The job is not for the faint of heart.
“Ticket, ticket?” “I ain’t got to show you no stinkin’ ticket.”
Tough neighborhood.
I’m sure the assailant had coming what he got. But, how far has journalism devolved, to the extent that news stories refer to peace officers as “cops”? I mean we do all the time, but I always though the legitimate media was more…formal?
Alas, in today’s climate, LEO’s are often held as the bad guys, whether they deserve it or not.
Everyone with a telephone that takes pictures and can produce a keyboard thinks they are a ‘journalist’. That being said they have never learned to ‘fact check’ from reliable proven sources.
The ‘print media’ is only a pale shadow of what it was ‘in the day’; and it has just emerged from a 4 year War on the truth and it is still fighting occasional skirmishes.
I had a run in with a “bad” Michigan State Police trooper 33 years ago and that’s colored my view on most of them, until they prove differently to me. Not that I have a lot of interaction with them personally, but working in the firearms industry, you run into a lot of them.
Cops don’t bother me nearly as much as they used to.
Sometimes it tickles me over how much time they are willing to waste in my rearview mirror, when they instead should be out chasing genuine badguys. [swg]
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Having grown up in that neighborhood and still passing through every now and again, Hegewisch hardly qualifies as a rough neighborhood.