2021 HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY
DANGEROUS YOUR TO BE A POLICE
OFFICER RESEARCHERS SAY DEATH
SET A RECORD AND WHILE MANY ARE
COVID RELATED, VIOLET DEPTHS IN
THE LINE OF DUTY OUR TOP 50%.
AS THE END OF NOVEMBER, 314
OFFICERS WERE SHOT ON DUTY AND
58 WERE MURDERED.
AMBUSH STYLE ATTACKS UP 116%.
WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THIS?
BETWEEN THE DANGER AND ANTI-
POLICE SENTIMENT WE’VE SEEN, HOW
CAN DEPARTMENT KEEP UP MORALE
AND CONTINUE TO HIRE?
JOINING ME NOW, FORMER D.C.
POLICE DETECTIVE AND FOX NEWS
PRINTER BETTER, TED WILLIAMS.
TELL ME WHERE YOU THINK MORALE
IS NOW AND HOW IS IT AFFECTING
POLICE OFFICERS DAILY WORKLIFE?
>> I CAN TELL YOU MORALE IS AT
AN ALL-TIME LOW IN POLICE
DEPARTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT BRINGS
POLICE TO THE LEVEL THEY NO
LONGER WANT TO SERVE IN THESE
COMMUNITIES IS BECAUSE OF AN
INCIDENT LIKE I’M ABOUT TO TELL
YOU.
I WANT TO OFFER CONDOLENCES TO
THE FAMILY OF OFFICER KIANA
HOLLY.
OFFICER HAWLEY WAS A BALTIMORE
POLICE OFFICER SITTING IN HER
CAR SERVING AND PROTECTING THE
MEMBERS OF HER COMMUNITY WHEN A
LOWLIFE, SOME FOG, BOTTOM
FEEDERS, TWO OF THEM SHOT AND
KILLED HER, THESE WERE INDIVIDUALS OUT ON BAIL.
INDIVIDUALS OUT ON BAIL.
A VERY SAD SITUATION.
>> THESE KINDS OF THINGS HAPPEN,
AMBUSH STYLE KILLINGS, JUST
ACCORDING TO MY TAKE ON THIS,
ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN
AFTER BIG INCIDENTS. IT HAPPENS AFTER PROTESTS, AFTER
IT HAPPENS AFTER PROTESTS, AFTER
GEORGE FLOYD BUT HOW DO WE GET
OUT OF THIS?
KEEP THINKING IT’S POLICE
BEHAVIOR, IF THE TRAINING GETS
BETTER, IT WILL GET BETTER.
TECHNOLOGY IF WE HAVE BODY CAMS,
NONE OF THE THINGS POLICE DO
WILL GET US OUT OF THIS, I
BELIEVE IT’S A CULTURAL CHANGE,
OUTSIDE OF THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT
HAPPEN?
>> YOU ARE CORRECT, IT’S THE
CULTURAL CHANGE.
WE HAVE POLITICIANS WHO WANT
POLICE OFFICERS TO PROTECT THEM
BUT REFUSED TO PROTECT POLICE
OFFICERS.
WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS CALLING FOR
DEFUNDING POLICE DEPARTMENT AND
THE INDIVIDUALS PUT POLICE
OFFICERS LIVES OUT THERE IN
DANGER.
I CAN TELL YOU SOME OF IT IS
BEING REVERSED AND MAJOR
METROPOLITAN CITIES ABOUT
DEFUNDING OF POLICE BUT THAT
SOMETHING THAT’S BEEN ON THE
TABLE AND IT’S BEEN TROUBLESOME,
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO
HAVE GONE OUT THERE AND PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR THE
THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR THE
CITIZENS.
>> YOU THINK THE SHOW PLOT IN
ORDER, CROPS WORKING WITH THE
PROSECUTORS AND THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE TWO OF US, HOW MUCH
OF THIS IS POLICE AND
PROSECUTORS, LEFT-WING
PROSECUTORS DOING SOCIAL JUSTICE
WORK AND IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE
MAKING POLICE JOBS HARDER.
>> NOT ONLY ARE THEY MAKING IT
HARDER BUT WE SEEM TO FAVOR
CRIMINALS IN THIS COUNTRY OVER
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
WE’VE GOT SOME IN POLICE
DEPARTMENT AND YOU WEED THEM OUT
BUT THE MASS MAJORITY OF MEN AND
WOMEN IN POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE
THERE TO SERVE AND PROTECT.
WHAT THEY FOUND OUR PROSECUTORS
AND JUDGES WHO WILL NOT WORK
WITH THEM TO PUT THESE PEOPLE
BEHIND BARS AND KEEP THEM BEHIND
BARS.
WHAT WE FOUND IS BEFORE THE INK
IS DRY ON SOMEONE WHO’S BEEN
ARRESTED, THEY ARE BACK OUT ON
THE STREET.
LOOK AT THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE
DOING SMASHING AND GRABBING,
THEY ARE ORGANIZED, THEY CAN GO
INTO A STORE AND WITHIN MINUTES,
THEY CLEAN THE STORE OUT AND
GUESS WHAT -- THEY ARE BACK ON
THE STREET AGAIN.