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Usually, I tuck stories into existing treads, but I think this well-written article deserves its own venue. 

In Nashville shooting, police officers were heroes. But no one wants to be a hero anymore. (msn.com)

Take a good look at Nashville police officers Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo working their way quickly and methodically toward the shooter at Covenant School on Monday morning.

That is valor uncommon in our world today: Two men leading other men to something terrible around one of those corners at that tidy private school. 

In the police body camera footage you see training take charge to stop a killer. The officers come upon a tiny body in the hallway and run past understanding with certainty now what they’ll soon confront.

And still they go on...

Today Engelbert and Collazo are hailed as “heroes,” and no one is doubting their worthiness. They showed extraordinary courage putting their lives at risk.

Take a good look because men and women like that are becoming less common in our country as it is torn apart by squalid infighting and deeply divided political outlooks.

Young Americans today no longer want to sign up to protect their communities or their country...

Police took a major hit in popularity the last handful of years. They had politicians wanting to defund them, had a few bad actors hiding behind the badge and even had a few cowards (Uvalde)..

But that should no way, shape or form disenfranchise these police departments. These are still humans behind the badge, and everyone makes mistakes. I have 100% confidence and faith that the next time I need an officer, I'll get a bona-fide representative of my local police department and I guarantee that they'll attain to my concerns with professionalism..

(04-01-2023, 08:02 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: [ -> ]Police took a major hit in popularity the last handful of years. They had politicians wanting to defund them, had a few bad actors hiding behind the badge and even had a few cowards (Uvalde)..

But that should no way, shape or form disenfranchise these police departments. These are still humans behind the badge, and everyone makes mistakes. I have 100% confidence and faith that the next time I need an officer, I'll get a bona-fide representative of my local police department and I guarantee that they'll attain to my concerns with professionalism..

I feel the same way.  I see young cops in my local police department.  And I expect they're being taught to not be like the dudes in Minneapolis or Uvalde, and be more like the ones in Nashville recently.  They seem to be sticking around.

I thought about going into law enforcement at one point. I can't afford the pay cut though, it's ridiculous how little they can make. I know. A state trooper that averaged 60 hours a week, that's 20 hours of OT to make 55k