Police officers protect the community by enforcing laws and
maintaining peace. The job requires excellent judgment, hard work,
extraordinary courage and the ability to think quickly under pressure. Knowing
what to expect in job preparation, the police academy, and at the interview
stage will help you get ready for your new career in law enforcement.
Reflections on Veterans Day often begin for me with the
local police agency. (After all, many sworn local officers do have a background
in the military.) As the above paragraph mentions, the purpose of the local
police is to protect the community by enforcing laws and maintaining peace. I
try to put myself in the place of an officer.
My service begins with these fundamental stated commitments. However, the
actions of the police are broadly contingent upon the enveloping moral
climate and the codified will of the people.
That is, practically speaking when people have “gone fishing” rather
than giving due labor and attention to public policy, then seeds of bitterness
are already sown. In these cases, our military personnel have FROM
THE OUTSET been cruelly betrayed and ceremonial postmortem buckets of tears
and drawn sanctimonious faces bent low make plain the true cause of death--a long-standing political dereliction
of duty.
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