Comments on: Questions Arise From Tragic Copper Deaths

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:38:41 +0000

In regards to all the comments posted so far let me give you the perspective from a police officers point of view. I have served my country as a member of the Armed Forces and as a peace officer. On the date of this horrible crash I was attending a management course with 21 other peace officers. A classmate and coworker of mine sadly is a cousin to the deceased peace officer in question who some of you seem quick to bash. Law Enforcement is a very small community and we all have to depend upon each other for support. The only other brotherhoods which have as close a relationship are firefighters and military families. While our entire class chose to go to our fallen brothers funeral on our time off, we also decided as a class to show our support for our armed forces brother as well. To his family, our small group took up a collection and donated what we could to help them as well. This state tragically lost two very decent men of honor in this accident and all some of you can do is tarnish one mans memory. The comment that a police officer murdered an innocent driver disgusts me. Murder implies forethought and intent. If you want to start classifying accidents as such start prosecuting drunk drivers who crash and kill as murderers. They intended to drink and they intended to drive didn’t they? How about attempted murder for any DUI driver because their actions could result in a crash? Why he was not wearing his seat belt in the crash? Sadly we will never know. People die daily in tragic crashes because they were not wearing seat belts. This does not make them bad people……..unless you are a cop of course. We are held to a higher standard of conduct than any other. We are not allowed to be human and are guilty for the actions of all other cops…..right? At least thats the way its supposed to work if I am reading you right.

By: Copper murdered innocent driver

Copper murdered innocent driver — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:03:00 +0000

The copper was in the wrong lane. He killed an innocent driver. He gets a “hero’s” funeral. Does something seem out of place? We are honoring somebody who killed?

By: BG

BG — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:46:55 +0000

It has always struck me that law enforcement personnel turn out en mass to honor their fallen comrades……..and when a police officer uses deadly force and kills a citizen, who conducts objective unbiased independent investigations? Comrades from another agency.

By: dog

dog — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:12:20 +0000

Yo Cy,
Take a taser in the butt for us and prove it doesn’t really hurt.

By: A cyclops that is blind in one eye, cannot see!

A cyclops that is blind in one eye, cannot see! — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:35:47 +0000

Cy, buddy, take some of your own advice. There is a reason they all left you.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:19:23 +0000

You remind me of my first wife! In fact, now that I think about it, you remind me of everyone’s first wife! You don’t want to listen, read, or consider you may be wrong. Your analogy is juvenile at best! I wish you well!

By: YO, Cyclops. Take a Chill Pill Buddy!

YO, Cyclops. Take a Chill Pill Buddy! — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:21:56 +0000

Change the name and your description of what makes a cop special would fit every other profession. “They give up weekends,kid’s birthdays, anniversaries, Easter, Thanksgivings and Christmas!”, sounds like the checker at Winco, putting in the extra time so you can have a twinkie.

By: LJ

LJ — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:26:48 +0000

I don’t want to beat a dead horse, and repeat what Guy Bourgeau or I have already said.

I am wondering where “Tone it Down Coppers” and “Opie” found the information about one of the officers text messaging? This is the first place I saw that, and was wondering if it has any factual basis? Not saying it did or didn’t occur, just wondering where that information originated.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:21:32 +0000

Tone it down, I don’t know about your accountant, but I can wager that my accountant ain’t about to try and save my ass if I am threatened by some criminal activity. There goes your argument that coppers aren’t any different than any other profession.
We expect our law enforcement officers to be judge, jury, sadly executioner, psychologist, lawyer,social worker,babysitter,and dutch uncle all in the space of seconds! They don’t have the luxury of “do-overs”. To say they are no different than other professions is just plain silly! (thanks to Joe Friday) They will never see Europe except in pictures. They struggle to put their kids through school. They almost have to have a wife that is employed as well, just to make ends meet. They look for overtime, not because they want to, but rather because they have to because we don’t pay them enough! They give up weekends,kid’s birthdays, anniversaries, Easter, Thanksgivings and Christmas!
No different than other professions? Not hardly!

By: ericn1300

ericn1300 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:30:31 +0000

The copper’s show of strength at funerals goes back to the 1930’s when the show of strength was in response to the elaborate funerals of organized crime members during prohibition, when both sides often had a loss of life in confrontations, and has little relevance today.

The whole idea of “the thin blue line” came from the same era of prohibition when there was no income tax and prohibition ended the tax revenue from alcohol, thinning the ranks of law enforcement whilst lining the pockets of crooks that found it easy to recruit in the hard times of The Great Depression.