January 9th
It’s a “Way of Life and Not a Job” day
LORD, BLESS THOSE WHO ARE SINCERE WITH THEIR CALLING TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE. AMEN.
Horry Police Chief Saundra Rhodes shares her thoughts on the dedication of officers here, and everywhere
By Saundra Rhodes
I have sat by quietly for weeks now and listened to or read posts of people that I genuinely consider friends, speak so ill of my fellow law enforcement officers.
I told myself repeatedly that it is simply because they do not have a true understanding and that all of their opinions are based upon the negative incidents that are portrayed by the national media.
I acknowledge that there are some officers who should not be police officers and that our criminal justice system does not always get it right.
I think that it’s time that I give my friends my perspective.
I am a police officer; it’s not just a job; I am just as much a police officer as I am a mother, I am just as much a police officer as I am a daughter, a sister, a cousin and a friend.
It is not just a job to me, and it’s not just a job to most of my fellow brothers and sisters who wear the badge with pride.
It was not a job that caused Officer Bo Sauls to buy the baby formula that his suspect was trying to steal to feed her baby, instead of taking her to jail. That selfless act was due to him being just as much a police officer as he is a son and a father.
It was not the job that caused Officer Richard Ernest to go home and take an air conditioner from his garage and go back to a ladies house and install it for her after he had responded there for something else but noticed she had no air.
It was not a job that caused my officers to go out and find furniture for a family that had none so that they would no longer have to sleep on the floor; they did this because they are police officers.
It was not the job that caused Cpl. Brad Thompson to not stop until he found the suspect that stole an elderly ladies appliances and made the suspect load them back up on his pick-up truck and return them to the victim before he took him to jail, he did this because he is just as much a police officer as he is a grandson.
It was not a job that caused Detective Heather Brummett’s life to be changed forever as she was forced to shoot and kill a suspect that was trying to kill another officer; it was her devotion to the life that she chose, and that choice of being there to arrest a suspect has caused her to never be the same person that she was before.
Finally, it was not a job that made all of my officers leave their families on Christmas Day to search for a missing 4-year-old autistic boy who had wandered away from his family’s vacation home.
It was not the job that made them willingly walk through mud, woods and water searching every nook and cranny for young Jayden.
It was not the job that caused me to watch as this baby was pulled from the water, nor was it the job that caused me to hold his father’s hand as he kissed his baby goodbye for the last time and to hold that mother and not be able to offer an explanation of why bad things happen to good people.
No it was not a job that caused me to hold in my emotions and to be strong for people that I had never met before, knowing that young Jayden reminded me so much of my own “grand baby” Zaevion and that all I wanted to do was to get home to him and hear him yell out for his momma.
It was not a job that caused me to be strong for this family although I wanted to fall apart and cry with them.
We are police officers; we are willing to head towards the gunfire when everyone else is running away.
We are police officers; we are the ones who tell parents that their child is dead and then hold them as long as necessary as they cry out in sorrow.
We are police officers; we are the ones who respond when a husband is beating his wife and then take the hits from her as she tries to prevent us from taking him to jail.
We are police officers; we are the ones who will listen to you call us pigs, pieces of crap and murderers; yet will head your direction with lights and siren the minute that you need us, because ……… We are police officers.
Wow Amen, Somebody!
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