Comments on Mind-Set

22 Oct 07

Comments on mind-set from an LEO Trainer:

"Those of us who are jealously faithful to our oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and to our vows to relentlessly pursue the lawless, enforce the law with spirit and determination, and to restore order where there is none, should be relentlessly purging our ranks of the slackers described in your Quip. The issue is not just that they are stealing a paycheck, but that they are actively betraying the uniform, their Charge, their Office, and the rest of us.

These derelicts, with nauseating presumptions moral superiority, indulge themselves in a false pride attached to accomplishing nothing. They are an epitome of arrogance.

In some quarters, law enforcement has become a sort of dole, a system of public welfare, where the indolent can spend years getting paid for doing little more than occupying space."

Comment: No one should be paid for merely existing. Productivity and devotion to duty needs to be strictly required of all of us. A law-enforcement career is no soft affair. Who can accept it at its face should go forward boldly and fearlessly. Who can't need to get out, any way they wish!

/John