my cousin, a cop, just quit his job

[satchelmcqueen]

im very glad to say that my cousin who has been a cop for 15yrs has just quit his job. he said the last straw was hearing of all the hate of policemen over the last few yrs and also the shooting of the cops in NY. he is really a good guy and i often wondered how he was able to stand doing that as a job for so long.

he stated he couldnt even walk into a store without wondering if he was going to be shot for no reason by anyone, and was also worried someone might target his wife and kids while he was away from home. he is now working a very hard job in the poultry business, but says that he feels safer and the stress is gone. also said all the corruption he saw over the years has took a toll on his mind. he quit the city force 5yrs ago due to corruption and went to the county.

i am proud he got out of that line of work. good for him

[Christian Liberty]

Awesome for your cousin. God bless.

[Suzanimal]

Good for him!

[fisharmor]

I hope he gives more than one of his former coworkers food for thought.

[tod evans]

Good thing he quit but I've gotta wonder how many peaceful people he jailed in 15 years.........

[donnay]

Good for him.

Just think who will replace him...

[Christian Liberty]

Good thing he quit but I've gotta wonder how many peaceful people he jailed in 15 years.........

Forgiveness should certainly follow repentance. Yes, I'm sure he did a lot of things you and I agree are awful. Praise God he isn't doing them anymore.

[jmdrake]

Good for him.

Just think who will replace him...

Yeah.

[tod evans]

Forgiveness should certainly follow repentance. Yes, I'm sure he did a lot of things you and I agree are awful. Praise God he isn't doing them anymore.

It's not for me to forgive, he needs to worry about the once peaceful folks he locked up, took away their families. their way of life, that are just now getting out after 10-15 years....

Those folks just might not be as forgiving as you profess being......

[Anti Federalist]

Good for him.

[VIDEODROME]

I went to Truck Driving school and a classmate said he quit SWAT because he was freaked out by things he had seen on the job.

[Christian Liberty]

It's not for me to forgive, he needs to worry about the once peaceful folks he locked up, took away their families. their way of life, that are just now getting out after 10-15 years....

Those folks just might not be as forgiving as you profess being......

I understand that, I might not be either, but what do you honestly expect him to do about it?

[tod evans]

I understand that, I might not be either, but what do you honestly expect him to do about it?

Who?

Satch or his cousin?

[tangent4ronpaul]

Good news. Lets hope others follow his example.

-t

[Christian Liberty]

Who?

Satch or his cousin?

His cousin.

[PaulConventionWV]

im very glad to say that my cousin who has been a cop for 15yrs has just quit his job. he said the last straw was hearing of all the hate of policemen over the last few yrs and also the shooting of the cops in NY. he is really a good guy and i often wondered how he was able to stand doing that as a job for so long.

he stated he couldnt even walk into a store without wondering if he was going to be shot for no reason by anyone, and was also worried someone might target his wife and kids while he was away from home. he is now working a very hard job in the poultry business, but says that he feels safer and the stress is gone. also said all the corruption he saw over the years has took a toll on his mind. he quit the city force 5yrs ago due to corruption and went to the county.

i am proud he got out of that line of work. good for him

The mindset they teach you to have will do that to your psyche. Being a cop really isn't that dangerous, but it's understandable that he would think that way. They teach you that you're constantly in danger from every interaction with a mundane, so it's no wonder he felt stressed and scared.

Now if only more people would just stop wanting to be cops.

[tod evans]

His cousin.

If he has really changed his ways and honestly cares about the welfare of his family he'd be well advised to move far away and never speak of his past...

If even 1% of the ex-cons decide to seek retribution upon terminal diagnosis the the $#@!'s fixing to hit the fan, hell if 1/4 of 1% do that's still a significant number...

[Christian Liberty]

If he has really changed his ways and honestly cares about the welfare of his family he'd be well advised to move far away and never speak of his past...

If even 1% of the ex-cons decide to seek retribution upon terminal diagnosis the the $#@!'s fixing to hit the fan, hell if 1/4 of 1% do that's still a significant number...

Fair point. The thing is, how many people actually remember what cop made an illegitimate arrest and decide to do something about it?

Never speaking about past would be fine. Speaking about it to warn others to avoid it would be better.

[tod evans]

Fair point. The thing is, how many people actually remember what cop made an illegitimate arrest and decide to do something about it?

