Five Reasons to Not Be a Cop These Days. #5 Will Infuriate You.

By Kevin Downey Jr. May 28, 2021 

What’s the point of being a cop anymore? The media runs quotidian stories, apocryphal at best, of police brutality (sorry about the SAT words but I only have five and use them when I can). Liberal celebrities and politicians hamstring cops at every turn. Lefty politicians regurgitate the myth of “systemic racism” in policing anytime someone points a camera at them. 

Most of our major cities have seen ridiculous spikes in police retirements. In Chicago, 560 cops retired last year, a 15% increase from the previous year. In New York, 2,500 officers said goodbye in 2020, almost double the number in 2019. As my colleague, Rick Moran pointed out, 200 cops in Minneapolis have retired since the death of George Floyd. Victoria Taft told us the same thing regarding Portland. It’s happening all over the country and I don’t blame them

Why are so many cops leaving the job? Because it’s the smart thing to do. Here are some very good reasons to not be a cop in the United States these days

1. Lights, Camera, Lies........... 
2. Bail Reform, It’s Lit!.............. 
3.  Let My People Go.......... 
4. Sorry Son, You’ve Been Defunded.......... 
5. What Was Bad Is Good................

New Low

As if praising a sexual assault suspect isn’t repulsive enough, a CBS affiliate in Champaign, Ill., literally portrayed a cop killer as an angel. WCIA aired a picture of a person I won’t name wearing angel wings, despite having shot two cops and killing one. A nauseating insult to the police officers shot and a kick in the teeth to everyone who wears the badge. What happens when the media, celebrities and lefty politicians make criminals into heroes?.........To Read More....