It's been awhile

It's been a while and things have been a little crazy in our neck of the woods. The current item: officer involved shootings. It is a sad thing on either end and what I mean by that is that it is sad for the officer and for the victim when things like this take place. It is hard for people to grasp the situation and what might have caused it or how it started or why it ended the way it did. Sometimes the answers don't come quickly enough or they are not what people want as justice. There is also lots of blame. Blame the officer. Blame the victim. When it should be lets look at the situation. You can say you don't know until it happens to you. Of course not. But what good does it do to blame others? It doesn't make the sadness go away or the fact that something bad happened. What I can tell you is that being on the law enforcement side of things I know it doesn't do any good for people to make threats to an officers family or the officer himself for that matter. When people say they are going to seek revenge of an officer then that affects not only the officer but his family. Let me also say that if you put the threat out there it just make you look bad and uneducated. An officer never goes looking for people to shoot. But if there is cause then they have to do what they have to do. They have to live with that decision for the rest of their lives and I have no doubt that it is a nightmare to wake up everyday knowing what they did. They do this job with terrible pay. They put themselves in the line of fire for strangers if the need arises. But they also have a right to defend themselves. I will also say that there have been a number of times I would like to say things that are not so pleasant but I don't. Why? Because I am better than that. I am not judge or jury. I am a woman/person who stands beside their loved one who just so happens to be a law enforcement officer. I stand with them men/women/children who are also part of this big family of blue. I pray for peace for all.