Dear Police and All Law Enforcement,

I want you to know how much I appreciate the very difficult job you and all our great policing professionals do to keep our neighborhoods safe.  There is no more difficult job than that of a law enforcement officer.  

You must be the first to reach the scene of a crime.  Your diagnosis of the situation must be instantly correct – or you might be prosecuted and your life ruined.

You must use exactly the right amount of force when confronting a violent criminal.  If you use too little force, you or the innocent might end up dead.  If you use too much force, you might end up in prison.

You must be a diplomat to keep the peace, yet tough when necessary.  You must make split-second decisions that would take a lawyer many months to make.  And your decisions must be correct 100 percent of the time, or you risk prosecution and ruin.

You must be a guidance counselor for our youth, a social worker, a medic, an enforcer, and a mind reader. And you must do all this on a police officer’s salary.

I am angry when I hear the dishonest media and progressive politicians falsely brand police as “racist” because this is a lie.  I know that 99 percent of law enforcement officers are good people doing a very tough job.

I am disgusted when I hear anti-cop “Defund and Defame the Police” protesters and rioters call for the killing of police – and even more sickened when I hear of officers being assassinated simply because of the uniform they wear and the job that they do.

I am revolted by politicians who have joined the media frenzy against police and slashed the budgets of under-funded police departments – including cutting funding for personnel training and protective equipment.  We need more police officers patrolling our neighborhoods, not fewer police.

I am appalled that police officers in some jurisdictions must purchase their own body armor and even their own gun.  That’s just not right.

I want you to know that I stand with the THIN BLUE LINE and all our local law enforcement professionals.  I deeply appreciate the dangerous and important job you do to keep our community safe.

Sincerely,