A candid conversation with a cop: Part 1
we know what it’s like to be a cop, but we really have no idea. The only reason I know how little I/we know, is that I count several cops among my dearest friends. I know them as people, first, and cops second. They are all men and to a man, they are among the finest human beings I know. Smart. Idealistic at times. Articulate. Yes, and some are even, dare I say it–to the left, politically. Yes.It rolled off the tongues of my generation easily, thoughtlessly, although never mine. Ah, youth.
At the same time, change is needed. Hoping that I–and through this blog post, we–better understand what law enforcement is about, what they see and how they feel, I asked a working cop I know to weigh in. He’s someone I respect and I like. We started talking and didn’t stop–for hours. Online and on the phone. And we could have talk for days.this is the result. Some of you might be surprised by what you hear, as I was. And remember, this is one particular cop’s view.
And then, there are those who do not, like former LAPD officer Rafael Perez, who was a straight-up criminal. Thankfully, I do not have to work around people like that.It raised the hair on the back of my neck. I kept yelling at him ,Our reason for using force is to compel compliance. If someone is simply passively resisting you do not get to use that kind of force. At least not in my department. It baffles me that Minneapolis PD allows it.
For those unaware of the case: In Aurora ,Colorado, someone called the police because an individual was walking down the street wearing a ski mask, acting erratically. The ski mask was not out of the ordinary as it was winter in Colorado. The caller did not believe the pedestrian was armed. This incident fills me with dread. A close family member is autistic. Autism thinks differently. We do not know what was going on in Elijah’s mind, and tragically, we never will. But he was obviously in fear. I also know that I have witnessed tens of thousands of incidents of emergent medication being administered. In California, I have never witnessed ketamine used. In Colorado it was allowed.
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