Writes Flordeliza Paulsen: “I get mad whenever I hear anyone whine about them ‘putting their lives on the line every day for our safety’. First, I have not many who cared one whit about ‘our’ safety. In fact most police procedure in dangerous scenarios put a higher value in safeguarding the officers life the the poor schlepp ‘civilian’. Cops are literally trained to shoot first, lie to the board of inquiry second. My young relative is a newly minted cop and told me was shocked at the standard procedures that put the officers safety first. Second, being a police officer is not a particularly dangerous job in America. Their fatality rate is about the same as gardeners and way less then garbage collectors. Compared to construction and commercial fishing it’s minimal.”

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.