{"id":39121,"date":"2022-06-03T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39121"},"modified":"2022-06-03T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:44:12","slug":"time-to-reestablish-the-concepts-of-duty-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39121","title":{"rendered":"Time to Reestablish the Concepts of Duty and Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Armed_Police-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Police\" width=\"587\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Armed_Police-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Armed_Police.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kids are getting killed and you have a badge and a gun and you just sit there?<\/p>\n<p>For an hour?<\/p>\n<p>What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to figure out the thought process and I can\u2019t nail it down. Were they just listening to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pdabrosca\/status\/1530541883805532163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1530543606490095616%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Fuvalde-schools-police-chief-donated-to-beto-campaign%2F\">their Beto-donating boss<\/a>? Were they tactically inept? Were they cowards?<\/p>\n<p>Duty is a demanding mistress, which is why they call it \u201cduty\u201d and not \u201cfun.\u201d You get to walk around in your uniform with people thanking you for being a first responder, which is nice. You have to deal with the hassles of taking out society\u2019s trash, certainly. And sometimes maybe you die.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/06\/02\/time-to-reestablish-the-concepts-of-duty-and-accountability-n2608058\">https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/kurtschlichter\/2022\/06\/02\/time-to-reestablish-the-concepts-of-duty-and-accountability-n2608058<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids are getting killed and you have a badge and a gun and you just sit there? For an hour? What the hell? I\u2019m trying to figure out the thought process and I can\u2019t nail it down. Were they just listening to\u00a0their Beto-donating boss? Were they tactically inept? Were they cowards? Duty is a demanding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time to Reestablish the Concepts of Duty and Accountability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39123,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions\/39123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}