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I guess I am responding to both those who question the validity of a 'special' room for LEOs and making a statement in favor of said room. I do not come by my position lightly:
I was born into a family with 26 aunts and uncles. Hitler and Tojo reduced that number by nearly half so I had alot of single aunts who married cops, all of whom were returned GI's, heck back then everyone was a returned GI. Why those women married cops is still a mystery but they did.
So I grew-up surrounded by cops, I got special tours of the Police Academy. I got to shoot a Riesing 45acp subgun at the age of 13, and I got to sit around during the bull sesions and hear the war stories cops tell. This was back in the 1950's and 60's. Some of those guys packed an arsenal off-duty, some packed a 22LR! Some went to church and some were drunks who went to church and some were bastards.
Not all my uncles were saints and some were Boy Scouts. One uncle used to bust drunks and take thier money. Another would stuff the drunk in a taxi and mail the car keys to the drunk's home. One Boy Scout was shot and crippled by a drunk. Cops; good and bad cops both face death every day, it is dam hard to raise a family that way and there are a million broken marrigages with both clean and dirty cops paying alimony cause they would not quit the job.
All cops are human, none have unspotted souls yet they have to deal with a truely shitty world so that 'The Tide' if not defeated, is at least held at bay.
I say give em a break and let em have a private room to jack thier jaws.
If they were GI's I doubt anyone here would bust a nut over a private room. If Terror strikes Obamma's America the cops will be in the front lines taking the heat, so have a heart guys. My 2 cents
I was born into a family with 26 aunts and uncles. Hitler and Tojo reduced that number by nearly half so I had alot of single aunts who married cops, all of whom were returned GI's, heck back then everyone was a returned GI. Why those women married cops is still a mystery but they did.
So I grew-up surrounded by cops, I got special tours of the Police Academy. I got to shoot a Riesing 45acp subgun at the age of 13, and I got to sit around during the bull sesions and hear the war stories cops tell. This was back in the 1950's and 60's. Some of those guys packed an arsenal off-duty, some packed a 22LR! Some went to church and some were drunks who went to church and some were bastards.
Not all my uncles were saints and some were Boy Scouts. One uncle used to bust drunks and take thier money. Another would stuff the drunk in a taxi and mail the car keys to the drunk's home. One Boy Scout was shot and crippled by a drunk. Cops; good and bad cops both face death every day, it is dam hard to raise a family that way and there are a million broken marrigages with both clean and dirty cops paying alimony cause they would not quit the job.
All cops are human, none have unspotted souls yet they have to deal with a truely shitty world so that 'The Tide' if not defeated, is at least held at bay.
I say give em a break and let em have a private room to jack thier jaws.
If they were GI's I doubt anyone here would bust a nut over a private room. If Terror strikes Obamma's America the cops will be in the front lines taking the heat, so have a heart guys. My 2 cents
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