What if……..
What if you were at work and a stranger told you how to do your job. Imagine knowing this person was never trained to do your job and never held your position before. Imagine knowing for a fact that this person had no idea what you do at work.
How would you feel? What would you say?
• What if someone went to your work and tried to kill you even though you had never met them before?
• What if someone went to your work and said you lied about something even though it was not true?
• What if someone went to your work and said you weren’t doing your job right?
• What if someone went to your work and tried to hurt you because of the clothes you were wearing?
• What if someone went to your work and assumed you did something wrong just because of what you were wearing?
• What if someone went to your work and told your boss a lie to get you in trouble?
• What if someone went to your work and started yelling at you because of the way you looked?
• What if someone went to your work and wouldn’t stop interfering?
• What if someone went to your work and told you how to do your job because of what they saw on TV?
Now imagine being a police officer and all of those things could happen to you, but you still put your uniform and badge on with pride.
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A lot of what-ifs here … I would FEEL terrible, yet find only a couple instances where the situation would escalate beyond a smirk.
I understand your point here, but you also have to realize that the general population doesn’t fall into the “criminal” category. Generalizations poison the well.
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All of these things happen to officers every day. That was the point of the article. The general population doesn’t have to deal with this sort of thing.
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