‘You won’t need to abolish us – we won’t be around for it’: Why many police officers like me are quitting the force

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How the Democrats destroy the country.

‘You won’t need to abolish us – we won’t be around for it’: Why many police officers like me are quitting the force

By: RT, Jue 10,2020:
Travis Yates is a serving police commander in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a doctoral student in Strategic Leadership, a graduate of the FBI National Academy, and the author of “The Courageous Police Leader: A Survival Guide for Combating Cowards, Chaos & Lies”. This article was first published on lawofficer.com

The nasty words we, the police, get called all the time have now turned into rocks, bottles and gunfire. It’s over, America: we are leaving.

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This is the hardest thing I have written.

I grew up in a law enforcement family. My father worked his way up to the rank of Captain at the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Police Department. As a kid I remember going with him on Friday to pick up his check and I was in awe of these super heroes he worked around.

My dad sacrificed a lot and so did my late mother. Whether it was the week-long surveillance or wiretap or chasing drug runners across the country, he gave it all for my family and worked plenty of extra details to never let our family be without. Some would call that privilege but where I grew up, it was called hard work.
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The kids at school thought it was cool what my dad did and while he sometimes asked me if anyone gave me a hard time, they never did. There was respect among all… even the kids in shop class.

I didn’t grow up wanting to be a cop but one fateful night, as a freshman in college, that all changed.

I went on a ride along and my life’s journey would never be the same.

After four years of college my dad wanted me at an agency that respected that education so I moved to Tulsa (Oklahoma) at 21 years old and never looked back.

I didn’t know anyone and all I knew was what I saw my dad do, work hard and treat people with respect. I saw a lot of other cops working hard as well and doing all they could to keep the community safe.

27 years has passed and if you would have told me the condition of law enforcement today, I would have never believed you.

It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has.

The mentally ill used to get treatment and now they just send cops. Kids used to be taught respect and now it’s cool to be disrespectful.

Supervisors used to back you when you were right but now they accuse you of being wrong in order to appease crazy people.

Parents used to get mad at their kids for getting arrested and now they get mad at us.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

This is not good….Trump time for action!

Alexandra
Alexandra
3 years ago

I am heartbroken that you have been disrespected and harmed. Thank you for all you and your father have done. I can’t even put into words how upset I am at things today. But I WILL be able to put that terrible feeling to use in the voting booth.

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
3 years ago

For my part I honor, support, and respect our brave police officers, who daily deal with the very worst of society on our behalf often at the risk of their lives. In the real world passing a law means nothing, enforcing it means everything. Without enforcement we do not have civilization in which to enjoy the fruits of our labors, but anarchy, in which all our lives and nasty, brutish, and short.

God bless our cops!

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
3 years ago

The Democrats frankly couldn’t care less about civilized society, and are all on board with anarchy and lawlessness. They WANT anarchy in which life is nasty, brutish and short. They are, without exception, ALL on the side of violent criminal elements – muggers, armed robbers, looters, arsonists, drug dealers, human traffickers, rapists, murderers, etc. Those that care about law and order have been all but SILENCED by our elites.

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
3 years ago

You are right of course, and there is a method to their madness, as well as deep roots going back to the 1920’s. It might interest you to read a history of Antifa here:

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16104/antifa-history

DaveM12
DaveM12
3 years ago

Thanks Martina. Excellent analysis of Antifa’s history and how large an organization it is.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Obama’s favorite saying: “IN CHAOS, THERE IS OPPORTUNITY.”
Ever since he bought that mansion in site of the White House so he could “keep an eye on things” as he said…there has been nothing but Saul Alinsky tactics….of one crisis after another coming from him and Soros…..the Coup didn’t work…..so now it’s the Wuhan Virus that was intentionally spread throughout the globe by China (pals of Obama and Biden)…..then came Floyd….. all “opportunities” for those waiting the wings to capitalize on the situation.

The Left must think we’re stupid…..when within hours, rioters, looters, and violent people show up with trucks of bricks, weapons, megaphones, and thousands of people to riot in short time…..don’t tell me this was “spontaneous”…..

2-3 months ago Glenn Beck exposed the “training camps” set up outside of major cities and D.C…..the Antifa, the BLM, and other thug outfits…..were poised and ready….we saw it for ourselves….

And Obama (and Killary) may be especially anxious right now and needs us distracted…..more and more every day documents are being released that show he and his followers were behind the Coup to keep Trump from winning the Presidency…and then once he did….caused Americans 20-30 Millions of dollars on the corrupt Mueller hearings….then the impeachment joke…. while America’s business was being ignored by the Schiff and Nan scams.

