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I live in a really nice town in New Hampshire. I work in law enforcement and majority of the town right now are moving forward with the defund the police BLM thing. All well and good but I have found myself a bit more reclusive with this climate.
This thread isn't about that as much as it is about one of my neighbors and a conversation I forced upon him yesterday. He was helping my next door neighbor move some mulch to the back yard and my neighbor told him to come see my work I'd done on the patio I'm building. I was playing with my dog so I welcomed them over.
Well, the guys daughter is a 17 year old high school senior and she is leading a defund the police movement and BLM protests in town. Also she wants to abolish prisons. It blows me away that her parents aren't trying to talk to her about her misinformed views on grouping police the way she is so I assumed it was partially his views and his wife's views passed down.
He brought up police right away and I lit him up saying why the entire thing pisses me off. These people claim the issue with police is they aren't trained for what they do. The defund comes from taking money away from the departments and giving it to social programs and what not. I then listed my background where I started as a teacher, ran a program for sexually abused children, ran two mental health hospitals, became a patrol officer, and then worked my way up through the prison system. He had no idea what I did and said he assumed I just worked in business.
I used that fact to say he needed to explain to his daughter that not all cops are untrained and looking for an issue. A lot of police get into the job to help people. He shook my hand and said he hadn't thought of things that way ever. My other neighbor looked as though he wanted to cry. Sometimes the non PC conversation has to happen. Sometimes that's all we need. The more I write this, the more I feel as though this might not be for the Berry, but if it is moved, so be it.
My point is simple, we are run by misinformation. The media spews it, politicians throw it at us...it's time to look at things from a human perspective and not a what party are you with perspective. We are messing our youth up big time.
I guess I can try to make it light at the end before my cliffs...have you ever forced an uncomfortable conversation that you knew would suck but needed to happen?
Cliffs: Guy in neighborhood is a defund the police supporter and has bred that in his children. They think prisons should be eliminated. I confronted him on this and literally poured my heart out on the topic...for the first time. It was cathartic. Cheers guys.
This thread isn't about that as much as it is about one of my neighbors and a conversation I forced upon him yesterday. He was helping my next door neighbor move some mulch to the back yard and my neighbor told him to come see my work I'd done on the patio I'm building. I was playing with my dog so I welcomed them over.
Well, the guys daughter is a 17 year old high school senior and she is leading a defund the police movement and BLM protests in town. Also she wants to abolish prisons. It blows me away that her parents aren't trying to talk to her about her misinformed views on grouping police the way she is so I assumed it was partially his views and his wife's views passed down.
He brought up police right away and I lit him up saying why the entire thing pisses me off. These people claim the issue with police is they aren't trained for what they do. The defund comes from taking money away from the departments and giving it to social programs and what not. I then listed my background where I started as a teacher, ran a program for sexually abused children, ran two mental health hospitals, became a patrol officer, and then worked my way up through the prison system. He had no idea what I did and said he assumed I just worked in business.
I used that fact to say he needed to explain to his daughter that not all cops are untrained and looking for an issue. A lot of police get into the job to help people. He shook my hand and said he hadn't thought of things that way ever. My other neighbor looked as though he wanted to cry. Sometimes the non PC conversation has to happen. Sometimes that's all we need. The more I write this, the more I feel as though this might not be for the Berry, but if it is moved, so be it.
My point is simple, we are run by misinformation. The media spews it, politicians throw it at us...it's time to look at things from a human perspective and not a what party are you with perspective. We are messing our youth up big time.
I guess I can try to make it light at the end before my cliffs...have you ever forced an uncomfortable conversation that you knew would suck but needed to happen?
Cliffs: Guy in neighborhood is a defund the police supporter and has bred that in his children. They think prisons should be eliminated. I confronted him on this and literally poured my heart out on the topic...for the first time. It was cathartic. Cheers guys.
