Why Respect for Police by their Leaders will always Matter

As sorrowful a post as this is to be has caused the writing to be delayed repeatedly due to reluctance to bring this much pain to the fore - N.Y.P.D. Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Wiu were never friends of mine;  they are much more, they are indeed blood line brothers, who's personal courage and deication to the preservation of civilized society have made their wanton murders almost unbearable.

My own infinitely less worthy experiences in these gallant officer's shoes dates to 1975 when I started my service as an U.S. Army Military Police officer on Reserve Duty.  Twenty years of law enforcement, civil and criminal, coincided, and then followed after I left the military in 1983. Accordingly, none has ever doubted that I bleed blue, for this character trait is surely interwoven in my DNA.  [This obligatory journalistic "bias" disclosure notwithstanding, my views of the role of policing in America are worthy of your own informed evaluation, rather dismissal, because my decades' long experiences inform my judgment rationally, and do not cloud it through any overly emotional prejudices.]

As President Abraham Lincoln so artfully stated: "A house divided against itself can not stand."  Nor can New York city stand as a safe community should Mayor de Blasio persist in his very intentional disparaging of the men in blue under his solemn leadership, in essence calling them to be an occupying force seeking too frequently to do physical harm to the City's minority residents, matched only by his venal and false assertion that his biracial son should fear for his well being whenever he encounters a police officer on any New York City street.

The mayor's lame attempts to walk back these blood libels, so as to escape the import of his expressly articulated distrust of the police officers under his command is truly a fool's errand.  No number of repeated de Blasio platitudes of utmost respect for police can erase the damning truth that he told his own flesh and blood not to believe in the police.  So, Mayor de Blasio tells every thug and mob  enthusiast that the N.Y.P.D. are the current manifestation of hundreds of years of racism permeating every facet of American life.  So, Mayor de Blasio and his entire family distrust the police.  No surprise there - right back at'cha - the police turn their backs on the Mayor.  Let's just hope, our only protection against anarchy doesn't turn it back on NYC itself, as that outcome can not stand.