An unnamed police officer with 20 years of service has talked about why they have decided to quit the job after two decades of serving the public.
Generally, morale in the police is low.
Officers are having to endure policing the pandemic against a backdrop of never-ending overtly biased negative media coverage.
These factors, combined with a dramatic rise in the number of police officers who have been seriously assaulted, leave many officers contemplating leaving the job.
One officer captured the sentiment of many of their colleagues when they said:
‘I’m a cop of 20 years. I’m leaving. I’m done.
I’m done with the duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in Parliament, who have destroyed policing in order to further their own careers. I’m done with those charlatans and snake oil salesmen and women who spread their bile, whose acid eats away at society and it’s values and future. I’m done with the utter lack of consequences for their corruption.
police come under attack during violent protests in London last year. File pic.
I’m done with duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in the media and “journalism” with their spin, lies, misrepresentation and half-truths. I’m done with their 24 hours news, their Twitter echo chambers, their pile on tactics and agendas, in order to invent the next “big” story or extend the life of the old one. I’m done with their sickening pretence that they are on some crusade to make the world a better place.
I’m done with the socially corrosive special interest groups who want to be top of the victimhood ladder and are prepared to burn the world and anyone different to them, to ensure they are heard above anyone else. Their constant screaming for attention and ever more fantastical claims, that bear no scrutiny, but which they know they will never be challenged on, because, you know “cancel culture”.
I’m done with the public, their violence, their lying, their abuse, their spitting, their constant screaming for instant gratification and destruction of anything and everyone around them if they don’t get their own way, like a bunch of petulant adolescents. I’m done with their demand for every right real or imagined and their utter lack of personal or social responsibility to each other.
I’m done with the senior officers who will jump on any bandwagon, throw any officer under a bus for doing their job, do anything at all to get that next rank and more power. I’m done with them pretending to be cops, when they are just politicians in uniform. At least real politicians don’t seek to hide their stench and are there for all the world to see, in all their obnoxious, odious glory.
I’m done with the far left and far right, two sides of the same violent, socially corrosive and destructive coin, trampling over anyone and everyone, destroying anything in their paths, if it doesn’t conform to the “right” narrative or world view. I’m done with their red and black flags, their balaclavas, their violence, bullying and intimidation. I’m done with them calling themselves Nazis or Antifa and pretending they are any different to the opposition. I’m done with their anti locution and persecution of anyone that isn’t on their side. I’m done with their cheerleaders in the media, who adopt their cause but absolve themselves of any responsibility for the harm they cause.
I’m done with the Soviet era scale bureaucracy that stops me doing my job, the projects that strangely never fail, the nepotism in the promotion boards and the boys and girls clubs in policing that look after each other, no matter how incompetent and screw everyone else who isn’t in their gang. I’m done with their self promoting cliques and associations, they hide behind when they are professionally incompetent, but always useful for a photo opportunity to make the force look good with whatever group is having their week or is fashionable that day.
I’m done with the (few) corrupt cops who drag all our names through the mud and the false narrative that the vast majority of front line cops are tainted.
I’m done seeing my brothers and sisters on the front line battered, criticised, unsupported and demoralised. I’m done with their fortitude, inherent goodness and sense of service, that makes them run forward, knowing the armchair critics will crucify them after. I’m done with their false hope that things will improve, that society will value them. I’m done with them being lied to by our leaders and then lying to themselves, that, maybe, just maybe, this time those leaders can be trusted, I’m done with seeing those youngster suffer and age far too fast as a decent life passes them by as they waste their lives on this.
I’m done with grandstanding cops, dancing for YouTube, wearing rainbows as self promotion, kneeling for a twitter photo, lecturing the public about things that shouldn’t concern us, forgetting we are the law police, not the public morals police, Im done with them doing anything other rather than actual policing. I’m done with the false narrative that suggests this is the norm and that all cops are more interested in being woke social workers than doing their job. A false narrative we have facilitated by allowing this self indulgent, shameless self promotion of a few individuals, to proliferate.
I’m done with cops being told they are somehow lesser without a degree and that instincts are bias and bad. That experience and street knowledge is discriminatory. I’m done with the lies that the College of Policing is on our side. That the courts value and support us. That the IOPC isn’t an insidiously untrustworthy organisation out to get us. That the HMIC understands policing.
I’m done with the anxiety, the anger, the constant state of heightened arousal in case of danger, even when I should be feeling safe in my own home. I’m done with the corrosive damage to my physical and mental health, sacrificed for a country and public, serving both in green [army] and blue, for a country that couldn’t give a toss.
A female officer who was attacked whilst trying to apprehend a violent suspect. File pic.
I’m done with the deaths, the suffering, the violence, the dishonesty, the predatory behaviour and all the other public faeces that you ask us to clean up.
I’m done with the the indescribable levels of frustration, rage, hate and despair that all the above has filled my life with, when all I wanted to do was look after the good people and lock up the bad. I’m done with the cynicism and distrust that it’s left me and the times I’ve put my family last, to ensure I was there for someone else’s. I’m done with the pain it causes them to see what this job does to us.
Another female officer who was attacked by a violent suspect. File pic.
