{"id":40169,"date":"2019-12-06T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40169"},"modified":"2019-12-06T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T01:56:11","slug":"did-the-ag-actually-suggest-that-the-cops-might-not-protect-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40169","title":{"rendered":"Did the AG actually suggest that the cops might not protect us?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr sought to buck up the nation’s law enforcement network, but in doing so he seems to have suggested something dire and dangerous if the cops don’t get the respect they deserve from the communities they serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to start showing more respect than they do,\u201d Barr said of the public. \u201cIf communities don\u2019t give [law enforcement] the support and respect they deserve, they may find themselves without the services they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

It makes me go, “huh?”<\/p>\n

Is the attorney general actually suggesting — if not encouraging — that police might not respond to calls for help? Is he saying that police officers might give citizens the short shrift if they need protection?<\/p>\n

Say it ain’t so, Mr. Attorney General.<\/p>\n

In a ceremony honoring the top police officers from around the nation, Barr noted that military veterans suffered years of scorn in the years immediately after the Vietnam War; that has changed dramatically since the time of the Persian Gulf War. This veteran thanks my fellow Americans for the change of heart.<\/p>\n

Are the nation’s police officers feeling the same level of disrespect? Hmm. I don’t know for certain, but it seems as if that the AG’s comparison is a bit overcooked.<\/p>\n

If the attorney general is encouraging cops to go slow on emergency responses because the communities they serve don’t love them as much as they should, then he is committing a profound<\/em> disservice to the nation \u2026 and its police forces.<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr sought to buck up the nation’s law enforcement network, but in doing so he seems to have suggested something dire and dangerous if the cops don’t get the respect they deserve from the communities they serve. \u201cThey have to start showing more respect than they do,\u201d Barr said of the … Continue reading Did the AG actually suggest that the cops might not protect us?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,1],"tags":[1414,8176,3624,5093,5116,8203],"class_list":["post-40169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-uncategorized","tag-doj","tag-gulf-war","tag-police","tag-veterans","tag-vietnam-war","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40172,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions\/40172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}