” Sure, and lose control of the situation?
I am not naïve. I know there are cops that believe they are
John Wayne. Luckily, they are in the minority and other cops will report them
to internal affairs. That should be reason enough to not get smart elecy with
the police because you never know when it’s your misfortune to be stopped by a
ticking time bomb. You never know what will set one of these people off. Better
to make it home alive than to risk bodily injury or worse, death.
This is especially true in a hick town like Ferguson. I once
worked with a black man that had be with the Dallas PD. I was relating to him
about a police stop in a hick town. The young fellow giving me the citation was
very curious but his partner was standing in front of my vehicle with his hand
on his weapon. I started to ask him, “Would you be standing there with your
hand on you gun if I were a white woman?” My better judgment prevailed.
But my co-worker told me these are the guys that could not
make it in the Dallas PD. They are looking for something to happen: the John
Wayne syndrome?
As I’ve stated on other posts, most policemen are alright
people trying to do a job we wouldn’t dare attempt. We need to stop jumping on
the bandwagon right away when thing goes terribly wrong. We are not in the 60s
when the police were thugs with badges. Thugs eventually get fired or wind up
in prison.
MADD MEXX