Now they are tearing down our historical statues…without any force against them.
Defacing our monuments.
Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals…..erase a cultures history so you can replace it with what you want.

Patriotic American
Patriotic American
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

It is these feral mobs that deserve the “American Taliban” moniker.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

Except the ones in Dearbornistan, Michigan — who are actively covering up/concealing honor killings and enforcing Shariah law on Christians who dare to show up there and exercise their 1st amendment rights.

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
3 years ago

Uh, yeah, not those.

R
R
3 years ago

I am appalled at the Dems. But, not suprised. Disgusted and voting Trump 2020. May the good people of this country come to their senses and reject mob rule.

cylde
cylde
3 years ago

Cops just disappear when they retire and melt right into the community. Many leave democrat controlled states for tax free sunbelt towns. They are a welcome addition to those communities. They continue to own guns very quietly and support the second amendment.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Police Chief Forced Out For Supporting Citizens 2nd Amendment Rights
Posted on June 7, 2020

Chief Steven Bukala with the Lowell Police Department in Michigan was forced to resign on Thursday for showing support of four citizens who exercised their second amendment right by arming themselves to defend against looters.
,,,
https://americaskeepersinc.com/2020/06/police-chief-forced-out-for-supporting-citizens-2nd-amendment-rights/
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LittleRoot_48
LittleRoot_48
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Come South, sir. With the exception of a few places in red cities, we love our law enforcement officers.

Jamfer Jones
Jamfer Jones
3 years ago

Cops want to retire now that the fun has been taken out of the job. No more knees on the neck or choke holds.. I’m out of here. LOL

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Jamfer Jones

.Do you ever THINK about why a person is being arrested?
Could it be they are breaking the law and resisting arrest?
Are you also foolish enough to believe ALL police are that way?
Who will you call when you need help? BLM? ANITFA?
Good police are being humiliated, demoralized and vilified for the acts of a few police.
Some improvements are needed but not resignations!
We already have trouble getting people to sign up to be police.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Jamfer Jones

Strange that you write this while apparently condemning DeBlasio’s wife’s desire to have a police force free NYC.
Remember it’s only petty crime until you’re the victim.

Jamfer Jones
Jamfer Jones
3 years ago

I’m confident the DeBlasio’s and the Cuomo’s have protection. If citizens are packing then security is only 3-5 seconds away. I rest my case.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Jamfer Jones

…sure….because every citizen with a weapon is going to come to the defense of citizens without weapons…..
Basically, you don’t have a “case.”
Your last two comments sound like a 14 years old white privilege brat….rich parents…..if you’re older than that…you need to grow a pair. BLOCKED.

Jamfer Jones
Jamfer Jones
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

You are one of those ladywarrior’s that run away from a discussion it seems. I have the balls to not block you.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Florida team resigns, citing ‘political climate’, accuses city of treating them worse than dogs

10 Florida SWAT officers quit unit over ‘political climate’: report
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News 6/13/20

In Hallandale Beach, the officers signing the letter to police Chief Sonia Quinones write that they feel unsupported by the city’s leadership – as well as the command staff of the city’s police department.

They write that they were displeased that top officials with the Hallandale Beach police kneeled with protesters during a Monday demonstration, WSVN reported.

“Until these conditions and sentiments are rectified and addressed,” the officers write, “we cannot safely, effectively and in good faith carry out duties in this capacity without putting ourselves and our families at this needless increased level of risk.”

In a similar show of solidarity among police officers, nearly 60 members of an emergency response team in Buffalo, N.Y., quit the unit June 5 – although they too remained with the police department.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/10-florida-swat-officers-quit-unit-over-political-climate-report

Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
3 years ago

Exactly right: “It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has.”
The Minneapolis cop charged with murder was a 19-year veteran. Nineteen years ago, Minneapolis was not the Little Somalia that Obama tha God decided to transform it into. The entire city and region is now infected and polluted with the poison and stench of an Islamic “culture,” with all the violence, intimidation, fear and manifold tyranny that implies. And under the sick doctrine of Mahomet, as inflicted upon us by Obama tha God and his Liberal/Leftist collaborators, that veteran cop is going to be scapegoated for his own wounds, by the new mercilessness of his own people.
Typically, the tragic result of Liberal/Leftist antagonism and stubbornness will be even more and worse of what they say they’re against. A lower class and quality of cops and policing, and more crime, corruption and brutality.
Trump 2020.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

If this trend continues, this country will be in grave condition, possibly with no chance of recovery if something is not done to reverse this. And soon. While there are good and bad cops, just like any other profession, for them to leave in growing numbers, should be alarming to freedom loving Americans. If even one police department is defunded, it will grow to other departments across the country. The forces behind this were very clever in orchestrating all this. But, did they factor in God’s hand in all this, when they were plotting this country’s destruction.

