Cop Derangement Syndrome

American Thinker 

One of life’s enigmas is trying to figure out why people, who are generally reasonable, get enraged when a cop shoots a criminal, yet they don’t have a lot of sympathy when a cop gets shot.  We see the same lack of objectivity when people wring their hands remorsefully when they hear a death sentence for a savage killer but have no sympathy for a fetus whose life is terminated by a mother who treats it like bodily waste.  What is it in the human condition that causes such mental aberration?  How many times have we heard about women who write love letters to men on Death Row and visit them in prison?  Hollywood celebrities have taken to the streets to protest the execution of cop-killers.  How many have tried to discourage pregnant women from aborting the innocent life growing inside of them?

What we’ve been witnessing on the streets of Minneapolis is another example of this aberration.  Here we have the Trump administration keeping a campaign promise of rounding up the millions of illegal aliens who were foisted upon our country during the disastrous Biden regime.  Instead of welcoming the obvious law enforcement benefits of that righteous action, hordes of protesters have been reacting violently against those who seek to rid their streets of potentially dangerous neighbors.  I don’t doubt that many of those carrying signs and obnoxiously screeching at ICE are being paid to do so by forces on the left.  Yet the size of the mobs leads me to believe that many are simply Trump-haters who are always willing to join a mob that tends to validate their derangement.

Cops are well acquainted with such madness.  I’ve written many times about my experiences as a cop in NYC, and the hostility from those who exhibited antipathy toward authority.  During arrest situations, especially in high-crime areas, a crowd would suddenly gather and begin attacking us with verbal and physical assaults.  When they were arrested on various charges connected to their interference, we’d often discover that they had no connection to the arrestee but simply hated cops.  I suppose we could have called it Cop Derangement Syndrome (CDS).  After struggling to do our job in that environment, it soon became clear that we’d better have each other’s backs, because the neighborhood residents weren’t going to be there for us.

Moreover, when a cop shot someone during an arrest situation, violent demonstrations were likely to occur.  Contrarily, when a cop was shot, we’d have to tolerate jeers and obscene gestures from a callous group of bystanders.  Hence, I can only imagine what ICE agents have been putting up with as they face packs of ferocious thugs assailing them with a variety of substances.

Enforcement personnel are only human.  They’re susceptible to physical exhaustion and morbid fear of what may suddenly occur.  They’re doing a job, and they expect to go home to their families at the end of the day.  No cop should be expected to take a bullet because fear of political retribution outweighed his survival instinct.

It’s almost impossible to explain the stress cops deal with in life-threatening circumstances.  They may have a few seconds to make a decision involving deadly force, but often have their actions scrutinized by politicians and lawyers for weeks or months, as they await their fate.  We’ve all seen verdicts from politically influenced juries that sentence cops to prison for doing what they were trained to do (Derek Chauvin is one example).

Our country is at a pivotal moment in Western civilization.  If we are to remain civilized, we must choose to either obey the law or give in to the nihilistic hedonism growing in our orbit.

Cops go through several months of academic and physical training before being dispatched to the streets to enforce laws.  Once the cop starts an action against someone, the die is cast.  He cannot just walk away because the person is defiant.  Such defiance can be addressed after police action has been taken, not on the street during the action.

There are numerous ways for the citizen to address grievances against what he sees as improper conduct.  Complaints can be filed, lawsuits can be filed, and defense attorneys can deal with allegations of improper police action during trials.  However, there is nothing in the law that says the citizen has a right to resist lawful authority!  If everyone did that, no one would be safe on the streets, because those with evil intent would take full advantage of the obvious weakness in the police and in the laws they are sworn to enforce.

For example, no one enjoys being given a traffic ticket, yet, if traffic laws were not enforced, no one would be safe on the roadway, because speeders, drunk drivers, etc. would have no reason to moderate their driving or parking habits.  Would you want to go for a drive if there were no rules of the road?  Before there were laws and cops to enforce them, we lived in a savage wilderness.  It became so perilous that people were not safe on the streets or in their homes.

What we’re experiencing in our country today is a very vocal and violent segment of society that wants to return to those primitive times.  Therefore, it’s up to civilized folks to have enough courage to stop the madness before it reaches everyone’s doorstep.