police officers are taken for granted

             There are a lot of stories going around about police brutality.  Police officers go to work every morning not knowing if they are going to return home that night. We don't realize how much they put up with each and every day. If people would just follow the law the police officers would not cross your path and then there would be no problems. To all you people who rubberneck and decide to take videos of police officers doing their ob; you make me sick. You make it look like it was the police officers fault. You show not even an ounce of respect for our cops. 

           Police officers do not ignore the disrespect that they get, they just don't let it show, because they know that one day it may be you that they are trying to protect. One day many officers will wake up sick and tired of the disrespect that they are getting and not being able to do anything about it. They will quit their jobs, and potentially discourage anybody that wants to be a cop, because they know how tough the job is. 

            And then when that day comes in 2020, or even before then, you will come home and there will be a stranger in your house with you kids and you will call the police, and their answer will not be the answer tat you were hoping for. Instead of calming you down and letting you know that somebody is on their way, they will say that it will be at least an hour before they can send somebody your way, because they don't have as many cops on shift as they should. They have 10 officers instead of the 30 that they used to have. 

            Show some respect for police officers, because one day they will be frantically searching for men and women to take the job that so many others have quit. Besides, cops have families too and right now they probably aren't able to spend as much time wither spouse and children as they would like to. Don't take police officers for granted, because one day you will regret it.

            For instance, let's say that you work late and you two children, one in middle school and one in elementary school. You forgot to lock you house one morning because you were running late, but you figure it will be okay. Your children get home and go in the house, but because they are so young they don't think about the house being unlocked. But you always tell them that when they get home they are to lock the doors and answer to no one. Let's also say that in this scenario a stranger is already in the house. The older child hears something that sounds like somebody walking around upstairs and it sounds like they are about to come down the stairs. So the older child grabs the closest phone and takes the younger child by the hand and quickly and quietly goes into the nearest closet, there the child calls the police and talks as quietly as possible but still to where the police can hear him/her and still understand what the child is saying. The police officer tells them that they must remain cal and quiet and then lets the children know that help on on the way.

            Now if you take that same scenario and put the year as 2020, instead of the police saying that help is on the way, they say that they are sorry, but they are just going to have to remain as quiet as possible and hope or the best, because they don't have anybody to send to your house to help them. 

          The second response is a dramatic change from the first. And you would not want your child to get the second response, but that is what is going to happen if police officers kee getting the same disrespect as they are getting now.