9*1*1

9-1-1. What's your emergency? Tens of thousands of people make this call to 911 on a daily basis. They do so out of fear, when they are in need of assistance. They expect a police officer to quickly respond to their emergency. If it takes more than 5 minutes they begin to get upset. "What is taking so long, when I am in danger"? Imagine that as you are reading this blog, a deranged person begins to bang on your front door. He or she is screaming, "Let me in"! They are pushing against your front door trying to gain entry. Your telephone would be in your hand immediately calling for help, as your heart pounds. What if no one ever showed up? This happened to me in 1985 when a drunk person mistook my house for theirs. I was so relieved when the police arrived to take the person away. Somehow the protest for equality has turned into anti police protest. Can you imagine a world without police? You cannot paint a picture with one broad stroke. Last night, in Merrick, 11 people were arrested. Were the police wrong for trying to stop them from running onto the Meadowbrook Parkway? The police were trying to ensure the protestor's safety as well as the driver's safety. Protect and Serve, is the motto of police departments. What normal person thinks it is sensible to run onto a parkway? A car could hit you and you are injured, or a car could swerve around you and hurt the passengers inside. Two officers were injured in this skirmish. Was that fair to them? These protestors, trying to make a point, were totally out of line the way they were going about it, but the police will be blamed for the protestor's gross lack of judgement. There is becoming a disconnect in rationality. Defund the police! Buy the police cameras to wear! How can you do both? At this point, I think people need to return to normalcy in order to change normalcy. The past few weeks have taken their toll on us all. How can the governor say that we can only gather in groups of ten and then praise 5,000 people in a group setting? How can you cancel 4th of July fireworks because it is not a safe gathering and allow 13 days of mass gatherings? Since the protestors are allow to gather en mass (and rightly so) open up the state and let us return to work and to our daily lives. Let the chips fall where they may, because at this point, the government is in anarchy.