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Showing Original Post only (View all)Let's hear it for the awesome job LE has done! [View all]
So much of the time on DU too many condemn ALL LE officers because of the bad behavior of a few. I think this crisis has revealed the value of LE and their overall POSITIVE contribution to society. THIS is what the vast majority of police officers do -- their job.
Bravo for a job well done!
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It is not clear he got away. He could be cowering any number of places, waiting for dark.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#12
Hope he is alive & will tell us how a scholarship winning athletic HS student got turned over.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#21
I'd prefer that no more law enforcement officers are killed or wounded, and they just find his body
FarCenter
Apr 2013
#23
This is not a game. 15 INJURED officers went to HOSPITAL. Stuff your baseball shit down your throat
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#14
A law enforcement officer GAVE HIS LIFE protecting Boston. That means he died. You don't care bc
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2013
#17
It certainly does look like they are doing their best in a bad situation. n/t
Jamastiene
Apr 2013
#5
Absolutely...I'm the first one to criticize abusive cops, but they often do NOT get enough credit
whathehell
Apr 2013
#7
If LE had been allowed to handle the second World Trade Center attack, like they did the first, we
byeya
Apr 2013
#8
And a union that defends bad cops many times. Corrupt cops. I will take 1000.....
Logical
Apr 2013
#25
LOL, police officer are not even the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the USA......
Logical
Apr 2013
#33
Yes, congratulations for cops doing the job they are hired to do!! Same for the doctors...
Logical
Apr 2013
#28
As I watched this unfold I kept thinking how much different it would have been after 911 if bushie
jwirr
Apr 2013
#34