Never speaking about past would be fine. Speaking about it to warn others to avoid it would be better.

Have 5-10-15 or more years taken from your life by putting you in a box with cross sections of society you'd never subject yourself to voluntarily and I'm betting even you would know the name and address of every government employee involved in your incarceration....

[navy-vet]

So what's the answer? No laws, mob justice, everyone for themselves, private security?
Not to offend anyone here, I am just wondering what the correct answer is....

[Anti Federalist]

So what's the answer? No laws, mob justice, everyone for themselves, private security?
Not to offend anyone here, I am just wondering what the correct answer is....

An end to "qualified immunity".

"Term limits" for cops, or even better yet, volunteer cops.

[Christian Liberty]

An end to "qualified immunity".

"Term limits" for cops, or even better yet, volunteer cops.

This is actually a really good intermediary step. If cops only got to spend a few years in "the force" and had to spend the rest of their lives living by the same rules as the rest of us, I think that would be a definitive improvemnet. Of course, just like politicians, cops would find a way around this more likely than not.

[navy-vet]

An end to "qualified immunity".

"Term limits" for cops, or even better yet, volunteer cops.

Yes, that makes perfect sense to me! Thanks.
No unions either, and body cams on all interactions.

[angelatc]

So what's the answer? No laws, mob justice, everyone for themselves, private security?
Not to offend anyone here, I am just wondering what the correct answer is....

I don't think there are any easy answers but the cops on the beat today do not integrate with their community. At our old house there were two cops in the neighborhood, and neither of them allowed their kids to play with any of the other local kids. Where we are now is more rural, and when we were in the store the women working there mentioned that the town cops did not live in town, and did not frequent any of the businesses in town.

[satchelmcqueen]

It's not for me to forgive, he needs to worry about the once peaceful folks he locked up, took away their families. their way of life, that are just now getting out after 10-15 years....

Those folks just might not be as forgiving as you profess being......

dont assume tod. he didnt do that crap. thats one of the reasons he quit. he helped more than a few get out of jail after others arrested them for nothing. like i said he was a good guy. the only reason he stayed in for so long was to try and do the best HE could do. he tried changing things, to the point that most of his fellow officers hated him. they even took him from his home one night after he refused to not let the police chiefs best friend slide for beating his wife. his dad got a call from his wife about what happened and his dad, all 56yrs old of him, hunted them down and got his son back safe. hes been through some $#@! and now hes done. i can assure you he didnt put peaceful folks in jail.

Maybe you were speaking of cops in general?

[navy-vet]

I don't think there are any easy answers but the cops on the beat today do not integrate with their community. At our old house there were two cops in the neighborhood, and neither of them allowed their kids to play with any of the other local kids. Where we are now is more rural, and when we were in the store the women working there mentioned that the town cops did not live in town, and did not frequent any of the businesses in town.

I believe that in NC, the State Police are never assigned for duty in their home areas and are periodically moved about the State to avoid conflicts of interest. At least that's what I heard.

[invisible]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Credit goes to Gunny and AF for digging up this quote.
The OP's cousin should certainly be made aware of it. Perhaps the cousin should go VERY public with why he quit, and attempt to encourage as many others as possible to do the same. Please extend my congratulations.

[heavenlyboy34]

im very glad to say that my cousin who has been a cop for 15yrs has just quit his job. he said the last straw was hearing of all the hate of policemen over the last few yrs and also the shooting of the cops in NY. he is really a good guy and i often wondered how he was able to stand doing that as a job for so long.

he stated he couldnt even walk into a store without wondering if he was going to be shot for no reason by anyone, and was also worried someone might target his wife and kids while he was away from home. he is now working a very hard job in the poultry business, but says that he feels safer and the stress is gone. also said all the corruption he saw over the years has took a toll on his mind. he quit the city force 5yrs ago due to corruption and went to the county.

i am proud he got out of that line of work. good for him

God bless him. Nice that he also chose a noble and productive profession.

[heavenlyboy34]

An end to "qualified immunity".

"Term limits" for cops, or even better yet, volunteer cops.

Definitely an old-fashioned tradition that deserves a comeback! My reading of cop history thus far tells me that what's now thought of as "police business" was handled mostly by regular folks with occasional help from a local sheriff.

[green73]

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