The police will protect you?

[Half Cocked]

THAT's the gig we signed up for. When your out living on the edge, that's the goddamned job. It ain't about your cool gun and shiny badge and officer courtesy and nice perks and good retirement. Those things are important, but the JOB is to enforce the law for the betterment of society and standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Or it is in my bullsh!t opinion, anyway.

Now, I'm not going to armchair quarterback this officer. It's hard to predict what someone will do under severe adrenal stress. Anyone who says any different is full of crap. But I'd like to think that I, in such a situation, would have done things a little differently.

Could not have said it any better!!

 

[Coyote33]

Well, they could always call 911 for immediate protection...


http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/05/police_promise.html

Oh, and:
http://www.telegram.com/article/20080508/DIGESTS/805080410

911 dispatcher delayed sending help to elderly victim
BOSTON — Police are acknowledging that a mistake by a 911 dispatcher delayed the response to an elderly man who had been robbed and beaten.

It took 35 minutes for officers to reach the 76-year-old man, who was bleeding from the head after being attacked April 20 in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood.

Police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said the dispatcher assigned a low priority to the April 20 call because the assailant had already fled the scene. She said the call-taker “misjudged the gravity of the situation.”

Police Commissioner Edward Davis called the victim of the attack to apologize.

From Associated Press reports.