Black Cop, White Cop

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