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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband, one of those terrible cops we all must hate, risked his life to save a 16-year-old girl a few years ago. I understood why he put himself in so much danger, even though I selfishly wanted him to come home that night to our own children. You can disparage police all you want. There are many who will still stand between you and harm. I have first-hand knowledge of this. [/quote]

No one thinks all police are bad. For instance the Border Control law enforcement team which IGNORED the Uvalde Chief of Police's orders and broke down the door after 90 minutes are heroes. [/quote]

Yes, there are plenty of people who think all police are bad, including some local politicians. My husband gets spit on for getting out of his car these days. He can perform his job admirably, and it will never matter to some. The “good guy” that he is, he’ll just take it. As his wife, I get angry. [/quote]

Boo hoo. Cry me an f ing river. I don’t care about your hurt feelings. I care about those parents who won’t ever see their kids again. How dare you make this about yourself. [/quote]

+ 1.[/quote]

That’s not remotely what I did, and I think you know that. I simply defended a group that has been repeatedly disparaged, including on this thread. Pointing out that police may actually be allies is not centering this on myself. [/quote]

Go away, this thread is not for you. I could care less how angry you get because people don't treat your husband poorly. WAHHHH poor you. I don't have any more f's to give after thinking non stop about these poor kids and their families for the last few days. So many of these conversations on what's wrong with policing get hijacked but butt hurt police wives and I am not here for it. You suck, and your husband isn't a "hero" who should be worshipped just because he is a cop. [/quote]

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Go away! This thread is for hysterical venting and uninformed comments[/quote]

Do you know the history of the word hysterical? Why would you use that word to describe parents concerned for their children’s safety and the loss of life in school shootings, as well as the police response to this and various other situations? Do you feel like the police acted appropriately in Uvalde? Do you feel like when people are analyzing how the adults in charge left children to die, and in one case caused the death of a child according to a boy in the classroom, this is the appropriate venue to start talking about how adults who chose to marry police officers have fears too? Maybe, if you feel like you’re not getting enough support for your feelings about the police officers you love and care for, you shouldn’t try to get it on a thread whose topic is police officers not rescuing children because they might get shot too. Maybe a better idea is to start a thread sharing your experiences with good guys with guns. Or do an AMA about being married to a cop. Or talk to spouses of police officers. But this particular thread might not be helpful for you. We’re still processing 21 people being massacred inside a school, the survivors’ accounts, and how scary it is to live in a world where 18yos have easy access to guns too scary for the police to fight back against, as well as the idea that the police actually make some situations worse instead of better. That last one has been building up for a while, but it sort of exploded recently when we heard children talking about calling 911 to say they can hear the police in the next room, why aren’t they rescuing us?

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The intent of this thread, based on the OP’s title AND the first post, is to criticize police. The very first post suggests all cops are cowards unwilling to risk their lives. I was the first wife to post. (I’m clearly not the only one, nor am I the one I suspect you are responding to.) I posted that my husband HAS put his life at risk. I’ve met him in the hospital twice after attacks at work. THIS thread, which is about cowardness, does warrant responses like mine. To answer your questions, no, I do not think the police in Uvalde acted appropriately. I can be angry about their response while simultaneously not condemn every officer nationwide to vitriol. [/quote]

Cool. Keep doing that then. I’m sure it’ll help everyone feel better and heal from this tragedy. Whenever you feel you’ve appropriately defended your husband’s honor, if you need a new project, I heard #notallmen needs more kind ladies to help them too. [/quote]

Yep. No one cares about your feelings, police wife or wives. Truly. Your husbands work in a profession filled with vile racists, domestic abusers, and do nothings. This is a choice they made and you chose to marry them. F your feelings. I personally can’t stop thinking about the dead children and the living ones that had to go through it all and don’t understand why the “hero” cops just stood around.

Anyway, you are vile for coming in here and whining. Go to a police wife support group if you want sympathy. [/quote]

I’m not bringing hate into this world, and neither is my husband. I did nothing more than counter a stereotype presented by the OP, and then parroted by you.  I’m a world that needs more hope and love, perhaps you can find a way to work WITH people who agree with you instead of joyfully tearing them apart.[/quote]

I know not all cops are bad. Some are good. However, the justice system is broken, and policing is uneven, unequal and largely corrupt. They're also overworked, jaded from seeing some of the worst aspects of society, and get crapped on by bad guys who don't like being policed as well as good guys who don't like how the system works. If it makes you feel better, why don't you assume that all the negative things said about police on the thread are only referring to the bad cops, like the ones who caused a little girl's death by telling the kids in a room with a shooter to yell if they need help, causing her to get shot when she called out for help. Then maybe assume when someone says something like, "police officers who let little kids die are bad people and should suffer whatever legal consequences are applicable," just assume that's not referring to your husband because you know in your heart that he's not like that. And when people say that the authorities who are lying or helping cover up mistakes made by cops who enabled the death of 21 teachers and children in a school are also criminals, please know we're not talking about your husband, because you vouched for him and he'd never do that either. And when we call the cops who stood outside establishing the perimeter instead of following their training and going after the man with a gun inside the school shooting kids, handcuffing parents, tasing parents, guns out threatening parents who wanted to save their families, when we call them pieces of sh*t, that's not referencing your husband. He would've gone in and done his job, because he's upstanding. I mean, that's not even being a good cop, that's being a normal person with a conscience.

So just please bear with us, and understand that we're just talking about the bad cops, not the cops you know. The ones who'd put a knee on someone's neck for almost 10 minutes until they die, or who shoot a child on a playground, or who shoot a man in his own apartment because they think they're inside their own home, or who don't shoot a man in a school while he kills children. Or the ones who cover up for those cops. Or who keep inviting them over to dinner after their mistakes are swept under the rug. Or who vote for fewer gun restrictions even though it endangers them more. Those are who we're talking about when we say bad cops. It's implied, but it takes too long to type it out every time we discuss a new horrific revelation about how inept or corrupt the police in Uvalde were this week. [/quote]

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