I’m a cop of 20 years service and I’m done with it. Sort your own mess up. Or don’t, and let it all collapse around you.
-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:00:16 PM
John Doe said
Mar 17 11:09 PM, 2021
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
The far left is just as bad as the far right and all this extreme PC Woke/Cancel culture where certain groups are eternal oppressed 'victims' and can never do any wrong is really pissing normal folk off.
It's always been a very difficult job dealing with the dregs of society but now with social media being manipulated and every small mistake magnified/lied about the coppers just cannot win no matter what - see last weekend for a perfect example.
We are still in a lockdown and the meeting was illegal so just what were they supposed to do?
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:22:59 PM
John Doe said
Mar 21 10:37 PM, 2021
Well it's happening all over the country again - drunken violent thugs pretending to be 'protesters' attacking the police at every opportunity.
For example Bristol is like a war zone tonight.
Syl said
Mar 22 12:06 AM, 2021
What is it with all these violent demonstations lately....is the lockdown making people go mental?
Anonymous said
Mar 22 12:24 AM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
The far left is just as bad as the far right and all this extreme PC Woke/Cancel culture where certain groups are eternal oppressed 'victims' and can never do any wrong is really pissing normal folk off.
It's always been a very difficult job dealing with the dregs of society but now with social media being manipulated and every small mistake magnified/lied about the coppers just cannot win no matter what - see last weekend for a perfect example.
We are still in a lockdown and the meeting was illegal so just what were they supposed to do?
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:22:59 PM
It only took you two sentences to mention Muslims. You’re slipping.
John Doe said
Mar 22 1:52 AM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
The far left is just as bad as the far right and all this extreme PC Woke/Cancel culture where certain groups are eternal oppressed 'victims' and can never do any wrong is really pissing normal folk off.
It's always been a very difficult job dealing with the dregs of society but now with social media being manipulated and every small mistake magnified/lied about the coppers just cannot win no matter what - see last weekend for a perfect example.
We are still in a lockdown and the meeting was illegal so just what were they supposed to do?
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:22:59 PM
It only took you two sentences to mention Muslims. You’re slipping.
I like having a relentless anonymous stalker - it's a big compliment.
John Doe said
Mar 22 2:00 AM, 2021
Syl wrote:
What is it with all these violent demonstations lately....is the lockdown making people go mental?
No Syl, in my opinion it's just various groups joining together to cause as much misery for the police as they possibly can every time there is some sort of demonstration.
If just one officer lost his/her cool it would be filmed and the entire force castigated all over social media which is what many of the so called 'protesters' are after.
The young woman staggering around, necking cider, dancing and laughing behind the BBC reporter earlier this evening did not exactly strike me as the second coming of Emmeline Pankhurst.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 22nd of March 2021 02:01:19 AM
Anonymous said
Mar 22 7:24 PM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
................
It only took you two sentences to mention Muslims. You’re slipping.
So when someone mentions Muslim rape gangs you think Islamophobia. You have been programmed into the woke ideology that allowed it to happen.
John Doe said
Mar 22 8:46 PM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
................
It only took you two sentences to mention Muslims. You’re slipping.
So when someone mentions Muslim rape gangs you think Islamophobia. You have been programmed into the woke ideology that allowed it to happen.
An unnamed police officer with 20 years of service has talked about why they have decided to quit the job after two decades of serving the public.
Generally, morale in the police is low.
Officers are having to endure policing the pandemic against a backdrop of never-ending overtly biased negative media coverage.
These factors, combined with a dramatic rise in the number of police officers who have been seriously assaulted, leave many officers contemplating leaving the job.
One officer captured the sentiment of many of their colleagues when they said:
‘I’m a cop of 20 years. I’m leaving. I’m done.
I’m done with the duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in Parliament, who have destroyed policing in order to further their own careers. I’m done with those charlatans and snake oil salesmen and women who spread their bile, whose acid eats away at society and it’s values and future. I’m done with the utter lack of consequences for their corruption.
I’m done with duplicitous liars and twisters of truth in the media and “journalism” with their spin, lies, misrepresentation and half-truths. I’m done with their 24 hours news, their Twitter echo chambers, their pile on tactics and agendas, in order to invent the next “big” story or extend the life of the old one. I’m done with their sickening pretence that they are on some crusade to make the world a better place.
I’m done with the socially corrosive special interest groups who want to be top of the victimhood ladder and are prepared to burn the world and anyone different to them, to ensure they are heard above anyone else. Their constant screaming for attention and ever more fantastical claims, that bear no scrutiny, but which they know they will never be challenged on, because, you know “cancel culture”.
I’m done with the public, their violence, their lying, their abuse, their spitting, their constant screaming for instant gratification and destruction of anything and everyone around them if they don’t get their own way, like a bunch of petulant adolescents. I’m done with their demand for every right real or imagined and their utter lack of personal or social responsibility to each other.
I’m done with the senior officers who will jump on any bandwagon, throw any officer under a bus for doing their job, do anything at all to get that next rank and more power. I’m done with them pretending to be cops, when they are just politicians in uniform. At least real politicians don’t seek to hide their stench and are there for all the world to see, in all their obnoxious, odious glory.