James Jones
James Jones
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

I have read many comments over the last while and have held my response, but your observations and reference to God are closer to the mark than many.

We are clearly seeing many danger signs all around us and in multiple other nations. These changing conditions are wide spread and cover many more issues than policing, racism, and growing violence. As you call it, a “trend” of lawlessness and ‘untruth’ has gripped much of the population. People believe the most ridiculous notions of individualism and society, as though they had been ‘given over’ to believe such nonsense and lies.

Of course there are ‘good and bad’ in every profession and walk of life, but none of what is happening today has anything more to do with that other than it was a trigger event for the pursuit of chaos leading up to Nov. Those “forces” want America’s might under their control, but if they can’t have her, they will render her ineffectual. A “grave condition” indeed, with no chance of recovery.

Now this brings it to the meat of the matter. The ‘why’ that is behind all this, and even the ‘how’ is it being allowed.

First, the “forces” I suspect are not unknown to you. The “clever orchestration” behind it all, surpasses anything historically that man alone has ever planned or executed. These plans have been in operation for decades and have unfolded with remarkable timing and efficiency, achieving goal after goal often hidden in the plainest of sight using a clandestine hand. Though that hand was flesh and blood, the driving force behind it was not (Eph.6:12)

So, “If God is for us, who can be against us”? This statement of faith is not wrong, but I don’t think there are very many who grasp its full implications. God is often described in scripture as “light”…PS.27:1, “The Lord is my ‘light’ and my salvation”…Jn.3:19/21″…that ‘light’ is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light…but he who does the truth comes to the light…”.
For a long time, man such as he is, made a point of applying godly principles across the western nations and those lands became ‘Christian’. Perfect, not by a long shot, but they strived for improvement and valued principles that in turn bestowed God’s blessings upon them. Western civilization grew to be like none other and achieved greatness, all because they honored God in the public and political square.

But, for the first time in over 2000yrs, that ‘light’ within those nations, faded. Gradually at first of course, and beginning decades ago, it has grown to the point that no major western nation today is Christian by definition…secularism has replaced its driving principles. God has been pushed out, and save for a remnant, western society now reflects its new god in all of its laws and policies, and in many hearts and minds of its young lions.
God, in His justice, called many times for those nations to repent of their sins, but the collective of those countries voiced their approval of the new path, and soon a nation as once godly as America, became a place that not only sanctioned abortion (among other things) but then sold those aborted baby parts to the highest bidder! Deuteronomy 28:49/50, gives a good description of what and why we see the things afflicting most of Europe and other western entities.

“Did they factor in God’s hand in all this”,…not for one minute could such evil flood Christian nations if the light of God was still upon them. Only in the absence of that light could evil prosper and flourish… God’s hand of blessing is no longer upon these lands. We have entered into a new phase of God’s relationship to creation. We have moved from blessing to judgement, and it has already begun. There is no longer any repentance for nations, only the individual can seek that now. And seek it they should, while it still can be found, for these times have only just started…so much worse is to come, and come it must, before the end can come.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago
Reply to  James Jones

So true.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  santashandler

Atheist Babylon falls.

MajorTom
MajorTom
3 years ago

38 years in law enforcement……Glad I’m retired. No looking back…..

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago
Reply to  MajorTom

Same here, only I was a high school football coach. I miss it about like I miss diarrhea .

LittleRoot_48
LittleRoot_48
3 years ago
Reply to  MajorTom

I feel the same way as a retired teacher. While it was not a dangerous job, it was a thankless job by the time I retired in 2007. We had one hand tied behind our backs when it came to being able to control our classroom from those who were there to disrupt, not learn. It could be dangerous at times, as witnessed by two of my teacher friends (both white) who were each physically assaulted at a predominately black elementary school by 2 different black female students (6th/ graders). NOTHING was done to the students. They were not even suspended for a day. The teachers were allowed to transfer to another school, which is where I met them, so that was a blessing in disguise.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

It is commonly said that the cops are that thin blue line between order and chaos, but people do not seem to realize how fragile that line is.

As an example, here in the West Texas “oil patch” of the Permian Basin, whenever the oil business is in full swing, there are understaffed police departments in every city and town. Translation: those who choose law enforcement as their life’s vocation are dedicated to it, within reason.

volksnut
volksnut
3 years ago

Whats going to replace the police force? coming soon to communities across the country – somali style ” leadership” – Raggedy pickup trucks with .50 machine guns mounted in the back – somali drug lord style – and where was that ignition spot? Minneapolis? Little mogadishu?

