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If you do not break the law, you should not have problems with the police. They are busy doing things like going after people who are actually breaking the law. Many of the videos involving suspects dying in conjunction with detention attempts provide examples of people doing things they shouldn’t be doing during an arrest.<\/p>\n
However, many on the left want to overlook the poor decision-making process displayed by the suspects. Instead of focusing on the whole picture including cause-and-effect, they accuse the arresting officers of race motivated murder. Biased reporting, by the media against the police, has contributed to the negative impacts on both police retention and on police recruitment.<\/p>\n
From Blaze Media:<\/span><\/p>\n Colligan said that recent notorious police-involved deaths of citizens such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Breonna Taylor have impacted recruiting efforts.<\/p>\n “Every action has a reaction. When you vilify every police officer for every bad police officer’s decision, [people] don’t want to take this job anymore,” Colligan, head of New Jersey’s largest police union, said. “It’s been a very trying and difficult time to put on the badge every day.”<\/p>\n Colligan also said the “quality has really diminished in the last few years,” which could mean more tragic police confrontations in the future.<\/p>\n Col. Patrick Callahan, the acting superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, said the state’s largest police agency received a “historically low” number of applications this year. In some years, the New Jersey State Police would usually receive between 15,000 to 20,000 applications — this year they only received 2,023 qualified applicants as of Thursday, according to NJ.com.<\/p>\n “The atmosphere with police work right now is people just don’t want to apply,” Robert Fox, president of the New Jersey State Fraternal Order of Police, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Blaze has the rest of the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"