I’m done with the far left and far right, two sides of the same violent, socially corrosive and destructive coin, trampling over anyone and everyone, destroying anything in their paths, if it doesn’t conform to the “right” narrative or world view. I’m done with their red and black flags, their balaclavas, their violence, bullying and intimidation. I’m done with them calling themselves Nazis or Antifa and pretending they are any different to the opposition. I’m done with their anti locution and persecution of anyone that isn’t on their side. I’m done with their cheerleaders in the media, who adopt their cause but absolve themselves of any responsibility for the harm they cause.
I’m done with the Soviet era scale bureaucracy that stops me doing my job, the projects that strangely never fail, the nepotism in the promotion boards and the boys and girls clubs in policing that look after each other, no matter how incompetent and screw everyone else who isn’t in their gang. I’m done with their self promoting cliques and associations, they hide behind when they are professionally incompetent, but always useful for a photo opportunity to make the force look good with whatever group is having their week or is fashionable that day.
I’m done with the (few) corrupt cops who drag all our names through the mud and the false narrative that the vast majority of front line cops are tainted.
I’m done seeing my brothers and sisters on the front line battered, criticised, unsupported and demoralised. I’m done with their fortitude, inherent goodness and sense of service, that makes them run forward, knowing the armchair critics will crucify them after. I’m done with their false hope that things will improve, that society will value them. I’m done with them being lied to by our leaders and then lying to themselves, that, maybe, just maybe, this time those leaders can be trusted, I’m done with seeing those youngster suffer and age far too fast as a decent life passes them by as they waste their lives on this.
I’m done with grandstanding cops, dancing for YouTube, wearing rainbows as self promotion, kneeling for a twitter photo, lecturing the public about things that shouldn’t concern us, forgetting we are the law police, not the public morals police, Im done with them doing anything other rather than actual policing. I’m done with the false narrative that suggests this is the norm and that all cops are more interested in being woke social workers than doing their job. A false narrative we have facilitated by allowing this self indulgent, shameless self promotion of a few individuals, to proliferate.
I’m done with cops being told they are somehow lesser without a degree and that instincts are bias and bad. That experience and street knowledge is discriminatory. I’m done with the lies that the College of Policing is on our side. That the courts value and support us. That the IOPC isn’t an insidiously untrustworthy organisation out to get us. That the HMIC understands policing.
I’m done with the anxiety, the anger, the constant state of heightened arousal in case of danger, even when I should be feeling safe in my own home. I’m done with the corrosive damage to my physical and mental health, sacrificed for a country and public, serving both in green [army] and blue, for a country that couldn’t give a toss.
I’m done with the deaths, the suffering, the violence, the dishonesty, the predatory behaviour and all the other public faeces that you ask us to clean up.
I’m done with the the indescribable levels of frustration, rage, hate and despair that all the above has filled my life with, when all I wanted to do was look after the good people and lock up the bad. I’m done with the cynicism and distrust that it’s left me and the times I’ve put my family last, to ensure I was there for someone else’s. I’m done with the pain it causes them to see what this job does to us.
I’m a cop of 20 years service and I’m done with it. Sort your own mess up. Or don’t, and let it all collapse around you.
’Im done, and really don’t care anymore.’
https://emergency-services.news/im-done-police-officer-with-20-years-service-shares-sentiment-of-many-cops/?fbclid=IwAR1gpRjZafMs3hfDU9zwgNoX-R8xRpr1Z9mqdXlNa3yWgjCiysTThMDK-CQ
-- Edited by Digger on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:00:16 PM
Sums it all up in a nutshell.
You only have to look at the authorities turning a blind eye to the Muslim rape gangs for decades to help keep community 'relations' peaceful to see this country is rapidly going down the toilet.
The far left is just as bad as the far right and all this extreme PC Woke/Cancel culture where certain groups are eternal oppressed 'victims' and can never do any wrong is really pissing normal folk off.
It's always been a very difficult job dealing with the dregs of society but now with social media being manipulated and every small mistake magnified/lied about the coppers just cannot win no matter what - see last weekend for a perfect example.
We are still in a lockdown and the meeting was illegal so just what were they supposed to do?
-- Edited by John Doe on Wednesday 17th of March 2021 11:22:59 PM
Well it's happening all over the country again - drunken violent thugs pretending to be 'protesters' attacking the police at every opportunity.
For example Bristol is like a war zone tonight.
It only took you two sentences to mention Muslims. You’re slipping.
I like having a relentless anonymous stalker - it's a big compliment.
No Syl, in my opinion it's just various groups joining together to cause as much misery for the police as they possibly can every time there is some sort of demonstration.
If just one officer lost his/her cool it would be filmed and the entire force castigated all over social media which is what many of the so called 'protesters' are after.
The young woman staggering around, necking cider, dancing and laughing behind the BBC reporter earlier this evening did not exactly strike me as the second coming of Emmeline Pankhurst.
-- Edited by John Doe on Monday 22nd of March 2021 02:01:19 AM
So when someone mentions Muslim rape gangs you think Islamophobia. You have been programmed into the woke ideology that allowed it to happen.
Spot on.