Police Chaplains Today

For the past few months I have been seeing posts on FB from cop haters that is quite troubling. To me, each one is a potential cop killer or at the very least, encouraging some lunatic with mental health issues, to do the same. You may have seen them as "citizens" who insist they have the right to walk up to a cop from behind with a camera/cell phone, and record what they are doing at something as simple as a traffic stop. It is all about their rights under the US constitution apparently and when the cop advises them it was a stupid thing to do and to step back, they quickly become aggressive and ask for the name and badge number followed by a demand to see a sergeant. It is comical in some ways but very disturbing in so many other ways. It seems the only purpose for the citizen to approach the cop, is to garner a reaction and film the entire confrontation which is solely initiated by the one holding the cell phone.  That is what our society has become and politicians are too...

Most of you know that I am a Chaplain with the Toronto Police Service. I write this as a friend of the policing community in Canada because I am totally disgusted with what is happening in our society. It has become fashionable to criticize our police. Politicians and special interest groups who scream the racist card every chance they get, lead the parade of haters. In Canada, we just had the forth officer die in the line of duty in the last month. We don't have enough details of the RCMP officer's murder in Burnaby, but the previous three were all ambushes where the officers never had the opportunity to defend themselves. Certain politicians who seldom praise our men and women in blue, send their condolences as if it makes up for their demand for defunding the police. I am going to use my words in this blog because if our cops were allowed to say what they are thinking, many would get in trouble. These men and women who put on their uniforms and race to dangerous situations w...