Cop Lives Matter

As a cop I feel that right now I need to speak out about everything going on in the world. I'm tired of my wife living in fear and my kids picking up on that fear. I'm tired of the cops always being the bad guys, we have all these news stories about how bad police officers are and I just don't understand the big issue. Yes, I will admit there are bad cops-there are also bad people out there it's a two way street in this situation. I recently met someone, who didn't know I was a cop, who said he laughs when cops are killed and he would personally kill every single one if he could. How is that okay? How can people seriously think like that? How is it okay to say you want someone to die, you want a brother, a father, a husband, an uncle, to die? I could never justify the death of someone and I don't understand how others can. Yes, black lives matter, but cop lives matter as well. Yes, black people deserve rights, everyone does. Everyone deserves the right to walk around and feel safe. Every single person deserves to be respected and to have their basic needs met. It's bad enough that everyday I get a text message saying to be safe and she waits until I text back to breath, she waits until I send the text saying "I'm home" or she hears the velcro and she can finally relax. I knew going into this that I would be putting my life on the line, but I'm not going to lie I wasn't expecting to be shot at everyday of my life and I definitely wasn't expecting people to have this much of a disrespect towards myself and my fellow police officers. I want to live in a world where cops are heroes again, Jess always tells me stories of how little kids would go up to her grandfather and ask for his autograph what happened? Now when we go near kids nine times out of ten they get scared and pretty much run in the opposite direction because that's what they're being taught. I'm not saying you have to worship the ground we walk on, but remember that we have a family that wants us to come home. Please, just remember that.