Yes, 'Serve and Protect' is on some law enforcement vehicles.
Comparing the role of the police to the role of parents is not a fair equivalent. One is a job that a person is paid to do. The idea that the police are of higher standards that non-police is wishful thinking at best.
A child being abused by someone outside the family is no better or worse than being abused by a parent...unless you take into account the sheer number of hours, days, months, years, a child is subject to whatever a parent decides to dish out. And parenting isn't a job...no one has to apply, they don't have to pass an interview, they don't have to take courses...it's something that happens and not necessarily to people who ought to be acting as parents.
Then you threw in Andrea Yates who wasn't known to be an abusive parent. She was diagnosed with severe postpartum depression and went into a psychotic break that ended with her killing her children. She was out of her mind.
Members of law enforcement and parents aren't the same thing...not even close to the same thing.
Yes, I think you went off on a 37 tangent that completely failed to prove what was apparently your point that the public expects the police to be ultimate protectors of law-abiding citizens...who happen to pay their salary.
Comparing the role of the police to the role of parents is not a fair equivalent. One is a job that a person is paid to do. The idea that the police are of higher standards that non-police is wishful thinking at best.
A child being abused by someone outside the family is no better or worse than being abused by a parent...unless you take into account the sheer number of hours, days, months, years, a child is subject to whatever a parent decides to dish out. And parenting isn't a job...no one has to apply, they don't have to pass an interview, they don't have to take courses...it's something that happens and not necessarily to people who ought to be acting as parents.
Then you threw in Andrea Yates who wasn't known to be an abusive parent. She was diagnosed with severe postpartum depression and went into a psychotic break that ended with her killing her children. She was out of her mind.
Members of law enforcement and parents aren't the same thing...not even close to the same thing.
Yes, I think you went off on a 37 tangent that completely failed to prove what was apparently your point that the public expects the police to be ultimate protectors of law-abiding citizens...who happen to pay their salary.
I'm your huckleberry.
