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RUSH: Here\u2019s Mike in St. Louis. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s an honor to be on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a police officer in the St. Louis area, and I\u2019m pretty fed up with the way that police officers are being portrayed right now in the media. I\u2019ve got two points real quick, and I want to make \u2019em on your show because in a week and a half of media coverage, I haven\u2019t heard any of these points being made. The first is in reference to the militarization of the police departments. I don\u2019t know if you remember in 1997 when two bank robbers with bulletproof vests and assault rifles held the entire LAPD at bay for two or three hours. Are you familiar with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not only, Mike, do I recall it, we just mentioned that last week. I don\u2019t say that to disagree with you. I say that to confirm what you\u2019re saying. The reason we have militarized police officers is because in LA and a couple of other places the bad guys had AK 47s, and everybody was talking about how ill-equipped the cops were with their peashooter handguns to deal with this stuff, and that\u2019s why they were ramped up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly why I called. Our police academy, they actually show that video, and the LA police department had to go to local gun stores to buy rifles because they didn\u2019t have any. They also had to use armored bank trucks because they didn\u2019t have any armored vehicles to deal with these people.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My second point, real quick, is shooting an unarmed person. If you do a quick Google search you\u2019ll find that in the last 10 years, 53 police officers have been killed with their own weapons. That means that some unarmed suspects took away a police officer\u2019s gun and killed that officer with their own gun.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, there are situations when we have to shoot unarmed people. I understand that we have Tasers and we have batons and we have pepper spray. Those are tools, and they are also tools that can be used against us. And it only takes one good punch from a suspect before we\u2019re knocked out, laying on the ground unconscious, and they have access to all of those tools. <\/p>\n

So, until the media or any of these people that say that we can\u2019t shoot unarmed suspects rides along with us or maybe does our job for a month or two and realizes any time we knock on a door, there could be an assault rifle on the other side of that door, until they ride along us, I\u2019m a little tired of hearing about how we should do our job.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen, bro. I couldn\u2019t agree with you more. You guys face an institutional prejudice and bias. Like this story in St. Louis is a myth. It\u2019s a myth that people like you shoot innocent black kids all the time. In St. Louis or wherever, it\u2019s a total myth that was created in St. Louis, and the reason they\u2019re able to create it is because they\u2019ve done a good job of negative PR on the police in general. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think the police are just as aware of political correctness as anybody else is, and they\u2019re automatically on defense. Is it true that whenever, in any circumstance, whenever a cop uses his firearm, he\u2019s immediately put on suspension for awhile, while they investigate it, look at it, and make sure he\u2019s okay psychologically and all that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is true. The first thing that happens is our firearm is taken away from us so it can be used for evidence if necessary, and then we\u2019re immediately placed on suspension. Some departments require a minimum of three psychological evaluations —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — before you can go back to duty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So it would seem to me, if I were a cop, the last thing I\u2019d want to do is discharge my weapon. The last thing. Well, I wouldn\u2019t want a perp to get it, but given what\u2019s gonna happen to me after I discharge it, the last thing I would hope would happen in any circumstance is to have to fire that gun.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the biggest deterrent for shooting someone is the fact of shooting someone. I don\u2019t know anyone in my department that signs up to shoot someone. You know, shooting someone affects an officer\u2019s life for the rest of his life. If you look at the rate of police suicides, police officers killing themselves —<\/p>\n

RUSH: So why do you want to become a cop?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We want to become a cop because, A, it\u2019s a stable job, B, we want to help other people, and the camaraderie of working with other guys. You know, I\u2019m former military so I kind of fit right in with the police department. There\u2019s a camaraderie that you have with your other officers, and when you see someone like the poor officer in Ferguson<\/a>, you know, that was an unjustified shooting and it should be held accordingly, but you never hear any of the evidence on his behalf. All you hear is the evidence against him, and from what I understand there are several witnesses that did observe that subject assaulting the officer. You never hear about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s why the myth is beginning to fall apart. Well, Mike, look, I appreciate your call. I really do. I\u2019m way beyond time here for this segment, and I\u2019ve gotta go. But I do appreciate you taking the time to call here and share your thoughts with us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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