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This page is dedicated to our Fallen Hero's who gave it their all!
THE GREAT POLICE OFFICER
Well, Mr. Citizen, it seems you've figured me out. I seem to fit neatly into the category where you've placed me. I'm stereotyped, standardized, characterized, classified, grouped, and always typical. Unfortunately, the reverse is true..I can never figure you out.
From birth you teach your children that I'm the boogeyman, then you're shocked when they identify with my traditional enemy..the criminal! You accuse me of coddling criminals......until I catch your kids doing wrong.
You may take an hour for lunch and several coffee breaks each day, but point me out as a loafer for having one cup. You pride yourself on your manners, but think nothing of disrupting my meals with your troubles. You raise hell with the guy who cuts you off in traffic, but let me catch you doing the same thing and I'm picking on you. You know all the traffic laws...but you've never gotten a single ticket you deserve. You shout "foul" if you observe me driving fast to a call, but raise the roof if I take more than ten seconds to respond to your complaint. You call it part of my job if someone strikes me, but call it police brutality if I strike back.
You wouldn't think of telling your dentist how to pull a tooth or your doctor how to take out an appendix, yet your always willing to give me pointers on the law.
You talk to me in a manner that would get you a bloody nose from anyone else, but expect me to take it without batting an eye. You yell something's got to be done to fight crime, but you can't be bothered to get involved.
You have no use for me at all, but of course it's OK if I change a flat for your wife, deliver your child in the back of the patrol car, or perhaps save your son's life with mouth to mouth breathing, or work many hours overtime looking for your lost daughter.
So, Mr. Citizen, you can stand there on your soapbox and rant and rave about the way I do my work, calling me every name in the book, but never stop to think that your property, family, or maybe even your life depends on me or one of my buddies.
Yes, Mr. Citizen, it's me...the lousy cop!
"The author of this article was Trooper Mitchell Brown of the Virginia State Police. He was killed in the line of duty two months after writing the article."
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To honor our fallen Brother's and Sister's of the Baltimore Police Department... |
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To Our Fallen Hero's May Their Legacy Live Forever!!!
"They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on the account shrink from danger."
~Benjamin Jowett~
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Baltimore Police Fallen Hero's Memorial
Baltimore City Police Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3 has organized a fundraiser to raise money to build a Police Memorial for our Fallen Hero's. It is to be build adjacent the Baltimore Police Headquarters and next to the Shot Tower on the corner of Fayette and President Streets.
If you would like to make a contribution please click on the link below.
Thanks
Balto. Ctiy F.O.P #3
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National Fallen Hero Memorial 2001
God bless thy fallen hero. Thank you for your courage and professionalism. Your legacy will live forever. |
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