LittleRoot_48
LittleRoot_48
3 years ago
Reply to  volksnut

Instead of sheriffs and police chiefs, we’ll have “warlords.” God help us!!!

Brenda Sinclair
Brenda Sinclair
3 years ago

AMERICANS WE HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR AMERICA FROM THE EVIL CRIMINAL ACTS OF DEMOCRATS………………………..TO SOLVE AMERICAS PROBLEMS MAKE THIS CHOICE WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE POWER OF OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES, TO VOTE OUT THE ENTIRE LYING,CORRUPT, TREASONOUS DEMOCRAT PARTY COME NOV 2020, VOTE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND TO END ALL CORRUPTIONS IN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).comment image

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

That is truly it in a nutshell…..the evil Soros…..and his Globalists….and not just in America.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

I’ve never donated in an election in my life until this year…don’t have much to give, but it all goes to President Trump. Our country’s survival depends on him.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

It wasn’t just them “stealing the house.” Paula Traitor Ryan withheld campaign funds to about 26 conservative/Republican candidates running for the house. He was setting up his “retirement” to be a full time Koch brothers lackey…..HE COST US THE HOUSE!!

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

As more and more police quit and departments are “de-funded” …. I want border walls built around all of the liberal cities, maybe even the entire liberal States.
As these places collapse under their own load of BULLSHIT, the animals in the zoo are going come pouring out seeking sustenance ……. they need to be contained so they do not do the same damage to everything else line they did to their own cities.

Moshe
Moshe
3 years ago

Don’t worry. As soon as Biden wins the police will be back. Of course it will be a communist police.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Moshe

…that’s a “sarc”, right? Because he would never win a National election….and he could never beat President Trump…even with massive voter fraud…it didn’t work in the last election.
I’m not sure he’ll even make it to the primaries and the debates…he’s just a placeholder for who is really going to run…..at the last minute.

Bart's Bantering
Bart's Bantering
3 years ago

“The mentally ill used to get treatment and now they just send cops.
Kids used to be taught respect and now it’s cool to be disrespectful.
Supervisors used to back you when you were right but now they accuse you of being wrong in order to appease crazy people.
Parents used to get mad at their kids for getting arrested and now they get mad at us.”

Those words are the whole point – this nation has forgotten our God and the Liberty He has given us.

James Jones
James Jones
3 years ago

God’s prophetic agenda is nearly at its end. America under Trump is more like the America of old…particularly in its relationship with Israel. Had Hillary won, the differences both within the nation and with Israel, would be an order of magnitude opposite to what they are now. America would already be a cinder of what she was, and as Obama demonstrated, Israel would be on her own against a hate filled world.

End time prophecy is primarily focused on Israel. As foretold, her enemies are poised to strike her, and all that holds them back is the friendship she shares with America…a friendship that comes through the Trump administration. Take Trump out of the way and what’s left of America dissolves into the new order’s agenda. Then, with America out of the way, Israel’s enemies strike and the final prophecies, the prophecies that conclude with the end of this age of man, swing into full motion.

As great as America once was, she is past her point of redemption. The events of today are a foreshadow of tomorrow. There will be no return to ‘normal’, and the chaos happening now, will continue into Nov. Upon Trump’s re-election, the fires of hatred and division will become a consuming conflagration, and America will be thrown into civil war.

America has indeed forgotten her God and the Liberty He gave her. Evil cannot just have its way…it has no power to push God out of the picture…only by dwindling faith and lack of repentance can the light fade. We have no one to blame but ourselves, but for those of faith still, hold fast to your convictions, for all of promise is about to be fulfilled.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago

Commander Yates, thank you for your service SIR.
“BLUE LIVES MATTER” (criminal lives not at all).

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

PLEASE DON’T GO!
WE, THE REAL AMERICANS WHO LOVE OUR COUNTRY, NEED YOU.

I suggest a lesser method to wake people up. How about mass BLUE FLU? Give people a look at what it would mean without law enforcement.

David Man
David Man
3 years ago

I hold police in the highest regard and always have (I’m in my 80’s). Yes I think all older people have noted how respect for police has fallen off a and I think that I know why. The political left have gained control over the school system from kindergarten to university, destroying respect for just about everything ! I fear that the left has become socialist at the least and communist at worst. This has had a dramatic effect on our young and it’s showing. Etc etc !

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Drive down the street and tell them. Take cookies or a pre-paid pizza voucher.

cylde
cylde
3 years ago

Communities can contract with private security for personal and property protection and rely on state police for traffic violations. Drug enforcement is a waste of money.. Pension liabilities would go away.

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