What police are and aren't

It's funny how city police departments, Chiefs and officers think that somehow, they are the only legitimate security citizens need to have.

It's also funny how people think that the police work for them or have the citizens best interests as their primary interests. It's not accurate.

City police departments are employees, usually, of the Mayor's office. Police Chiefs are hired by the Mayor, not elected as County Sheriffs are.

The job of the local police is to enforce local laws, first and foremost. They work for city government, not citizens.

Yes, the mayor is elected by the citizens, but the police are his (or her) security force to enforce the laws of the city. Look at your local city charter, it is spelled out there usually.

Police don't want every day citizens to carry guns, then people are not dependent on them. Hard to just if many of the extra costs for beefing up security if the people don't 'need' it.

Not only that, an armed citizen can defend him or herself from a police officer that is not behaving like a police officer should. Oh no, that never happens right?

If cities want to have their own police force, fine, let them have it, but do not assume that just because the city has their own security force that it is the same as each citizen having the right to bear arms and defend themselves.

I can have respect for individuals who want to take a job as a police officer because they are taking care of their family and doing a job that gets called for serving the cities interests, which sometimes happens to coincide with keeping the city safe as they can by intervening in criminal activities as they are reported.

Police are often called 'first responders, this is because police are just that, responders. They arrive after the fact of a criminal act being reported. They cannot protect each and every individual to prevent or immediately intervene if someone is confronted.

How dare they tell citizens to do nothing but give in to the perpetrators demands and wait till their 'authorities' arrive.

Constitutionally speaking, police have got no say in how I defend myself. The U.S Constitution says I have the right to defend myself, my family and my community. I do, as an individual.

Their police force does not remove or invalidate that right.

The law making and law enforcing agencies in our country need to understand, laws are not to be dictated to the people, but decided upon and shared by the people. Law enforcement is not to assume that everyone is a criminal first, but to respect each and every person who, according to the same Constitution, is innocent, did you hear me? I N N O C E N T UNTIL proven guilty.

That means drop your bad attitudes and conceit and start treating the citizens you are too afraid to get out of your cars and interact with some respect first.

I don't care how much like a fool a person or group of persons is acting like, until they have actually, broken a law and been found guilty, you can take them into custody but you had better keep a civil and respectful mind about you the whole time.

Things aren't always what they seem, as so many of these innocent people who are being released after years of shoddy and lazy police work made them something they are not.

Each individual citizen must not be afraid to stand up and not accept the false information that police departments espouse that they are the only legitimate defense for citizens.

They are not correct.