WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

Here's the scene. You are a police officer and you are on your regular patrol. It's 10:00 PM and you get a call on your radio. The call says shots fired in a possible domestic situation. The call also adds that the suspect hates police and is known to be combative. You are alone as you get to the address. As you walk up to the door, the suspect comes out holding a woman by her hair and carrying a handgun pointed at the woman. He then turns to you, points his weapon straight at you, and says, "Get out of here or I'll kill you and the woman." 

What do you do? What should you do? You know that the woman is probably going to get killed or seriously wounded at least. Oh, and by the way, the suspect is black and you are white.

The next problem is that this is in Minneapolis, or Atlanta, or Seattle, or maybe New York City. Now what do you do?

Next scenario. You are on your patrol and you witness a young girl being molested by a group of young men. You pull up and the young boys pull out handguns and start firing, indiscriminately. Everybody is a target. They are running as they shoot. Again they are all black and you are still white. What do you do? Specifically what do you do if you are a police officer in any of the cities I cited earlier?

I could mention case after case for this column but it still asks the same question, what to do. Now mind you, all this is happening as city after city is looking for ways to cut funding for their police departments. The domestic terrorist groups, which are in fact terrorizing these cities, are out of control and they are pressing the issue. Defund the police is their rallying cry.

A number of departments are finding it may not be necessary to cut their funding because many of their officers are quitting. I know that if I was a police officer today, I would find a new line of work. These politically correct government officials are going to wake up soon to anarchy and chaos and no policemen to handle the problem. What then? Who you gonna call when there are no policemen on the force?

A few years back I attended a sixteen-week civilian police academy. As civilians we were taught what it means to be a police officer. We were trained in driving techniques, shooting, pit maneuvers, fingerprinting, and crime scene investigation. During the course we got to experience the taser. Everyone of us was tased to know what that was like. Take my word for this, you don’t ever want to be tased. Unpleasant does not do justice to the experience. We were taught by police officers and their chiefs. It truly was an amazing time and it taught me a brand new respect for the police.

So now I have a few words for the morons who are trying to defund the police departments in our major cities. It ain’t gonna happen. You got that? You need to find some other country to ply your anarchy. America is a law and order country and we don’t take too kindly to lawbreakers and thugs. That, then brings up the matter of city councils and mayors who seem hell bent on destruction of their cities. 

If you clowns don’t come to your senses you are going to wake up some morning with no police department to underfund. The cops will all be gone. Do you really think that the police are just going to stand by while they are being fed to the wolves and not fight back? They know what we all should know. A hesitating cop is a dead cop.

Attention city council, when the bad guys are breaking into your house, who you gonna call???

Ron Scarbro June 22, 2020