{"id":263023,"date":"2021-05-30T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fallen-cops-deserve-our-gratitude-on-memorial-day\/"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:05:30","slug":"fallen-cops-deserve-our-gratitude-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fallen-cops-deserve-our-gratitude-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fallen cops deserve our gratitude on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Fallen cops deserve our gratitude on Memorial Day<\/strong>”
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Forty-eight on-duty police officers were shot to death in the United States last year \u2014 nearly five times the number of American servicemen who died in Afghanistan in 2020. We\u2019ll remember the military\u2019s fallen today, as we must \u2014 but what about those cops?<\/p>\n

A radical notion, given the state of the national political debate right now? It shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

America has never been bashful about honoring those who die in its service. What is arguably the most eloquent encomium to war dead in the English language \u2014 Abraham Lincoln\u2019s 270-word address at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863 \u2014 set an enduring standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live,\u201d said the great man. \u201cIt is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, 158 years later, flags will snap over decorated war graves here at home, of course, but also in military cemeteries around the world \u2014 wherever Americans have fallen in the furtherance of national interests, to be sure, but also on behalf of universal peace and freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf ever proof were needed\u00a0that\u00a0we fought\u00a0for a\u00a0cause\u00a0and\u00a0not\u00a0for\u00a0conquest,\u201d said Gen. Mark W. Clark after World War II, \u201cit\u00a0could\u00a0be\u00a0found\u00a0in\u00a0[our foreign war] cemeteries.\u00a0Here\u00a0was\u00a0our only conquest:\u00a0All we asked\u00a0was\u00a0enough soil\u00a0in which to\u00a0bury our gallant dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

America doesn\u2019t go to war on principle alone, and it would be absurd to suggest that young Americans who have volunteered for military service risk life and limb every day for abstractions.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re all professionals now \u2014 toned and trained, competent and conscientious, dedicated and honorable. There are exceptions, of course, sometimes shameful exceptions \u2014 and the best that can be said about that is, well, every institution has outliers.<\/p>\n

But when things go kinetic \u2014 which can happ<\/a>en with terrible speed and ferocity \u2014 they rarely are found wanting. As last-resort custodians of peace and freedom, of security and prosperity, they have few peers. Their honor and integrity are constant in a shape-shifting world, and sacrifice \u2014 even, God forbid, the ultimate sacrifice \u2014 is woven into the fabric of their service.<\/p>\n

Police officers are very much like that. Not exactly, of course, because the fundamental roles are so different. But the two callings have this in common: When it comes time for someone to stand between the community and humanity\u2019s subterranean instincts, only fools summon social<\/a> workers.<\/p>\n

And then there is this: Just as soldiers and sailors don\u2019t make the policies that send them into harm\u2019s way, cops don\u2019t write the laws that they must enforce.<\/p>\n

Politicians do, general<\/a>ly of necessity, sometimes unwisely but rarely with doubts. This is especially true of the penal code, which cops must carry into the street, where it is not always welcome.<\/p>\n

Wise cops apply it with sensitivity and discretion \u2014 and while not all cops are wise, all street cops get pushback.<\/p>\n

Police work can be violent, often brutal. And while it really shouldn\u2019t be necessary to note this, that\u2019s because America\u2019s streets too often are violent and brutal themselves.<\/p>\n

Failure to acknowledge this reality \u2014 indeed, removing cops and expecting violent crime to fall, all the rage these days \u2014 is lunacy. It breeds contempt for law \u2014 and, swiftly enough, more violence, more brutality and mindless, needless social disorder.<\/p>\n

Need proof? Just look around.<\/p>\n

Nobody knows how many police officers have died in the line of duty in America over the decades. In New York City, 932 have since the NYPD was established in 1849 \u2014 the most of any police department in the nation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a record worthy of profound respect \u2014 never mind the politics of the moment.<\/p>\n

So if you feel the need to take a knee today, maybe do it in the direction of a national cemetery \u2014 but maybe also hold America\u2019s fallen cops in your heart as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the least they deserve.<\/p>\n

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