Jerry A. Goodson

Dear Chief Art Acevedo,

Take off your badge and quit wearing a uniform.  You're not worthy of it.

It is sickening to see someone charged with the leadership of a department to use the death of a slain officer as a political soapbox to inaccurately disparage elected representatives... representatives who have done more in support of law enforcement than your political ideologies and affiliated political party.  Officers all over the country didn't like it when President Obama did it a few years ago in Dallas, but it was at least partially forgivable since he wasn't a cop.  

If you want to be involved in politics, then quit pretending you're a cop and run for office.  

Today, you didn't bury an officer because of some law.  You buried an officer because he took up the noble and inherently dangerous profession of law enforcement.  Every time we suit up and go to work, we do so with the knowledge that we will encounter people who want to kill us for no other reason than the uniform we wear.  A law has never killed a police officer.  It's up to us real cops to apprehend those who break the law.

You did not come off as a cop grieving the loss of a fellow law enforcement officer under your command.  You came off as a politician who seized on the opportunity of an officer's death to make political attacks. 

On behalf of all of us who wear a badge, kiss my ass!

 -=Jerry A. Goodson=-
Police Officer