For those who only go by what the politically pinned and pervasively lying media serves as news, that demographic is sadly missing out on the truth of many matters, especially instances involving a vast spectrum of humanitarian and heroic deeds performed by police officials.
Therefore, we are glad to see you are here, consuming fact-based materials depicting tales about your cops doing phenomenal police work…
The latest hair-raising blitz of law enforcers putting all on the line (nothing new) transpired in the Big Apple over the Mother’s Day weekend.
In the world-renowned epicenter of New York City, Times Square erupted in what some called the Wild West, with a bizarre display of domestic violence when a gunman started shooting at his brother in broad daylight…while citizens ogled under the flashing diamond vision marquees.
Missing his intended target, the shooters barrage of bullets struck three tourists —two adults and one toddler— resulting in a sea of NYPB blue swooping in with fervor. The debacle went viral.
With the debilitating environment in NYC having nary attention from the political “leaders” who watered the criminal compost (freeing inmates and other so-called reform measures), the nothing-new-here reel added a heroic throat-lump when we witnessed a female NYPD cop scoop up that shot youngster and run her to the nearest “bus” (NYC police parlance for ambulance).
To illustrate the latest among myriad episodes demonstrating police heroism more than adequately deflating the antithetical “police are the problem” myth, here is an expounded description and footage of the cop making the mad dash to emergency medical services and doing it all again once at the hospital, embracing that shot child as if she was a momma bear protecting a cub:
NYPD police Officer Alyssa Vogel, mother to a six-month-old child and former school teacher, wasted no time in getting to the scene and safeguarding the injured toddler after applying a tourniquet to quell a bleeding gunshot wound.
Commendably, during an exclusive interview with Good Morning America, Officer Vogel underscored how all cops involved in the Times Square mayhem are heroes, not just her.
Mere days prior, the NYC Police Academy graduated two classes in succession, swearing in the first new batch of cops since COVID significantly exacerbated life on Earth.
(Photo courtesy of the New York City Police Department.)
Each of these brand-new cops is slotted to any of the labyrinth of 77 police precincts covering five boroughs (counties) comprising NYC jurisdiction, the proverbial Big Apple.
Not much time to celebrate the milestone though, given the context of a city overrun with crime, compliments of Mayor Bill de Blasio (deemed a socialist) and most of the liberal-minded 51-member City Council.
Published by American Thinker, Monica Showalter wrote of de Blasio, “he governs through chaos – the more chaotic and crime-ridden the streets of New York can become, the more passive and powerless the people will be and the more power will centralize to himself. People fleeing is a good thing to him.”
Who is the problem?
As one online commenter wrote about Officer Vogel, “She is a hero, everyone in the NYPD are heroes. Anyone that can get up day after day and go out and do their job in a city where the mayor disrespects them, and bail reform works against them, are heroes to me.”
That observer speaks the absolute truth.
From the NYPD site I found the following statement made by Officer Vogel, attesting to lineage of law enforcement and the deep desire to serve humanity: “This little girl was so strong,” Officer Vogel said. “She didn’t even cry once except when we were putting the tourniquet on. She screamed because it’s very painful.”
She added, “My dad used to be a cop. My husband’s a cop. My brother is a cop. I just wanted to join the police department and help people.”
Who is the problem?
North of New York metropolitan policing, an outlandish experience encountered by small-town cops in quiet, quaint Leicester, Massachusetts, culminated in its police station being literally cored by a man who rammed his SUV through the front doors and into the police lobby. Although most mainstream media left out this crucial part in their news article titles (no surprise there), the driver brandished and pointed a gun at responding law enforcement officers. He was shot dead. No LEOs were injured or killed.
Who is the problem?
Our brothers and sisters in the embattled Minneapolis PD had a typically busy weekend. A CBS Minnesota report titled “7 People Shot, 1 Fatally, In 8-Hour Span in Minneapolis” said it all. Minneapolis cops responded and investigated as per usual, picking up all the pieces of increased, brazen criminality born of police-defunding councilmembers in a city which, like Seattle, had one of its police precincts torched by arsonists reducing millions in taxpayer dollars to char (costing even more to reconstruct).
Who is the problem?
In keeping with our topic today, Virginia law enforcement officials did a bit of recognizing of those who went full-bore into perilous terrain and survived to talk about it.
In a segment The Winchester Star called “Officers saluted for courage under fire,” heroic cops confronting stark realities of suspects creating a pressure cooker ended with a dead gunman who seemed to relish a standoff with police after Winchester cops received reports of a male battering cars with a sledgehammer.
The following excerpt published by the Star encapsulates what a few Winchester PD cops endured, for which they were honored as survivors of a gun fight:
“Body camera footage released by the department in February showed [police Officers] Callas and Ferraro taking cover and trying to talk [armed, crazed suspect] Clark into surrendering. But when [Officer] Polk drove into the complex, Clark fired 10 shots with seven striking Polk’s cruiser. Polk was pinned in the cruiser for about 10 minutes until [Officer] O’Connor, who repeatedly warned Clark to drop his rifle, fatally shot him with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle from 50 yards away.”
That’s the gritty side of police work, the all-too-often fodder which unfailingly draws Monday morning-quarterbacking like flies to dung…buzzing about how cops do not really need such firepower. The same recliner warmers who believe de-escalation techniques are like Teflon and never fail.
Police are not the problem, and there are plenty of reasons typifying that fact.
Prefacing National Police Week every year is a litany of microcosms of cops celebrating above-and-beyond achievements in their respective departments after winning peer-voted “Officer of the Year” (OOTY) nominations. Technically, that equates to roughly 18,500 prevailing heroes exhibiting outstanding police work, as recognized by their peers, with some nominations also bolstered by citizen commendation letters sent to police executives, in recognition of their officers.
Uniquely (and understandably, given the overly arduous year for law enforcement everywhere), the Haverford Township Police Department in Pennsylvania opted to award every single member of their sworn police force the Officer of the Year honors: “Normally one officer is named Officer of the Year but this year the entire police department was awarded Officers of the Year for their hard work and dedication during the unprecedented pandemic along with civil unrest during 2020-2021. Congratulations to all.”
(Photo courtesy of the Haverford Township Police Department.)
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in partnership with Target, chooses Officer of the Year awardees from a national pool of nominees who exemplified extraordinary police service.
You may not hear about those 18,000-plus celebrations from mainstream media, but they transpire annually, at the beginning of May, ushering in National Police Week where class-A uniforms are gussied and donned to honor the fallen.
Even as we honor slain law enforcement officers during National Police Week, we are seeing more cops fallen in the line of duty, several over the last few days, a few more as I write this material, sadly adding to the ticker chronicled by the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP).
One thing remains clearly indelible: Despite the gravity of criminality evolving on our streets, and the constant threat to life, cops rush in.
As always, it is sobering to be a police official in our society, motioning to mitigate an overwhelming, unprecedented period where justice badges have become targets in an upturned society caused by natural and political forces while trying to implement oath-driven principles.
Somberly we bow heads to our heroes fallen in the line of duty. Proudly we cheer for those nominated as Officer of the Year for exemplary performance. Universally we are mindful of the stark reality and unparalleled courage required of those who continually step forward with a shield representing justice.
One more thing: No calculus is necessary to figure NYPD Officer Vogel is quite worthy of next year’s Officer of the Year nomination…demonstrably.