Police Cannot Be Patriots! -- It's Nothing Personal. -- EPISODE 52

Police Are Not Patriots This is one of those statements that Many won’t want to hear.  Especially Police themselves.  If you ask police themselves, they’ll regularly say things like.  “I’m a Patriot”.  They back that up by saying, “I’m a veteran”.  or “I became a police officer to continue to serve my community and my country”. They’ll proclaim from the mountaintops, that they are a Patriot.   They will wear all the patches.  Many will have the tattoos.  They wear american flags all over their uniforms, and Granted, those flags will have a thin blue line through them, but hey… they believe this is okay.   But to top it off, Many police officers will begin to believe they are somehow special because they have a sort of perceived support of many well-meaning americans.   People they run accross regularly walk up to police and say things like, “Thank You for what you do”, or “Thank you for your service”.  And many police will begin to internalize these comments.  Inevitably, they begin to believe that they deserve such accolades and recognition. But because of this constant stream of Accolade and Recognition, Many police begin to truly believe that they are Patriots by the mere fact that they are police.   They believe that’s all it takes.     Well.  I’m here to say the Obvious!  Even if it is unpopular to say.   Police Are Not Patriots!