'Cops Will Cry' Graffiti Lists Police Officers' Names, Patrol Car Numbers

'Cops Will Cry' Graffiti Lists Police Officers' Names, Patrol Car Numbers
Threatening Messages Cover Homes



Police in Cocoa, Fla., are under heightened alert after death threats were painted on homes identifying officers by name and listing targeted patrol car numbers.

Authorities said the threatening messages covered homes in the Barbara Jenkins Public Housing Unit located on Fiske Boulevard.

The messages promised that "all cops will cry" and said "we got guns too."

"The fact that they mentioned that we all need to die and they have guns too, you can understand our response level will now be heightened," Cocoa police spokeswoman Barbara Jenkins.

"By printing the names of officers and their patrol car numbers, it is almost as if the thugs are declaring war," Local 6's Jessica Sanchez said.

"Our resistance to calls, our resistance to bad guys has just been raised a notch," Matthews said. "And we feel we have the right to do that because they have threatened our lives publicly and openly."

http://www.local6.com/news/11103385/detail.html

I"ve always found that a telling trait.

If the cops get killed, you think they can be of any help to the citizens?

Who said anything about being "worth" more? Not moi.

... It's wonderful that many cops want and try to be of service to the public. It's awful that many cops work towards the detriment of the public. Arguably, it's worse yet that the good ones typically cover for the bad ones.

When cops' hands, as an aggregate, are substantially more clean than they currently are, I'll have more sympathy for them.

It's natural human instinct, and IMHO, not a bad one at all.

It's not that civilians lives are less worthy, but that civilians are not targeted just for their line of work like police officers are. Just like how the parent on the plane has to put on her mask before her kid's, officers have to protect themselves in the field.

It's not vandalism, it's a work of art!

It's not death threats, it's poetry!

:D

We could call it 'The crips, the bloods, and the wardrobe' :)

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and I'm sure they would act diligently. I sure hope your not serious.

n/t

I live in this town, , most of us believe its just kids doing their thing. We have a reat mayor in this town ( black,hate to say that). He is doing a good job of cleaning and giving dignity back to some bad areas. We respect what he is trying to do, and community is really helping to make it happen. We certainly don"t need that kind of negative press!

All the DLC mayors (a number of them upper-middle-class black, all of them are allied to the Clinton machine) are pushing to destroy public housing under HOPE VI.

That's like saying 'all of group X is disliked because some of group X have done wrong'.

We need to look at the people behind the police - the government. They pass the laws, they give them the power, the cops just enforce it - and when they enforce wrongly they should be punished (and perhaps our govt would do well to pass more laws regarding cops, instead of new laws to punish us).

And police go a long ways toward protecting each other, not making sure that they are doing a professional job. The case of Frank Serpico was so unusual that he got a book and a movie about him.

that when I was a cop I understood it more. Internal Affairs seemed against you, the people you arrested hated you, lawyers were always trying to pick you apart and make you look like an idiot or poor performer, it seems that everyone wanted laws passed against X until you nailed them for it (ala speeding, etc) and then they did not like or trust you either.

Cops stuck together, and still do, because from their perspective everyone else is out to screw em on something.

We had our own bar we could go to (special key card) and we gave each other breaks (never got a ticket when I had my badge on me, actually I still have never gotten one here or elsewhere I have traveled when I start talking about having been a cop myself).

Another down side is people wanting to kill you. Had one guy following me home one day, I was with another officer and we called the columbus PD (we were county sheriffs, their district so we called them) and they busted the guy. Friends act a little weird at times being afraid you might report them for something (smoking pot, house dirty, etc).

It is a very stressful job, not great pay, and you are either hated or loved.

I wouldn't go back to it myself if I could.