How would you react if you heard someone say that cops are not heroes?

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[Msputiton]

Being a police officer does not make you a hero.

Their actions as a police officer does.

Some are bigger criminals than the criminals.

Their are neutral ones and some who deserve to be called heroes.

Sadly the bigger problem with the police is the culture. Defend and protect your fellow officers actions no matter how despicable it may be.

This is the reason the police have such a bad reputation.

If they would punish the crooked instead of reversing it and trying to make a vicitim of police brutality look like they deserve it.

So a bad cop can go and get bolder with his actions because he realizes he can with no accountability.

Good cops who call out bad cops will actually get punished for not backing the bad cop, by helping to hide his indiscretions.

[SaoirseS]

I wouldn’t react at all. No occupation by itself makes anyone a hero. Heroes are born from selfless deeds and are not limited to those who risk their lives.

[nightdrot]

No joke, when I was no more than 5 years old, I can remember my mother telling my younger brother and me, "If you kids get thrown in jail you can expect to stay there because I won't be bailing you out. Because if you are in jail it means that you deserve to be. When a police officer tells you to do something you say, 'Yes, sir" and you do it!"

To be sure, beyond wondering how I would end up as the first second grader incarcerated on Alcatraz, speaking at just a personal level, I have no sympathy for this notion that someone is a delicate little snowflake who deserves to have his feelings given a higher regard than the rule of law. It is utterly alien to everything I was raised with.

The police have a risky job, their lives are on the line at every stop, and they have no way of knowing who you are or what you are doing. They deserve deference and if they go outside the bounds, you have redress for that in a court of law.

The current popular attitude toward law enforcement is an outgrowth of a sniveling, self-absorbed and self-pitying culture that too easily takes for granted the difficult task of maintaining a stable social order. "The policeman was mean to me!" Good grief.

Do they get unfairly treated? Absolutely. It is the sign of a self-satisfied and sanctimonious age that too easily takes for granted its safety and those who assure us.

In 1977, after nearly two decades of a culture that had taken to calling the police, "pigs" and that thought the criminal was a victim of society rather than a victimizer, Gallup took a poll. It showed that 72% of all women - and 92% of African-American women - of all classes and incomes and all the rest, did not feel safe walking in their neighborhoods at night.

Americans, as was said of the French kings, "Forget nothing and learn nothing." Suffice to say, as we are seeing now - and as can be seen in some of the answers on this page - we are about to repeat history.

[WhiteSteve]

No argument here. I’m not totally against them on all fronts, but I definitely don’t consider them to be “friendlies.” Anybody who can take away my freedom if my behavior doesn’t align with THEIR standards is no friend of mine.

[anon171999]

I'd agree. How can you be a hero when your entire career is based on using fear, intimidation, and threats to get people to obey your rules regardless of whether it goes against their freewill & moral beliefs?

Police don't have a choice as to whether they want to follow an order that interferes with their moral beliefs, what is just, or what is in the best interest of the citizens of their country.

Sure, they help a lot of ways but they also do a lot of damage. I believe that's why so many cops go corrupt. They become disheartened by having to do things to keep their job that go against what they know to be the right thing. The system fails so frequently to bring justice & being a part of it means in order to keep your job, you have to do things that violate what is just and fair to do in a specific situation. Which means you ruin people's lives at times when it's unfair, unwarranted, and unjust.

[1stupidrobot]

They aren't heroes. They're unmitigated bullies who live above the laws that they use like a weapon against everyone beneath them. They don't have to go to sleep in the communities they terrorize and have zero sense of loyalty towards the people they're supposed to serve and protect. We aren't even human to them. Just saying.

[Passing_by]

True.

[Chazmatazz269]

Generalizations are always shit.
See what i did there?
Ell oh ell!
Generalizations are cowardly. They’re never wrong while simultaneously never right. Generalizations are scapegoats of the willfully ignorant in the information age.
I suspect that people who don’t understand and respect that are either looking for a fight or more than a little willfully ignorant.

[monorprise]

Whos cops? There are around 660,288 police officers in these united States. They work for more than 15,400 different department each with their own leaders, laws, and training.

There are certantly more than a few heros among them and some not soo good people as well. It is the job of your state and local leaders to insure that the officers they hire, train, and command are as high quality as they can make them.

The same leaders are therefore responsible for their conduct.

[ShadezMcgee]

Well, not all cops are good ones/heroes or should be cops to begin with, so obviously this is a loaded and rhetorical question.

Me personally it would depend if you are being generalizing or talking about specific ones. For example, my sister is a cop, I have read and seen stories she has had done about her actions in the paper. She is loved by the community, so if you bad mouthed her, bet money we will have an unpleasant conversation along with the community she helps.

[ShadezMcgee]

Same goes for my girlfriend too, by the way. Say anything detrimental about them regarding their conduct as officers, we will have a problem.

[exitseven]

I literally knew hundreds of cops. Not all of them were heroes but the vast majority are people that want to serve their communities.

[Anonymous]

disagree. they are heroes, no matter what kind of stigma you guys think they are. who else would blindly step into danger on a daily basis? yeah... not all cops are the same, not all cops are bad. seriously.

[Agape93]

I agree. An occupation does not make you virtuous, honest or courageous. That's what your integrity does when nobody sees it.

[legalboxers]

ALL LIVES MATTER...
Blue Lives Dont..
White Lives Dont
Black Lives Dont.
Trans Lives Dont.
Gay Lives Dont.
ALL LIVES MATTER

[suzzieQ]

Agree. Being a in law enforcement doesn't make a person a hero any more than any other profession really.

[Apple_Cider]

This is why it's so easy to dupe the masses. As tragic as this was, it's good for the politicians that want to ban guns and cops. And this massacre works out great for China and Soros who wants the murderers let out of prison.

[Cassie88]

If by the expression "not heroes" you actually mean villains, then it's only true that some policemen are not heroes (because they're corrupt or something like that).

[Dargil]

I would tell them I disagree but not debate with them. There are many people beyond reason, logic and facts. If they "feel" it, it is "their truth".

[call_me_scar]

Some are sure but not all just look at those cowards who allowed a classroom to get shot up

[HighValue]

More cops are heroes than military people because more cops risk their own safety and lives to help others.

[Sasahara]

Well, that depends on the cop. Most of them are normal people doing their job. I don't have negative opinions about most cops either.

[NathanDavis]

I would sincerely hope they never need the help of one...

[SmokinAces2000]

I would agree, I’m sure there are a couple who are heroic in some sense but the majority are not