Too much

[Aloha_Shooter]

It just strikes me as so strange. They’re all just copy-paste jobs from the odmp.org website. I can visit the website anytime.

We should be honoring military deaths, too. Fire service would be nice, as well.

Having never been LE, I would imagine that doing that work of relating to us, who don?t wear that uniform, the fallen, also is a cut to the soul.

I also work in a first responder setting, and honor the sacrifices made by those who serve alongside me. But i personally wouldn’t want an ultimate sacrifice of mine to be reduced to a copy-paste exercise that receives single digit clicks and is imposed upon an audience that largely doesn’t care, or even resents the imposition.

I think it is important to highlight the exemplary, rather than dishonor another’s memory through perfunctory action for the mundane.

What I do have issues with is the mindset around here that Officers should be honored above other individuals...yet shouldn't be held to a higher standard than others. Their job is to enforce the laws...yet around here they are not expected to even know the laws. It is like having a lawyer that doesn't know the laws...that is the entire basis of their job. To know and enforce the laws.

Officers should be honored...for being held to that higher standard than everyone else.

If an Officer isn't held to a higher standard...then their workplace death is just that...a workplace death...no different from anyone else who dies doing their job.

IIRC, KevDen2005 started doing this around the time that Black Lives Matter, the Obama administration, and many other celebrities and SJWs were attacking LEOs, both verbally and physically. It wasn't a matter of perceiving LEOs as better than any others or their deaths being any more tragic than servicemembers, first responders, reporters, actors, etc. It was a matter that they -- as a segment of society in general -- were under attack and we had a daily toll of people who were dying even as they were doing their their jobs and being attacked for doing so.

One hopes that the SJW lurkers who come by here occasionally will at least note the sheer number dying in the line of duty regularly.