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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Your Feel-Good Story of the Day

PHOENIX - A man who was down on his luck received some help from two Phoenix Police officers. 

The Phoenix Police Department released a video on March 8 showing two officers coming across a man who was sitting outside a bank with no shoes or socks.

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Back about 20 years ago when I was doing advocacy work for the homeless, I was going into a store and saw a cop talking to a homeless woman wrapped in a blanket just outside the store entrance.
At the time, we were getting a few reports of cops in Modesto fucking with the homeless and even though I was in Ceres, I kept an eye on it without trying to be too obvious.
After a minute, the homeless woman got up and walked across the parking lot towards a fast food place while the cop got in his car and slowly followed her.
When I left the store, I wandered over that way and found the cop not only bought her a meal but he was sitting with her eating his lunch.

7 comments:

  1. Ya know its sad... because these people don't get the press and coverage. The scumbags that shouldn't even be on the force get wall to wall coverage.
    I would like to see the police, and specifically their unions, do a better job of policing their ranks, instead of protecting and defending the bad apples.

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  2. Have those two cops been put in the January 6 prison yet with the rest of the insurrectionists?
    Defund the police.
    😂😊😎😇😉

    Awesome story to start a new day. Thank you.

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  3. Cops act like decent human beings and it is a news story.

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  4. I used to pick up hitchhikers on a regular basis. A few were homeless or one step away. Something they nearly all needed was someone to listen to them.

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  5. I figure that the % of cops who are decent is about equal to the % of non cops who are decent. Putting on a badge doesn't change someone's character. It might magnify what character they have, but it won't change a good person to a bad one, nor a bad person to a good one.

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    1. The nature of the job attracts the very kind of people that shouldn't be cops in the first place. There's no quicker way to your own mini-dictatorship than with a badge and a gun. I would guess over time the job has a tendency to change a good person to a jaded one. Not necessarily bad but definitely jaded. Some of the bad ones may have a come to God moment but probably not many.

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