One more post for the day for my friends who are the "good ones" cause there are good and bad in every career field, every side, etc.
To my police friends who know that I know that we know that you know that you're the good guys, let me make something clear. Me talking about ONE particular case and my opinion on it has no bearing on how I feel about all officers, so the accusations of me "being the problem" as to why law enforcement is demonized is absolutely ridiculous. Never have I generalized an entire group. For some things I say "most" or "many," but I appreciate that there are a lot of really GREAT officers as well.
We as nurses and healthcare workers are demonized too. I'm very aware of that and have been told many times by haters that don't even know me that I "shouldn't even be a nurse," just because of someone or something I support that doesn't align with their views. My personal views have no bearing on how I provide care - and they shouldn't in ANY professional job (although nurses are no longer professionals according to this administration). However, we (in these career fields) know that unfortunately that is not always the case and some people do bring their beliefs and prejudices and much more to work with them.
With police, the problem is not the ones doing their job correctly, staying professional and compassionate and being able to compartmentalize as much as that sucks to have to do every day. It's the ones who went into policing because they have little d1ck syndrome and use excessive force and make stupid decisions and are shitty to people. They are the problem.
Just like healthcare is $hit and people have bad experiences every day in the hospital (that sometimes k!ll$ instead of saves).
The difference is that unlike those coming at me for my opinion all defensive, I KNOW that we have to be able to both support our profession and admit when something is done wrong. And it's funny that the same people giving their opinions about medical topics during covid, are now going as far as to tell me to "shut up" because I'm not a lawyer or an officer, or to "go read a book." Sure, I love reading and doing research all the time to educate myself since this damn world is a psyop. Hell, I'll even keep writing some.
I feel confident enough to know by now from what people have told me that I'm a "good one," doing what I'm supposed to do, despite the haters I've had over the years calling me crazy because I left my job instead of bending over and taking the jab we knew nothing about. And I am still able to also AGREE that healthcare -the industry I have dedicated my life to - is shit . I can say that and not get all defensive about it.
Quite the opposite, actually, I'm often the FIRST one to say that the whole system, particularly the hospital I worked at for most of my career is corrupt. There are doctors I've worked with over the years (and nurses) who probably shouldn't even have licenses. That's not a reflection on ME, just because I'm working in the same place where people say they'd rather bleed out than have to go to. Just like what the federal agents do is not a reflection of every officer who sees this.
It sucks to work with incompetent or egotistical people who make poor decisions every day, but that's part of the job.
So, me saying that I have come in contact with LOTS of police and security who are shitty at what they do, escalate instead of diffuse situations, are smug and cocky and don't follow policy, has NOTHING to do with the ones that are doing the right thing. Awareness and admission of what is going on in these corrupt organizations should be a good thing not a bad thing.
It's the only way things will ever change.
Being awake is being able to see the corruption from the inside out AND from the outside in. the outside in.
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